Meri von KleinSmid is an American

United States

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 musician, artist and composer.

Life

Meri von KleinSmid was born in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

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, and studied choral music, piano, violin and flute as a child. She was educated at the University of Washington

University of Washington

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 and Columbia College Chicago

Columbia College Chicago

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, where she studied music history and ethnomusicology. She lived for a while in Cambridge

Cambridge

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, England

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, but later moved to the Seattle/Vancouver

Vancouver

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 area. She has been a member of the experimental musical collective SoniCabal and the Chinese Music Society of North America, among other organizations. The CD 60X60, including her work, won an award at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee

Tennessee

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.

Works

Selected works include:

• Monorail
• What Happens to the Deep-Sea Divers
• I Dreamt the PNE
• Are You Waiting for a Bus?
• Late-Night Café
• Waiting for the 99 B-Line
• Ethereal Tether
• The Observation of Curio No. 19

Her work has been issued on CD, including:

• Women Take Back the Noise three disc compilation [Ubuibi] (U.S.A.)
• ELEKTRAMUSIC Electroacoustic Music Volume 01 [Elektramusic, ELEK01] (France)
• Ex Vivo [Mimeomeme-Mimeograph]
• 60x60, 2004-2005 2-disc compilation [Vox Novus] (U.S.A.)