Ruth Anderson (born March 21 1928 in Montana) is a composer, orchestrator, and flautist, whose music is influenced by her study of Zen. She lives in New York during the winter and in Montana during the summer. Her sound poem I Come Out of Your Sleep (revised and recorded on Sinopah 1997 XI) is constructed from speech sounds in Louise Bogan's poem "Little Lobelia." According to the composer "a very soft dynamic level is an integral component of this piece. It is important to listen to it in the way it was composed, near the threshold of hearing." (liner notes) Her collage piece SUM (State of the Union Message) is included on the Lesbian American Composers collection (1998 CRI: 780). Her works have also been released on the Opus One label and Charles Amirkhanian's "pioneering" (Zurbrugg 2004, p.17) LP anthology New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media (1977). External links

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