Wendy Mae Chambers
Musical Artist
1953 –
Who is Wendy Mae Chambers?
Wendy Mae Chambers is an American composer, currently living in Harvey Cedars, New Jersey. Chambers studied at Barnard College from 1971 to 1975, where she received her B.A. in music, and where she studied with Kenneth Cooper, Nicholas Roussakis, Jack Beeson and Charles Wuorinen. She earned her M.A. in composition at Stony Brook University in New York, where she studied between 1975 and 1977.
Her large-scale music events were inspired by the work of Christo and Andy Warhol, and the desire to reach an audience beyond traditional new music audiences. In addition, she knew John Cage well and her work 12 squared for twelve percussionists is a voodoo tone poem written in his memory. By staging works outside the concert halls and into the public sphere, she has succeeded in bringing her music outside the domain of specialists and academics.
Currently she is working on a musical system and set of compositions based on the I Ching, an ancient Chinese text, which led Cage to the develop the technique of "chance operations" in the 1950s.
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- Born
- Jan 24, 1953
- Also known as
- Chambers, Wendy Mae
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Barnard College
- State University of New York at Stony Brook
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on July 23, 2013
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