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

Young dons comic book makeup for Urban Night: Sounds Me, Myself, and I: The Music of S. Peña Young, Contemporary Composer I originally wrote this tongue-in-cheek article for gig asking for interviews with musicians . Seeing as I had little time to fulfill the deadline for that particular call, I opted to interview myself. I hope you enjoy this snarky music interview, and learn a little something, too. Or not. (written  July 13, 2009) Recently I had the opportunity to sit in front of a mirror and talk to S. Peña Young, contemporary electronic music composer , musician, and self-described “media artist” whose intriguingly bizarre music works have reached as far as Australia and as local as the i-Pod in your pocket. I opened up the interview with the usual professional rhetoric, “What the heck are you doing up at 3am?” Expecting some lofty answer often given to me by the classically trained musician who seems to believe that even a disdainful elitist sniff of an answe...