Professor John Young

Department of Performance and Digital Arts

Research and Publications

Recent compositions

Moment Muscial (2010) Stereo electroacoustic, 2’35”. Part of an international musical festschrift for Annette Vande Gorne.

X (2010) Piano and electroacoustic sounds, 14’. For Xenia Pestova.

Are You Everybody? (2010) Audiovisual, 18’00”. Incorporating an alternate version of Lamentations. With Lala Meredith-Vula (photography). Premiered University of Auckland, 3 September 2010.

Lamentations (2009) Stereo electroacoustic, 16’14”. Premiered by the Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST), George Cadbury Hall, Birmingham, 16 January, 2010. Commissioned by the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges. On Computer Music Journal DVD, 34 (4), Cambridge, MA; MIT Press, 2010 and; Métamorphoses 2010 Ohain, Belgium: Musiques et Recherches.

D_E_N_I_S (2009) Stereo electroacoustic, 6’. A collaborative work with Jonty Harrison on the retirement of Denis Smalley from University teaching. Premiered City University, London 13 October 2009.

Smoke and Mirrors (2008) 16-channel electroacoustic, 20’. Premiered Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France, 12 April 2008. Commissioned by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales.

Ricordiamo Forlì (2005) Radiophonic/electroacoustic 53’30”. First Broadcast ConcertFM, Radio New Zealand, July 2006. On Lieu-temps, Montréal: Empreintes Digitales IMED 0787 (DVD surround sound version); Bourges: Cultures Électroniques 20, LDC278082/83

Arrivederci (2005) for ensemble and electroacoustic sounds, 16’. Premiered by STROMA, Ilott Concert Chamber, Wellington, NZ, July 2006. On Lieu-temps, Montréal: Empreintes Digitales IMED 0787.

Articles and Conference papers

2010 Annotated catalogue of Denis Smalley's works. In Gayou, E. (ed.) Denis Smalley. Portraits Polychromes, Paris: Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, pp. 103-131.

2010 Forming Form. In En el límite: Escritos sobre arte, ciencia y tecnología. Buenos Aires: Depatamento de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Lanús (in Spanish).

2009 Narrative, Rhetoric and the Personal: Storytelling in Acousmatic Music. Paper presented at the 2009 Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference, Buenos Aires.

2008 Inventing Memory: Documentary and Imagination in Acousmatic Music. In Dogantan-Dack, M. (ed.) Recorded Music: Philosophical and Critical Reflections. London: Middlesex University Press: 314-332.

2007 Electroacoustic Musicianship: Sounds in Search of Music? Paper presented at the Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts Conference, Dartington College.

2007 A Practice-based Approach to Using Acoustics and Technology in Musicianship Training. With Picinali, L. and Moraitis, D. Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen: International Computer Music Association: 61-64.

2007 Issues of Form in Electroacoustic Music. Paper presented at Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference, Leicester.

2007 Reflections on Sound Image Design in Electroacoustic Music. Organised Sound, 12(1): 25-33.

2007 Practice, Process and Aesthetic Reflection in Electroacoustic Music. Organised Sound, 12(1): 1-3 [editorial article].

2005 Sound In Structure: Applying Spectromorphological Concepts. Paper presented at Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference, Montréal.
http://www.ems-network.org/spip.php?article147

Recognition and Awards

John has a received numerous international awards for his work, most recently the 2010 Euphonie d’Or of the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art Competition (for Ricordiamo Forlì) as well as First Prize in the 1996 Stockholm Electronic Arts Award, First Prize in the 2007 Bourges International Competition and Second Prize in the 2001 International Competition for Electroacoustic Music of São Paulo.

He has been a guest composer and/or teacher at numerous institutions around the world, including the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (Paris), the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, EMS and Kungliga Musikhögskolan (Stockholm), the iMPACT Centre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, San Jose State University, Simon Fraser University, the University of Montréal, the University of Auckland and the University of Lanús, Buenos Aires. He has also given invited concerts and talks at many other places around the world, including the well-known BEAST series in Birmingham, Rien à Voir (Montréal), at the Ai-maako Festival (Santiago de Chile), Sonoimágenes (Buenos Aires) and Fylkingen (Stockholm).