Sound and Video Works

Artist and composer Betsey Biggs has joined other contemporary artists as part of the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento. With her work Biggs introduces a new kind of media art, merging composition of music and video through computer software.

An exhibit of Biggs’ will be presented in the R.W. Will Gallery in Kadema Hall from noon to 4:30 p.m. Nov 11-14.

“Sound and image reflect and complement one another. They are not ripped apart in life; only in art. I aim to put them back together,” Briggs says on her website.

She has already spoken at Sacramento State in a public lecture, and will also perform early next week. Her Sound/Video live media and composition performance will include a deconstructed Beach Boys song “God only knows,” with video pieces. It is “looked at and listened to from different angles,” Biggs says.  

Biggs began her career as a filmmaker, learning how to edit video. Music has also been an aspect of her life from the early days of singing in a church choir to being in bands during college. She felt it natural to combine the two, and went back to Mills College, studying working with music and sound.

“I happened to be there at a time when it was really exciting to play with sound and video on a computer, and have been exploring it ever since,” Brigg says.

Pieces of Biggs’ work, information about the artist, as well as information about an ongoing interactive project can be found on her website www.betseybiggs.org.