Susie Kozawa (Seattle)

PERFORMANCE, Friday, July 23, 1999, 7pm, Tacoma Art Museum.

BIOGRAPHY: Susie Kozawa is a composer and sound artist. She is interested in how sound moves and dances in a space. Her compositions have been mostly sound collages and site-specific installations, in which the gathering of sounds is a primary activity. She explores different acoustic spaces using musical instruments she has made out of found objects, kelp and modified toys. She is a past Seattle Arts Commission Individual Artist award and Artist Trust GAP Award recipient. She has just recently been awarded an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship in Theater. Her work has been presented at Bumbershoot, the New Music Across America Festival, the Center on Contemporary Art, Empty Space Theatre, On the Boards, the Goodwill Arts Festival, Soundwork Northwest, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Asian Art Museum, the downtown Seattle Art Museum, and at the Seattle Aquarium. She had been a Ford Foundation Collaborating Artist with the Northwest Asian American Theatre International Artist Collaboration Project. She just recently collaborated with the Crispin Spaeth Dance Group for the Composer/Choreographer IV Series produced by Gamelan Pacifica in February, and is currently a collaborating artist with Jack Straw Audio Center and graphic artist Jesse Minkert working on an audience interactive multimedia project through a Seattle Arts Commission Diverse Works grant. She is also collaborating with Choreographer A.C. Peterson and Set Designer Erin Palmer on House of Dames production of "Silk Road" to be presented in the Fall of 1999.

Susie Kozawa has just recently been awarded an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship in Theater. She is a previous Ford Foundation Collaborating Artist with NWAAT's International Artist Collaboration Project. Her most recent work with NWAAT was collaborative sound design with Eric Chappelle on it's production of "Gold Watch" which incorporated recorded sample sound layers with live sound by actors to create a site specific, ambient soundscape. She just recently collaborated with the Crispin Spaeth Dance Group for the Composer/Choreographer IV Series produced by Gamelan Pacifica in February, and is currently a collaborating artist with Jack Straw Audio Center and graphic artist Jesse Minkert working on an audience interactive multimedia project through a Seattle Arts Commission Diverse Works grant. She is also collaborating with Choreographer A.C. Peterson and Set Designer Erin Palmer on House of Dames production of "Silk Road" to be presented in the Fall of 1999.

Susie Kozawa
8630 36th Ave. SW
Seattle, Washington 98126-361 0
(206)935-4724