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grants and awards

2008
Creative Work Fund grant for Baggage Allowance
2008
PrixArs Electronica Honorable Mention (Digital Musics) for Timepiece Triptych
2008
ASCAP Plus Award
2007
ASCAP Plus Award
2007
Zellerbach Family Foundation grant for The Pendulum
2006
San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Grant for The Pendulum
2006
ASCAP Music Award
2006
Creative Capital Special Opportunities Grant for Voci Touring Expenses
2006
Meet the Composer for Performance with Robin Cox Ensemble
2005
ASCAP Plus Award
2005
NEA Multi-disciplinary Grant for Wunderkabinet
2005
The James Irvine Foundation New Connections Fund for Wunderkabinet
2005
American Composer’s Forum Subito Grant for Metal/Vox/Water
2005
Zellerbach Family Foundation Grant for Wunderkabinet
2004
Guggenheim Fellowship for Music Composition
2003
Unsolicited Zellerbach Family Foundation Artist Grant
2003
Zellerbach Family Foundation support for Voci
2003
ASCAP Music Award
2002
Creative Capital Grant for 2003 performance of Voci
2002
ASCAP Music Award
2002
Meet the Composer Grants for appearances throughout the US
2001
Tryon/McColl Center for Visual Art (Charlotte, NC) Artist Fellowship
2001
San Francisco Art Commission Grant for 2003 performance of Voci
2001
ASCAP Music Award
2001
CAC Artist Residencies for SoundWork workshops at The LAB
2000
ASCAP Music Award
1999
San Francisco Art Commission Grant for 2001 performance of Gaijin
1999
ASCAP Music Award
1999
CAC Touring Artists Initiative Grant for 1999-2001 Touring Roster
1998
CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts for Music
1998-99
Japan-US Friendship Commission/NEA Fellowship (6 months in Tokyo)
1998
San Francisco Bay Guardian "Goldie" Award
1998
LEF Foundation Support for Parts of Speech  (1998) and Z Program V (1991)
1998
ASCAP Music Award
1998
McKnight/American Composer’s Forum Visiting Composer Fellowship
1997
San Francisco Art Commission Grant for the 1998 Parts of Speech performance
1997
CAC Touring Artists Initiative Grant for 1997-1999 Touring Roster
1996
California Arts Council Artist in Residency Grant for Sound and Performance Workshops at The LAB
1995
Minnesota (now American) Composer’s Forum grant for Correspondence at LACE
1995
Xerox PARC PAIR (PARC Artist In Residence) program
1995
California Arts Council Artist in Residency Grant for Sound and Performance Workshops at The LAB
1995
CAC Touring Artists Initiative Grant for 1995-1997 Touring Roster
1994
California Arts Council Artist in Residency Grant for Sound and Performance Workshops at The LAB
1994
San Francisco Arts Commission Grant for Parts of Speech radio piece
1993
CAC Touring Artists Initiative Grant for 1993-1995 Touring Roster
1992-98
Meet the Composer Grants for appearances throughout the US
1992
New Langton Arts Artist Projects Grant to develop Parts of Speech
1991
Zellerbach Family Fund support for Z Program V
1991
LEF Foundation support for Z Program V

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commissions

Twenty Answers
(2008)

Empyrean Ensemble
Premiered January 2008

Notice of Baggage Inspection
(2007)

Pianist: Guy Livingston
for piano and tape

Matter Mater Tick Tock and Dr. Melfi s
(2007)

Singer: Julie Queen
Songs for her work Ten Dollar Destiny

Sonic Gestures
(2007)

NexMap
Sound and video installation/performance work

Six Degrees of Non-Sequiturization
(2006)

Robin Cox Ensemble

Lover/Other
(2006)

Barbara Hammer
Film Score

Wunderkabinet
(2005)

The LAB
Premiered September 2005

Lift
(2005-06)

The Tang Museum
Sound installation for the Elevator Music Series
Oct 2005- Jan 2006

Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances
(2005)

String Quartet: Ethel
Premiered October 2005

Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances
(2005)

String Quartet: Ethel
Premiered October 2005

Just Dust
(2004)

Dakar Biennale
Six-channel sound installation for Gorée Island

Four Movements for Solo Cello
a
nd Delays
(2003)

Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Premiered, the Dia Center, NY
The Economics of Place (2001)
Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions
Premiered , The 418 Project, Santa Cruz, CA
Persistence (2001)
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble “San Francisco Inventions”
Premiered , Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
Copra Dock Dances (1999)
Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions
Premiered , Pier 84, San Francisco
Parts of Speech (1995-98)

The San Francisco Art Commission
Audio Work for New American Radio 1995
Performance work , Theatre Artaud 1998

The Schmetterling (1998)
The Bang On A Can People's Commissioning Fund
Premiered 5/17/98, The Knitting Factory, New York
Shifting Conditions in the Southland (1998)
California E.A.R. Unit
Premiered 1/14/98, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Layers (1997)

Mrs. Ralph I. Dorfmann
co-composed with Lukas Ligeti
Premiered , The LAB, San Francisco
Hoist (1996)
Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions
Premiered , Brady Street Dance Center, San Francisco
Batman, No Robin (1996)
High Risk Group
Premiered , The LAB,
Mona Lisa (1996)

Japan Interlink Festival
co-composed with Donald Swearinen, Laetitia Sonami, and Visual Brains
Premiered , Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo 1996

Outdoors in Oakland (1996)
Ann Bluethenthal and Dancers
Premiered , ODC Performance Gallery, San Francisco
Correspondence (1995)

The American Composer's Forum
with 77Hz.
Premiered, LACE, Los Ange
les

Outdoors in Oakland (1992)
Ellen Webb Dance CO
Premiered , City Center Plaza, Oakland
Z Songs (1990)
Gary Palmer Dance Company
Premiered , Theater Artaud , San Francisco

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film and video scores

Language Lessons (1997)
Jeanne Finley & John Muse
O Night Without Objects (1997)
Jeanne Finley & John Muse
Premiered , Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
A Biography of Lilith (1997)

Lynn Sachs
Screenings include Castro Cinema SF, Pioneer Cinema NY, Ann Arbor Film Festival

Tender Fictions (1995)
Barbara Hammer
Premiered , Castro Cinema, San Francisco
Wind Water Wings (1995)
Barbara Klutinas
Premiered , Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Score for 30-second San Francisco Arts TV Promo Spot (1993)
Searchlight Films
Aired on Public Television, San Francisco
Diese Jugen (1984)
Elena-María Bey
Premiered , University of Colorado Art Bldg., Boulder

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dance scores

The Economics of Place (2001)
Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions
Premiered , The 418 Project, Santa Cruz, CA
Copra Dock Dances (1999)
Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions
Premiered , Pier 84, San Francisco
Sparrow's End (with Charming Hostess) (1997)
Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions
Premiered , Sparrow Alley at Valencia, San Francisco
Hoist (1996)
Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions
Premiered , Brady Street Dance Center, San Francisco
Batman, No Robin (1996)
High Risk Group
Premiered , The LAB,
The Quivering Mass (1996)
Ann Bluethenthal and Dancers
Premiered , ODC Performance Gallery, San Francisco
Outdoors in Oakland (1992)
Ellen Webb Dance CO
Premiered , City Center Plaza, Oakland
Z Songs (1990)
Gary Palmer Dance Company
Premiered , Theater Artaud , San Francisco
Dance/Theatre Work (1988)
Carol Lloyd and Ellie Hermann
Premiered , The LAB, San Francisco
Echolocation (1987)
Gretchen Philips’ Dancers Working
Premiered , The LAB, San Francisco

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exhibitions

The 2004 Dakar Biennale, La Maison d'Esclaves, Gorée, Senegal (Opens May 7th, 2004)

Just Dust (6-channel sound installation)

The Charlie Morrow SoundCube (2004) The Kitchen, NY (Upstairs Gallery)

Syrinx (8-channel version)

Sound Migrations (2004) The Design Center, LA

Syrinx (4-channel version)
The LAB's Annual Art Aucion (2004, 2003, 2002) The LAB Gallery, San Francisco
Various sound works
Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California (2002)The San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Gallery screening of DVD of performance works
CCA Fall Faculty Exhibitgion (2002) CCA Gallery, Oakland, CA
Geekspeak (2-channel sound work from Parts of Speech)
Bitstreams (2001) The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Geekspeak (2-channel sound work from Parts of Speech)
Race in Digital Space (2001) List Visual Art Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Regular Verbs (2-channel version of a segment from Parts of Speech)
I am Sitting in a Room (2000) The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Geekspeak (2-channel sound work from Parts of Speech)
Resident Artists Exhibition (2001) The Tryon (McColl) Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
Gallery screening of DVD of excerpts from Gaijin
Walkmen (2000) Diözesanmusum, Cologne, Germany
And on Your Left... (2-channel sound work)

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residencies

2001
Tryon/McColl Center for Visual Art for three-month artist residency
2001
Harvestworks (NY) residency for recording and developing interactive performance technlology.
2000
California Arts Council Artist In Residence Program for 2000-2001 SoundWORK Workshops
1998
Japan-US Friendship Commission/NEA Fellowship for a 1999 six month residency in Tokyo
1997
The American Composer’s Forum McKnight Visiting Composer Fellowship for a 1998 two-month residency in the Twin Cities
1996
California Arts Council Artist in Residency Grant for Sound and Performance Workshops at The LAB
1995
California Arts Council Artist in Residency Grant for Sound and Performance Workshops at The LAB
1994
California Arts Council Artist in Residency Grant for Sound and Performance Workshops at The LAB
1994
Xerox PARC PAIR (PARC Artist In Residence) program
1994
Xerox PARC for PAIR (PARC Artist In Residence) Program, Palo Alto, CA
1993
Yellow Springs Institute, Chester Spgs. PA for a two-week artist residency with The Qube Chix
1993
University of Nebraska, Omaha for The Qube Chix performance residency to develop Circle of Bone
1992
Yellow Springs Institute, Chester Springs, PA for a solo artist residency
1989
The Exploratorium Artist in Residency Program for the development of “Pamela Z Plays the Exploratorium, Literally”

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