Brenda Hutchinson
www.sonicportraits.org
http://dailybell2008.blogspot.com
http://thebellproject.blogspot.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Hutchinson
Brenda Hutchinson is a composer and sound artist whose work is based
on the cultivation and encouragement of openness in her own life and
in those she works with. Hutchinson encourages her participants to
experiment with sound, share stories, and make music. She often bases
her Electroacoustic compositions on recordings of these individual
collaborative experiences, creating “sonic portraits” or “aural
pictures” of people and situations. In addition to her ethnographic
pieces, Hutchinson performs and improvises on a 9 1/2 foot tube with a
gestural interface she designed.
Brenda has produced work for National Public Radio’s Soundprint and is
the recipient of: Gracie Allen Award from American Women in Radio and
Television, Ucross Residency Award and Montalvo Artist Residency.
Commissions and grants include Meet the Composer, National Endowment
for the Arts, and McKnight Foundation. Brenda has been an artist in
residence at San Quentin Prison, Headlands Center for the Arts,
Harvestworks, The Exploratorium and Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
Recordings of her work are available through TELLUS, Deep Listening,
O.O. DISCS, Frog Peak Music and Leonardo Music Magazine.