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Liz Meredith

About Me


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|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||| ----> PRESS: "drone-sorceress" and "sound-scaper" - City Paper |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||| ----> PRESS: “Liz Meredith works primarily with strings, found sounds, and electronics for wonderfully anarchic compositions that feel like shattered chamber sonatas splattered with loud samples of the everyday ranging into more source divorced abstract drone compositions.” - City Paper |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||| ----> BIO: (b.1981) LIZ MEREDITH is a violist, violinist, improviser, and composer originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Her music is improvisatory in nature, and frequently moves towards the outer limits of musical genres, being influenced by rock, electronic, and contemporary instrumental compositions. ----> Liz has collaborated with an assortment of individuals, including songwriters, rock bands, electronic musicians, improvisers, and composers. ----> She has composed concert music for The Esterhazy String Quartet, The Opabinia Quartet, and has created electronic and electro-acoustic fixed media works as well. ----> Liz received her Bachelor’s Degree in String Performance and Film Music from the Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA), and her Master’s Degree in Music Composition from Mills College (Oakland, CA) ----> Liz has studied viola performance with THE KRONOS QUARTET'S Hank Dutt, and music composition with FRED FRITH. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/10/2005
Band Website: www.lizmeredith.com
Band Members: These days, I've been involved with a few projects and bands. Here's an up-to-date list: co-founder of PHOTOVOLTIC (a Baltimore based experimental rock duo), shows with SECOND NATURE (John Berndt's orchestral improv group), NATHAN BELL'S solo banjo music, recording projects with *the wonderful* NADINE KHOURI (U.K.) and ZIGMAT (NYC), studio production work, formations with various people, new groups, old groups, and other fun music and art "things"...
Influences: nature, energy, storms, electronic music, chaos, open systems, free improvisation, strings, found objects, noise, post-rock, popular songs, technology, minimalism, the avant-garde, visual concepts i.e. color, light, clutter, texture, detail, microscopic things, film, moving image, etc.
Sounds Like: "Cycles/Songs" solo CD
Record Label: Think Tank Media, plus others!!? TBA: looking...
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Liz Meredith on "TWITTER"

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Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 07:08:00 GMT

ZIGMAT CD + Lizs string arrangements

The new Zigmat CD Sounds of Machines has been released &and its AMAZING! I wrote string arrangements and played on 3 tracks. Here they are: Track 1. Whisper Track 4. Watch t...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:58:00 GMT

PHOTOVOLTIC = Liz's band...

(( Photovoltic updates, new songs, shows, the future ))So, after a restful winter-hibernation Photovoltic is now awake and ready to play! We have a few shows coming up, and will be consistently debuti...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:59:00 GMT

San Francisco + Analog Tape = Love :)

Hi Folks!Big, big news&Lizs solo Cycles/Songs CD is finished!The final touches have been added to my solo CD. Yay! ...after many months of audio transit, back-and-forth between Baltimore and San ...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:02:00 GMT

"Cycles/Songs" solo CD = New-Release!!

Hi Friends and Fans,The original "Cycles/Songs" CD has now been transformed. Fun, fun! The re-issue has additional tracks and remixes, and contains a large world of wonderful and new string sounds. ...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Liz's Website: www.lizmeredith.com

Hi Everyone,Yes, my website is finally up and running!  There's all sorts of interesting information listed on-site i.e. my CD's, compositions, artwork, upcoming performances, past performances, biogr...
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 11:17:00 GMT