Susan Frykberg (born 10 October 1954) is an electroacoustic composer and a sound artist. She also composes acoustic music in a variety of genres.

Life

Susan Frykberg was born in

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, and studied at the

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and the University of Otago, studying under, among others, John Rimmer,

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, and Iannis Xenakis. She moved to Canada in 1979 and worked as a free-lance composer in Toronto until a move to Vancouver in 1986, to complete a master's degree at Simon Fraser University with

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. She would teach in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University for 7 years. She served as a guest lecturer at the

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College of Art

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), Emily Carr College (

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), Auckland University,

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(

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), and

Box Hill Institute of TAFE Box Hill Institute is a provider of vocational and higher education located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne in Victoria. The Box Hill Institute has three locations in Box Hill (Elgar, Nelson & Whitehorse), two in Lilydale (John St and Jar ...

(Melbourne). She has one son.

Works

Frykberg composes electroacoustic works. Selected compositions include: *''Mother Too'' *''Insect Life'' *''Birth/Rebirth Bearing Me'' *''Audio Birth Project'' *''Margaret'' *''Astonishing Sense'' *''I Didn’t Think Much About It'' *''Sue and Kathy Telecompose across the Country'' Her works have been recorded and issued on media including: *''Astonishing Sense Of Being Taken Over By Something Greater Than Me'' (CD) Earsay Productions, 1998 *''Transonances'' (Cass, Ltd) Underwhich Audiographics, 1984 *''harangue I'' (CD) Earsay, 1998

References

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