Susan Maughlin Wood

Composer for Media and Concert Music

…is an award-winning independently contracting composer and artist seeking opportunities in film, educational apps, games and other media. While engaged in writing concert repertoire and chamber arrangements she is a visionary of passion projects including festival hits music video “Spectratta” (and its offshoot Butoh dance-fusion “Spectrutoh”) as well as documusic film “Coastal Fire: A Common Diary” which details the emotional fallout from the 2016 US presidential election on a personal and societal level, and which is every bit as relevant for the current election cycle. Susan holds a Master of Music in Film Composition from the Pacific NW Film Scoring Program at SFI, and served as Past President on the Board of Directors of the Seattle Composers Alliance.

compulsively writing

You may notice that entries here are few and far between. It is so much more facile to toss off a post or three on Facebook and Twitter in between keeping up with various technical communities than it is to pop over here with specific intent to journal. No news is not no news, it is time filled elsewhere.

The thing that I am overdoing currently is writing a sonatina for violin and piano... or is it piano and violin. There is definitely a dialog between them, and it keeps growing. A theme is emerging of ADHD and the autism spectrum as it relates to communication and work habits. I might know a thing or two about this.