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

It's exciting to be in Buffalo, New York in the Summer! Sunshine, art, music, and nature combined with just the right touch of city life and international cuisine.  This summer will be an exciting one musically speaking. After two and half years and 1033 vocal tracks, I am wrapping up Libertaria: The Virtual Opera this summer. Thanks to our wonderful Kickstarter backers, the talented film composer Patrick Rundbladh is finishing up the final Libertaria Cast Album . Patrick has done exquisite work on Libertaria , combining both artistry and technical prowess.  LISTEN TO PATRICK RUNDBLADH's BEAUTIFUL FILM MUSIC Animators Kera Hildebrandt and Lucinda McNary have finished animation production and now I have a summer ahead of me of editing and animating the movie for the world premier October 5th in Lake Worth, Florida. (more info on that soon!) LISTEN TO THE INSTRUMENTAL OPERA SOUNDTRACK! But I'm not just working on opera. Yesterday I lay down some blues tracks f...

As many of my music fans know, I have been working on an animated electronic opera for over two years. The end results is an exciting animated feature that stars talented musicians throughout the United States who volunteered (yes volunteered) their amazing musical talents for this insane sci-fi musical dream I had three years ago. GET THE LIBERTARIA CAST ALBUM FOR $1 AT KICKSTARTER! Music production has come to a close, and TV/Film composer Patrick Rundbladh at P & R Music Productions is mastering the final Libertaria Cast Album. Up to this point, the opera has been produced entirely online, with cast and crew volunteering their work in music and animation, and the random odd musical job funding the opera production.  We have 17 hours left for the Libertaria Opera Kickstarter Campaign! For $1 opera fans will receive an Early Bird full Libertaria Cast Album download . For a $2 pledge, opera fans have Associate Producer credit in the film, and get both the film and th...

We all go through stages in life. The question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" seems to change with the seasons and the decades. Not everyone remembers their childhood dreams, but I can remember mine clearly through the years: At four I wanted to be a preacher At six I wanted to be a paleantologist At eight I wanted to be an international spy At eleven I wanted to be an astronaut At twelve I wanted to be a famous rock drummer At fifteen I wanted to be a timpanist with the Boston Pops At seventeen I wanted to be a writer At nineteen I wanted to be a traveling percussion soloist At twenty-one I wanted to be alive At twenty-two I wanted to be a filmmaker At twenty-four I wanted to be a composer At twenty-eight I wanted to be married At twenty-nine I wanted to make a difference At thirty-one I wanted to make a baby And at thirty-five I wonder "What will I be when I grow up?" Maybe it's strange to ask myself this question now. After a...

Libertaria LIBERTARIA: THE VIRTUAL OPERA After two years, the final Libertaria Cast Album will be out this summer. Animation production has ended, and the summer will be busy with post production for the October premiere in South Florida, hosted by composer Dr. Clare Shore. The Libertaria Cast Album is being crowdfunded through Kickstarter, which is fitting since the entire opera production has been completed online.  If you are interested in a prerelease of the Libertaria Cast Album, please check out the Kickstarter link below: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/virtualopera/electronic-musical-of-the-future-libertaria-cast-a VOX NOVUS Vox Novus has been busy with the ten 60x60 mixes for its ten year anniversary. I coordinated Athena 60x60 Mix, an exciting one hour electronic music concert by talented women around the globe. As part of a collaboration for Vox Novus, I  created video for the 60x60 Presenter's Mix using machinima and Moviestorm, and the Presenter's...

As you may know, Libertaria: The Virtual Opera is about to enter into post production after two years of music production and animation. Find out a little bit more about our virtual opera characters! SUPPORT LIBERTARIA AT KICKSTARTER! LIBERTARIA Libertaria Meet Libertaria. The rebel teen escapes from an evil genetics factory only to find herself entrenched in the Underground with her Metal Ink addict father Simeon. Will she ever find the Nurse that saved her life? Or will the Evil Collective prevail?  Singers Kate Sikora and Gracia Gillund share the role of Libertaria. Simeon, Leader of the Underground SIMEON The leader of the Underground has more than a few skeletons in his closet, including an unhealthy addiction to Metal Ink and a tangled web of love and intrigue. Perry Cook and Matthew Meadows sing the role of Simeon. LUCINDE Lucinde has an ax to grind with Libertaria, though no one is sure why. Simeon's right hand "man", Lucinde heads up...

After two exciting years of music production and animation, Libertaria: The Virtual Opera is now entering post-production. I am excited to announce that we will be hiring an international professional mastering studio to mix and master the Official Libertaria Cast Album! PLEDGE $1 and Get the OFFICIAL LIBERTARIA CAST ALBUM!!!! Libertaria: The Virtual Opera is an indie sci-fi animated opera. The cast and crew volunteered their time and talents over the last two years to create an amazing ELECTRONIC OPERA! Libertaria operates on a microbudget and all Kickstarter funding will go to the final mix and master production of the opera. It's all about AMAZING REWARDS for MUSIC FANS! $1 Get an exclusive Digital Download of the Cast Album plus exclusive goodies including chapters from the Libertaria sci-fi novel , movie poster download, and movie stills!  $2 Become an Associate Producer and receive the Libertaria full movie download !  And there are other great...

Caricature of Giuseppe Verdi. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Although I have written an operetta and oratorio in the past, nothing prepared me for the intricacies for learning how to compose an opera. The large scale form that made countless composers like Verdi immortal in the annals of classical music seems daunting and somewhat archaic in a world of fast-paced social media, instant entertainment, and blase' pop music that permeates our minds like the polluted air we breathe. Ironically, I found little modern literature that helped me learn how to write an opera. Had the form been so abandoned in the Digital Age that writing a book on opera composition was futile? In any case, I decided to reinvent the form combining modern technology with contemporary compositions with Libertaria: The Virtual Opera , an animated opera produced entirely online.  Here are a few tips I have learned along the way: 1) Be Realistic  When I started working on Libertaria: The Virtual Opera...