Meri von KleinSmid

Meri von KleinSmid was born in Los Angeles, California, and studied choral music, piano, violin and flute as a child. She was educated at the University of Washington and Columbia College Chicago, where she studied music history and ethnomusicology. She lived for a while in Cambridge, England, but later moved to the Seattle/Vancouver area. She has been a member of the experimental musical collective SoniCabal and the Chinese Music Society of North America, among other organizations.^[1] The CD 60X60, including her work, won an award at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee.^[2]

Selected works include:

• Monorail
• What Happens to the Deep-Sea Divers
• I Dreamt the PNE
• Are You Waiting for a Bus?
• Late-Night Café
• Waiting for the 99 B-Line
• Ethereal Tether
• The Observation of Curio No. 19

Her work has been issued on CD, including:

• CHI-TAPE [American Archive Recordings, AAR005] (U.S.A.)
• Women Take Back the Noise three disc compilation [Ubuibi] (U.S.A.)
• ELEKTRAMUSIC Electroacoustic Music Volume 01 [Elektramusic, ELEK01] (France)
• DISContact! III [CEC-PeP, PEP 007] (Canada)
• Ex Vivo [Mimeomeme-Mimeograph] (U.S.A.)
• 60x60, 2004-2005 2-disc compilation [Vox Novus] (U.S.A.)