COMPOSER SABRINA PENA YOUNG | MUSIC TECHNOLOGY | FILM | CLASSICAL | OPERA

Formidable Composer Eric Whitacre 1. You try to tell the time signature of your blinker as you drive 2. You wonder if Mozart would have Tweeted 3. You ruin movies by complaining about how John Williams steals from Wagner and Stravinsky 4. Your significant other has been relegated to long diatribes about the merits of classical music over pop music 5. Said significant other has also been dragged to numerous classical music concerts, including at least one that involved a laptop or singing robot 6. You can't resist saying "I'll be Bach" when you leave the party 7. You have an appreciation for Schoenberg and Cage that your music ed friends do not understand 8. You ever conducted the radio with a pencil in your car, while driving and drinking a cup of coffee 9. Your children grow up listening to Mozart...AND Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn 10. You are used to the semi-surprised look of shock when you tell your friends that you are a composer 11. Y...

60x60 Latin  Mix Opportunity Type: 60x60 Entry Fee: 0.00 Open To: The call is open to all Composers living in Latin America, Composers of Latin American heritage, and/or works that are clearly inspired by Latin American culture/music. Deadline: 11-01-14 Receipt Type: Digital Submission: Must be completed online by deadline Vox Novus's 60x60 is calling for one-minute recorded works with durations of 60 seconds or less. Curator/Macro-composer Sabrina Pena Young will select and organize 60 compositions to be played continuously in a one-hour live concert. About the 60x60 Latin Mix: The 60x60 Latin mix will show recent works of Composers living in Latin America, Composers of Latin American heritage, and/or works that are clearly inspired by Latin American culture/music. 60x60 is a project of "signature works" and short works created specifically for the 60x60 project. Excerpts of larger works are strongly discouraged. Works generated from p...

Nature Time lapse footage from AM / PM demo film by Sean Fleck from Mount Airy Films on Vimeo . Check out some of my latest projects in progress! Film Score for the animated short Monica , by Cartoonist Rob Cabrera Life has been incredibly busy for the last few months between projects, the opera, teaching, and of course, taking of my most important masterpiece - Eva Rose Young! My baby girl had her first official recording session for Rob Cabrera's Monica soundtrack that I am composing . She had a great time with the headphones and talking into a real mic, and was paid dutifully in hugs and love. This project is wrapping up soon, so keep a look out for the exciting short Monica , coming out in 2013!  60x60 Athena Mix presented at Cameron University on May 1, @7:30 PM. I will be presenting the video version of the 60 x 60 Athena Mix, an exciting and eclectic electronic mix of sixty short one minute electronic compositions by women around the world. The original Athena Mix...

Movement 2 "Light" from the multimedia oratorio "Creation". Premiered April 2010 by the Millikin University Women's Chorus under the direction of esteemed conductor Michael Engelhardt. It has been one busy summer. After a terrific performance of my multimedia oratorio "Creation" at Millikin University at the end of the spring semester by the University Women's Chorale, I completed an album for Easy Ear Training.com which will be coming out later this year. Right now I am composing a film score and getting ready to put out an album of tape music from "Creation" as well as finally getting around to publishing a video compilation of my best animated works, like Enigma, World Order #5, Innermost Thoughts of the Distorted Psyche', and the 3D animation from Creation. I continue writing for the IAWM Blog, Easy Ear Training.com, AC, and soon Yahoo. Gearing up for the new semester at Murray State, where I will be teaching Music Synthesis. This...

The Kapralova Society recently published my article, "Intermedia: Redefining American Music at the Turn of the Third Millennium" in The Kapralova Society Journal, Volume VI, Issue 2 (Fall 2008). In the article, I trace the evolution of technology and music through the works of prominent women who work in the arts and composition. Artists such as Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Yoko Ono, and Brenda Hutchinson are discussed within the historical context of the convergence of visual and performing arts in intermedia. You can read the article HERE . The article is a condensed version of my thesis "The Feminine Musique': Multimedia and Women Today". The Kapralova Society continues to contribute to the musical dialogue through its research and promotion of women in music.