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Do check out Annie Gosfield's 'The Art of the Virtual Rythmicon' and be amazed at what you hear.
Annie Gosfield has created a body of work that includes large–scale compositions, chamber pieces, electronic music, video projects, and music for dance. Her work often explores the inherent beauty of non–musical sounds, and is inspired by diverse sources such as machines, destroyed pianos, warped 78 records, and detuned radios. She uses traditional notation, improvisation, and extended techniques to create a sound world that eliminates the boundaries between music and noise, while emphasizing the unique qualities of each performer. Annie lives in New York City and divides her time between performing on piano and sampler with her own group and composing for many ensembles and soloists.
Gosfield will hold the Darius Milhaud Chair of Composition at Mills College in Fall, 2005. She was previously the Milhaud professor at Mills College in Oakland, California, in 2003. She has received fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Siemens Foundation, and the Djerassi Foundation, and has received grants and awards from the NEA, the American Composers Forum, the Jerome Foundation, the American Music Center, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, U.S. Artists at International Festivals, Meet the Composer, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, among others. She studied composition at the University of Southern California and North Texas State University, and studied piano with jazz pianist Bernard Peiffer and Horowitz protégé Alexander Fiorillo
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