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Marcia Lambert Stockton
Marcia Lambert Stockton is an American composer, inventor, and technologist. Composer While her orchestral works sometimes earn comparison with Aaron Copland (1) or Jean Sibelius (2), her repertoire spans many styles, some inspired by folk tunes and spirituals, others venturing into 20th century Americana, impressionism, the Baroque, and late Romanticism. The pieces are always tonal, but some stretch comfort levels with modulations that explore interesting harmonic relationships and jazz-influenced harmonies. She also composes sacred choral music. In the 1990s, fuelled by overlapping interests in technology and music, her composing intensified, despite a full workload as IBM Senior Technical Staff. Using an early MIDI (13) synthesizer and sequencer, she wrote numerous works for chamber ensembles, piano, and orchestra, including a piano concerto and a symphony. During the 2013-2015 as resident composer with the Carson Valley Sinfonia in Minden, NV (3), she composed primarily for strings. This unique ensemble has ignited many music careers by giving students in rural northern Nevada the opportunity to play alongside professionals and community members. Rehearsals and concerts yielded useful feedback from performers and audiences, enabling the creation of sophisticated and emotionally-mature classical music targeted at developing string players' capabilities. In 2013 she began offering her works to publishers for the first time and quickly secured contracts with three publishers. (4) Acclaimed composer/pianist Thomas Schoenberger (5) designated her his principal arranger in 2021. She heard enormous untapped merit in Schoenberger’s prodigious output as a composer and pianist and wanted his music to be heard by a wider audience. With the common goal of rekindling America’s passion for classical music, they began collaborating. Schoenberger values her ability to transcribe audio tracks by ear and create sophisticated orchestral arrangements grounded in a deep knowledge of the classical music repertoire. Schoenberger works she arranged to include:
• [Songs of Birds] • [Ghost] • [Let's Ride] • [Nocturne Dolore] • [Requiescat in Pace (“rest in peace”)] • [The Garden] • [symmetresia Symmetresia] • [Transition] • [The Plague Doctor] • [Requiem]
Schoenberger and Stockton, under the label Seek the Keys (6), release streaming music on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Instagram/Facebook, TikTok/Resso, YouTube Music, Amazon, Soundtrack by Twitch, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, iHeartRadio, ClaroMusica, Saavn, Boomplay, Anghami, KKBox, NetEase, Tencent, Qobuz , Triller, Yandex Music, MediaNet, and Snapchat. Additional collaborations with Thomas Schoenberger on his Sophia Musik Youtube channel include:
• [Goodbye Baby] • [Time Stands Still] • [he Visions of Hildegaard von Bingen] • [The Way of the Via Francigena] • [The Conductor from Heaven and Hell #CryptoOpera]
As a member of the mysterious Cicada 3301 group (7), she works to further their goal of a cultural renaissance led by musicians, artists, and bards. This activity aligns with her own lifelong push, as a polymath, to encourage and mentor young geniuses in their respective fields of endeavor. Curiously, she is the only person to uncover an intriguing and little-known principle which relates prime numbers to the physics of musical harmony and acoustics that Thomas Schoenberger has long encoded in his music
#The50 Project
In September 2021, Stockton embarked on an ambitious project with the goal of uniting Americans through music (8). She named the project #The50 for the fifty American states, and declared she would compose one original orchestral work for each state. Her Youtube channel (9) features music composed for #The50:
• [Ocean Depths (Rhode Island)] • [Prairie Dawn (South Dakota)] • The Golden State (California) TBA
Master Inventor
Marcia Stockton had a fruitful technical career (1983-2005) culminating as an IBM Master Inventor (10) with approximately 61 patents (11). She joined IBM in 1988 as a professional hire software engineer (17), after working as an assembly-language (12) programmer at Raytheon Data Systems and Decision Data Computer Corp writing device drivers, BIOS, operating system and networking code. Her initial expertise there was debugging. She would mentally trace a defective software process, identify the source of error, and inject bytes into a running system to repair faulty code written by others. Her unique ability to visualize complex dynamic software processes earned quick promotions.
At IBM’s Research Triangle Park (14), NC, networking software lab, she rapidly ascended to team leader for Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (15) architecture. In that role she initiated the APPN Implementers’ Workshop, a quarterly technology exchange with networking industry leaders. Moving to an advanced
technology group, she participated in the development of broadband networking architectures. That work addressed problems of high-speed routing through a switching fabric, bandwidth reservation, latency, multicast, network topology, and directory services. Stockton was prolific as an inventor for IBM with over 50 U.S patents (11) and numerous technical disclosures published. She also authored numerous white papers and published in peer-reviewed journals, books, and trade press (16). The company named her a Master Inventor (10). Stockton led a patent review board for networking software. In that role, she mentored many employees. She was assigned to an 18-month task force of experts from across IBM to solve a critical problem for a national government. In that role, she gained additional expertise on high-performance, high-availability, high-reliability computing, an area of technology that involves the intersection of hardware, application software, storage devices, networking protocols, and telephony facilities. She became a sought-after speaker at industry conferences and frequently traveled abroad to advise CEOs and CIOs or explain the application of technology to solve business goals. Some of her seminal architecture papers defined the emerging role of content delivery networks, web proxies, and edge computing. She ascended to the chairmanship of IBM’s Software Architecture Board where she guided a high-level team coordinating the integration of architectures and advanced technology across many IBM divisions. Throughout her career she advised executives on advanced technology matters, extrapolating their future impact and significance.
Early Life
She was immersed in a musical household. Often the two sisters with their mother would spontaneously sing in 3-part harmony. She started piano at age 4, and cello at 8. Sang in choirs at church and school. Ronald Dunn, choral director at Horace Greeley High School (18) in Chappaqua, New York, recognized her musical gifts and outside of class taught her harmony, counterpoint, and conducting. At age 17 she conducted the school’s 200-voice choir. She was named to the All-County Orchestra and All-County Chorus in Westchester County, New York (19).
She was awarded National Merit and IBM Thomas J. Watson Scholarships (20).
She graduated from Swarthmore College (B.A., 1975) (21) with a major in music. Besides music theory, performance (choir, orchestra, chamber music) and music history, her university studies included Russian language, psychology, electrical and environmental engineering, studio arts, astronomy, and computer programming.
She pursued advanced cello study with two eminent Philadelphia Orchestra cellists, Harry Gorodetzer (22) and William Saputelli, and played principal cello in the Musical Coterie of Wayne, PA.
She briefly worked for a patent law firm, gaining first-hand exposure to the patent system that resurfaced during her IBM career.
Appendix A - Patents