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

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First green screen attempt with Machinima using Moviestorm. Blues. Music Produced/Sung by Sabrina Pena Young http://sabrinapenayoung.blogspot.com/ Used with Permission Easy Ear Training.com and Musical U http://www.easyeartraining.com/ Unravelling Music Album https://www.easyeartraining.com/store/ear-training-albums/ Lyrics: My Man Done Left Me My Man Done Left Me High and Dry with a Babe in My Belly Oh he left me With a babe in my belly, oh Gotta, gotta tell my momma and my papa that their little girl's been done wrong, Yeah

When I created As I Lay  my grandmother, mi Abuelita , lay dying in hospice. I had visited her the day before, with my sister visiting from Ohio, coming to say her last goodbyes. I let them have that final embrace, that final hug. I never gave her one. I didn't realize that would be my last chance to truly say goodbye to her.  I was foolishly working on a second master's degree at FIU. I had earned an MM in Music Technology and thought that an MFA in film and video would prepare me for a life as an academic traversing between visual and performing arts. I didn't realize that the economy would collapse, that professorships as a means of survival would soon end but for the select few, and that life had a different path for me entirely that existed almost entirely online as I moved from state to state with my then new husband. I had skipped a lot of school to be with my grandmother that semester. She had been an integral part of our family, the kind ready with deli...

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...

APRIL 13-19, 2015 IAWM Announces its 2015 International Congress: Women in Music Connect the World IAWM 20 th  Anniversary Congress 2015 13-19 April 2015 The International Alliance for Women in Music announces its 20 th -anniversary Congress 2015, to be held online, freely accessible to all with events available following a 24-hour GMT clock. Featured will be established and upcoming women professional and student composers, musicologists , music theorists , ethnomusicologists , educators, performers, and conductors who will contribute their knowledge and expertise online in performances, papers, workshops, demonstrations, and panel discussions. As we ascend the heights, share new discoveries, effect positive change, lead out, make appearances in new places, express music spirit-to-spirit, “Women in Music Connect the World.” As the title suggests, the Congress makes accessible the latest products in music of women’s work from around the globe, and offers them electronic...

Bluesy jazz and machinima animation come to life in this new experimental concert by the virtual group Nano Ensemble 21, an entirely machinima ensemble that collaborates online to create new music. Their premier performance! :)

APRIL 8th, 2015 Circuit Bridges Another exciting project with Vox Novus , Circuit Bridges attempts to unite  electroacoustic musicians  through collaborative concert events. Dr. Tomas Henriques at Buffalo State will be directing the innovative Digital Music Ensemble at this April event. Related articles Creative Summer: TedX Buffalo, Circuit Bridges, 60x60 Latin Mix, and Destiny: Eondwyr

Making Machinima "Singularity" Cyborg Short Film : Futurist Music As a composer, like any creative individual, one finds that there are phases in the artistic life. While perhaps not something as obvious as a "blue" or "atonal" period, I find that I may be embarking on a more mature journey as an artist, both creatively and in output. Perhaps this is partially due to the complexities of everyday life that prevent me from spending ten hours straight cutting and splicing audio clips from an equal number of hours spent in a university library taping vinyl record snippets. Now creation takes place in short, focused spurts, based less on inspiration and more on free time. And this is where my journey has changed.  Whereas in the past I required inspiration to create anything, just anything at all, even if the end result sounded like the death of a mechanical hamster,   now I find that I can rely on technique and years of experience to create the soun...