Pamela Madsen is acclaimed internationally as a composer, performer and scholar. Through her compositions, interactive opera/installations, writings, collaborative projects, collected archives of works by women in electronic music, teaching, performances and organization of events she has created a body of work with a profound breadth of vision. With a Ph.D. in Composition from UCSD with Brian Ferneyhough, doctoral studies in Music Theory from Yale University, and post-doctoral studies in Music Technology at IRCAM, Paris, Madsen has been honored with awards, grants, residencies and concerts internationally. Whether traveling with the Listening Room Project throughout the US, Europe and Canada, or working with artist Judy Chicago’s Envisioning the Future Project in Los Angeles, or the Arditti String Quartet in France, Zeitgeist Ensemble in Minnesota, CA Ear Unit at Arcosanti, Pauline Oliveros in California or as resident composer at Mills College, Madsen’s commitment to interaction and collaboration with the performer in electroacoustic music is evident. Madsen’s ritual interactive electroacoustic opera/installations works focus on the concept of transformation and transcendence in musical performance through intensive focus on the moment, voice, movement and virtuosity in conjunction with multi-media and spatialized electronics. She works collaboratively to create new works that challenge performers beyond their current technical, musical, and personal limitations. To engage in this experience requires focus...[more]