Maggi Payne is a composer, flautist, interdisciplinary artist, recording engineer, and the creator of many works for electronic and visual media. A graduate of Mills College, she is now professor and co-director of the College's Center for Contemporary Music. Her awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation. Payne's work has been performed at Sonic Circuits IV, Next Wave Festival, eXstatic Project (Australia), Prix Ars Electronica, SoundCulture '96, Siggraph, Bourges.