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==Work==
==Work==

===Solo work===
===Solo work===

Walker had already released her debut [[studio album]] titled ''[[Blue Cartoon]]'' in 1989, before moving to work as '''ZIA'''.
Walker had already released her debut [[studio album]] titled ''[[Blue Cartoon]]'' in 1989, before moving to work as '''ZIA'''.


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===Composition===
===Composition===

She has composed using various equal temperaments, including the [[Bohlen–Pierce scale]]: ''Stick Men'' (1991), ''Love Song'', and ''Greater Good'' (2011).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org/concert-1 |title=Concerts |work=Bohlen-Pierce-Conference.org |access-date=27 November 2012}}</ref> Other tunings include [[10 equal temperament|10]], [[16 equal temperament|16]], [[17 equal temperament|17]], [[19 equal temperament]] and [[20 equal temperament|20]].
She has composed using various equal temperaments, including the [[Bohlen–Pierce scale]]: ''Stick Men'' (1991), ''Love Song'', and ''Greater Good'' (2011).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org/concert-1 |title=Concerts |work=Bohlen-Pierce-Conference.org |access-date=27 November 2012}}</ref> Other tunings include [[10 equal temperament|10]], [[16 equal temperament|16]], [[17 equal temperament|17]], [[19 equal temperament]] and [[20 equal temperament|20]].


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"Humans and Martian Machines", "The Tenth Planet", and Frontier Creatures.<ref>Luckman, Michael (2005). ''Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection'', p.268. {{ISBN|9780743466738}}.</ref> She composed the [[theme music|theme]] to [[Yuri's Night]].
"Humans and Martian Machines", "The Tenth Planet", and Frontier Creatures.<ref>Luckman, Michael (2005). ''Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection'', p.268. {{ISBN|9780743466738}}.</ref> She composed the [[theme music|theme]] to [[Yuri's Night]].


==Discography==
==ZIA==
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = ZIA
| image =
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| origin = [[New York City]], New York, United States
| genre = {{hlist|[[Industrial music|Industrial]]}}
| years_active = 1989–present
| label = {{hlist|Blue Cartoon|Chaos Control|[[Fifth Colvmn Records|Fifth Colvmn]]|Zia}}
| associated_acts =
| website = {{URL|http://www.ziaspace.com/}}
| current_members =
| past_members =
* Rob Trainer
* [[Elaine Walker (composer)|Elaine Walker]]
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In 1991, she formed the band '''ZIA''', named after the [[Zia sun symbol]] featured in the [[Flag of New Mexico]].<ref name="Discogs">[http://www.discogs.com/artist/314563-Elaine-Walker Elaine Walker]", ''Discogs.com''</ref> In the early years ZIA has also performed with [[Emergency Broadcast Network]], [[A Flock of Seagulls]], and [[Marilyn Manson]] in the Boston area.


'''ZIA''' were an American [[industrial rock]] band based out of [[New York City]]. ZIA released six albums: ''[[Zia v1.2]]'' (1992), ''[[Zia v1.5]]'' (1994), ''[[Big Bang! (album)|Big Bang!]]'' (2000), ''[[Martians (album)|Martians]]'' (2006), ''[[Drum 'n' Space]]'' (2011) and ''[[Trapezoid (album)|Trapezoid]]'' (2019)<ref name="allmusicbio">{{cite web |first=Jason |last=Ankeny |url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=mn0001205753/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Zia |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref><ref name="untwelveinterview">{{cite journal|first=Jacob |last=A. Barton |url=https://untwelve.org/interviews/elaine_walker |title=A discussion With Elaine Walker |journal=UnTwelve |date=December 13, 2017 |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref>
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* ''Blue Cartoon'' (1989)

In 1989 Walker she recorded her first song, titled "Waiting for the Winds (Woza Moya)", as ZIA and in 1989 released it on the ''Zulu Hits'' various artists compilation by [[Celluloid Records]]. She recorded ''[[Zia v1.2]]'' in 1992 and brought in a band for ''[[Zia v1.5]]'', her second release.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=mw0000647675|pure_url=yes}}|title=Zia: ''Shem'' > Overview |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref> [[Fifth Colvmn Records]] released the [[Extended play|EP]] ''[[Shem (EP)|Shem]]'' in 1996 by and the composition "Space-Time" was released on the label's ''[[Echo (compilation album)|Echo]]'' compilation.<ref name="lollipopmagazine">{{cite journal|first=Lex |last=Marburger |url=https://lollipopmagazine.com/1997/02/echo-review/ |title=Various artists: ''Echo'' |journal=Lollipop Magazine |date=February 1, 1997 |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref><ref name="sonicboom">{{cite journal|first=Chris |last=Christian |url=https://sonic-boom.com/review/zia-1.html |title=Zia: ''Shem'' |journal=Sonic Boom |date=April 1996 |volume=4 |issue=3 |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref> The album showcased her [[Atonality#Composing atonal music|atonal composition]] technique with [[electronic music]].<ref name="a&areviews">{{cite journal|first=Jon |last=Worley |url=http://www.aidabet.com/archives/archXYZ.html#ZIA |title=Zia: ''Shem'' EP |journal=Aiding & Abetting |date=March 18, 1996|issue=103 |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref>

==Discography==
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* ''[[Blue Cartoon]]'' (1989)
* ''Mars'' (2000)
* ''Mars'' (2000)


==See also==
===As ZIA===
'''Studio albums'''
* ''[[Zia v1.2]]'' (1992, Blue Cartoon)
* ''[[Zia v1.5]]'' (1994, Blue Cartoon)
* ''[[Big Bang! (album)|Big Bang!]]'' (2000, Zia/Chaos Control)
* ''[[Martians (album)|Martians]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Drum 'n' Space]]'' (2011)
* ''[[Trapezoid (album)|Trapezoid]]'' (2019)


'''Extended plays'''
* ''[[SHEM (EP)|SHEM]]'' (1996, [[Fifth Colvmn Records|Fifth Colvmn]])
* ''[[Four-Momentum (EP)|Four-Momentum]]'' (2018)

'''Compilation appearances'''
* ''Zulu Hits'' (1989, [[Celluloid Records|Celluloid]])
* ''[[Echo (compilation album)|Echo]]'' (1996, [[Fifth Colvmn Records|Fifth Colvmn]])
* ''Boston Elektro 101 (1996, Sinless)
* ''Mind/Body Compilation Volume 3'' (1996, Atomic Novelties/DIY)
* ''Musical Sampler 1998'' (1998, Deus ex Musica)
* ''Movement 1998'' (1998, Deus ex Musica)
* ''Shades of Grey'' (1998, Grinding Into Emptiness)
* ''She: A Female Trip-Hop Experience'' (2001, Sonic Images Electronica)<ref name="allmusicsheafemaletriphopexperience">{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=mw0000001600|pure_url=yes}}|title=Various Artists: ''She: A Female Trip-Hop Experience'' > Overview |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref>
* ''Bloc Party - Tapes'' (2013, !K7)<ref name="allmusicblocpartytapes">{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=mw0002579053|pure_url=yes}}|title=Bloc Party/Kele: ''Bloc Party Tapes'' > Review |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Fifth Colvmn Records]]
*[[Fifth Colvmn Records]]
*[[Richard Boulanger]]
*[[Richard Boulanger]]
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==Sources==
==Sources==

{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
*"[http://www.ziaspace.com Elaine Walker's site]", ''ZIAspace.com''.

*"[http://www.ziaspace.com Elaine Walker's site]"
* [https://ziaspace.bandcamp.com/ ZIA] at [[Bandcamp]]
*"[https://YouTube.com/miselaineeous YouTube.com/miselaineeous]", ''YouTube channel with historical and most up-to-da ZIA videos, theory, vertical keyboards, philosophy, life''
* “Matter Over Mind: Cosmos, Chaos, and Curiosity” hardcover
* “Matter Over Mind: Cosmos, Chaos, and Curiosity” hardcover
*Africa, Chris (2004). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20080605210458/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cafrica/ultraverse/2004_03/v1i3walker_elaine.shtml Pro-Space Activist Elaine Walker]", ''Ultraverse''.
*Africa, Chris (2004). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20080605210458/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cafrica/ultraverse/2004_03/v1i3walker_elaine.shtml Pro-Space Activist Elaine Walker]", ''Ultraverse''.
*"[http://www.discogs.com/artist/314563-Elaine-Walker Elaine Walker]", ''Discogs.com''.
*"[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/zia-mn0001205753 Zia Biography]", ''AllMusic.com''.


* {{Facebook|170293513002981|ZIA}}
* {{YouTube|channel=UCNuIo7ihrpoC66q9guIIsuQ|title=ZIA}}
* {{Discogs artist}}


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{{Microtonal music|state=collapsed}}

Revision as of 14:56, 8 July 2021

Elaine Walker is a composer, electronic musician and author. She wrote a physics/philosophy book, “Matter Over Mind: Cosmos, Chaos, and Curiosity” (2016). She specializes in microtonal music, including founding ZIA, an all electronic band, and performing with D.D.T. She has performed with Number Sine.[1] She describes: "I compose microtonal music strictly by ear and leave it to others to analyze, so you won't find ratios or mathematics here."[2]

Life

Raised in southern New Mexico "by two loving mathematicians, Elaine grew to love the desert in all of its glory and wide openness".[3] Her father was Dr. Elbert A. Walker.

Walker has a Music Synthesis Production degree from Berklee College of Music (1991) and a master's degree in Music Technology from New York University (2001).[1] In her Masters Thesis she developed a new kind of music compositional theory called "Chaos Melody Theory based on recursive chaos mathematics". She was a musical director for Pokémon with 4Kids Entertainment, and later GoGoRiki. Each summer she is Education and Public Outreach Coordinator for the NASA-Haughton-Mars Project. Her Martians video was recorded there in 2003 (commissioned by NASA) to promote the prospect of humans living on Mars.

Work

Solo work

Walker had already released her debut studio album titled Blue Cartoon in 1989, before moving to work as ZIA.

Walker returned to solo work and self-released two studio albums, 2006's Martians and 2011's Drum 'n' Space'. Walker released her second EP in 2018 titled Four-Momentum, which was followed a year later by her sixth album Trapezoid.[4]

Composition

She has composed using various equal temperaments, including the Bohlen–Pierce scale: Stick Men (1991), Love Song, and Greater Good (2011).[5] Other tunings include 10, 16, 17, 19 equal temperament and 20.

Elaine Walker’s solo music includes many space or alien themed titles, including "Red Dreams", "Martian Nation", "Humans and Martian Machines", "The Tenth Planet", and Frontier Creatures.[6] She composed the theme to Yuri's Night.

ZIA

ZIA
OriginNew York City, New York, United States
Genres
Years active1989–present
Labels
Past members
Websitewww.ziaspace.com

In 1991, she formed the band ZIA, named after the Zia sun symbol featured in the Flag of New Mexico.[3] In the early years ZIA has also performed with Emergency Broadcast Network, A Flock of Seagulls, and Marilyn Manson in the Boston area.

ZIA were an American industrial rock band based out of New York City. ZIA released six albums: Zia v1.2 (1992), Zia v1.5 (1994), Big Bang! (2000), Martians (2006), Drum 'n' Space (2011) and Trapezoid (2019)[7][8]

In 1989 Walker she recorded her first song, titled "Waiting for the Winds (Woza Moya)", as ZIA and in 1989 released it on the Zulu Hits various artists compilation by Celluloid Records. She recorded Zia v1.2 in 1992 and brought in a band for Zia v1.5, her second release.[9] Fifth Colvmn Records released the EP Shem in 1996 by and the composition "Space-Time" was released on the label's Echo compilation.[10][11] The album showcased her atonal composition technique with electronic music.[12]

Discography

As ZIA

Studio albums

Extended plays

Compilation appearances

  • Zulu Hits (1989, Celluloid)
  • Echo (1996, Fifth Colvmn)
  • Boston Elektro 101 (1996, Sinless)
  • Mind/Body Compilation Volume 3 (1996, Atomic Novelties/DIY)
  • Musical Sampler 1998 (1998, Deus ex Musica)
  • Movement 1998 (1998, Deus ex Musica)
  • Shades of Grey (1998, Grinding Into Emptiness)
  • She: A Female Trip-Hop Experience (2001, Sonic Images Electronica)[13]
  • Bloc Party - Tapes (2013, !K7)[14]

See also

Sources

  1. ^ a b "Homepage", ZIASpace.com.
  2. ^ Reed, S. Alexander (2013). Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199339624.
  3. ^ a b Elaine Walker", Discogs.com
  4. ^ Gourley, Bob (1993). "ZIA". Chaos Control. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
  5. ^ "Concerts". Bohlen-Pierce-Conference.org. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  6. ^ Luckman, Michael (2005). Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection, p.268. ISBN 9780743466738.
  7. ^ Ankeny, Jason. "Zia". AllMusic. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  8. ^ A. Barton, Jacob (December 13, 2017). "A discussion With Elaine Walker". UnTwelve. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  9. ^ "Zia: Shem > Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  10. ^ Marburger, Lex (February 1, 1997). "Various artists: Echo". Lollipop Magazine. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  11. ^ Christian, Chris (April 1996). "Zia: Shem". Sonic Boom. 4 (3). Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  12. ^ Worley, Jon (March 18, 1996). "Zia: Shem EP". Aiding & Abetting (103). Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  13. ^ "Various Artists: She: A Female Trip-Hop Experience > Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  14. ^ "Bloc Party/Kele: Bloc Party Tapes > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved September 5, 2020.


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