Merlin Coleman

Merlin Coleman is a San Francisco-based composer, writer, performer and recording artist. She creates sound-collage works for a variety of settings, often with an interdisciplinary element that mixes recorded and live sound, text, movement, props and film. For the past six years, Coleman has also been composing a series of songs for cello and voice, which she performs simultaneously in a mix of styles and genres accompanied by guest artist musicians as Festival of Stillness. She performs regularly in the San Francisco Bay Area and has also presented her works in Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Japan. She has ongoing collaborations with Dance Theater Choreographers Mary Armentrout and Maxine Moerman and film maker Catherine Hollander.