Jami Sieber
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Jami Sieber is an American musician and composer who uses voice and an
electronic cello, which she describes as "a cello having an out-of-body
experience" since it has no sound box (or lower body), just a
fingerboard with strings connected to an electronic amplifier and a
looper. She has played professionally for several decades, beginning
with classical and moving to folk and then to progressive rock, from
1979 to 1984 playing with the band "Rumors of the Big Wave", which was
based in Seattle where she won the Northwest Area Music Association
(NAMA) Award for Best Rock Instrumentalist.
Her solo career has been an experimental exploration of sound and mind. She has worked with fellow musicians, dancers, poets, filmmakers and even elephants. She has composed for films including "Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning" (2014); "Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton" (2013); "Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?" (2010); "Jews and Buddhism" (1999), and her music can be heard in the video game "Braid" (2008). Her genre has been described as New Age or World music with a sound that is at once "ethereal" and "hard-edged".
She has performed throughout North America as well as France, Italy, the Balkans, Russia, China, and Thailand. In Thailand she has played music for and with elephants. She has recorded at least seven CDs. Sieber lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Her solo career has been an experimental exploration of sound and mind. She has worked with fellow musicians, dancers, poets, filmmakers and even elephants. She has composed for films including "Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning" (2014); "Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton" (2013); "Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?" (2010); "Jews and Buddhism" (1999), and her music can be heard in the video game "Braid" (2008). Her genre has been described as New Age or World music with a sound that is at once "ethereal" and "hard-edged".
She has performed throughout North America as well as France, Italy, the Balkans, Russia, China, and Thailand. In Thailand she has played music for and with elephants. She has recorded at least seven CDs. Sieber lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
