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

The Institute of Creative Technologies (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Share Music Sweden is arranging the symposium Inclusive Creativity Sweden Underpinning the concept of inclusive creativity is the aim of leveling the playing field in performance and composition for disabled musicians by developing new technologies and methodologies for their use. Three panels will interrogate how contemporary creative practice and scholarship is addressing this aim. To participate in one of these panels please provide a 300-word outline of how your practice and/or scholarship challenges state of the art in the inclusive creative context with particular regard to one of the following: * Composition and Performance* * or* * Development of new hardware and software* * or* * Training and validation * All proceedings from the symposium will be published online. Important Information *Submission:* April 6, 2016. *Review notification:* April 11, 2016 *Submit paper to:*  jennifer@sharemusic.se *La...

I'm always asked, "How do you do so much?"  Of course, my first answer is that I'm an insomniac, but seriously, being able to accomplish my goals can be daunting. Right now I am finishing my second sci-fi novel, am in preproduction for a video game opera, am working on a short animated film , all while homeschooling our young daughter, teaching online humanities courses, and freelancing. I'm in a film club, writer's club, and am active in our church. And yeah, I manage a social life, or as much as one any parent can muster. So how do I do it? Here are my Top 5 Crazy Easy Tips for Making Time for Your Music, Art, Film, and Writing 1. Avoid Screentime Seriously, you need to do this. What's more important? Binging on Netflix or banging out the next set of lyrics for your song? The average American watches 4-6 hours of TV a day . That's almost a full-time job...just watching TV (not to mention Facebook , Tweeting, surfing Youtube ). So the TV at o...

Music, Women, and Technology: 7 Essays Seven insightful music essays on music, audio technology, women in electronic music , John Cage , and contemporary music history. A unique must-have resource for independent musicians, music students, educators, and music lovers. This book is about technology, reality, and changing the world through music one note at a time. DOWNLOAD FOR ONLY $2.99 TODAY AT AMAZON KINDLE Essays on:  Intermedia: Redefining American Music at the Turn of the Third Millennium. The Composer's Daughter. The Failure of Superwoman. Decomposing Composers.  In Defense of Music Technology . Music Technology: The Great Democratizer The Silent Noise of John Cage (excerpt) Extra bonus appendix with an exhaustive bibliography of resources on the topic of women in electronic music and technology.  Historical discussions on the works of artists like Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Anderson , John Cage, Pamela Z , Meredith Monk , Maggi Payne , Lynn Hershmann-Neeson, ...

Young Dishes Opera at TEDxBuffalo How to Write an Opera in the Digital Age When we think about how to write an opera, what often comes to mind is a large scale traditional opera on an immense theatrical stage employing dozens, if not a hundred, singers, musicians, costumer designers, stagehands, theater personnel, a publicist, and more.  Writing an opera in the 21st century has greatly evolved with the changes in technology. Specifically social media, Internet downloads, video hosting sites like Youtube, smartphones and even changes in basic coding has allowed today's opera composers to truly write great operas without the cost and complexities of a traditional stage opera.  Composer Sabrina Pena Young Discusses Online Opera Production at TEDxBuffalo As a composer, I still prefer live performance and the grandiose splendor of a live theatrical production . However, with economic and social barriers that have limited my access (and many contemporary composers')...

Composer Sabrina Pena Young (SOURCE: TEDxBuffalo) Electronic Music Technology Straight Talk: Music Technology -The Great Democratizer Want to make a difference? Want to write music? Straight talk from a music pro.  Change the world one note at a time. (Lecture at Murray State University IAWM Electronic Music Concert November 9, 2010) I could give you a historical overview of electronic music. We could sit here and trace the birth of electronic music, from the record player and ondes martenot and theremin all the way through the whacked out 80s with MTV and Laurie Anderson 's drum suit. We could talk about France's IRCAM electronic Studios and the contributions of women like composers Pauline Oliveros and Alice Shields. I could mention younger generations of electronic music composers like Kristine H. Burns and Alex Shapiro . But to be honest, you can Google or Wiki almost anything I have to say about electronic music history. So if you are interested in electr...