Amy Denio (b. June 9, 1961) is a Seattle (USA)-based multi-instrumental composer of soundtracks for modern dance, film and theater, as well as a songwriter and music improviser. Often called an unclassifiable avant-garde jazz musician, she is also deeply inspired by world music. She is probably best known as a vocalist, accordionist and saxophone-player. Among her current musical involvements are Tiptons Sax Quartet (formerly Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet) and Die Resonanz Stanonczi, a radical folk group based in Salzburg, Austria. She has also collaborated repeatedly with the Pat Graney Dance Company, David Dorfman Dance Company, Victoria Marks, and with many other choreographers. June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... “Seattle” redirects here. ... Soundtracks can mean: The plural of soundtrack The Can album, Soundtracks This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Modern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20th century. ... “Moving picture” redirects here. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Improvisation is the act of making something up as you go along. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... This article is about the instrument as a whole. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family. ...   (Austro-Bavarian: SÃ¥izburg) is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg. ... David Dorfman as Charles Wallace Murry in the 2003 television adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time David Benjamin Dorfman (born 7th February 1993 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. ...

Her first recording was No Bones released as a cassette on her record label Spoot Music in 1986. Her first LP was with the Entropics. She founded Tiptons in 1987, and also started Tone Dogs with bassist Fred Chalenor. Tone Dogs' first release Ankety Low Day was nominated to be nominated (sic) for a Grammy Award. She has performed and recorded with (among others) Matt Cameron, KMFDM, Curlew, Fred Frith, Francisco Lopez, Danny Barnes, Pale Nudes, Blowhole, the Danubians, The Science Group, Chris Cutler, Guy Klucevsek, Pauline Oliveros, Relâche Ensemble, Hoppy Kamiyama, Derek Bailey, Chuck D, and the Shaking Ray Levis. Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... An LP Long playing (LP), either 10 or 12-inch diameter, 33 rpm (actually 33. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Matt Cameron (born Matthew D. Cameron, November 28, 1962, in San Diego, California) is an American musician renowned for being the drummer, back-up vocalist and occasional songwriter in the grunge rock bands Soundgarden (1986-1997) and Pearl Jam (1998-present). ... KMFDM is an industrial rock band and the brainchild of founding member Sascha Konietzko. ... Curlew is an experimental free jazz group founded by saxophone player George Cartwright in 1979. ... Fred Frith performing at the Moers Jazz Festival, 1 June 1998. ... Francisco Lopez is a minor fictional character on the NBC soap opera Passions. ... Danny Barnes Danny Barnes (born 1961) is a banjo and guitar player whose music is influenced by country, jazz and punk. ... The Science Group were an avant-garde rock group founded in France in 1997 by English drummer Chris Cutler from Henry Cow and Yugoslav contemporary classical composer and keyboardist Stevan Tickmayer. ... Chris Cutler (born January 4, 1947) is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. ... Guy Klucevsek (born February 26, 1947) is an American-born accordionist. ... Pauline Oliveros (born 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. ... Relâche is French for cancellation. Relâche was the name Erik Satie and his surrealist (former Dada) friends gave to the ultimate ballet production in which Satie was involved as composer. ... Hoppy Kamiyama is a Japanese music producer who has worked with artists such as eX-Girl and Bradford Reed. ... Derek Bailey pictured at the Vortex Club, Stoke Newington, 1991. ... Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), better known by his stage name Chuck D, is an American rapper, composer, actor, author, radio personality and producer. ... the Shaking Ray Levi Society bicycle peanut The Shaking Ray Levis is an ongoing collaboration of musicians with a common interest in free improvisation. ...

Biography

Amy Denio attended Brookside Elementary and Kingswood School Cranbrook, graduating high school in 1979. She became a autodidactic musician at age 12, quitting piano and starting guitar. She attended Colorado College, and also Hampshire College, graduating with a B.A. in Music Composition and Improvisation from Hampshire in 1979. She is self-taught on guitar, electric bass, drums, saxophone, clarinet, accordion, and various world instruments. She was sponsored by Jazz India to live in Bombay and study Thumri, Northern Indian vocal technique from Dhanashree Pandit-Rai in 1997. For other uses, see Brookside (disambiguation). ... Kingswood is a common place name around the world. ... Cranbrook may mean the following places: In Australia: Cranbrook, Tasmania, Australia Cranbrook, Western Australia In Canada: Cranbrook, British Columbia Cranbrook (electoral district), a provincial electoral district centred on Cranbrook, British Columbia, from 1903 to 1963 In England: Cranbrook, Devon, which is a planned new town in East Devon, England Cranbrook... Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is self-education or self-directed learning. ... The Colorado College is a private four-year, co-educational liberal arts college located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. ... Hampshire College is an experimenting private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. ... This article or section should be merged with Mumbai Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) is the worlds most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world. ... Thumri is a common genre of semiclassical Indian music from the North. ...

Since 1988, she has performed at festivals in India, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brazil, Argentina, North America, and throughout East and Western Europe.

From 1985-1999, Denio was Programming Office Coordinator at the World Headquarters of Yesco Foreground Music, which merged with Muzak. Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Computer programming (often simply programming) is the craft of implementing one or more interrelated abstract algorithms using a particular programming language to produce a concrete computer program. ... Muzak Holdings LLC is a company, founded in 1934, that is best known for distribution of music to retail stores and other companies. ...

In 2007 she was commissioned by the Dream Community in Taipei, Taiwan to arrange, record and produce Taiwanese aboriginal and popular music with samba rhythms from Brazil. These arrangements were performed by junior high school students at the Camphor Tree School, who are from the Ami tribe of Taiwan. Nickname: Coordinates: , Country Republic of China Region Northern Taiwan City seat Xinyi District (信義區) Government  - Mayor Hau Lung-bin (KMT)1 E9 Area  - City 271. ... Total population 2006: 458,000 (CIP 2006) 2004: 454,600 (CIP 2004) Homelands in Taiwan Mountainous terrain running in five ranges from the northern to the southern tip of the island Narrow eastern plains Orchid Island (Lán YÇ”) Languages 14 living Formosan languages. ... Samba ( ) is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil. ... Middle school and junior high school cover a period of education that straddles primary education and secondary education and serve as a bridge between them. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Ami (disambiguation). ...

She has taught workshops on composition, improvisation, and extended vocal techniques throughout the US and Europe.

Discography

• Amy Denio: No Bones (1986 Spoot Music)
• Amy Denio: Never Too Old To Pop A Hole (1988 Spoot Music)
• Amy Denio: No Elevators (1988 Spoot Music)
• Amy Denio: Birthing Chair Blues (1991 Spoot Music)
• Tone Dogs: Ankety Low Day (1991 Spoot Music)
• Tone Dogs: Early Middle Years (1992 Spoot Music)
• Amy Denio: Tongues (1993 Spoot Music)
• Curlew: A Beautiful Western Saddle (1993 Cuneiform Records)
• Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet: Saxhouse (1993 Spoot & Zipa Music)
• BTMSQ: make it funky god (1994 hornhut records)
• BTMSQ: Box (1996 New World Records)
• BTMSQ & Ne Zhdali: Pollo d'Oro (1997 No Man's Land)
• Danubians (1999 Cuneiform Records)
• Amy Denio & Francisco Lopez: Belle Confusion 00 (2001 Absolute/Anomalous)
• Amy Denio: Chickenhawks Ought Not (2002 Spoot Music)
• George Cartwright: The Memphis Years (2002 Cuneiform Records)
• Amy Denio & Martin Hayes: Vivian Girls (2004 Spoot Music)
• Tiptons: Tsunami (2004 No Man's Land/Spoot & Zipa)
• Tiptons: Surrounded by Horns (2004 Stockfisch)
• Tiptons: Drive (2005 Spoot & Zipa)
• Amy Denio & Francesco Calandrino: Venerdi' Santo (2006 Spoot Music)

External links

• Amy Denio and Spoot Music