Ellen Band
Ellen Band

Sound artist/performer Ellen Band teaches sound art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She is artistic director of Audible Visions, a new music/sound art performance venue in the greater Boston area. Her reviews on new music and sound art have been published by Pform and Boston Rock and her interview series with contemporary composers, "The Motivation Interviews," appear in issues 45 and 48 of Musicworks: The Canadian Journal of Sound Exploration. A Former new music educator (for 15 years), she wrote the newsletter set while teaching at the Eliot-Pearson lab school at Tufts University.


Ellen Band
Newsletters on the Applications of Experimental Music in Education

three item set including "Music, Your Child, and You," "So Many Questions About Music" and "Sonic Arts Curriculum." These newsletters detail theoretical and practical applications of experimental music in early childhood curriculum. Numerous examples of activities are described: sound mapping, sound imaging, curriculum which revolves around environmental sound, and listening activities. Though the material describes early childhood applications, it is by no means confined to these contexts. These newsletters are recommended for any people working in educational contexts.


Book
Price: $5.00

Ellen Band
90% Post Consumer Sound

XI has released Ellen Band's first full-length CD. The CD includes her well-known piece 'Railroad Gamelan', an excerpt from her oldest analogue piece 'Closet Bird', and a binaural recording of 'Minimally Tough', a performance piece for leather jackets in motion.

"...her 'sound art' ...is celestial in its implications and down to earth in its reverence for everyday noises." - Kyle Gann, Village Voice


CD
Price: $16.00