and building set pieces as various locales in the opera. Improvisation As an improviser LeBaron employs a wide array of extended techniques for the harp, including preparing the harp (similar to John Cage's prepared piano) and bowing the strings, as well as a variety of electronic enhancements. Her development of a new performance vocabulary for the instrument began in the early 1970s, when she played in the Alabama improvising ensemble Trans Museq along with Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith. Her career as an improviser has included performance collaborations with such creative composer/musicians as Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams, Evan Parker, George E. Lewis, Derek Bailey, Leroy Jenkins, Lionel Hampton, and Shelley Hirsch. LeBaron's double-CD 1, 2, 4, 3 (Innova 236, 2010) features collaborations with thirteen different musicians in solo, duo, quartet, and trio configurations. Major works Chamber: Instrumental Concerto for Active Frogs (1974) for three instruments, chorus, bass/baritone soloist, electronic tape Three Motion Atmospheres (1974) for brass quintet Extensions (1976) for twelve percussionists, piano, harp Memnon (1976) for harp sextet Metamorphosis (1977) for piccolo/flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, trombone, harp, percussion Rite of the Black Sun (1980) for percussion quartet After a Dammit to Hell (1982) for bassoon solo Noh Reflections (1985) for string trio Telluris Theoria Sacra (1989) for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion Waltz for Quintet (1989) for flute, violin, viola, cello, piano Southern Ephemera (1993) for flute, cello, harmonic canon, surrogate kithara Devil in the Belfry (1993) for violin, piano Sukey (1994) for string quartet Solar Music (1994) for flute, harp Sukey and the Mermaid (1998) for string quartet, children's choir, narrator Hsing (2002) for harp solo Los Murmullos (2006) for piano Four (2009) for violin solo Fore (2009) for violin solo Enigma of Papilio (2010) for piano Creación de las aves (2011) for piano Blitz (2014) for piano Julie's Garden of Unearthly Delights (2014) for two bassoons, electronic file Chamber: Vocal In the Desert (1973) for soprano, flute, marimba, temple blocks The Sea and the Honeycomb (1979) for soprano, piccolo/flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, two percussionists Lamentation/Invocation (1984) for baritone, clarinet, cello, harp Dish (1990) for soprano, electric violin, percussion, electric bass, piano Is Money Money (2000) for soprano, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello; set of six call bells Transfiguration (2003) for soprano, flute, harp, percussion Some Thoughts (2004) for soprano, flute, harp, or soprano, piano Breathtails (2012) for baritone, shakuhachi, string quartet Chamber: Electronic