Katie McMurran
Oakland, CA
kmsound@gmail.com


All audio recorded by Katie
Voices: Michael Chick and Heidi Darchuck
Piano: Gaea Schell

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A look at the often isolating experience of living in a city of sprawl. Produced for Sound Cafe event organized by <a href="http://www.wyness.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> James Wyness </a> in Jedburgh, Scotland, 2008

Isolated In Los Angeles

Part one of a site-specific headphone installation piece created for the exhibit "Sonitrek," organized by <a href=www.newtownarts.org"> New Town Arts. /a>

Peace and Quiet: Heidi

Part two of a site-specific headphone installation piece created for the exhibit "Sonitrek," organized by <a href="www.newtownarts.org"> New Town Arts. </a>

Peace and Quiet: Shaughn

A piece created for <a href="http://naisa.ca/"> New Adventures in Sound Art </a>: Deep Wireless 8 compilation.

You And I

A sonically textured portrait of Shakespeare in the park.

This piece was created for the radio and audio art collective Listen Up LA.

Shakespeare Summer

Two true ghost stories are woven into this non-narrated track that comes to a surprising and unifying conclusion.


CC Image courtesy of Typjan on wikimedia.

Ghost

Grace

for clarinet trio, 2008
thank you Carlos Rafael Rivera for being my composition teacher
thank you Jim Sullivan, clarinet
recorded by Phil Richards

dedicated to my childhood best friend Emily Geiger

A Lullaby For Emily

for clarinet and piano, 2010

Jim Sullivan, clarinet

Storm

Winter

Heidi Darchuk, writer and voice

Honorable Mention, Missouri Review

CC photo courtesy of Ravi Shah on flickr.  

Arrowhead Lake

I created this piece during the Great Recession (or was it Depression?). 

voice: Michael Chick

CC Image courtesy of slgckgc on flickr


Difficult Time

A pencil case comes to represent loss.

CC Image courtesy of KOH-I_NOOR on Flickr




Gina, Concord

Created June 2019 for 60secondesradio.org

Daybreak

Iona

Tumble Lullaby

Melt

Katie McMurran is a sound engineer with over ten years experience in public radio and podcasts. She's currently the technical director of show produced for Audible.

This is where I keep a small selection of my experimental sound work and music compositions. All music on this page was written by me. To hear other work, email me: kmsound (at) gmail (dot) com.

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