Avant-garde composer Annie Gosfield explores new sonic frontiers
(WorldNews Music)

Sound travels Halfway through Orlando Weekly`s recent conversation with New York experimental composer Annie Gosfield, talk turns, as these things often do, to the musical possibilities of the household vacuum cleaner, which Gosfield explored to stunning effect in her ensemble piece Electronic Sweepers and Vacuum Creepers. `I got commissioned a few years ago by the Hoover vacuum company to create a piece of music that used vacuum sounds. ......