In the summer of 2005, University of Virginia sound artist Judith Shatin, whose office faces the Rotunda, conceived the idea of a film based on images and sounds captured over the course of a year on the Lawn.
Called \"highly inventive...hugely enjoyable and deeply involving\" by the Washington Post and \"exuberant and captivating\" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Judith Shatin's music is renowned for its dramatic shape and imaginative blending of acoustic and digital media, as well as her work in each. Orchestras that have performed her music include the Denver, Houston, Virginia, Illinois, Knoxville, Minnesota, National and Richmond Symphonies. Her chamber and choral music is internationally performed and has been featured at festivals throughout North America and Europe. She has been commissioned by organizations and ensembles including the Barlow Foundation, Fromm Foundation, Kronos Quartet, Library of Congress, National Symphony, the Dutch Hexagon Ensemble, the Peninsula Women's Chorus and the San Francisco Girls' Chorus.
Innova Records will issue Judith Shatin's Time to Burn (http://www.innova.mu/albums/judith-shatin/time-burn) CD this Spring, with a combination of chamber and electroacoustic music performed by the Cassatt Quartet, violist James Dunham, pianist Margaret Kampmeier and others. The debut recording of her Chai Variations by pianist Mary Kathleen Ernst on the CD Keeping Time is now also available from Innova - https://www.innova.mu/albums/mary-kathleen-ernst/keeping-time. Her music can also be heard on the Ravello, Etcetera, Capstone, Centaur, Neuma, New World and Sonora labels. She is currently William R. Kenan Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia, where she founded the Virginia Center for Computer Music. Visit her online at http://www.judithshatin.com.
