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Hsiung-Zee Wong (born October 24, 1947) is a composer,
[1] artist, and designer who was born in Hong Kong.
Biography
Wong moved to the United States in 1966, where she worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. She studied at the
University of Hawaii until 1968. In 1970, she studied electronic music
[2] at
Mills College with Robert Sheff (later known as
Gene Tyranny ) and
Dane Rudhyar . In 1972, she studied industrial design at the
California College of Arts and Crafts .
[3] Other teachers included
Ernst Krenek ,
Chou Wen-Chung , Leonard Klein and
Robert Ashley .
[4] In 1972, Wong presented an art exhibit entitled "A Celebration of Women" at the Intersection Gallery (probably
Intersection for the Arts ).
[5]
Wong founded Hysteresis, a women's creative arts group that included Bay-area artists, at Mills College.
[6] She also performed with the Flowing Stream Ensemble. Wong's compositions include:
Electronic
Cry of Women in the Wilderness (piano, gong, and amplified Zen bell; 1972)
Earth Rituals (tape with chanting and sound improvisation; 1973)
Maturity (taped piano improvisation; 1972)
Sounding of the Sane (tape with audience chanting)
Guitar
Multimedia
They Move, Don't They? (sound calligraphic score with visual slides; 1973)
Vocal
Piano Ritual I (voice, piano, Chinese woodblock and gong)
Songs (voice and guitar; 1964–1972)
References
^ Anderson, Ruth (1976).
Contemporary American composers : a biographical dictionary . Boston: G.K. Hall.
ISBN
0-8161-1117-0 .
OCLC
2035024 .
^ Stern, Susan (1978).
Women composers : a handbook . Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
0-8108-1138-3 .
OCLC
3844725 .
^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987).
International encyclopedia of women composers (Second, revised and enlarged ed.). New York.
ISBN
0-9617485-2-4 .
OCLC
16714846 . {{
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^ Pfitzinger, Scott (March 2017).
Composer genealogies : a compendium of composers, their teachers, and their students . Lanham, Maryland.
ISBN
978-1-4422-7225-5 .
OCLC
961457738 . {{
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^
Female Artists, Past and Present . Women's History Research Center. 1974.
^ Mander, Anica Vesel; Rush, Anne Kent (1974).
Feminism as Therapy . Random House.
ISBN
978-0-394-70937-6 .
^ MacAuslan, Janna (1997).
Guitar music by women composers : an annotated catalog . Aspen, Kristan, 1948-. Westport, Conn.
ISBN
0-313-29385-6 .
OCLC
36589202 . {{
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