Maggi Payne facts for kids

Maggi Payne (born in Texas, United States, in 1945) is an amazing American artist! She is a composer who creates music using electronics and sounds, a talented flutist, and a video artist. She also works as a recording engineer, helping to make sure music sounds great, and even restores old recordings. Her work often combines music with visuals like videos, dance, and films.

Early Life and Learning

Maggi grew up in Texas. She loved music from a young age and attended special music camps like Interlochen Music Camp and Aspen Music School. She studied the flute at Northwestern University and learned about composing music. Later, she continued her studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Mills College, where she focused on electronic music and recording.

Creative Journey

Maggi Payne has been creating incredible art for many years. Since the 1980s, she has worked with video artist Ed Tannenbaum, making music for his live dance and video shows. She even helped build a special "flame speaker" at the Exploratorium museum!

She has also worked as a recording engineer for a record label called Music and Arts since 1981, recording both new and old music. Maggi is also known for her video art, with titles like Crystal, Solar Wind, and Cloud Fields. She has made films such as Orion and Allusions, and her music has been used in dance performances by many famous choreographers.

Maggi's music and videos are available on many different record labels, including Innova, Lovely Music, and Starkland.

She has received many awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mellon Foundation. She has also won special mentions from international competitions like Bourges and Prix Ars Electronica. In 2022, she received the SEAMUS AWARD, which is a big honor in the world of electroacoustic music.

Maggi has been asked to create new music for many projects. For example, she made an 8-channel sound installation called Immersion, Bay Area Soundscape for the Berkeley Arts Commission. She has also created music for the National Flute Association, flutist Nina Assimakopoulos, pianist Sarah Cahill, and trombonist Abbie Conant.

Her works have also been featured in the 60x60 project, which showcases very short pieces of music (60 seconds long).

From 1992 to 2018, Maggi was a Co-Director at the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College in Oakland, California. She taught students about recording engineering, composing, and electronic music there for many years.

Music Albums

Maggi Payne has released several solo albums and her music has appeared on many compilation albums with other artists.

Solo Albums

• 2017 Crystal LP (re-release): Features pieces like White Night and Solar Wind.
• 2014 Desertscapes CD: Music for two women’s choirs.
• 2012 Ahh-Ahh Music for Ed Tannenbaum’s Technological Feets 1984-1987 LP: Includes music she made for dance performances.
• 2010 Arctic Winds CD: An album of electroacoustic music with tracks like Fluid Dynamics and Arctic Winds.
• 2003 Ping/Pong: Beyond the Pail CD: Features soundscapes.
• 1991 Crystal CD (re-release): Another version of her Crystal album with extra tracks.
• 1986 Crystal LP: Her original Crystal album.

Compilation Albums

Maggi's music has been included on many collections, showcasing her diverse work:

• 2017 BAM, on the Acoustic Deconstruction LP.
• 2016 Reflections, for solo flute on the VAYU: Multi-cultural Flute Solos From the Twenty-First Century CD.
• 2015 Beyond, for Steven M. Miller on Between Noise and Silence CD/DVD.
• 2014 Black Ice and STATIC on Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music & Expanded Cinema Art DVD/LP.
• 2013 Pop on SEAMUS Electro-Acoustic Miniatures 2012: Re-Caged CD.
• 2008 60X3, on the "60x60 (2006–2007)" 2-CD set.
• 2007 System Test (fire and Ice) on the "Far and Wide" DVD.
• 2007 :60 Fizz (electroacoustic), on the "60x60 (2004–2005)" 2-CD set.
• 2006 ReCycle (electroacoustic), on the "Women Take Back the Noise" CD.
• 2006 Of All for solo flute, on the "Points of Entry: Laurels Project, Volume I" CD.
• 2006 it's elemental (soundscape), on the "Overheard and Rendered" CD.
• 2005 field recordings edited by Chris Cutler on the "Twice Around the Earth" CD.
• 2004 60 Spin (electroacoustic), on the "60X60" CD.
• 2001 Moiré (electroacoustic) on the soundtrack for Jordan Belson: Collected Films: Bardo.
• 2000 White Turbulence 2000 (four channel electroacoustic work), on the "Immersion" DVD-V/DVD-A.
• 2000 breaks/motors (electroacoustic), on the "Oasis: Music from Mills 2001" CD.
• 1999 HUM, Aeolian Confluence, and Inflections, on "The Extended Flute" CD.
• 1999 Raw Data (electroacoustic), on the "End ID" CD.
• 1998 Chris Mann Piece (electroacoustic), on "The Frog Peak Collaborations Project" CD.
• 1998 She Began, with text by writer Melody Sumner Carnahan, on "The Time is Now" CD.
• 1996 Desertscapes, for 2 spatially separated choirs, on the "Desertscapes" CD.
• 1996 Moiré (electroacoustic), on the "Storm of Drones" CD.
• 1994 Resonant Places (electroacoustic), on the "Consortium to Distribute Computer Music (CDCM)—Music from the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College" CD.
• 1988 Airwaves (realities) (electroacoustic), on the "Another Coast" CD.
• 1986 Subterranean Network, on the "Mills College Centennial" 3-LP album.
• 1980 Lunar Dusk and Lunar Earthrise (electroacoustic), on the "Lovely Little Records" boxed set of six 7" records.

As a Performer

Maggi Payne is also a talented flutist and has performed on many recordings by other artists:

• 1999 She played flute on "The Extended Flute" CD.
• 1996 She played flute on "Non Stop Flight" by Pauline Oliveros.
• 1981 She played flute on Healing Music by Joanna Brouk.
• 1978 She played flute and bowed psalter on "Summer Music" by Jacques Bekaert.
• 1977 She played flute on "On the Other Ocean" by David Behrman.
• 1977 She played flute on "Star Jaws" by Peter Laurence Gordon.
• 1977 She played flute on "Out of the Blue" by Blue Gene Tyranny.