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STEVE PETERS, composer/sound artist
(b. 1959, San Rafael, CA; resides in Seattle, WA)


EDUCATION
2002-03 Old-time fiddle with David Margolin (Albuquerque)
1996 Gamelan slonding with I Nyoman Partha Gunawan (Tenganan, Bali)
1991 Javanese gamelan with Jeanette DeBouzek (Santa Fé/Albuquerque)
1984 Workshops with members of Meredith Monk/The House (New York)
1979-85 The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA), Bachelor of Arts Degree


EXHIBITIONS
2010 Chamber Music 7 (Solar Ring) — site-specific sound installation; Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA); in group show Sound in Space, curated by Scott Sherk

2009 The Very Rich Hours — site-specific sound installation, Old San Ysidro Church (Corrales, NM); in group show Land/Art, curated by Kathleen Shields

2009 Chamber Music 6 (Two Ways of Listening to Nothing) — site-specific sound installation with Rene Barge; Bass Art Museum (Miami, FL); in group show Sound, curated by Gustavo Matamoros

2008 Chamber Music 5 (Stained Glass) — site-specific sound installation; Good Shepherd Center Chapel (Seattle, WA); in group show Ashes to Ashes, curated by Mary Welch

2008 Chamber Music 4 (Filtered Light) — site-specific sound installation; UNM Art Museum (Albuquerque, NM); as part of UNM Composer Symposium, curated by Christopher Shultis

2007 Here•ings: a sonic geohistory — sound installation; Saranac Art Projects (Spokane, WA)

2007 Chamber Music 3 (Silent Room) — site-specific sound installation; Seattle Public Library, Greenwood branch (Seattle, WA)

2007 Chamber Music 2 (Atrium) — site-specific sound installation; Atrium Soundspace, Contemporary Music Program at College of Santa Fé (Santa Fé, NM)

2007 Alchemy — sound/visual installation with artist Christine Wallers, Nicolaysen Museum (Casper, WY)

2006 First Light, Last — sound/video installation with Christine Wallers; Sound & Light Gallery at Portland Art Center (Portland, OR)

2005 Alchemy — sound/visual installation with artist Christine Wallers, Center on Contemporary Art (Settle, WA); in group show Resonance, curated by Fionn Meade & Robert Millis as part of the Bumbershoot Festival

2005 Correspondence — sound installation with Rene Barge; Lightbox Gallery (Miami, FL); in group show Boomerang

2005 Morning Ragas — mobile sound installation; Port Angeles Fine Arts Center (Pt. Angeles, WA); in group show Art Outside, curated by Jake Seniuk

2004 Center of Gravity — sound/visual installation with artist Susan York; Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL); in group show Implicit Plasticity, curated by Dubhe Carreño

2004 Window Seat and Mountains Hidden in Mountains — site-specific sound installations; Santa Fé Art Institute (Santa Fé, NM); in group show Transmit + Transform, curated by Diane Karp

2004 Here•ings: a sonic geohistory — sound installation; Dorsch Gallery (Miami, FL); as part of Subtropics Festival, curated by Gustavo Matamoros

2004 Here•ings: a sonic geohistory — sound installation; Sun Valley Center for the Arts (Sun Valley, ID); in group show Sound of Place, Place of Sound, curated by Jennifer Gately

2003 Luminous Bodies on Galileo’s Inclined Plane — multimedia installation with architect/artist Reggie Stump; AC2 Gallery (Albuquerque, NM)

2003 Delicate Abrasions — site-specific sound installation; Shack Obscura at Klaudia Marr Gallery (Santa Fé, NM)

2003 Here•ings: a sonic geohistory — sound installation; University of Texas (El Paso, TX); in group show Two Artists Respond to the Land with video artist Robert Tachoires, curated by Kate Bonansinga

2003 Alchemy — sound/visual installation with artist Christine Wallers, Nicolaysen Museum (Casper, WY)

2002 Here•ings: a sonic geohistory — completed installation with 24 stone listening benches on recording sites, the LAND/an Art Site (Mountainair, NM); in group show Nothing to See

2002 Here•ings: a sonic geohistory — sound/visual installation with 24 stone listening benches, 516 Arts (Albuquerque, NM); in group show Being, here, curated by Steve Peters

2001 Here•ings: a sonic geohistory — sound installation; Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fé, NM); in group show Organizing the World: Sculptural Interventions, curated by Aline Brandauer & Christine Wallers

2001 Emanations — sound/visual installation with artist Claire Giovanniello, Harwood Art Center (Albuquerque, NM); as part of Trapped Light, curated by Christine Wallers

2001 Cloud Chamber — light installation in storefront window (Albuquerque, NM); as part of The Windows Project, curated by Jesse DeLeers

2000 Alchemy — sound/visual installation with artist Christine Wallers, Old San Ysidro Church (Corrales, NM)

2000 Celebrating Nature: the Forest Underground — sound/neon light installation with artist Barbara Grothus, permanent public artwork commissioned for the Albuquerque Convention Center (Albuquerque, NM)

2000 Confluences: Songs of the Rio Grande & Its Tributaries — sound installation (received Award of Merit); Albuquerque Museum (Albuquerque, NM); as part of group show Water

1999 Here•ings: a sonic geohistory — site-specific installation (in progress); The Land/an art site (Mountainair, NM); as part of group show Second Show, curated by Christine Wallers

1998 Emanations — sound installation, Brooklyn College Art Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)

1998 Emanations — sound installation, Harwood Art Center (Albuquerque, NM); as part of group show Some Things in the Air, curated by Steve Peters

1998 Sight Specifics: Diablo Canyon — sound installation; Refusalon Gallery (San Francisco, CA); as part of group show Sound, curated by Steve Roden

1995 Emanations — sound/visual installation with artist Claire Giovanniello, Nonsequitur Music Gallery (Albuquerque)

1994 Act Now! — sound installation, American Institute of Graphic Arts (Portland, OR) commissioned for Issues & Causes, group show of activist graphic design

1991 Snapshot Radio — cassette/print assemblage, Mexic-arte Museum (Austin, TX); in Undercurrents, group show of international cassette network artifacts, curated by Daniel Plunket


SOLO RECORDINGS
2009 The Very Rich Hours (CD-R; self-published; limited edition of 100)

2008 Filtered Light (CD-R; Dragon’s Eye Recordings, Seattle; limited edition 250)

2008 Webster Cycles (CD; Cold Blue Music, Los Angeles)

2007 Occasional Music (CD; Palace of Lights, Hawaii)

2007 Three Rooms (CD; Sirr, Lisbon, Portugal)

2004 From Shelter (CD; Cold Blue Music, Los Angeles, CA)

2003 Delicate Abrasions (3” mini CD-R in rusted steel sleeve; limited edition of 100; Pianíssimo, Albuquerque, NM)

2002 Here•ings: a sonic geohistory (CD/book, photos by Margot Geist; La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, NM)

2000 In Memory of the Four Winds (CD; Pianíssimo, Albuquerque, NM)

1998 Emanations (CD; O.O. Discs, Black Rock, CT)


COMPILATIONS

Post-Minimalism – “Ancestral Memory” (CD, Trace, Paris; 2007)

Silents – “Agung, for seven Javanese gongs” (CD, Effe Records, Tokyo; 2002)

Site of Sound: of architecture & the ear – “Sight Specifics: Santa Fe ”, with Ann Racuya-Robbins, text and voice (book/CD, Errant Bodies Press/Smart Arts, Los Angeles; 1999)

Sound – “Sight Specifics: Diablo Canyon”, with David Dunn, text and voice (CD, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco; 1998)

The Aerial, Vol. 1 – “Idumea” (CD/Cassette, ¿What Next? Recordings, Santa Fe; 1990)

Regional Zeal – “‘Lotta Lights T’night” + "Dog Eyes" with Steve Fisk, voice (LP, Palace of Lights, Seattle; 1992)


SELECTED WORK FOR DANCE, THEATER & FILM

Winter’s Bone, directed by Debra Granik (Roadside Attractions; 2010) – soundtrack producer and location recording for feature-length film

With My Back to the World: Agnes Martin, directed by Mary Lance (DVD; New Deal Films, Albuquerque; 2002) – original soundtrack for video documentary on painter Agnes Martin

Flight Path, by Doranne Crable (performed by Kagami Butoh), Evergreen State College (Olympia; 1999)

Faith, choreographed & written by Lane Lucas, KiMo Theater (Albuquerque; 1998)

Shelter, choreographed & written by Lane Lucas, UNM Theater X (Albuquerque; 1997)

Ground Luminosity, choreographed & written by Lane Lucas, UNM Theater X (Albuquerque; 1997)

Planctus, choreographed by Bill Evans & Nora Reynolds-Daniel, ¡Magnifico! Festival of the Arts (Albuquerque; 1996)

Experiments In Living, choreographed by Deborah Slater, Studio 210 (San Francisco; 1991)

Died Suddenly, choreographed by Deborah Slater, Studio 210 (San Francisco; 1990)

Introduction to Dropping Dead, choreographed by John Carrafa, Dance Theater Workshop (New York; 1988)


SELECTED CONCERTS

50th Birthday retrospective concert, Chapel Performance Space (Seattle; 2010)

2004-10 Various performances with Seattle Phonographers Union

1999 Solo tour (Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Denver, Boulder, Seattle, Olympia, Portland, Boise, Salt Lake City)

1999 Beyond Music Festival, Beyond Baroque (Los Angeles)

1998 Santa Fe International Electro-acoustic Music Festival, College of Santa Fe (Santa Fe)

1996 Tumbleweed Tour with Anna Homler & Steve Roden (Los Angeles, Huntington Beach, San Diego, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Austin, Houston)

1993 University of New Mexico Composers’ Symposium, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque)

1992 New Music Across America Festival (Albuquerque)


AS PRODUCER/PUBLISHER

1989-98 Produced 30 releases for Nonsequitur’s ¿What Next? Recordings by artists such as Deep Listening Band, David Dunn, Gamelan Pacifica, Peter Garland, Malcolm Goldstein, Tom Guralnick, Jerry Hunt, Teiji Ito, Jin Hi Kim, Alison Knowles, Annea Lockwood, Loren Mazzacane, Ikue Mori, as well as six volumes of The Aerial compilation series, four volumes of the Radius radio art series, and others.

1982 Regional Zeal (LP compilation, Palace of Lights, Seattle)


PUBLICATIONS

Arcana Vol. 4, John Zorn, ed. – “Making a Place to Listen” (Tzadik, New York; 2009)

Here•ings: a sonic geohistory (CD/book, La Alameda Press, Albuquerque; 2002)

Site of Sound, B. LaBelle and S. Roden, eds. – “Sight Specifics” (Errant Bodies Press, Los Angeles; 1999)

New Music Across America, Iris Brooks, ed. – “Outpost Culture” (High Performance, Los Angeles; 1992)

Cassette Mythos, Robin James, ed. – “Tape Recorder as Audio Camera”, with Rich Jensen (Autonomedia, Brooklyn; 1992)

OP Magazine, John Foster, ed. – feature articles, reviews and composer interviews (Lost Music Network, Olympia; 1980-84)


PROFESSIONAL

1989-2010 Director, Nonsequitur Inc. (Santa Fé/Albuquerque/Seattle)

2007 Visiting Artist, New School for Social Research (New York)

2004-05 Arts Programs Manager, Jack Straw Productions (Seattle)

2004 Guest Lecturer, University of Washington (Seattle)

2003 Advisory Board, Santa Fe New Music (Santa Fé)

2001 Visiting Artist, The Evergreen State College (Olympia)

2000-08 Advisory Board, Subtropics Festival (Miami)

1999 Artist in Residence, Rio Grande Nature Center State Park (Albuquerque)

1999 Visiting Artist, Armand Hammer United World College (Montezuma, NM)