Elise Baldwin
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Electronic Music, Intermedia Performances & Installations
2006| 9-December | 21 Grand, Oakland
Solo intermedia performance
2006| 9-November| Luggage Store Gallery
Improvisation with Kadet Kuhne, Clay Chaplin and Milton Cross
2006| 22-October | Houndstooth, New York
Solo electronic music performance
2006| 22-September | 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York
Intermedia installation
2006| 10-August | San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
Solo intermedia performance
2005| 12-October | Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco
Solo electronic music performance
2005| 13-July | Edgetone Music Festival, San Francisco
Musical performance with Mire, a quartet comprised of pedal steel, electronics, guitar and drums/percussion.
2005| 21-May | Folk Yeah Festival, Big Sur
Live improvisational music performance with Mire.
2005| 20-March | Café DuNord
Mire plays at Cafe DuNord in San Francisco.
2005| 25-February| SF ArtSpace
Live solo audio/video performance for a local noise festival held at this venue.
2004 | 18-November| Luggage Store Gallery
Live performance with Mire.
2004 | 20-August | Black Box Theater, Oakland
Musical performance with Mire.
2004 | 20-May | ARTSfest
Solo intermedia performance of The Matter of the Spheres for the San Francisco Arts Festival.
2004 | 27-April | Brutal Sound Effects Festival 2
Improvisational music trio (2 laptops and pedal steel) at Kimos in San Francisco.
2004 | 5-April | Signal Flow
Software design, composition and intermedia performance of Matter of the Spheres , arranged for trio (2 laptops and pedal steel) at Mills College.
2003 | 5-14 December | Mills Art Museum
Teem, an interactive video/music installation using sensor technology and a Teleo system to control playback. This piece was installed in an unfinished bell tower which is part of the original building architecture, but never completed because of earthquake safety issues.
2003 | 10-12 June | National Queer Arts Festival
Composed and performed electronic music and live video for Mediums Collide , a multimedia performance program in San Francisco.
2003 | 10-May | Transparencies
Interactive electronic music and video instrument, EYEclops , performed as part of an improvisational concert of electronic music.
2003 | 21-March | Steina Vasulka Performance at Mills College
Performed as part of a laptop ensemble scoring live video works by Steina Vasulka.
2003 | 10-January | CalArts CEAIT Festival
Electronic music composition Octo presented as live SuperCollider performance.
2003 | October | Sound Migration
Composed quadraphonic music installation for a sound art exhibition curated by Electronic Signal Project. This show has been exhibited in the Los Angeles Design Center and a limited edition DVD released as well.
2002 | 8-10 November | Displacement
Composed and performed electronic music for second run (see below).of this multimedia event at Dance Mission
2002 | 26-29 September | Homo-a-GOGO
Composed and performed electronic music for this arts festival in Olympia, WA.
2002 | 10 September | Women Against War
Composed and performed electronic music for this benefit at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.
2002 | 23-25 June | National Queer Arts Festival
Composed and performed electronic music for Displacement , a full-length multimedia performance in San Francisco.
2001 | 3 November | Jon Sims Center for the Arts
Composed and performed electronic music work Cocoon, for an insect-themed music show.
2001 | 3-29 May | TestRun Gallery
Created and installed Ephemeral Specimens , an audio installation, as part of a group show.
2000 | 4 May | Aural Fixation II
Composed and performed Resuscitate, an electronic music piece, for this group show at 111 Minna in San Francisco.
1999 | 10 October | Aural Fixation I at 111 Minna
Performed SubAqueous (see below) for the second run of this group show featuring local female electronic musicians.
1999 | July | Intersection for Arts/Campo Santo
Created theatrical sound design for Campo Santo's critically acclaimed adaptation of the Dennis Miller novel Jesus' Son .
1999 | 14 March | Aural Fixation I at the Lab
Composed and performed SubAqueous, an electronic music piece, for this group show featuring local female electronic musicians in San Francsico..
1998 | October | ProjExpo 98 at the Lab
Created four interactive audio installations for this monthlong Space Age-themed music festival. The installations were audio/visual tours of intergalactic destinations including The Mines of Phobos, Sea of Triton, The Comet Ephemerides , and The Oort Cloud.
1998 | April | La Jolla Playhouse
Created theatrical sound design for Smartmouth Theater production of Once In A Lifetime .
1999 | March | Intersection for Arts/Campo Santo
Created theatrical sound design for local company Campo Santo's production of Maleta Mulatta.
1998 | January| Leash Productions
Created musical score for independent 16MM film, Trance.
1997 | 1-30 August | SF Arts Commission Gallery
Created audio installation for Switchstance, an exhibition celebrating surf and skate culture. This piece was created in collboration with Kadet Kuhne.
1997 | April | Intersection for Arts/Smarthmouth Productions
Created theatrical sound design for Smartmouth Theater's production of Phaedra's Lov e.
1996 | February-March | Intersection for Arts/Smarthmouth Productions
Created theatrical sound design for Smartmouth Theater's original production Tailings , which used a collorative game process amongst six media artists and a witer-in-residence to generate the script materials.
Discography
2006 Women Take Back The Noise
2004 Fluff and Mayhem Bootleg
2003 Sound Migrations
2000 Aural Fixation II: Resuscitate
1999 Aural Fixation I: Sonic Voyagers
Publications
The Space In Between: Dialogues with Women in Intermedia Art , December 2004
Comparative artist survey of several women working in contemporary intermedia arts. Currently submitted for publication to the Computer Music Journal at MIT Press.
John Cage and His Use of Electronics , May 2003
Article examining John Cage's incorporation and often-subversive implementation of electronic technologies and media within his musical compositions.
Digidesign October 2000
Author of Web article on new Digidesign products and how they were employed within the recording studios and production methodology I designed for MTV Networks.
Women and Music in America since 1900: An Encyclopedia Kristine Burns, ed. 2001
Contributor to an article on sound design authored by Brenda Hutchinson.
Apple Developer's Survival Guide December 1997
Author of Interactive Sound Design on the Web, a developer's guide to the past, present and future of music composition and sound design on the Web.
MacUser Magazine December 1994
Author of feature article reviewing new releases of Pro Tools, Deck II, Media 100, Avid Media Suite Pro.
Production Experience
Audio Specialist, Electronic Arts/Maxis, Inc., May 2003-Present
Worked both in and out-of-house on multiple titles within The Sims franchise. Most recently, I was responsible for sound design production on their 2005 and 2006 console game releases.
Director of Audio/Video Production, MTV Networks February 1999-January 2002
This Internet music delivery group provided music journalism, professionally programmed music content and customized radio stations to online listeners through mtv.com, vh1.com and sonicnet.com.
Audio Production Director , Imagine Radio, Inc. March 1998-February 1999
This Internet radio startup provided 24 stations of high quality talk shows and music to listeners. I ran all studio recording and audio brand production for them.
Director of Sound Design, Convivial Design, Inc August 1995-December 1997
This development studio produced 3CD-ROM titles for Purple Moon Inc. on which I directed the sound design team. We also built some of the first sonified websites on the Internet using Beatnik.
Multimedia Producer, U.S. West CityKey January 1995 - August 199
This group produced advertising and local informational content for interactive closed-circuit television, using an MPEG compression scheme. We producers were responsible for production of all aspects of a project, including concept, interface graphics, sound design and video materials.
Sound Designer, Live Oak Multimedia January 1994 - September 1994
This CD-ROM production team created interactive cross-cultural project 4 Paws of Crab.
Teaching Experience
Visiting Lecturer ; Electronic Arts I & II, Mills College, January 2006
Guest Lecturer and First Year Reviewer; Core Department , CCA, May 2005. Professor: Christina LaSala
Guest Lecturer; Experimental Video Seminar, Stanford University, January 2004. Professor: Claudia X. Valdes
Teaching Assistant; Beginning and Advanced Video Production, Mills College, January 2003-June 2004
Education
Mills College, Master of Fine Arts, Fall 2004
Electronic Music & Recording Media
University of California at Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Arts, 1991
Film and Video Production
Awards
2007 CESTA Artist In Residence, Czech Republic
2006 Harvestworks Artist In Residence, NYC
2004 Frogs Peak Experimental Music Award
2002 Hellman Award in Musical Electronics
2000 Howard Scripps Award for sonicnet.com's multimedia expose Playing With Fire: Woodstock 1999
Community
Steering Committee, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, present
Board of Directors, The Lab 2001-2006
Programming Committee, The Lab 2005-present