Susan Frykberg is a New Zealand music educator and electroacoustic

Electroacoustic

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 composer.

Life

Susan Frykberg was born in Hastings

Hastings

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, New Zealand

New Zealand

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, and studied at the University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury

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. She continued her studies at the University of Otago and Simon Fraser University with John Rimmer

John Rimmer

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, Barry Vercoe

Barry Vercoe

Barry Vercoe is a New Zealand-born computer scientist and composer. He completed his undergraduate degree in New Zealand in Music and Mathematics and went on to complete a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, USA, in Music Composition. In 1968, Vercoe's research in Digital Audio Processing paved...

, Barry Connyngham, Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis

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 and Barry Truax

Barry Truax

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.

She moved to Canada

Canada

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 in 1979 where she taught for seven years in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University

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 and served as a guest lecturer at The Ontario

Ontario

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 College of Art, Toronto

Toronto

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, and Emily Carr College, Vancouver

Vancouver

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. She taught electroacoustic music at Auckland University in 1989. She has one son.

Works

Frykberg composes electroacoustic works. Selected compositions include:

• Mother Too
• Insect Life
• Birth/Rebirth Bearing Me
• Audio Birth Project
• Margaret
• Astonishing Sense
• I Didn’t Think Much About It
• Sue and Kathy Telecompose across the Country

Her works have been recorded and issued on media including:

• Astonishing Sense Of Being Taken Over By Something Greater Than Me (CD) Earsay Productions, 1998
• Transonances (Cass, Ltd) Underwhich Audiographics, 1984
• harangue I (CD) Earsay, 1998