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Elaine Walker's solo music includes many space or alien themed titles, including "Red Dreams", "Martian Nation", "Humans and Martian Machines", "The Tenth Planet", and Frontier Creatures. She composed the
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Raised in southern New Mexico "by two loving mathematicians, Elaine grew to love the desert in all of its glory and wide openness". Her father was
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In 1989 Walker recorded her first song, titled "Waiting for the Winds (Woza Moya)", as ZIA and in 1989 released it on the
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YouTube channel with historical and most up-to-da ZIA videos, theory, vertical keyboards, philosophy, life
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Walker returned to solo work and self-released two studio albums, 2006's
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in 1996, and the composition "Space-Time" was released on the label's
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She has composed using various equal temperaments, including the
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Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection
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Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media
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Drum 'n' Space
composer
electronic musician
mathematician
microtonal music
ZIA
Number Sine
Dr. Elbert A. Walker
Synthesis
Production
Berklee College of Music
New York University
Pokémon
4Kids Entertainment
GoGoRiki
NASA-Haughton-Mars Project
studio album
Blue Cartoon
Martians
Drum 'n' Space
Four-Momentum
Trapezoid
Bohlen–Pierce scale
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19 equal temperament
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theme
Yuri's Night

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