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

If you’re like most self-promoting musicians, you’re a little overwhelmed and confused about how to use social media to attract fans, promote your events, and sell more music. Maybe Very Confused! If that’s the case, you’re not alone. Everyone feels the pressure. The good news is ... help is on the way! “Social Media Music Marketing Made Easy” Whether you’re just getting your feet wet with online marketing or you’re a seasoned digital pro, I know you’ll benefit from this. Here’s what you’ll get with this two-part teleclass series: Part 1) Finding Your Digital Music Sweet Spot On this call I give you some solid ways to deal with the overwhelm. But most important, I walk you through my four-step process to determine the best sites and strategy for you. Of all the gurus out there, I don’t know anyone teaching this specific technique to identify what your online priorities should be. When I teach this at live workshops, people always say, “Wow, I never thought of it th...

Young is the foremost expert on virtual opera production and online collaboration with the debut of her machinima opera Libertaria: The Virtual Opera. Libertaria includes a live international cast and film crew, virtual choirs, sound synthesis , machinima animation, and contemporary choral writing, produced entirely online using crowdsourcing, social networking, and the Internet . Libertaria premiered October 5th, 2013 in Lake Worth, Florida , with additional screenings at the Buffalo Women and Arts Festival , the UK -site Moviestorm , the Holland Animation Film Festival, and other venues. She has a rich history of combining intermedia and classical music with cutting edge works like her multimedia oratorio Creation, winner of the IAWM New Genre Prize, World Order #5 for percussion and multimedia, and collaborations with artists in Vox Novus 60×60 and Lee Scott ’s interactive web opera The Village. Young is currently working on the novel series The Libertaria Chronicles, and is ...

Snopes.com dispels a recent fake controversial viral story about public bathrooms. In our world of social media obsession, everything and every thought being tweeted, vined, snapchatted, and instagrammed. Most individuals do not know how to communicate electronically. Relationships can get destroyed, false information is passed on as truth, and anger seems to be the most prevalent emotion, especially during this heated political season in the US.  So here are the Top 5 Shocking Mistakes That You Make on Social Media 1. You Post Every Thought without Thinking We've all seen it. A bad break-up, a fight with a loved one, a bad day at work...Some people just post and post and post and post and don't think about the permanence of online posts. Even if you "delete" the post, it is still there, somewhere. And the juiciest information may have already flown through cyberspace via other social media sites before you have a chance to retract your statements. If you a...

Performance excerpts from the full production of "Street Angel Diaries," by Mary Lou Newmark at the Theatre @ Boston Court, Main Stage in December of 2006. For more information go to  http://www.greenangelmusic.com Mary Lou Newmark’s original music  for “Street Angel Diaries” includes live improvised electric violin solos, live percussion interludes using found objects, environmental soundscapes, text paintings in sound, electroacoustic multi-layered compositions and song.  All these different types of music combine with the script by Ms. Newmark and the visual images to produce an interplay of the arts akin to chamber music.  Email:  marylou@streetangeldiaries.com CD AVAILABLE HERE == ABOUT SABRINA PENA YOUNG Award-winning composer Sabrina Pena Young is a foremost expert on Virtual Opera Production and Music Technology . A sought after consultant and speaker in music, arts, and technology, Young continues to push musical bou...

ÆPEX Contemporary Performance Presents: A Call For Recordings Of Fixed Media Compositions Web site:  http://aepexcontemporary.org/ calls-for-works/ ÆPEX Contemporary Performance Presents: A Call For Recordings Of Fixed Media Compositions Description: ÆPEX Contemporary Performance is proud to announce a call for recordings of fixed media compositions. The recordings will be used to create a playlist for ÆPEX’s summer season of “sound system takeovers” at businesses, bars, and restaurants across Southeast, MI from April-August 2016. Related articles Nano Opera: The Rise, Triumph, and Fiery Demise of Robotika Female:Pressure Rojava Solidarity Campaign and the Question of the Role of the Artist in the World What is MIDI? - History of Electronic Music - Sabrina Pena Young Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Pirate My Music: What Every Indie Musician Needs to Know. Diplo And Calvin Harris Top Nominations For Inaugural Electronic Music Awards Calvin Harris,...

Composer Lee Scott On May 1, 2015 UK Composer Lee Scott's innovative web opera The Village will break boundaries Be a Part of the The Village! http://www.thevillageopera.com/ An Interview with Lee Scott 1. Three words to describe your music: Collaborative, reflective, voice-driven  2. Who are your influences? I'm a guitarist first and foremost, so i'd name such figures as Chet Atkins , Frank Zappa , Brian May, Wes Montgomery , Django Reinhardt as influences. Jazz song convention and harmony certainly seems to find its way into my work one way or another, as can be heard in the many of the vocal lines in The Village. In terms of composers, I'm been drawn to music with an emotional underpinning, so works by Debussy, Puccini, but i'm also interested in dadaism and indeterminacy in a musical context so i'd include Satie, Stockhausen, Pousseur as loose inspirations. My everyday listening features Radiohead, Carpark North (Danish elect...