Alice F. Shields (Manhattan, New York, February 18, 1943)
In 1950, Vladimir Ussachevsky (Columbia University) and Otto Luening (Princeton University) founded the Electronic Music Center. Located in New York in one of the areas for the Columbia University, the Centre is made official in 1959 thanks to a donation from the Rockefeller Foundation. The purpose of the EMC is to teach techniques to young composers of electronic music and the instruments (oscillators, phonographs, microphones, sequencers, electric organs, filters, tape recorders and much more) were available to students for recordings and live-sets . From 1959 to 1970, years in which management is entrusted to the institute Ussachevsky, the best known investigators visiting, studying or working at EMC
Alice Shields arrived at Columbia in 1961 to study music and literature. After He attended classes in composition by Jack Beeson, he graduated and became an assistant to Ussachevsky, his professor of counterpoint. From 1965 to 1982 he was associate director and technical instructor at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.
"When in 1964 I Walked into the building for the first time, I Could see and hear the screeching monkeys in Their laboratory cages. Such Was the building in the Electronic Music Center Which Existed, and for at least twenty years nurtured the creation of Hundreds of wildly different works of art. "
excellent mezzo-soprano, Alice begins to include in its tracks made of loops, feedbacks, oscillators and filters, recordings of his voice. In 1965 he studied singing with Helen Merritt; Study realized in 1968 for voice and Tape synchronizing voice recordings with synthesized sounds on tape created with a Buchla. The contamination of operatic arias and electronic music is the theme of the search for Alice Shields: between 1966 and 1968 working at the Lake George Opera Festival and in 1970 led his first opera, Odyssey. The item becomes a real tool in Shaman, electronic work performed by the American Chamber Opera Company in 1987. Alice Shields still works as a composer in the opera world and is famous for the contributions non-classical (Indian music, Native American symbolism ...) introduced in this field.
"The Sunbather
She, sun
beating, walloping,
(save yourself, idiot)
--dead tired, can’t make it
(save yourself, idiot)
and she smothering you
you lie stinking, hot and nude on an asphalt roof.
She whacking, pummeling you,
my advice is, Complain.
--and then your bellow is beefed and gutted,
spat with smirking cheeks over the parapet.
Wide scraping sun-hips skin you, flail you,
idiot, idiot,
and you gravelling there nude on asphalt,
and you ecstasy in your bright bloody face."
--Alice Shields
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