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Mary Ellen Childs: Ruler Etude: A Work in Progress
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| Item Type: sound recording |
| Duration: 2:15 |
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Mary Ellen Childs is a composer for whom the creation of music involves more than the notation of symbols on a page. She is involved in the creative process from conception through composition through staging, often working much like a stage director or choreographer as well as composer in creating musical pieces that also incorporate visual media. Though such pieces include extra musical elements, they are always musical pieces first and foremost and Childs also writes purely musicial concert works. Her output incluedes multi-monitor video pieces Still Live and A Chording To, her electronic Standpoints (a collaboration with lighting designer Jeffrey Bartlett), and her "choreographed" percussion work Click. She has been commissioned to compose concert works by groups such as the Kronos Quartet, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia's new music groupe Relache, The Dale Warland Singers, and accordionist Guy Klucevsek, among others. Both her concert work and her visual-musical work have been presented at the Walker Art Center, New York's Bang on a Can Festival, and New Music America-Miami. She has received fellowhips support from the Bush Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the McKnight Fellowship program, and grants from Intermedia Arts, the Minnesota Composerts Forum, and the NEA's InterArts and Composer-in-Residence programs. Along with fellow composers Margorie Hess and Jeffrey Brooks, she is one of three ARtistic Directors and founders of Corn
Palace Productions, and orgianisaztion devoted to developing and presenting composers' theatrical musical works.
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| Genre: Experimental, Avant-garde |
| Publication: Tellus #26: Jewel Box |
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