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On her final album, composer Pauline Anna Strom cements her legacy in electronic music chicagoreader.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagoreader.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bandcamp / Buy 2021 was supposed to cement the renaissance of Pauline Anna Strom. The electronic music composer originally self-released her music in the early 1980s, though it never resonated far outside the New Age cottage industry. Her music wasnât enough to cover her rent in the San Francisco Tenderloin District, so Strom sold off all of her equipment by decadeâs end, becoming a Reiki master instead. In the intervening years, the blind-since birth composerâs idiosyncratic approach to synthesizer-based musicâintuitive, asymmetrical, destabilizingâresonated with a new generation of explorers. Thanks in part to her inclusion on 2017âs much needed compendium ....
Living in a pandemic has distorted our already fragile grasp of time. Days turn into weeks at a glacial pace, only for months to evaporate in an instant. How are we supposed to deal with it all? One option would be to rethink how we interact with time entirely, and look towards something more transcendent and liberating. It’s a strange idea, sure, but it’s one that blind synthesist and composer Pauline Anna Strom made a compelling case for throughout her life. As Brooklyn label RVNG Intl. marks the posthumous release of the Bay Area-based artist’s first new music in over 30 years, it feels timely to reflect on the life and legacy of this unique artist, who sadly passed away in December 2020 at the age of 74. ....