Meri von KleinSmid (born 1974) is an

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musician, artist and composer.

Life

Meri von KleinSmid was born in

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, and studied choral music, piano, violin and flute as a child. She was educated at the

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and

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, where she studied music history and ethnomusicology. She lived for a while in

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, but later moved to the

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area. She has been a member of the experimental musical collective SoniCabal and the Chinese Music Society of North America, among other organizations. The CD ''60X60'', including her work, won an award at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards in

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Works

Selected works include: *''Monorail'' *''What Happens to the Deep-Sea Divers'' *''I Dreamt the PNE'' *''Are You Waiting for a Bus?'' *''Late-Night Café'' *''Waiting for the 99 B-Line'' *''Ethereal Tether'' *''The Observation of Curio No. 19'' Her work has been issued on CD, including: *''CHI-TAPE'' merican Archive Recordings, AAR005(U.S.A.) *''Women Take Back the Noise'' three disc compilation buibi(U.S.A.) *''ELEKTRAMUSIC Electroacoustic Music Volume 01'' lektramusic, ELEK01(France) *''DISContact! III'' EC-PeP, PEP 007(Canada) *''Ex Vivo'' imeomeme-Mimeograph(U.S.A.) *''60x60'', 2004-2005 2-disc compilation ox Novus(U.S.A.)

References

1974 births Living people 20th-century classical composers American women classical composers American classical composers Musicians from Los Angeles University of Washington alumni Columbia College Chicago alumni 20th-century American women musicians 20th-century American composers 21st-century American women musicians Classical musicians from California 20th-century women composers {{US-composer-20thC-stub