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

The Composer's Daughter Strangers say she has the slender fingers of a pianist. She grimaces at minor seconds and is lulled to sleep by the rhythm of the pounding drums. She cries as cluster chords play electronic strains and is fascinated by the simple strumming of the mandolin. She smiles as her mother sings a half-forgotten lullaby and shuts her eyes at the clash of cymbals. She is the composer's daughter. As I hold her tiny, pink, pillowy body closely to my gently beating heart, I wonder if the nearly ten months she spent in my womb has left any permanent musical impressions on her. I remember the kicks she gave me from within when I stubbornly insisted on playing drum set seven months into the pregnancy, my bulging belly only a centimeter's distance from the piercing snare drum. I think of the hours I performed on the congas, each tap and slap creating a rhythmic lullaby for my sleeping unborn, unseen, child, and I think of he...

Create Virtual Auditions Online with Music Xray for Libertaria the Virtual Opera In cyberspace, one person reaches out to tens of thousands of others with a tap on an iPad. The potential talent pool for any project explodes exponentially online. Creative individuals use sites like Kickstarter, MusicXray, Wreckamovie.com and the Amazon Turk to reach out to countless numbers of potential skilled musicians and artists. Wreckamovie, a crowdsourcing website for film and music productions, makes international collaboration easy for productions like the recent Free Will: Opera by You , premiered at the Savonlinna Opera Festival this summer. The Amazon Turk, run by Amazon.com, allows a person to assign hundreds of microtasks at pennies apiece. A composer can sign up as Music Industry Professional at MusicXray and easily set up virtual auditions that reach tens of thousands of musicians. These sites are simply a handful of the incredible networking tools available today. ...

Using Technology to Create the Virtual Opera Libertaria Creating a full‐length opera in the 21 st century requires a composer’s ingenuity and ability to think outside the box and into cyberspace. What do crowdsourcing, machinima, virtual auditions, social networking, and a libretto have in common? Each is a key element in the production of Libertaria: The Virtual Opera , a feature‐ length sci‐fi animated opera created through online collaboration and cutting edge technology. For those who live outside the 21 st century digital world, terms like crowdsourcing, virtual, and machinima may seem like a foreign language out of a Ray Bradbury sci‐fi novel. Crowdsourcing involves assigning tasks for your project to the public at‐large. More than simply outsourced, a project that is crowdsourced can involve dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people contributing a small part to the creative whole. Typically one person acts as the “brain” of the project, co...

Life After Autotune - Pop Music Industry Few DAW plug-ins today produce as much debate among audio engineers and fans as Auto-Tune. In a nutshell, Auto-Tune is an audio tool that allows an engineer to “tweak” pitchy performances by subtly (or sometimes blatantly) altering a singer’s performance and fixing out-of-tune notes. How does a simple plug-in like Auto-Tune create such incredible controversy?             Auto-Tune has very interesting, and decidedly unmusical, beginnings. Musician Andy Hildebrand developed Auto-Tune by “analyzing seismic data” when he worked for the oil industry. Being a musician, he decided to use this technology for music, developed Auto-Tune over a period of a few weeks (Prisco, 2014). Pop music was never the same             Using Auto-Tune in the music industry has a few competing camps – the purists, the engineers, and the hacks. In one cam...

WATCH LIBERTARIA NOW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB5SItVSliw BUY THE MUSIC: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sabrinapenayoung4 In a post-USA dystopia the teen rebel Libertaria escapes from a GenTech death factory and pairs up with her addict father to overthrow the evil Collective in the exciting machinima opera by award-winning composer Sabrina Pena Young. Libertaria Soundtrack (Special Edition) http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sabrinapenayoung4 https://sabrinapenayoung.wordpress.com/ Like this? Then check out AMAZON BESTSELLER Composer Boot Camp 101, a comprehensive guide to songwriting, composition, and film music with 50 exercises for students, educators, and music professionals! https://www.amazon.com/Composer-Boot-Camp-101-Professionals/dp/1530441064/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Official Libertaria Website: http://virtualopera.wordpress.com/ World Premier October 5th, 2013 Lake Worth Florida 3PM More about Libertaria: Mind-blowing epi...

Futuristic electronica and cyborg music. For more great sci-fi music for your projects - Cinematic Music for Film, TV, Apps, Video Games, and Youtube https://sabrinapenayoung.bandcamp.com/album/cinematic-music-for-film-tv-apps-video-games-and-youtube Official Artist Website  sabrinapenayoung.blogspot.com  Cinematic music for Film, TV, Video Games, Apps, Business, and Youtube. Includes a collection of original science fiction soundtracks, horror music, dramatic songs, and more.  Created by award-winning composer and filmmaker Sabrina Pena Young. Combining science fiction and fantasy in "epic" musical soundtracks and film, Young's works have been showcased throughout Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas at the Beijing Conservatory, the Holland Animation Film Festival, Miramax's Project Greenlight, the NY International Independent Film Festival, Art Miami, Art Basil Miami, and more.  released 06 July 2015  Composed and Produced by Sabr...

This was an experimental animation work that I created while studying music technology at Florida International University. It took a semester to complete simply using some of the features in Final Cut. The beginning and ending are mirrors of each other, and I use various synthesis processes to create the sound, including using Supercollider, Soundhack, and other programs.  Enigma remains to be my most popular piece, with performances throughout the world at various music festivals. My husband and I often joke around that this was my masterpiece, the work I will forever be known for, as it is accepted almost any festival I send it to, and just remains to be a singular work of synthesis genius (I suppose).  In any case, I hope that you enjoy this work. It is mesmerizing to say the least, and quite an interesting sonic exploration.  -- Sabrina Peña Young Like this video?  Then you will love Composer Boot Camp 101:  50 Exercises for Students, Ed...