Frances White

Welcome to www.RoseWhiteMusic.com, the home page for Frances White. I am a composer working mainly in the area of music for instruments and computer-generated sound. In recent years, I have been especially interested in composing for Asian instruments, particularly the shakuhachi, or Japanese bamboo flute.

This site contains:

• Information about my compositions, recordings, and how to order scores
• Downloadable excerpts of some of my music
• Profiles and interviews with me
• Things I have written about music, especially about computer music and women in that field
• Information on how to contact me

Centre Bridge (dark river) on Dutch radio

Peter van Cooten featured CentreBridge (dark river) on his show Folio on Radio 6 in The Netherlands. You can catch a rebroadcast on the web (in Dutch, of course).

Interview with Tim Munro of eighth blackbird

When I was in Richmond for the premiere of The ocean inside at the Third Practice Festival, Tim Munro of eighth blackbird interviewed me. Listen to it, and excerpts of The ocean inside, on the eighth blackbird blog.

Centre Bridge released by Mode Records

Mode Records has announced the release of Centre Bridge, a CD of some of my electroacoustic works. It includes performances of Centre Bridge, Centre Bridge (dark river), Like the lily, A veil barely seen, and Walk through Resonant Landscape No. 2. The CD includes notes about the music by James Pritchett. Centre Bridge is available directly from Mode, at Amazon.com, and at other fine music stores that carry the great offerings from Mode.

Recent releases

The old rose reader appears on Mari Kimura's new CD release Polytopia from Bridge Records. The CD also includes works by Mari, Jean-Claude Risset, Conlon Nancarrow, Milica Paranosic, Robert Rowe, and Tania Leon.

My composition Walk through Resonant Landscape No. 2 appears in the soundtrack to Gus Van Sant's new award-winning film Paranoid Park. The film opened at the Cannes Film Festival and won the "60th Anniversary Prize". This is the second time that Walk through Resonant Landscape No. 2 has appeared in a Cannes-prize-winning Van Sant feature: it was also prominently featured in his 2003 film Elephant.

Upcoming performances

30 October 2008, New York City: My music will be featured on a concert in the 20th Interpretations series. I'll be sharing the program with my good friend Elizabeth Brown.

In progress, etc.

I just finished The book of roses and memory—a "sequel" to The old rose reader—for violist Liuh-Wen Ting, and now I'm working on a new composition for viola d'amore and electronic sound for David Cerutti. Both pieces will be premiered on the Interpetations concert.

For those who do not know anything about me, here is my standard bio:

Ms. White studies the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), and finds that the traditional music of this instrument informs and influences her work as a composer. Much of Ms. White's music is inspired by her love of nature, and her electronic works frequently include natural sound recorded around where she lives, in central New Jersey.