Suzanne Kite

Los Angeles, CA | suzannekite@alum.calarts.edu

Suzanne Kite, aka Kite, is an artist, performer, violinist, composer, and producer from Southern California
who produces club friendly electro ambience. Kite's work includes electronic productions, arrangements for
big bands & large ensembles, sound sculpture, gallery installation, text scores, lm scores, and video
compositions. Kite has performed on various albums for hip-hop producers, rock bands, and folk groups.
Kite is heavily inuenced by the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Francois Jullien & Rudy Rucker. Recently, Kite
has been developing video & sound installations, and has developed an hour-long production called omega,
an hour long exploration of that which cannot be accessed, and therefore cannot be sorted in our
perception. Kite's debut album is performed solo with two computers, violin, voice, dance, & video feed. The
album explores how the human experience is pervaded by an overwhelming and intangible strangeness, a
faint disconnection from the inaccessible.

Education
California Institute of the Arts | BFA, Composition |
Valencia, CA | 2014
Saddleback College | AA, Violin Performance |
Mission Viejo, CA | 2012
Aliso Niguel High School | Aliso Viejo, CA | 2008

Teaching
Saddleback Big Band Librarian | 2010-2012
Organized, catalogued, and performed secretarial
and assistant duties
Music Theory Teacher | 2009-2011
Taught students Kindergarten to 12th grade
Certicate of Merit based music theory and history,
focusing on dictation and keyboard theory.
String Coaching | 2011
Coached string quartets at Arrowbear Music camp
to help high school string players stay focused and
tap into the emotional core of the music.
Private lessons | 2009- Present
Taught a full studio of violin and viola students,
focusing on solfege, technique, and music theory.
String Coaching | 2009-2013
Worked with Aliso Niguel High School's 5
orchestras to improve violin and viola technique
and help sections with the repertoire.

References
Joey Sellers | Director of Jazz Studies, Saddleback
College | Mission Viejo, CA | 949-582-4629 |
jsellers@saddleback.edu
Miguel Atwood Ferguson | Composer/Performer/
Arranger | Los Angeles, CA | sokaviola@gmail.com
Ulrich Krieger | Composer/Performer, California
Institute of the Arts | Valencia, CA |
ukrieger@calarts.edu

Volunteering
Grant Preparation | 2013
Proong, editing, and preparing the Japan
Foundation under the guidance of Lauren Pratt
Mira Costa Symphony Orchestra | 2009-2012
Performed with the community orchestra gratis
Four Seasons Youth Orchestra | 2009-2012
Performed with community youth orchestra gratis

Publications
Chaos & Cosmos | January 2014
Curated, edited, published catalogue of works
inspired by Borges

Curation
Chaos & Cosmos | January 2014
Curated two galleries featuring 32 artists; included
performances, readings, lm, sculpture, music

Selected Works
omega | May 2014
An exploration of that which cannot be accessed,
and therefore cannot be sorted in our perception,
through the identication of perceptual boundaries
through the use of different methods of counting,
utilizing physical, visual, and auditory phenomenon.
Inninantzin | January 2014
Installation with live performance, depth-sensing
camera tracking participants & video and sound
ile | 2013
Album Released on the YAWN TAPES label

Selected Performances
ile | May 2014
Performed selections from album ile live at The
Troubadour in Hollywood.
Khachaturian Violin Concerto | May 2012
Performed violin solo, accompanied by the
Saddleback Symphony