Sarah Gen

@sarahgen

composer, music technologist, once and maybe again vocalist, works at Penn State School of Music (views my own).

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Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Jul 13

just a firehose and nowhere for it to go

Genesis from Star Fleet Academy looking scared. Text reads:
Void: do not put your terror here, we're absolutely full. Use some It Is What It Is.
Me: I've been out of It Is What It Is for years! Where am I gonna put this??
Void: Not my problem.
Me: But I'm completely full of terror!
Void: Usually people miss a few spots in the neck and shoulders where they can store terror.

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Jun 28

Carolyn Barr, Cole Denton, and me, after presenting "Sex, Gender, Sexuality, Creativity, and Our Voices" at the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association conference #voice #GAVT #GABVM #countertenor #mezzo #piano

From left to right, Carolyn Barr, Cole Denton, and Sarah Gen Burghart Rice pose for a photo after presenting at the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association conference

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Jun 16

Cole Denton, Carolyn Barr, and I presented "Sex, Gender, Sexuality, Creativity, and Our Voices" at Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association! ( www.pamusicteachers.org/conferences/... )

Cole Denton (left) and Sarah Gen Burghart Rice (right) give a presentation. Burghart Rice is working a computer at the podium while Denton speaks and gestures. A piano is visible in foreground right.

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Jun 12

The Skull. We need more tales about leaving abusive living situations.

Cover image from Jon Klassen's "The Skull." A girl holds a human skull in front of her, while she stands in front of a tree in a forest.

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· May 29

The Hardscrabble: featuring giant slapstick and bowed xylophone

percussionist Bella Scotti wielding the giant slapstick employed in The Hardscrabble

3 percussionists bowing a xylophone in a recording session for The Hardscrabble (view from behind)

3 percussionists bowing a xylophone in a recording session for The Hardscrabble (view from front)

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· May 25

Pictures from a 2022 recording session of The Hardscrabble

Dr. Mitchell-Spradlin conducting during a recording session of The Hardscrabble. Connor Simpson sits to Dr. Mitchell-Spradlin's right. Both are masked.

a view of the wind ensemble during a recording session for The Hardscrabble, featuring the many double reed players

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· May 10

uwu owo BwO

Gille Deleuze left and Felix Guattari right

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Apr 5

What does playing trumpet in a bucket of water sound like? My piece The Hardscrabble has an answer. :-)

Trumpet player playing into a bucket of water on an orchestral stage

Recording session for The Hardscrabble showing, amongst the wind ensemble, 3 trumpet players with buckets of water in front of them.

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Apr 4

The recording session of Murmurs from Limbo in Penn State's Recital Hall.

Ensemble recording within Penn State's Recital Hall. Katy Hylton conducts on the left. On the right are Lee Hinkle playing percussion, Sean Kennedy playing tuba, Taylor Shea playing viola, and David Stambler, saxophone

Katy Hylton conducts. To her left are Thea Lobo, mezzo and Jordan Rutter-Covatto, singing

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Jan 29

Penn State countertenor Cole Denton's lecture-recital 'Lending a Voice to Diverse Genders & Sexualities' is this Friday, January 30th at 7:30 PM in Esber Hall in the School of Music Building 1. The recital will streaming on the Penn State Voice YouTube www.youtube.com/live/NiemFl2...

Poster featuring a Keith Haring image of two red people dancing and weaving their heads into a heart. for Cole Denton's lecture-recital "Lending a Voice to Diverse Genders and Sexualities." Friday January 30th at 7:30p Eastern in Penn State's Esber Hall.

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Dec 18

*world burning and people dying* Oh hey, I have an album coming out March 20th! Yay?

An image of a CD called "Yet" by Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice. Cover and CD are pink. To be released March 20th, 2026

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Aug 7

a bush with a sign saying "DO NOT" protruding from it

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Jun 30

ope

page 2 of the score for Scrapheap, in which a rocket is breaking through the upper system, bringing calamity.

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· May 20

i wasn't going to post my results until i saw you did. I mean i did like all of these characters? I don't know if they're me or not

Allison Reynolds from The Breakfast Club

Guinan from Star Trek: the Next Generation

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Mar 29

From "Bluebird Cutebook"'s premiere @ladylouise.bsky.social

Louise Floyd, playing Birdie in "Bluebird Cutebook," defeats Judy (played by me) in a swordfight. Birdie wears a dress with a short skirt and a backpack, with a pink pixie cut. Judy has a brown maxi skirt and a blue blouse.

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Mar 14

Rand Paul just said on the senate floor that no American supports trans opera. I, in fact, make trans opera. Come hear some on March 26th! Make Rand Paul mad!

Image reads "Incarnation & Bluebird Cutebook." There are two photos masking taped up. On the left, a watery figure with a flaming wreath for a head. On the right, a magenta flower.

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Feb 23

Incarnation by siri gurudev and Bluebird Cutebook by Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice, Wednesday, March 26, 2025 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Penn State University

decorative image that reads "Incarnation & Bluebird Cutebook." on the left, a strange figure standing in splashing water with a face of fire, flanked on the right by a plant. On the right, a magenta flower. Both images appear to be masking taped to a white and tan background.

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Jan 11

I'm directing a new lab at Penn State: the Gender and Voice Inquiry Lab. Conducts interdisciplinary research on the speech and singing broadly. [image: yourbedbugg ]

decorative image of a girl with in school uniform with a ponytail on the left side of her head. (the image is by yourbedbugg )

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Nov 26

field: ok

The best known fields are the field of rational numbers, the field of real numbers and the field of complex numbers. Many other fields, such as fields of rational functions, algebraic function fields, algebraic number fields, and p-adic fields are commonly used and studied in mathematics, particularly in number theory and algebraic geometry. Most cryptographic protocols rely on finite fields, i.e., fields with finitely many elements.

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Nov 16

Sarah Gen@sarahgen· Mar 25

When I first came to IPA, it seemed like such a revelation to be able to notate things that I heard. However, as time has gone on, IPA has seemed less and less precise. There are huge spaces of vowel sounds in between the IPA vowels, and a huge variety of e.g. ɛ or ʌ sounds.