Biography

Maggi Payne obtained music degrees from Northwestern University, the University of Illinois, and Mills College. For ten years she was a recording engineer in the multitrack facilities at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills, where she is currently Co-director and teaches recording engineering, composition and electronic music. She was a production engineer at a major Bay Area Radio Station for ten years. She also freelances as a recording engineer and editor.

She has had performances of her works throughout the United States and Europe, including the 2nd Annual Santa Fe International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music Pacific Marathon III (West-Coast) at Cultuurcentrum de Oosterpoort in the Netherlands, Women of Vision series on PBS KCSM-TV, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sonic Circuits IV Festival of Electronic Music, the Next Wave Festival eXstatic Project in Australia, OPUS415 No.3 in San Francisco, Not Still Art Festival, EnCue Series XVI at Concordia University in Montreal, SoundCulture '96, New Music Across America Festival '92, New Music America '90, '87 and '81 Festivals, Composers' Forum in NYC, Experimental Intermedia Foundation in NYC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, SEAMUS, Western Front, Siggraph, CADRE, University of California at Santa Cruz, Cal State Northridge, Texas Tech University, University of Hartford, College of Santa Fe, Media Study/Buffalo, New Langton Arts in SF, New York Museum of Modern Art, Paris Autumn Festival, Bourges Festival in France, and the Autunno Musical at Como, Italy.

She has received two Composer's Grants and an Interdisciplinary Arts Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and video grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships Program.

Works include Close-ups, Raw Data, Apparent Horizon, Minutia 0-13, Liquid Metal, Aeolian Confluence, Resonant Places, Desertscapes, Phase Transitions, Songs of Flight, Ahh-Ahh (ver 2. 1), Airwaves (realities), White Night, Subterranean Network, Crystal, Solar Wind, Ling, Scirocco, Transparencies and HUM.

Her solo CD, Crystal, is available on the Lovely Music label, as are her compositions, Lunar Dusk and Lunar Earthrise. Airwaves is available on the Another Coast CD from Music and Arts, Resonant Places is on the CDCM series CD (volume 17) from Centaur, Desertscapes is on a MMC CD, Moire is on an Asphodel CD, She Began and Chris Mann are on Frogpeak CDs, Raw Data is on END ID CD on Digital Narcis, and Subterranean Network is available on the Mills College Anthology. Songs of Flight will be available on a New Songs CD release, Apparent Horizon will be on Postwest, and HUM, Aeolian Confluence, and Ametropia are available on The Extended Flute CD on CRI.

Further Information

• Pan Pipes 2004-2005 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 2003-2004 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 2002-2003 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 2001-2002 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 2000-2001 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 1999-2000 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 1998-1999 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 1996-1997 Annual American Composer Update
• Maggi Payne's website at Mills College

Contact Information

1324 Acton
Berkeley, CA 94706
E-mail: maggi@mills.edu
Website: maggipayne.com