SUSAN ELIZABETH ALEXJANDER

Education
B.A. English Literature and Teaching Credential
Chatham College (Carnegie-Mellon), Pittsburgh, Pa. And University of Utah, l966
M.A. Music Composition and Theory
San Jose State University, San Jose, Ca. l982
Current Employment

Music Faculty: Cogswell College, Sunnyvale, Ca
Globe School of Recording and Psychoacoustics, SF

Director: Science & The Arts, A company which supports scientific research, artistic creativity and outreach to celebrate the vibrational interconnectedness of the universe.
English As A Second Language Teacher (ESL, part-time), Watsonville/Aptos Adult School; Cabrillo College

Works in Progress:
The Fifth Sun: CD; Logos Series #2. Music of the pulsars, sun, crystalline world and the flowering of life.
Three Songs, text by Hafiz. Commission.
Into Being - The River CD of Soundtrack

Teaching Experience (Music/University Level):
1999-01 Goddard College, Plainfield, Vt. Adjunct Faculty Health Arts
l994-'01 Union Institute, Sacramento, Ca. Adjunct Faculty. Courses on harmonics, frequency, score reading 20th C and Sacred. Ongoing.
l996 University of California Santa Cruz: Metaphysics of Sound Seminar
l992-'94 Private seminars - the Metaphysics of Sound
l992 Sound and Consciousness - JFK University, Orinda, Ca.
l985-'90 San Jose State University: Faculty
Music Theory, 9A and 9B
Music Involvement l0B
l988-'89 National University, San Jose campus
Music Involvement: A hands-on and historical approach

Lecturing and Presentations (l986-'01)
Keynote Graduation Speech: Goddard College, Vermont.
Tuning of the World; Riding the Wave
American Composer's Forum - Presentations of Sequencia for Bay Area composition students (Berkeley High, Ca.)
Presenter: International Sound Colloquium: Epping New Hampshire
"Music In The Natural World"
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, Ca. Lectures on the Nature of Sound; Harmonics and Architecture.
Presentations on Hildegard of Bingen (slides and music):
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; UCSC, U. of Utah, SLC, Cabrillo College; San Jose State U.
Broadcast Experience (l983-present)
KPFA Radio, Berkeley. 94.l FM; non-commercial. Host, Morning Concerts: music and interviews with New Music artists; Bay Area and International. KUSP Santa Cruz 15 years.
Professional Services (Music)
Music Director: The Way In: A Cal Performance at the Berkeley Art Museum with AXIS Dance Troupe. Feb. l994. NEA Grant.
Composer/Producer: Sequencia, compact disc (CD) by Science & The Arts. Composed (original) music using tunings derived from actual molecular vibrations of DNA, for electronic synthesizer and acoustic violin, cello, tabla and voice. (Sequencia, Eikos, 'Pataphysical Thymine)l994. A joint science/art project with partner Dr. David Deamer biologist, UCSC.
Co-Music Director: A Gathering of Angels, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Ensemble Musica Divina, Mihr'n'Issa Douglass, director. For labyrinth walks, '92,'93.
Co-Producer: A Voice of Vision, with Willow Simmons, Directed by Amanda Simmons. An evening of music/artistry of Hildegard of Bingen, Pacific Cultural Center, SC, Ca. June, l990.

Published scores: Buffalo Bill's Defunct; Eikos.
Sequencia (CD) performances, articles, interviews, exhibits
Performances:
Sequencia (ensemble): 1990: SJSU New Music America;
Eikos (synthesizer and violin), Oakland Museum, commissioned by the Oakland Museum NSS concert series, l991
DNA, Pulsar, Elements Sound Design; Young People's Millenium Concert, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 1999.

Articles and Published Interviews:
New York Times Science section; Discovery Channel Magazine, Open Ear; EMI; Deep Listenings (Rome; Italy); IEEEE Journal; Minaisa Journal Seoul, Korea, NIGHT (NYC), The Economist, UK, Alternative Therapies J.

Media Interviews:
BBC Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio (To The Best Of Our Knowledge); KPFA Radio (Wavelength); WGEM TV (Illinois); CNN TV; KUSP Radio: Mind, Body, Spirit.
Exhibits:
Permanent Exhibit (DNA) Science Museum, Boston, Ma. (1996 +)
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco '94.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Out of Sight: Imaging/Imagining Science, '98.
Women In Science (Genomically Yours) part of New York City Festival for the 50th year celebration of the Double Helix – February 2003; Universal Concepts Unlimited Gallery, NYC.
Into Being - The River. Video/sound collaboration with artist Diana Hobson. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 4/4 -7/27. 03'
Zero Waiting – film soundtrack with DH. Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall, UK. Suguest-Sept. 2005
Presentations:
Invited to present: Interstellar Composition about DNA Through a Language of Tone: Paris Conference/SETI Organization: Encoding Altruism; March 2003.

Performances/Other Compositions:
AXIS Dance Troupe: In This Body, original soundtrack, '91. Helix, sound design for Boston performance '92; Tellings; Michigan Women's Festival; Film score for fall of '94. The Way In, The Way Out, for Berkeley Museum of Art, '94.
Buffalo Bill's Defunct: Commissioned and performed by William Trimble, l991. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. Wolford/Rosenblum Duo, '92. KPFA Radio live performance, '92. Wolford/Rosenblum Duo, Santa Cruz, '96, '97.
Lord, Make Me An Instrument of Thy Peace, and The Lady And The Bear; (voice and piano) Fresno State U., Helen Joseph-Weil, soprano. l994.
For Ida, (piano and voice) commissioned by Rita Bottoms, l994. Kyrie: In Memorium for Mike Tom - (voice and piano), l999 Three Pieces; Art Songs (voice and piano) - text by Hafiz; 2001

Awards:
Fellowship Award l995, Alden B. Dow Creativity Center, Midland, Michigan. For exploring the geometry of the mineral kingdom, to be used as data for original composition; June and July of l995.
Banff Music Center, 2001 Banff Canada. Awarded Leighton Studio Residency for October, 2001.
Professional Organizations:

Panelist/Advisor: The Wellcome Trust (Granting Org); UK
American Composer's Forum
ASCI (Art and Science Collaborations, Inc.)
Board Member - Nature Sounds Society ('90-'95)
Board Member - Santa Cruz Chorale
Noetic Sciences Member