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First Film Score!

First Film Score!

Timid Monster's Dan Baker and I have known each other since the beginning of 2017. He was gearing up to shoot a short film for which he had won a grant, and was looking, interestingly enough, for examples of microtonal music!

Performing New Work as New Executive Board Member for Music Theory

Performing New Work as New Executive Board Member for Music Theory

March 2, 2019: CMS Composers' and Performers' Concert III of the 40th Annual Southern Chapter Conference of The College Music Society, held at the UCF College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida.

The 40th Annual Southern Chapter Conference of The College Music Society (CMS)

The 40th Annual Southern Chapter Conference of The College Music Society (CMS)

Faculty in the South were brought together from all areas of college music by this conference and the opportunity it afforded to share new teaching methods, new research, and new music.

American Society for Cybernetics 2018 Conference

American Society for Cybernetics 2018 Conference

What a conference! Creation as a result of change in perspective! Self-referential science! All after a reintroduction to basic cybernetic concepts. These are just some of the things dealt with in presentations and discussions at the American Society for Cybernetics 2018 Conference: “Framing Reality and How It Matters in a Shared World.”

South-Central Regional Conference of The College Music Society 2016

South-Central Regional Conference of The College Music Society 2016

What a conference! Applying the Existential Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre to Performance and Stage Fright! Cellular Pivots as a New Means of Progression in Post-Tonal Music! Audience, Performance, and Compositional Considerations in Electroacoustic Composition! Art Song Settings of Poetry of William Butler Yeats! 

I Want to Commission a New Piece. Where Do I Start?

A lot of people think you have to be a musician to commission a piece of music. While a soprano, Andrea Elenbaas, DMD knows this isn't true. She knows that all you need is a love for music.