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Her vast sonic worlds called out for meditative inquisitions and influenced a new generation of artists.

Pauline Anna Strom, who expanded synth music's color palette in the 1980s, died in December at 74. The posthumous album em Angel Tears in Sunlight /em , out Feb. 19, is her first in over 30 years. On the cover of Pauline Anna Strom's 1982 debut, a Dali-esque eye hatches from a skyborn egg, framed by a rainbow wrapped around the cosmos. The image, painted by Richard "Karma" Moffett, sits against a plateau of perfect white; ornate calligraphic text is superimposed at the top and bottom, powder blue like the atmosphere. Like that visual introduction, the alias under which Strom recorded, Trans-...

Pauline Anna Strom, Composer of Enduring Electronic Sounds, Dies at 74 Her blindness, she said, enhanced her music, which included homemade recordings from the 1980s prized by aficionados. Pauline Anna Strom in 2017, when her music from the 1980s was rereleased, drawing a burst of attention and new fans.Credit...Aubrey Trinnaman Jan. 28, 2021 In the early 1980s, a blind woman stood in her San Francisco apartment with one hand in a bowl of water and the other holding a microphone, recording the burbling sound as she stirred and splashed. “It’s a wonder I didn’t kill myself,” she joked ...