Pauline Anna Tuell Strom (October 1, 1946 – December 13, 2020[1]) was an American electronic music composer and synthesist best known under the pseudonym Trans-Millenia Consort.
[4] Strom moved to the Bay Area in the early 1970s and embarked on a career in music by acquiring synthesizers and building compositions with a Tascam four-track recorder.
[9] Calling herself the Trans-Millenia Consort, Strom mapped an inner world of imagined pasts, possible futures, and alternate realities.
[10] She sought to act as a "consort" for her audience, "spiriting listeners through epochs described by her evocative musical passages," according to the label, RVNG Intl.
[11] The ability to tap into, map, and translate an "inner world"[12] into sound recalls Strom's philosophy that everything in the now is rooted in the past, future and present.
Due to financial constraints, Strom sold all her equipment, stopped making music, and focused on building a spiritual healing practice.
describes the album as "a collection of transportive synthesizer music providing listeners a vessel to break beyond temporal limits into a world of pulsing, mercurial tonalities and charged, embryonic waveforms.
She lived in San Francisco with her pet iguana, Little Soulstice,[15] where she ran a remote healing practice under the name "Reverend Paula."