Susan Rawcliffe
For over 25 years, Susan Rawcliffe has been researching, making and playing clay flutes, trumpets and sound sculptures. Flutes from ancient Mesoamerican traditions inspire and inform her work. Her instuments evolve through a circular process of making acoustical copies or studies, learning to play them and then reinvesting insights into creating new instruments: water flutes, triple pipes, space flutes, five ball flutes, hooded pipes, howlers, polyglobular trumpets, clay-doos, clay bowls and more. In addition, she plays the dijeridu, jaw harp and other ethnic instruments.
Performances (both solo and ensemble) include: MicroFest, Neighborhood Church, Pasadena, CA, 5/00; The American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, 1/99; A Solo European Tour in 11/98; The Los Angeles Theatre Center & The Museum of Contemporary Art, 8/98; and JUAN DARIEN, Lincoln Center, NYC, 10/96-1/97. She is a recipient of a McKnight Visiting Composer's Project Grant, 9/00-10/00; and was on the California Arts Council touring roster from 1986-93.
Invitational exhibitions & Performances include: Common Clay, AGCC, San Pedro, CA, 8/99; Yerba Buena, SF, CA, 8-11/99; Reinventions, Winter Gardens, NYC, 1/98; and the Hollywood Bowl Museum, 1992-93. Her work was featured in Ceramics Monthly, 10/97.
Lectures include the Smithsonian Institution, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Symposium on the Archaeology of Early Sound, Germany; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Universities of California at Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego; and The AAAS. Initial research in Mexico into Pre-Columbian instruments was sponsored in part by a NEA craft project grant. She documented her studies in "Complex Acoustics in Pre-Columbian Flute Systems", published in 1992 by the Smithsonian Press in Musical Repercussions of 1492; in Experimental Musical Instruments, Vol. VIII #2; and in National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts Journal, Vol. 14, 1993-4
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