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'''Susan Alcorn''' (born 1953) is an American composer, improvisor, and pedal steel guitarist active in contemporary music and free improvisation. |
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Alcorn started out playing guitar at the age of twelve quickly immersing herself in folk music, blues, and the pop music of the 1960’s. A chance encounter with blues musician Muddy Waters steered her towards playing slide guitar. By the time she was twenty-one, she had immersed herself in the pedal steel guitar, playing in country and western swing bands in Texas. |
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Soon she began to absorb and adapt the technique of country-western pedal steel into a personal style influenced by free jazz, avant-garde classical music, Indian ragas, Indigenous traditions, and various folk musics of the world. By the early 1990s her music began to show an influence of the holistic and feminist “deep listening” philosophies of Pauline Oliveros. |
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Though mostly a solo performer, Alcorn has collaborated with numerous artists including Pauline Oliveros, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Kowald, Chris Cutler, Joe Giardullo, Caroline Kraabel, Le Quan Ninh, Sean Meehan, Joe McPhee, LaDonna Smith, Mike Cooper, and Johanna Varner. |
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She has written about music for about music for the UK magazine ''Resonance'' and CounterPunch.org. Her article “The Road the Radio, and the Full Moon” was included in “The Best Music Writing of 2006” published by ''Da Capo Press''. |
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Recordings include ''Uma'' (Loveletter 2000), ''Curandera'' (Uma Sounds 2005), and ''Concentration'' (Recorded 2005). |
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Susan Alcorn (born 1953) is an American composer, improvisor, and pedal steel guitarist active in contemporary music and free improvisation.
Alcorn started out playing guitar at the age of twelve quickly immersing herself in folk music, blues, and the pop music of the 1960’s. A chance encounter with blues musician Muddy Waters steered her towards playing slide guitar. By the time she was twenty-one, she had immersed herself in the pedal steel guitar, playing in country and western swing bands in Texas.
Soon she began to absorb and adapt the technique of country-western pedal steel into a personal style influenced by free jazz, avant-garde classical music, Indian ragas, Indigenous traditions, and various folk musics of the world. By the early 1990s her music began to show an influence of the holistic and feminist “deep listening” philosophies of Pauline Oliveros.
Though mostly a solo performer, Alcorn has collaborated with numerous artists including Pauline Oliveros, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Kowald, Chris Cutler, Joe Giardullo, Caroline Kraabel, Le Quan Ninh, Sean Meehan, Joe McPhee, LaDonna Smith, Mike Cooper, and Johanna Varner.
She has written about music for about music for the UK magazine Resonance and CounterPunch.org. Her article “The Road the Radio, and the Full Moon” was included in “The Best Music Writing of 2006” published by Da Capo Press.
Recordings include Uma (Loveletter 2000), Curandera (Uma Sounds 2005), and Concentration (Recorded 2005).