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I'm a composer of electroacoustic and acoustic music, all of which shows a strong interest in timbre, texture, spatialization and narrative. My music is typically inspired by my love of natural landscapes, various topics of science and mathematics, the human voice (spoken, sung or just noise), and literature, all of which is filtered through my own personal life experiences. That said, my music is primarily driven by my obsession with sound itself. I've always been intrigued by the nature and physics of sound and the physicality of performing music as well the morphology of limited sonic materials over long stretches of time.
I also keep a blog called KLANG dedicated to discussing experimental and adventurous new music in America, reviews of recordings, concerts/festivals and book, and interviews with emerging American composers.
Composition/Performance Activity:
Jon's music has been presented and performed at the SEAMUS conference, International Computer Music Conference, Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Electronic Music Midwest, the Electro-Acoustic Barn Dance, CEMI-circles Festival, N-SEME, North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) conference, LaTex festival, KcEMA, Omaha Under the Radar, the International Double Reed Society Conference (2012), Something Said Only Once (SSOO in Tempe, AZ), the 2010 Northern Ohio Music Exchange (NOMA) concert at the Oberlin Conservatory, the Olmsted Festival of the Arts, and inclusion in the Alex Sramek call for scores for the Voxnovus 15-Minutes of Fame series (Sublimation). In 2016 he received an ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission for his piece Dissociation Sequences (C23H28O8) for cello and live electronics and he was the first recipient of the Mark Phillips Distinguished Professor award for composition in 2009 (Ohio University). Jon has received commissions from the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music of the United States (SEAMUS), Tetractys (new music series in Austin, TX), ADJ-ective New Music, Patchwork Duo, Jacqueline Leclair, Liz Pearse (soprano), Noa Even, and Katherine Woolsey.
Jon is also an active researcher and music theorist (see Writing), his primary topics of interest being music of Franklin Cox, Brian Ferneyhough, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen as well as multi-channel diffusion systems and performance practice of Acousmatic music. Jon's research includes papers on repetition of schematic gesture in New Complexity, Narrative and syntactical form in the music of Franklin Cox, history of multi-channel speaker systems since 1958 and the compositional considerations therein, and analyses of pieces by Jonty Harrison with particular attention paid to the composer's conceptualization of space as a compositional construct.
Jon is currently a full-time instructor of audio and music at SAE Expression College in Emeryville, CA, with courses in music theory (beginning and advanced), electronic music production, foundations of acoustics, and interactive audio with Max/MSP. He received two B.M. degrees in composition and theory from Ohio University in 2010, a M.M. in composition from Bowling Green State University in 2012, and a DMA in composition from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017.. Previous instructors and mentors include Elainie Lillios, Russell Pinkston, Mikel Kuehn, Franklin Cox, Bruce Pennycook, Mark Phillips and Christopher Dietz.
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Self-penned blurb:
I'm a composer of electroacoustic and acoustic music, all of which shows a strong interest in timbre, texture, spatialization and narrative. My music is typically inspired by my love of natural landscapes, various topics of science and mathematics, the human voice (spoken, sung or just noise), and literature, all of which is filtered through my own personal life experiences. That said, my music is primarily driven by my obsession with sound itself. I've always been intrigued by the nature and physics of sound and the physicality of performing music as well the morphology of limited sonic materials over long stretches of time.
I also keep a blog called KLANG dedicated to discussing experimental and adventurous new music in America, reviews of recordings, concerts/festivals and book, and interviews with emerging American composers.
Composition/Performance Activity:
Jon's music has been presented and performed at the SEAMUS conference, International Computer Music Conference, Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Electronic Music Midwest, the Electro-Acoustic Barn Dance, CEMI-circles Festival, N-SEME, North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) conference, LaTex festival, KcEMA, Omaha Under the Radar, the International Double Reed Society Conference (2012), Something Said Only Once (SSOO in Tempe, AZ), the 2010 Northern Ohio Music Exchange (NOMA) concert at the Oberlin Conservatory, the Olmsted Festival of the Arts, and inclusion in the Alex Sramek call for scores for the Voxnovus 15-Minutes of Fame series (Sublimation). In 2016 he received an ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission for his piece Dissociation Sequences (C23H28O8) for cello and live electronics and he was the first recipient of the Mark Phillips Distinguished Professor award for composition in 2009 (Ohio University). Jon has received commissions from the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music of the United States (SEAMUS), Tetractys (new music series in Austin, TX), ADJ-ective New Music, Patchwork Duo, Jacqueline Leclair, Liz Pearse (soprano), Noa Even, and Katherine Woolsey.
Jon is also an active researcher and music theorist (see Writing), his primary topics of interest being music of Franklin Cox, Brian Ferneyhough, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen as well as multi-channel diffusion systems and performance practice of Acousmatic music. Jon's research includes papers on repetition of schematic gesture in New Complexity, Narrative and syntactical form in the music of Franklin Cox, history of multi-channel speaker systems since 1958 and the compositional considerations therein, and analyses of pieces by Jonty Harrison with particular attention paid to the composer's conceptualization of space as a compositional construct.
Jon is currently a full-time instructor of audio and music at SAE Expression College in Emeryville, CA, with courses in music theory (beginning and advanced), electronic music production, foundations of acoustics, and interactive audio with Max/MSP. He received two B.M. degrees in composition and theory from Ohio University in 2010, a M.M. in composition from Bowling Green State University in 2012, and a DMA in composition from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017.. Previous instructors and mentors include Elainie Lillios, Russell Pinkston, Mikel Kuehn, Franklin Cox, Bruce Pennycook, Mark Phillips and Christopher Dietz.