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Betsey Biggs email

Deluge #3 4:30
Earlier this year, I created a series of studies emanating from a single spot -- the sounds from my shower and bathroom.  While making this series, I thought about the qualities of baths and showers. Immersion. Being submerged, standing up. Able to withstand the flood. Too much of a good thing. The sound of loss in a dripping bath; the comedy of our human sounds. I would like this piece to wash over you, to tickle you and to wake you up the way a shower does.
Betsey Biggs is a composer and media artist working with sound and video to explore natural patterns and processes, and the balance between structure and improvisation. She studied composition with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith and Maggi Payne at Mills College and is currently a second year doctoral fellow at Princeton University.

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shoreversion from hatteras island NC location recordings. two excerpts consist of a 1 minute excerpt of the unprocessed recording , a 1 minute excerpt of the shoreversion recording. webpage

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You can say it all started when my mother gave me a cheap plastic portable cassette recorder in 1977. I used to take it with me everywhere I went and do these little "pause button" mixes. I would record things in the car on a Sunday family drive, in restaraunts, in the park , etc. etc. Later on my mother bought me a "Sears" electric guitar and amplifier with wich I had no interest in playing in a conventional manner ... ... I purchased a 4-track and began doing experiments with field recordings,guitar,&electronics. Eventually I started up a small cassette label called Jill*Off and began trading tapes with many people involved in the "home taping" scene of the early to mid 90's. I stopped the label in 1996 to pursue "higher education" and received a degree in audio engineering at the Institute of Audio Research in N.Y.C. When I finished school I began experimenting with computer music and field recordings and generally following what's going in on the world of technology.