Susan Rawcliffe
also on www.artawakening.com/soundworks 
e-mail: SoundWorks@aol.com

SOUNDWORKS & THE DIDJERIDU
Tuesday night, 7:30-9:00PM
Building H, Angel's Gate Cultural Center, 3601 So. Gaffey, San Pedro
take the 110 freeway South to the end. Continue So. or left on Gaffey; go R between 36th & 37th Streets into the Park; go R up hill; at the first Y go L towards the ocean; R at the T to the open parking area next to Building H, up a short flight of stairs.
310 547-2043
$15 per session (no one turned away for lack of money)

SOUNDWORKS
Come together to develop skills for improvising music, using your voice, body, available junk percussion, flutes and the light of the moon. We can learn to play the exotic flutes, pipes, ocarinas, whistles, trumpets and musical bowls that Susan Rawclfife creates; experience sonic meditations; and howl, as our whimsey takes us.

DIDJERIDU
Learn to listen inside the sound; to feel vibration within the bodies. Learn to fill the lungs when breathing, to breathe without tension, and circular breathing.  We shape the sound with the tongue, cheeks, throat, chest and  sing while playing. We consider posture, body tension and healing uses of the instrument. After listening to Aboriginal music, some rhythm patterns can be analyzed and demonstrated. A beginning instrument will be provided. We can also make didjeridus from plastic or clay.

MS. RAWCLIFFE has been playing the didjeridu for over 15 years and researching, making and playing ceramic flutes for 30. During Sept.-Nov. 2000, she had a McKnight Visiting Composer's Grant in Minnesota. From 11/96-1/97at Lincoln Center, NYC, she played her didjeridu and flutes for the Broadway show, JUAN DARIEN and its cast CD. Her didjeridu can be heard in movies such as THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU. Performances include the Schindler House, Hollywood, 6/ 01; Cedar Cultural Center, MN, 11/00; Audio Art Festival, Krakow, Poland, 11/98; the Knitting Factory; Winter Gardens, NYC, 1/98; and Podewil, Berlin, 4/97. She was on the California Arts Council touring roster, 1986-93. Her work can be heard on "Gravikords, Whirligigs and Pyro-phones," a 12/96 CD/book from Ellipsis Arts, and on her trio's 10/98 eponymous CD, MANY AXES. Exhibitions include El Camino College, 10/01; and Yerba Buena Museum, San Francisco, 8-10/99. Workshops include Northern Clay Center, MN, 10/00; Sound Colloquium, N H,10/96; Handmade Instruments Festival, Lincoln Center, NYC, 1995;& the  National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts, San Diego, CA 1993.
     In 6/01, she lectured in Chicago for the Acoustical Society of America, and in 6/00, she lectured and performed in Germany for the International Study Group on Musical Archaeology. Other lectures include  the Smithsonian, Metropolitan Museum and LA County Museum of Art. She has played and examined pre-Columbian instruments in collections throughout the USA and Mexico, including research sponsored in part by the NEA.
      Ms. Rawcliffe has an M.A. in Psychology and has been a student of Tai Chi for 20 years.