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

YOUNG's YEARLY UPDATE and a HAPPY NEW YEAR! This year has been a crazy, CRAZY year! My film Libertaria:The Virtual Opera was shown at festivals including the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Animation and Best Short Feature. NPR's Morning Edition interviewed me about my "spacey" rendition of their theme song. This year I have been writing like crazy, including my new Composer Boot Camp 101, the sci-fi novel Libertaria: Revelation, and several series on songwriting for Easy Ear Training . I also made a couple of short films, including the Pearl of Tia Maria Magdalena, which won 2nd place in the Buffalo Video and Film Makers Shorty Contest. Both Libertaria: Revelation and the Pearl of Tia Maria Magdalena can be watched on Youtube. I also recently completed an animation project for composer Rain Worthington , where I animated her Classical Discoveries interviews about her new symphonic album Dream Vapors. We hope to continu...

Buffalo Composer Featured on NPR's Morning Edition for Sci-Fi Theme Music So very excited to have my sci-fi version of the Morning Edition Theme Featured today at NPR! :) The NPR Morning Edition team offered a musical challenge: rewrite the Morning Edition Theme. For fun, I decided to go all spacy and crazy with it! Check it out!  LISTEN TO MORNING EDITION NOW: http://www.npr.org/2016/05/18/478488972/-morning-edition-sci-fi-theme-is-out-of-this-world The Composer's Wacky Spacy Inspiration I imagined what would happen if the entire Morning Edition Staff found themselves stranded on the planet Mars in a retro-1980s parallel universe , complete with cheesy bedazzled astronaut suits and neon lights, surrounded by Dalek -inspired cyborgs. I plucked out he main theme on the keys and added in some dissonance and bent pitches to fit the bizarre spacyness of the track playing in my head. I added in the requisite synthesizers, a slight beat, and droid-esque sound ef...