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2005 Commission from Phonos Foundation, Barcelona, Spain for the composition of a new work for the "reacTable" , a novel electronic music instrument developed by the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The piece "TeleSon" was premiered at the opening for the ICMC 2005. View quickTime video of this performance..

2003 Haas Foundation Creative Work Fund Grant, with Guillermo Galindo, to create an audience-interactive performance entitled "Transmission Mission" outdoors at the Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, in collaboration with young Latino artists and produced by Galerîa de la Raza, San Francisco.

2003 Commission with Guillermo Galindo for a community interactive work as part of the "Transmissions" series, Reciprocal University for the Arts Project (RUAP), California State University Monterey Bay

2002 Artist-in-Residence, Project Space, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito California.

2002 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, commission with John Bischoff of the online article " "Indigenous to the Net, and for "Eternal Network Music", two online interactive network music pieces; both for the Crossfade site: www.sfmoma.org/crossfade.

1997 "Points of Presence" Research Grant and Performance, Institute for Studies in the Arts (ISA), Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. A live performance linking musicians at Mills College, California Institute for the Arts, and ISA via the internet.

1996 Honorable Mention in Computer Music for "Talking Drum" interactive installation, Ars Electronica '96, Linz, Austria.

1996 San Francisco Art Commission, Market St. Art-In-Transit Program grant for performances of "Talking Drum" in collaboration with Inner City Public Art Projects for Youth.

1994 Irvine Foundation Faculty Course Development Grant, Mills College. Attended a course in Afro-Cuban Music at the National School of the Arts (ENA) in Havana, Cuba.

1990 Gerbode Foundation Composer's Grant ($25,000) for a new work for brass, percussion, and electronics, sponsored and produced by New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Premiered Sept. 1992.

1989 Meet the Composer/Reader's Digest Commission of a new work for the Rova Saxophone Quartet. Premiered June 1989.

1989 National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Arts Grant, with The Hub and Ramon Sender, for the production of a poetry/music radio performance using electronic networks .

1988 Artist in Residence (June-August) STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) Amsterdam.

1986-90 California Arts Council Touring/Presenting Roster.

1983 Berkeley Symphony Orchestra commission of "Alternating Currents" for orchestra, soloists, and original electroacoustic instruments.