Janis Mercer
San Francisco, California, United States
what does a quilt sound like?
I am a composer/pianist living in San Francisco. I have released one chamber music CD and have another ready for release, Quilt, for fixed electronics and piano. I use found sounds and manipulate them in various ways to create what I call digital concréte music. The music on this CD uses answering machine messages, city sounds, home vinyl and cassette recordings, extended and electronically manipulated piano, trumpet, and string sounds, 12-tone rows and speaking and singing.