MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface and allows different synthesizers to "speak" to each other. Before MIDI musicians were limited significantly in performance because their equipment could not process signals from different manufacturers. Enjoy this short video about the history and future of MIDI technology. Sabrina Pena Young sabrinapenayoung.blogspot.com Award-winning composer Sabrina Pena Young created the "groundbreaking" animated film Libertaria: The Virtual Opera, recently completed a commission for Malletkat and comic book panels, and gave a TED Talk on "Singing Geneticists and EPIC Machinima Opera" at this past TEDxBuffalo. In her spare time she enjoys reading everything sci-fi and futurist and plays the congas. Watch Libertaria: The Virtual Opera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB5SI... Related articles Meet our first class of TED Residents Warner Bros. just released the first trailer for its R-rated ani...

Composer Boot Camp 101: 50 Exercises for Educators, Students and Music Professionals WANT TO WRITE MUSIC?  Composer Boot Camp is a series of 50 exercises for educators and beginning, intermediate, and advanced musicians who want to develop their skills in composition.  Composer Boot Camp 101 workbook is designed to help educators, students, and seasoned professionals to hone their compositional craft. There are a series of exercises, helpful tips, resources, and more to help the musician prepare a solid foundation in music composition developed by award-winning composer and music educator Sabrina Pena Young.  BUY FOR KINDLE AT $2.99 Exercises are divided into four sections:  BEGINNER LEVEL EXERCISES  Appropriate for young students, adult learners , and those who do not yet read music.  INTERMEDIA LEVEL EXERCISES  Appropriate for high school students, music educators, college students , and musicians who want to learn how to write music....

In a post-USA dystopia teen Libertaria escapes from genetics factory & teams up with her addict father to lead a children's cyborg army against evil reverse-aging geneticists in this epic animated opera by award-winning composer Sabrina Pena Young. World's first animated comic book opera. BUY THE SOUNDTRACK : http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sabrinapenay... OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://virtualopera.wordpress.com/ Contact the director: spenayoung@Gmail.com Directed by Sabrina Pena Young Cast (In Alphabetical Order) Joe Cameron Perry R. Cook Gracia Gillund Jennifer Hermansky Matthew Meadows Kate Sikora Gretchen Suarez-Pena Yvette Teel Narrator Johnny Video Additional Vocals Alan Manuel Pena Art Department Lead Animator Kera Hildebrandt Lead Modder/Animator Lucinda McNary Two Moon Graphics Animator Sabrina Pena Young Additional Animation Assistance Patricia Johnston Additional Mods by Arthur V. Kuhrmeier Gerald Lang (Papa G Mods...

Call for Scores - Ensemble Ad libitum English: James Gardner, Keyboard player and composer in The Umbrella (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Posted: 05 Feb 2016 07:23 AM PST Expiration of Opportunity:  Thu, 2016-04-21 Entry Fee:  15.00 Currency:  U.S. Dollar (USD) Association of composers "Ad libitum" is calling for pieces for the "Ensemble Ad libitum" to be performed at the "Contemporary concert series 2016", which will take place early in May, 2016, in Banja Luka city, Bosnia and Herzegovina - at the Jewish Cultural Centre "Arie Livne" Banja Luka. The Call is open to composers of any nationality and age. P ieces should be written for conducted "Ensemble Ad Libitum" which is composed of 7 musicians: Flute (also piccolo) (1 player) Clarinet (In Bb and A) (1 player) Piano (1 player) Violin (1 player) Viola (1 player) Violoncello (1 player) Published date:  5 Feb 2016 MORE FROM THE COMPOSERSITE...

You’re invited to Composer Bootcamp with Sabrina Peña Young (Interview) READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE:  http://www.easyeartraining.com/learn/composer-bootcamp-sabrina-pena-young-interview/ "Have you wanted to write music but not known where to start? Or perhaps you felt intimidated by the world of “ composing ”. Sabrina Peña Young is an award-winning composer best known for her groundbreaking animated opera  Libertaria  and with over a decade and a half of experience composing commercial and classical music – from jazz to folk to film soundtracks to dance electronica. Now she has created a new resource to help anyone take their first steps in composing. Composer Boot Camp 101  is a workbook which, as the name suggests, quickly gets you up to speed with the essentials of modern composing. It has a series of 50 exercises you can use to begin expressing your own creative musical ideas, whether you’ve been playing for years or you’ve just started learnin...

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English: Susanne Hou performing the Mendelssohn violin concerto with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra in Vernon, BC, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) April 18, 2016  @  7:30                     Buy Tix Reflections & Illusions Lina Bahn, violin Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin Na Sun, violin David Yang , viola Edward Arron, cello Julia Bruskin, cello Hélène Jeanney, piano James Nyoraku Schlefer , shakuhachi Music by Jeffrey Mumford , Steve Antosca, Karen LeFrak, James Nyoraku Schlefer and Victoria Bond All concerts are at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space , 2537 Broadway , NY, NY 10025 Tickets: $20; Day of Show $30 All concerts are presented at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, NY, NY 10025

English: Kimya Dawson performing at Luxx, Brooklyn on Mar 12 2003. Cropped video still from PUNKCAST#249. My own work. Credit: punkcast.com Wwwhatsup (talk) 10:48, 20 November 2007 (UTC) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Electronica Music New episode of Expatriarch Radio The new episode of Expatriarch Radio is now online, with music from: Mindj Panther, Abyss X, Karin Dreijer , Born in Flamez, James K, Alinka & Shaun J. Wright, Mignon , Totenwald, Anti-Corpos, Vida Podrida, Zex , Aivery,  Make Music Not Love, Megan Lane, Kimya Dawson .. you can listen here:  www.expatriarch.com/radio72 Related articles Jay Electronica Announces Small Spring Tour Jay Electronica announces U.S. tour dates Luciano Vagabundos Return Home Fusing Yeminite Tradition And Modern Electronica With The Music Of A-Wa Charles - "Chill Pill" What The Festival completes 2016 lineup Market reverse trading update. 10 march.. My view The Range Journeys to YouTube's Suggestive Horizons ...

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