Suzanne Thorpe

SCORE: Sounding Time

SUZANNE THORPE is a performer/composer whose work is fixed and improvised, performed, installed and recorded. Her compositions tend to be site-specific sound pieces that speak of, and with, their environment. As an improviser she has enjoyed performing with Pauline Oliveros, Zeena Parkins, Chris Brown, Zbigniew Karkowski, Nate Wooley, and Anti-matter, among others. She has released over 20 recordings on labels such as Sony, V2, Beggars Banquet, and Tape Drift, and was a founding member of critically acclaimed Mercury Rev, with whom she performed, recorded and toured from 1989 – 2001, earning a gold record for 1998’s Deserter’s Songs. Thorpe has received residencies and fellowships from Harvestworks Digital Media Foundation, Meet the Composer, New Music USA, and the MAP Foundation. She was awarded the Frog Peak Collective Award for innovative research in 2008, and has been a certified Deep Listening instructor since 2011. Currently she is a PhD candidate in Music/Integrative Studies at University of California San Diego, and serves as Co-Founder/Director of TECHNE, an organization that introduces young women and girls to technology-focused art making, musical improvisation, and listening.