Linda L. Rife is a composer with an interest in integrating music with movement, dance, visual art, and multi-media. Ms. Rife thrives on collaboration with other artists of various métiers, resulting in unique, eclectic arrangements. She is dedicated to increasing exposure to avant-garde, opera, microtonal, and world music in local communities. In her work, Ms. Rife draws on her background as a cellist, vocalist, percussionist, and dancer to inform her exploration of just intonation and microtonality, non-western theories, extended techniques, and the world of ambience through the use of field recordings. She holds a BM Summa Cum Laude in Composition from California State University, Los Angeles where she studied with John Kennedy, and an MFA in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts where she studied with Anne LeBaron and Wolfgang von Schweinitz. Scroll down to see some examples of her work as a composer.
Linda L. Rife
Klangfarben for String Quartet
Andrew McIntosh and Yu Ting Wu – violin
Morgan Gerstmar – viola
Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick – cello
Animation by Jack Turpin with visual effects by Linda L. RifeThe live visual effects for this piece were created to filter through only those colors that correspond to the frequencies present in the music at any given moment in time. To achieve this, a video filter was created in Max/MSP/Jitter and the colors were scaled to a range of frequencies.
Untitled for Prepared Cello and Movement
in collaboration with Lynn Suemitsu
Creation for SSAATTBB Chorus
CalArts Contemporary Vocal Ensemble
Crossing the Bar
poem by Alfred, Lord Tenysson
music by Linda L. Rife and Robert Fred Rife