John Paul Young
Computer Musician
[ Education / Research / Composition / Performance / Discography ]
[ System Administration / Community
Service / Publications ]
Education
2003: Master of Music in Computer Music at The
Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
1996: Multimedia Producer Certificate (18 CEU)
from The George Washington University.
1994: B.A. in Music, College of Letters and
Science, from the University of California, Berkeley.
Research [top]
Jan 04: Elected to a four-year term as a Director-at-Large
of the ICMA. Responsibilities include assisting with the operations
of the organization and collaborating with other board members to
define and implement its future goals. Also appointed to continue
in
the
role of Publications
Coordinator.
Jan 02: Appointed for a two-year term as Publications
Coordinator of the ICMA. Responsibilities include supervising ICMA
Web resources, and co-editing an annual issue of Organised Sound.
Sep 01: Presented my continuing work on the
TeleMusic projects at ICMC01 in Havana, Cuba.
Jun 01: Collaborator on TeleMusic #2. Further
development of software supporting the experimental work of Randall
Packer, sampling real-time network activity and translating it into
control data for musical composition, in essence auralizing a segment
of the Internet. Presented as a paper at Music Without Walls? in
Leicester, UK, and published in Organised Sound.
Mar 01: Fault Tolerance. Developed a theoretical
framework and preliminary implementation applying concepts of fault
tolerance to interactive music, with an objective of minimizing the
impact of technical difficulties on computer music performance. Presented
as a paper at SEAMUS 2001 in Baton Rouge, LA, and published in Journal
SEAMUS.
Jan 01: Networked Media Advisor: Intermedia
Workshop course co-sponsored by the Maryland Institute, College of
Art (MICA) and the Peabody Conservatory Department of Computer Music.
Tasked with developing the necessary technological infrastructure,
and offering related guidance to students, in support of network-oriented
experimental audiovisual art. Projects included physical installation
works, live interactive performances, virtual environments, and combinations
thereof.
Nov 00: Collaborator on TeleMusic #1. Developed
a software system to connect a public Web site with a musical composition
written in MAX by Randall Packer and a visual environment designed
by Steve Bradley. This integration allowed full participation via
the Internet with a live multimedia performance at the Sonic Circuits
Festival VIII in St. Paul, MN on 11/3/2000.
Oct 99: NetMIDI Phase One. As part of a project
to enable piano master classes over the Internet, developed software
to flawlessly transmit MIDI data over any IP-based network. Presented
as a poster at ICMC99 in Beijing, China, and published in the conference
proceedings.
Composition [top]
Aug 05: Wrote full music score to 9-minute documentary Behold, A Whirlwind Came: The Science of Tracking Hurricanes. The film was produced by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) for the TerraLink exhibit at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore. The film received a Crystal Award of Excellence in the Communicator Awards 2005 Video Competition. [www]
Mar 04: Collaborated with other members of Jomenico
(Margaret Schedel, Nick Collins) on Iteration 31, an homage and remix
of Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room. Chosen “Best
Remix of an Avant-Garde Classic” at SEAMUS 2004 in San Diego,
CA. Also selected by vote of attendees for inclusion on Music from SEAMUS - Volume 14 CD.
Jun 03: Wrote full music score to 9-minute documentary
Earth Observation 2020 produced by NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise
(ESE) Project at GSFC.
May 03: Ars Algorhythmica, for didjeridu and
live electronics, accepted for performance at New Interfaces for
Musical Expression (NIME) 2003 in Montreal, Quebec.
Nov 02: Wrote full music score to 10-minute
video commissioned for the opening keynote address at the SuperComputing
2002 conference in Baltimore, MD. Chosen by Apple Computer for inclusion
on their Final Cut Pro demonstration reel. [www]
Apr 02: Ars Didjita, for didjeridu and prerecorded
accompaniment, accepted for performance at SEAMUS 2002 in Iowa City,
IA, as the opening piece of the conference.
Oct 00: Wrote full music score to 18-minute
documentary Journeys Through Earth and Space produced by NASA’s
Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) at the Goddard Space Flight
Center (GSFC) for the High Performance Computing and Communications
(HPCC) Program. The film was subsequently presented at SuperComputing
2001, and received a Crystal Award of Distinction in the Communicator
Awards 2001 Video Competition. [www]
Jun 00: Wrote full music score to 6-minute documentary
Understanding Our Atmosphere produced by NASA's Earth Science Enterprise
(ESE) / Earth Observing System (EOS) Project at GSFC.
Oct 99: Wrote full music score to 8-minute documentary
SC99: Images of Earth and Space III produced by NASA's Earth & Space
Data Computing Division (ESDCD) at GSFC. [www]
Jun 99: Wrote full music score to 7-minute video
accompanying successful project proposal The Digital Earth produced
by NASA's SVS at GSFC for the Office of Vice-President Al Gore. [www]
Mar 99: Wrote full music score to 17-minute
documentary UARS: The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite produced
by NASA's Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch at GSFC. [www]
Oct 98: Wrote music to five of fifteen segments
in the documentary SC98: Images of Earth and Space II produced by
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio at the Goddard Space Flight
Center. [www]
Mar 98: Wrote music to the educational film
The Cutting Edge – about the ethics and science of genetics – produced
by NOVA Research Company in support of NIH SBIR Grant No. 1 R43 RR12445-01.
Oct 97: Wrote music to four of nine segments
in the documentary Images of Earth and Space: SC97 Edition produced
by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio at the Goddard Space Flight
Center for the Earth and Space Sciences Project. The documentary
won an award of "Excellence" in the Society for Technical
Communication's 1997-98 International Technical Video Competition. [www]
Performance [top]
Oct 04: Performed Iteration 31 at ICMC04 in Miami,
Florida with other members of Jomenico. Also performed live laptop remix of work-in-progress
Bruised Not Beaten at Off-ICMC.
Mar 04: Performed live electronics in collaborative
composition, Iteration 31, at SEAMUS04 in San Diego, CA with other
members of Jomenico.
Oct 03: Performed didjeridu in own composition,
Ars Didjita, at ICMC03 in Singapore.
Aug 03: Performed didjeridu in own composition,
Ars Didjita, at Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival at Dartmouth
College in Hanover, NH.
May 03: Performed didjeridu in own composition,
Ars Algorhythmica, at NIME03 in Montreal, Quebec.
Apr 02: Performed didjeridu in own composition,
Ars Didjita, at SEAMUS 2002 in Iowa City, IA.
May 94: Performed the roles of First Sailor
and Spirit in Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell.
Nov 93: Solo performance in UCB Noon Concert
of Farewell to the Light by John Bailey.
Jan 93: Performed the solo "Ballad of El
Dorado" and as a chorus member in Candide by Leonard Bernstein
with the Berkeley Contemporary Opera (BCO).
Jun 92: Performed as a chorus member in A
Death In Venice by Benjamin Britten with the BCO.
1992 - 1994: Various solo/ensemble performances
of undergraduate and graduate student works, including pieces by
Simon Andrews, Mitchell Morris, Brian Banks, and John Bailey.
1989 - 1994: Tenor, UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus
conducted by Philip Brett, John Butt.
1994 Tour of England and performances at King's
Colleges Oxford and Cambridge.
1993 Tour of Germany and performance in the
Göttinger Händel-Festspiele.
1992 Performances in the Berkeley Early Music
Festival with Gustav Leonhardt.
1988 - 1994: Tenor, UC Berkeley University Chorus
conducted by Philip Brett, Marika Kuzma.
1993 - 1994: Tenor Section Leader, First Unitarian
Church of Berkeley. Paid position.
1993 - 1994: Tenor, Ars Subtilior and The Choral
Project. Student-organized choruses.
1991 - 1994: Studied vocal technique with Jeffrey
Thomas.
Discography [top]
1997: Anthems and Instrumental Works by Orlando
Gibbons with the UCB Chamber Chorus. Recorded at the Pacific Lutheran
Theological Seminary, Berkeley, CA for Centaur Records.
1992: Judas Maccabeus by G. F. Handel with the
UCB Chamber Chorus and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Recorded
at Skywalker Sound, Lucas Valley, CA for Harmonia Mundi.
1991: Theodora by G. F. Handel with the UCB
Chamber Chorus and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Recorded at
Skywalker Sound, Lucas Valley, CA for Harmonia Mundi.
1991: Messiah by G. F. Handel with the UCB Chamber
Chorus and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Recorded at Hertz
Hall, Berkeley, CA for Harmonia Mundi.
1990: Rothko Chapel by Morton Feldman with the
UCB Chamber Chorus. Recorded at Skywalker Sound, Lucas Valley, CA
for New Albion.
1989: Susanna by G. F. Handel with the UCB Chamber
Chorus and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Recorded at Hertz
Hall, Berkeley, CA for Harmonia Mundi. This recording won a Gramophone
Award in the U.K. and was nominated for a Grammy Award in the U.S.
System Administration [top]
1995 - Present: As Director of Computer Systems
and Technology, set up and maintains a corporate local area network
at the headquarters of NOVA Research Company. The network is a switched
Gigabit Ethernet fabric with 100Base-T Ethernet running to each desktop.
There are approximately 25 Windows client workstations and 25 Macintosh
client workstations communicating via the TCP/IP protocol with various
servers. These servers provide file-and-print services, remote access
services, e-mail services, virtual private networking, and wide area
connectivity including firewalled Internet access and Web publishing
services over a dedicated T1 link. Among the operating systems and
applications deployed on the servers are Microsoft Windows 2000 Server,
Mac OS X, Novell Netware, Linux, Apache, Microsoft Exchange Server,
and Microsoft Internet Information Server. Promoted to Vice President
of Arts and Technology in 2001.
Community Service [top]
Oct 04: Raised funds for and participated in
the Bristol-Myers-Squibb Tour of Hope 2, supporting cancer clinical
trials research and awareness.
Jun 04: Raised funds for and participated in
AIDS LifeCycle 3, a six-day, 575-mile bicycle ride benefiting
the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
Oct 03: Raised funds for and participated in
the Bristol-Myers-Squibb Tour of Hope, supporting cancer clinical
trials research and awareness.
Jun 02: Raised funds for and participated in
the Washington D.C. AIDS Ride 7, benefiting Food and Friends and
the Whitman-Walker Clinic.
Jun 01: Raised funds for and participated in
the California AIDS Ride 8, a six-day, 575-mile bicycle ride benefiting
the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the AIDS Project Los Angeles.
Jun 99: Raised funds for and participated in
the Washington D.C. AIDS Ride 4, benefiting Food and Friends and
the Whitman-Walker Clinic.
Jun 98: Raised funds for and participated in
the Washington D.C. AIDS Ride 3, benefiting Food and Friends and
the Whitman-Walker Clinic.
Jun 97: Raised funds for and participated in
the Washington D.C. AIDS Ride 2, a four-day, 350-mile bicycle ride
intended to provoke public awareness of the issues confronting people
living with AIDS in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Proceeds
from the Ride directly supported the organizations Food and Friends
and the Whitman-Walker Clinic.
Publications [top]
Young, J., and M. Schedel. 2004. Editorial: Collaboration and Intermedia.
Organised Sound 9 (3): 226-228.
Young, J. 2004. Review of 10/4/03
Evening Concert at ICMC03. ARRAY Summer 2004. [www]
Young, J. 2004. Interview with John Fariselli Young.
ARRAY Summer 2004. [www]
Young, J., and M. Schedel. 2003. Editorial: Performing with Technology.
Organised Sound 8 (3): 233-35.
Young, J., and M. Schedel. 2003. CD Review—Freight
Elevator Quartet: Fix It In Post. Computer Music Journal 27 (1):
94-7.
Young, J., and M. Schedel. 2003. CD Review—Interface:
./swank. Computer Music Journal 27 (1): 100-101.
Young, J., and M. Schedel. 2002. Review of 9/19/02
Evening Concert at ICMC02. ARRAY Winter 2002. [www]
Young, J. 2001. Application of Fault Tolerance
to Interactive Music. Journal SEAMUS XVI (1): 10-15.
Young, J. 2001. Using the Web for Live Interactive
Music. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference.
Havana, Cuba: ICMA.
Young, J. 2001. Networked Music: Bridging Real
and Virtual Space. Organised Sound 6 (2): 107-10.
Young, J., and M. Schedel. 2000. “Tickets
to a Train Wreck: Antheil Centennial.” Paris Transatlantic
Magazine. Review of George Antheil’s Ballet Mecanique
as performed by the San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
conducting,
during their American Mavericks Festival. [www]
Young, J., and M. Schedel. 2000. Review of ICMC99.
Computer Music Journal 24 (2): 77-9.
Young, J., and M. Schedel. 2000. Review of Matinee
Concert 7 at ICMC99. ARRAY – Journal of the International
Computer Music Association Winter 2000. [www]
Young, J. 1999. Piano Master Classes Via the
Internet. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference.
Beijing, China: ICMA.
Young, J. 1999. Education Session at ICMC98.
CTI Music. Lancaster, United Kingdom: Lancaster University.
[www]
Young, J. 1999. Review of Education Session
at ICMC98. ARRAY - Journal of the International Computer Music
Association 19 (1). [www]
Young, J. 1999. Review of Paper Session 7 – Performance
Rendering II: Control Signals at ICMC98. ARRAY - Journal of the
International Computer Music Association 19 (1). [www]
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