Shelley Burgon

Multi-instrumentalist Shelley Burgon is best known for her improvisational work using harp and laptop.
Burgon's work utilizes the acoustic harp as the primal sound source for her computer music. Her focus is to manifest the computer as an extension of her harp in a way similar to that of traditional extended harp techniques. She achieves this by specifically chosen midi controllers that are either attached to the harp or placed near the pedals of the harp allowing her to play the harp and laptop simultaneously.
Shelley is a member of the chamber group Ne(x)tworks, the bands Stars Like Fleas and Family Dynamics. She is a notable interpreter of avant-garde music and has performed her music and the music of her contemporaries for series such as the the MATA Festival, Issue Project Room's Floating Points Festival, Darmstadt Series and The Whitney Museum's Christian Marclay Festival. In May 2009 she was honored to premiere a new piece for the Merce Cunningham Hudson Valley Project at the Dia:Beacon. Shelley holds an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College where she studied with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Chris Brown, Alvin Curran, Maggie Payne and Karen Gottlieb. She can be heard as a collaborator and guest on many labels including Hometapes, Skirl, Tzadik and Ipecac. She is inspired by Maryanne Amacher who was one of her early mentors and currently performs solo under the moniker Rowan.
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