Susan is devoted to music and sound in all its forms. She composes, teaches, sings and plays a variety of instruments including Javanese Gamelan, and promotes new music as a radio programmer. She is of the opinion that there are two kinds of music; good and bad, and that those catagories are deeply personal for everyone. The important thing is to rejoice in what you love, and keep learning. Therein is the healing.
She also considers herself a researcher into the delicate webs of vibrational designs that inspirit our world, through heard sound, sacred geometry, feelings and frequencies of all types. These perspectives help to enrich the music and learning environments that she creates.
MUSICIAN
Composer and Sound Designer
CD
Recording: Sequencia
("haunting and beautiful....There is power in it;
great power." Dr. Larry Dossey) Learn
more about this recording, listen to sound samples and
buy here.
Film Soundtracks: Zero Waiting; Into Being
and The River with filmmaker
Diana Hobson
Acoustic music for concert, including Art Songs (texts
by Hafiz, Yeats, Verlaine), quintets, duets for voice
and saxophone, etc.
AUTHOR
Interesting Articles
F#:
What's This All About? article on website
The Infrared Frequencies of DNA Bases: Science and Art - IEEE Journal/website Exploring Micro/Macrocosmic Music - website
RESEARCHER
Susan's
research into sound has been highly respected since the
early 90's. She has been called a "Pioneer"
for her translations of electromagnetic frequency of DNA,
pulsar spins, elements and water, and sacred numbers/geometry
into sonic events, and from there into accessible music.
Her recording "Sequencia"
has found its way into many international exhibits including
"In Vivo-In Vitro" - a Bio-Art event in Athens,
Greece, 2006; "Genomically Yours; Women in Science,"
New York City, and the Boston Museum of Science, permanent
exhibit. Her soundtracks for film have been shown in Cornwall,
England as well as exhibited in this country.
Her research has been featured in publications such as
"The New York Times Science Section", "The
Economist", and "IEEE Journal of Engineering
and Biology", as well as the BBC Radio, Wisconsin
Public Radio, and KPFA Radio, Berkeley, CA.
Her current project, The Fifth Sun, will be a recording of original music to assist us all in this planetary transition, soon to come.
EDUCATOR
Susan
has a Master's Degree in Music Theory and Composition
with a BA in English Literature. She has been a teacher
of virtually every age inlcuding immigrants for ESL, all
her adult life.
Currently teaching at: Cogswell Polytechnical College - music and literature - adjunct faculty, and,
CIIS - Sound, Voice, and Music Healing Certificate Program, consulting faculty Private workshops: The Biosphere and Sound - Emeryville, CA.
Former lectures at major universities and colleges including Tufts, The University of Illinois Champain-Urbana, Goddard College and University of California Santa Cruz.
Invited to present in Paris, France (SETI Conference: Encoding Altruism) and Seoul, Korea (MiNaiSa Club).
Presenter at the International Sound Collquium, Epping, New Hampshire, l991.
OTHER
Science and the Arts
Ms. Alexjander is director of her company called Science and the Arts, a company which supports scientific research, artistic creativity and outreach to celebrate the vibrational interconnectedness of the universe.
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation.
Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound. — Kabir
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