Biography

JENNIFER LOGAN, Director of the Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey and composer of both electro-acoustic and instrumental works, explores narratives and conceptual/visual analogies, composing works that are influenced by naturally occuring mathematical phenomena while infusing them with sensuality, spirituality, story-telling, and philosophy, expressing the evolving human condition and interconnectivity with the world we live in, imbued with multi-layered textural lyricism. Dr. Logan published a 2-hour sacred electronic work, The Pantheon Quartet (commissioned by artist Myron Dyal), which was premiered in February 2011 in Los Angeles, and since 2007, has been featured on Classical KUSC, KPFK, and KXLU in Los Angeles for her concerts and collaborations with an international pool of artists for the Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey. Her third and fourth albums of electro-acoustic compositions were released during the summer of 2012, while a fifth album was released online with the netlabel Stasisfield in 2014. Additionally, her research and writing on archetype, mysticism, and geometry as it pertains to Charon’s Pantheon has been published by the Athens Journal of Arts and Humanities. She received Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in piano performance and composition from CSU, Fresno, a Ph.D. in composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and pursued further doctoral research in computer music aesthetics at the University of Paris VIII. Her primary mentors have been Curtis Roads, William Kraft, Jack Fortner, Andreas Werz, and Philip Lorenz, additional seminars and masterclasses with notable musicians such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steven Stucky, Philip Glass, Donald Crocket, Paul Badura-Skoda, Abbey Simon, Paul Berkowitz, Ena Bronstein, and Horacio Vaggione. Currently an adjunct assistant professor of music at Occidental College in Los Angeles, her music has been programmed in the US, Europe, and Asia, and is available through iTunes, CDBaby, Stasisfield and other internet resources. Notable reviews include those by Mark Swed in the Los Angeles Times as “enchanting,” Josef Woodard in the Los Angeles Times as “sonorous and sensuous,” and the Journal for the Society of Electro-acoustic Music in the US (SEAMUS) for “beauty of sound surfaces, structures, and lyricism.”

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Truth is impervious

to Time,

Time its

dexterous

gypsy companion.

You are what you think.

The world is what we make of it.

Embrace the finiteness of life.

Believe, even if you have to practice, in miracles....

We choose the

height of our

Tightrope of Life;

and the only real

safety net is the one we

weave for ourselves.

Teach, learn, laugh,

dance, sing, cry, love....

but don’t forget to rest

once in a while.

There is meaning in meaninglessness.

The high road

ultimately has a

better view.

I like to dance with the wind.

Embrace all walks of life.

That seemingly insurmountable wall of Impossible Dreams, if you trust the journey.... you can see that when you’re finally standing at the base of it,

it’s made of rice paper and you can walk right through.

The person

sitting next to

you is experiencing

some kind of death...

the death of hope,

the death of an

idea that once gave

comfort, the death

of a loved one....

be kind.

There is no substitute

for industriousness.

Invest yourself in yourself first,

but give what you can,

because somebody else is

traveling a harder path.

If you want to do things

backwards, by all means,

do them backwards. Linearity

is not a universal law.

You put the carriage in

front of the horse because

you believe that one day,

that carriage will carry itself,

maybe even grow wings

and fly.

Time never stands still...

Express yourself; deconstruct barriers between your inner selves, between this world and the others; trusting your own experience, your own vision. Trusting your ability to speak your truth. Trusting that your truth IS truth. Trusting that your decisions are sound. Trusting that you will do these truths justice. Letting them go to be beautiful and independent. Moving forward with exacting balance into your future worlds, embracing all that has come before you and all that has yet to come.