(RVNG) Stromâs first album in 30 years â and last, following her death in December â is a quiet riot of digitally manipulated drones and noise Created aural collages filled with iridescent light and patterns ... Pauline Anna Strom. Photograph: Aubrey Trinnaman Created aural collages filled with iridescent light and patterns ... Pauline Anna Strom. Photograph: Aubrey Trinnaman Fri 12 Feb 2021 03.30 EST The music of the San Francisco-based composer Pauline Anna Strom, who died just before Christmas, aged 74, might be described as new age â a mystical, trance-like synthesised babble that could conceivably accompany meditation sessions or yoga classes. But Strom was a cheerfully cantankerous figure who drew from more arcane Californian sources. Listen to the music that she released in the 1980s as Trans-Millenia Consort and you can hear traces of the blissful minimalism of Terry Riley; the wobbly electronica that Stephen Hill used to play on his Hearts of Space radio show; the electro-acoustic compositions of Joanna Brouk; even the hypnotic trance music that Alice Coltrane was making in her Santa Monica ashram.