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

Intermedia: Redefining American Music at the Turn of the Third Millennium   This article is a condensed version of: The Feminine Musique': Multimedia and Women Today (2004) Outside the realms of traditional art forms, intermedia incorporates digital video, sound synthesis, virtual reality, interactive audiovisual installations, the Internet, and a limitless array of technological innovation. With such a broad range of technological possibility at the composer’s fingertips, creativity reaches to the far ends of the imagination. Artists like Maryanne Amacher and Brenda Hutchinson create sound environments that evolve as participants interact with them. Carla Scarletti’s Internet gallery, Public Organ, invites Internet users to participate by submitting original artwork. Kristine H. Burns uses video generation and sound synthesis to create fluid visual images that captivate the audience, and Laurie Anderson performs large-scale multim...

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.