As a composer and sound artist, Rachel Beetz explores presence through sound and listening. Her works recreate physical atmospheres based on her deep listening adventures in the wild, exploring hidden worlds of nature and machines. Combining experimental field recordings and electronically modified flutes, her works examine community, environmentalism, and women’s work through sound, video, textiles, and lighting. Her projects have been featured in concert halls and galleries in Australia, Iceland, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her sound installation and electro-acoustic composition The Winter Stars made in the darkness an Icelandic fjord is available in a USB-drive and photo book on her Bandcamp site where you can also find her flute sample and grain bin reverb packs. 

Flutist Rachel Beetz performs music by living composers and works from the last century. She is a member of wasteLand music, Echoi Ensemble, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs’ Community Chorus, Callithumpian Consort, and is a newly appointed co-director of populist records. She frequently appears at Jacaranda, Synchromy, and Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles. She made appearances at the Getty Center, Disney Hall, Piano Spheres, LA Opera, Time of Music in Viitasaari, Finland, Mengi in Reykjavik, Iceland, Musica Nueva in Monterrey, Mexico, Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico, Ojai Festival in California, and Stanford Live. You can hear her solo album Script - Rescript on populist records featuring works she commissioned and composed. She also appears on iiki, Microfest Records, Neuma, and Blue Griffin.

www.rachelbeetz.com