Sex: Female Email: jjjhhh@mindspring.com The Composer is willing to travel? Yes Honors, grants, awards the Composer has received: Composer in residence 1994 and 1997 at STEiM (Stiching voor Elector-Instrumentale Muziek), Amsterdam Significant employment and memberships: Member Electronic Music Foundation Member American Federation of Musicians, local 802 Member Royal Dutch Musical Artists Assoc. (Koninklijk Nederlandse ToonKuntenaars Vereiniging) Education and degrees: Bachelor of Music, University of Houston, 1979 Graduate studies in Musicology, University of Maryland, 1989-91 Composer's bio/personal statement: JANE HENRY performs IMPROVISATIONS and ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS for acoustic VIOLIN, as soloist, with electronics, and in collaboration with other artists. HER WORK for acoustic VIOLIN makes extensive use of overtones, difference tones, quirky embellishments, bowed distortions, and distorted bows. HER WORKS often involve the use of electronic devices and video, plus a variety of 'alternate' bows and scraping devices designed/made by Jerry Hunt and Sarmad Brody. JANE HENRY has performed numerous SOLO and COLLABORATIVE concerts and radio broadcasts throughout Europe and the U.S. since 1991, including projects with artists such as Jerry Hunt, Joel Ryan, Rafael Toral, Nic Collins, Sukandar Kartadinata, Moniek Darge, Ricardo Arias, Sarmad Brody, and the Moroccan-Dutch band, Weshm. Payment preferences: no answer Composer proficiencies: Sound design Performance Violinist, Composer/Improvisor Other professional information: "Chimanzzi: Olun (Core)," on Jerry Hunt's CD Ground (00.Dics) "Skyrocket," Improvisation with guitarist Rafael Trial on his CD Chasing Sonic Booms(Ecstatic Peace) Current record label/publishing affiliations: www.janehenry.com http://jjjhhh.home.mindspring.com Other works: Compositions and improvisations for Solo Violin. "Sleep Proves Impossible" (see Comp. List above), with Joel Ryan and Justin Bennett, for violin, percussion and SuperCollider. Four Improvisations for violin and balloons with Ricardo Arias. Live radio broadcast, WFMU, 1997. Private CD recording available. Live Improvisations: for violin and vocalist Sarmad Broady. Private cassette recording available. Reviews: "Jane Henry's cat-scratch violin technique--something like Evan Parker's wildest alto-sax sputterings transcribed for stringed things--overwhelms Toral's aerodynamic swells and lashings." --Gil Gershman, Magnet Magazine (USA), May/June 1998 "She takes her violin way outside the usual Mendelssohnian circuit: difference tones, microtones, bowing distortions. She'll run her instrument through a bowing device called "the grinder", an invention of the irrepressible Jerry Hunt, and accompany herself with greeting-card microchips gone haywire." --Kyle Gann, Village Voice, "Voice Choices", May 14, 1996 "What a revelation, the performance of this austere and spirited woman, barefoot and alone with her violin on the stage of the sold-out Kikker Theatre! "Henry's short and motoric improvisations are no propoganda, no 'agitpop', but the most highly personal, subjective digestion of extreme experiences. And that is, even in contemporary music, the optimal fertilizer for fascinating music." -by Jurriaan Meyer, Utrechtse Niewesblad, October 11, 1995 "Direct and concise compositions, interpreted in a very personal manner, revealed an amalgamem of sound phenomena rising from her violin like a snake from a basket." -by Roland Spekle, in Dwarf (Dutch Gothic music journal), July/August 1995 Genres that apply to the Composer's work: New Music Classsical Popular Free Improvisation "out there" All types of instruments/sounds used in Composer's works: Acoustic Synthetic Special bowing devices, made by Jerry Hunt and Sarmad Brody Home-made electronic devices Live digital sound processing The venues where the Composer's works have been performed are: Concert Radio Theatre Some types of ethnicities that describe the Composer's works: Euro American Pertaining to the scoring of the Composer's works, they are generally: Entirely Scored Partly Scored The durations of the Composer's work are generally: Under 10 Minutes Over 10 Minutes The tempo of each work varies: A lot A little The Composer has been influenced by: Giascinto Scelsi, Jerry Hunt, Tuva Singers, John Coltrane, Iannis Xennakis, Music of Arabic and Indian Traditions The experiences that have influenced the Composer's entire body of work are: n/a Copyright 1999 Harvestworks