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Joanna Brouk

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Born in 1949, St. Louis County, Missouri. Died May 6, 2017. American composer who wrote scores with geometric shapes, a poet who became a pioneer of early electronic music. Joanna Brouk's little-known body of work exists at the nexus between ambient, new age, drone, and classical minimalism. Studying under Robert Ashley and Terry Riley at the fabled Mills College Center For Contemporary Music before graduating into the margins of the 1970s bay area new music scene, Brouk blazed her own trail well outside of the musical establishment to create uncompromising electronic and acoustic work. Describing herself as less a composer than a channel, she took her cues from the frequencies of the natural world and the talents of collaborators like Maggi Payne and Bill Maraldo.