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My name is Tess Heder aka eMuse     
Sexagenarian during the 'Noughties'

Pics from her Harvard Square neighborhood and Townhouse, Summer 2007.





            An old dog learning new tricks, I was born during World War II in Washington DC where I finished K, 1st and 2nd grades at the Sidwell Friends School. A class trip to the local Wonder Bread factory - a fantasmagoric assembly line in a huge space - made a lasting impression on me. The year was 1946 or 1947. After that I volleyed between Paris, France and DC attending secondary schools both French and American until college in Cambridge MA in the USA, where I have mostly lived since. Lately my life has consistently been amazing. So I am taking this late in life opportunity to show and tell.

            At the turn of the century I started to write music. I had played 'cello in the Tanglewood Student Orchestra in college. Then between 1983 and 2003 played in community Symphonies and amateur string quartets, During a daily stint on Tabla Drums for five years when my son was little I learned North Indian drum songs. During the 60's I was an architect with a short reprise during the 80's.


FLASHBACK to October 1968
Living on the same block: Athens Terrace Cambridge

Kindly click on the X on theADabove and it will vanish.

             In late 1999 I took an electronic music class at the Longy School of Music with Kurt Stallman, Joshua Skaller, Neal Farwell. Jeremy van Buskirk helped me set up some Desktop gear. A little drummer now has an axe.

As to the snapshots, film clips and wmvs, someone handed me a digital camera before my second trip to Hawaii in October 2002. After that, I took pictures and clips on my daily rounds whether to Maui and back or around my home town[s]. Then I soundtrack most of my music with video - "Realites"-style sets of still pictures and film clips - that chronicle some of the sights that crossed my path during the new Millennium Noughties.

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The initial, pre-Video music pieces 'Millennium Medley', 'Neptunes', 'To Max in A'please scroll down from link, were performed at Longy along with some chapters from my end of 2003 DVD "Singularities":
which is entirely set to moving stills from concurrent adventures. In the early part of the decade, I published several CDs:
"The First Jukebox" 1999-2001,
"Distribute Freely" December 2001, a collection of soundscapes made in the wake of 9-11
"Songs with Whales" Summer 2002,
"Homage Xtra" Winter 2003, jokes and tribute to Beethoven during a deep winter.
A bit later in the decade, I started publishing most of my tunes with Documedia aka Video: from " Maui Suite", Three MultiMedia Pieces Summer 2004
to the "Big Dig at Harvard, a Motor Music Video"please scroll down from link, released in 2009 as well as several AV CDs and the DVD "Singularities, video chapters of moving stills from days in the life, for showcasing my own Soundtrack.

                In mid-decade, I released Three Dance Tracks [really Four], June Funk, Taps, the Mashup Squirrel Island , the Video and Soundtrack Magnificent Maui, and mostly but not all light comedy "Ten Assorted Beethoven Jokes" . Posted here are snapshots from my first visit to New Orleans French Quarter in pre-Katrina January 2005, Maui in April-May 2005 eMuse self-portraits . In mid-decade, also published the multi-media documentary - Maui Suite , and my Music Videos A Parade of Men and Back To School,. I set up mini-Media primarily for short soft synth music pieces and their videos. These together with Musicworks and the ~ mediasplashes ~ links below make up the bulk of this site.


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~ Glamour Pics of this busy SeXagenarian in the New Millennium ~ 2000-2006 ~

Thank you for sharing glimpses of this decade thru mine eyes.
Although time marches on, I hope you've seen
how some eMuse after 60.
And drip glamor on a dime.
Fare thee well.
Tess Heder, Cambridge MA. June 2009


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