Brenda Hutchinson is an American composer and sound artist who has developed a body of work based on a perspective about interacting with the public and non-artists through personal, reciprocal engagement with listening and sounding. Hutchinson encourages her participants to experiment with sound, share stories, and make music. She often bases her electroacoustic compositions on recordings of these individual collaborative experiences, creating "sonic portraits" or "aural pictures" of people and situations.[1][2]
In addition to her ethnographic pieces, Hutchinson has composed for film (Liquid Sky, 1982, co-composed with Clive Smith), invented instruments (Giant Music Box, Long Tube, and gestural interface for the Long Tube), and is active as a performer/improviser.[3]
Turaluralura Lament, Homo Sonorus: An International Anthology of Sound Poetry, Edited / Curated by Dmitry Bulatov, The National Center for Contemporary Art. Kaliningrad Branch, 2001.
Long Tube-Solos and Duets, Pauline Oliveros Foundation, HB-CD-3, 2002.
Bibliography
Sabrina Peña Young. (2009). The Feminine Musique: Multimedia and Women Today. ISBN978-0-557-08403-6
Hinkle-Turner, Elizabeth (2006). Crossing the Line: Women Composers and Music Technology. Burlington, VT. Ashgate. ISBN0-7546-0461-6
Croydon, Philip ed. (2001). "New Grove Dictionary". Brenda Hutchinson. Macmillan Publishers Limited.
Roberts, Mary Lee Being Around Brenda Hutchinson. Open Space Magazine, Spring 2001, issue 3
Books and articles
Hutchinson, Brenda. “Was hat das mit Musikzu tun?” Remembering Pauline Oliveros (translated from English into German for this publication), Musik Texte: Zeitschrift Für Neue Musik. Heft 152. February. (2017) Verlag Musik Text. Köln.
Hutchinson, Brenda. What Can You Do? reclaiming public space through direct engagement with strangers. (2012) ISBN978-0-9859372-0-1
Hutchinson, Brenda. “Tiny Offerings”. Deep Listening Anthology II: Scores from the Deep Listening Community. Edited by Marc Jensen. Deep Listening Publications (2010), p. 54
Hutchinson, Brenda. "Sound Initiated Drawing and Memory Impairment". Perspectives on the Electroacoustic Work. Canadian Electroacoustic Community eContact! 12.4 (2010).
^Jeffery Byrd, "Brenda Hutchinson," in Women and Music In America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, ed. Kristine Burns, 288-9 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001).
^Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner discusses Hutchinson's work in Crossing the Line: Women Composers and Music Technology, (Ashgate Publishing, 2006).
^Kyle Gann includes her with performance artists in his text on American music. See Gann, American Music in the Twentieth Century (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 1997).
^Several of her pieces have been reviewed by Kyle Gann in The Village Voice. See Gann,Music Downtown: Writings From The Village Voice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).