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LIve performance of World Order #5 at the Feminist Theory and Music Conference 2009 hosted by the University of Greensboro, North Carolina. Conducted by John R. Beck and performed by the UNCG and North Carolina School of the Arts Percussion Ensembles. Like this video?  Then you will love Composer Boot Camp 101:  50 Exercises for Students, Educators, and Music Professionals! The ESSENTIAL MUSIC BOOK for any serious songwriter, producer, film composer, composer, musician, educator, performer, music professional, or student.

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 08: Actor James Franco and artist Kalup Linzy attend the Rob Pruitt's 2010 Art Awards at Webster Hall on December 8, 2010 in New York City. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife ) World Order #1 A few years ago I released an experimental electronica album title Origins, c inematic soundscapes, pulsating rhythms, and enigmatic vocals envelop the listener in entangling science fiction textures and robotic mayhem. World Order #1 was originally composed as part of a filmscore for Kalup Linzy 's 2004 Conversations Wit De Churen .  While the rest of the score was used for the movie, which premiered at the New York Independent Film Festival , World Order #1 was not used. The Dance Remix version was used for the film with Linzy's voice dubbed over the original track.  The New York Times' Holland Cotter writes , " ... If most of the characters, including Nucuazia's sharp-tongued mother, soft-touch grandmother, wastrel brothe...

Sabrina Pena Young was awarded the a Composer Assistance Grant from The American Music Center for the upcoming world premier of W orld Order #5 on November 8th by the Kansas State University Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Kurt Gartner. World Order #5 has been commissioned by the KSU Music Department and is the second piece composed specifically for this talented ensemble. The American Music Center awarded a Composer Assistance Grant for the upcoming premier of World Order #5, to be performed at the McCain Auditorium by the Kansas State University Percussion Ensemble (directed by Kurt Gartner). World Order #5 is written for percussion sextet, video, and tape and is fifth in a series of electroacoustic pieces about contemporary society. This has been a successful series of works, with premiers at Turkey's Cinema for Peace, Pulsefield International Exhibition of Sound Art, and at the New York International Independent Film Festival (filmscore). World Order #5 follows th...