Michael Berkowski | |
| HOME ADDRESS | WORK ADDRESS |
| [Available upon request] | MINITEX Library Information Network |
| 15 Andersen Library | |
| 222 21st Ave. South | |
| Minneapolis, MN 55455 | |
| Email: michael[AT]berkowski[DOT]net | Alternate Email: berk0081[AT]umn[DOT]edu |
University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, MN
Major: Music Composition
Degree: M.A. in Composition, May 2004 GPA: 3.95
University of Dayton: Dayton, OH
Major: Music Composition
Degree: B.M. in Composition, May 2001
GPA in major: 4.00
GPA overall: 3.87
RECENT EMPLOYMENT
November 2005-Present
Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer: Minitex Library Information Network (Interlibrary loan services)
Linux server administration, custom applications programming, technology training.
September 2005-January 2006
Teaching Spcialist: University of Minnesota School of Music.
Adjunct instructor for MUS 5591 - Electronic Music History, Liter, and Principles
September 2001-May2003, January 2004-Present
Library Assistant II, MINITEX Library Information Network (Interlibrary loan services)
Supervisor for interlibrary loan materials retrieval and processing staff.
September 2002-January 2004
Graduate Assistant/Administrative Fellow, Univ. of Minnesota School of Music
Assistant for courses in electronic and computer music. Other duties included hardware
and software maintenance of the Electronic Music Studios and music technology labs.
May 2003-August 2003
GRPP Research Fellow, Univ. of Minnesota School of Music
Research project: The Haptic Ensemble
RESEARCH
Sound Organization and Spatialization with John Conway's Game of Life, 2004
Cellular Automata processes serve as complex but largely predictable means of
organizing elements of timbre, time, and spatial positioning in a musical composition.
Due to its wide familiarity in popular science and its use in computer science
education, John Conway's famous "Game of Life" algorithm was selected as the
algorithmic basis for the composition of "Species," a work for eight channel tape.
All aspects of this composition have been carefully integrated both technically and
conceptually through the composer's software adaptation Conway's Game of Life rule set.
The Haptic Ensemble; wearable devices for realtime computer music performance, 2003.
Design and construction of several wearable devices for control over parameters
of realtime computer music synthesis, as well as the development of appropriate
interface software in the Pd and Max-MSP programming environments to integrate
devices with commercial music software and hardware.
Graduate Research Partnership Program grant awarded by the University of
Minnesota College of Liberal Arts.
Changes: a study of the evolution of the use of chance processes in the
music of John Cage, 1999-2001.
University of Dayton Honors Program undergraduate thesis.
SIGNIFICANT PERFORMANCES, LECTURES, and FESTIVAL PARTICIPATION
AWARDS, GRANTS, and COMMISSIONS
COMPUTER SKILLS and UNIQUE TECHNICAL ABILITIES
INSRUCTORS: COMPOSITION
INSTRUCTORS: OBOE
| Electroacoustic Compositions and Installations | |||
| Title | Media | Date | Duration |
| Shapestudy and Fanfare | Computer Music: 8 channel tape | 2005 | 9'55" |
| Species (Master's Thesis) | Computer Music: 8 channel tape | 2004 | 12'29" |
| Digits | Computer Music: Flex-sensitive gloves | 2003 | 6'00" |
| PLSR | Computer Music: 2 channel tape | 2003 | 0'59" |
| Propagate | Live Computer Music Installation | 2003 | -- |
| Shiver | Computer Music: 2 channel tape | 2003 | 6'15" |
| Noise-space | Computer Music: 2 channel tape | 2002 | 2'14" |
| happen.later | Computer Music: 2 channel tape | 2002 | 9'55" |
| HP (Controlled Improvisation VI) | Computer Music: 2 channel tape | 2001 | 4'00" |
| Partially Sustained Tones | Computer Music: 2 channel tape | 2001 | 4'00" |
| Expansion No. 1 | Computer Music: 2 channel tape | 2001 | 4'00" |
| Controlled Improvisations IV-V | Computer Music: 2 channel tape | 2000 | 7', 5' |
| Controlled Improvisations I-III | MIDI Sequence | 1999 | 5' each |
| Collaborative and Inter-Media | |||
| Title | Media | Date | Duration |
| Gesture Lesson (with video by Gregory Scranton) | Computer Music and Video | 2003 | 2'53" |
| VisualSpeak (with Gregory Scranton, video artist) | Live analog electronics and video | 2003 | 10'00" |
| Chamber Music | |||
| Title | Instrumentation | Date | Duration |
| MuB stehn' (brief folk duo) | Violin, Hi-Hat | 2005 | 4' |
| Sustained Tones IV for two percussionists | Marimba, Glockenspiel | 2002 | 9' |
| One Remark by Annie Dillard | Soprano, Violin, Piano | 2002 | 6' |
| Sustained Tones III for six clarinets | 4Bb Clarinets, 2 Bass Clarinets | 2001 | 9' |
| New Music for Ensemble | Cl, Sax, Tbn, Elec Gt, 2 Perc, Piano | 2001 | 7' |
| Duo for strolling violin and viola | Violin, Viola | 2001 | 5' |
| Mixed Sextet for Three Pairs | 2 Tbn, 2 Perc, Piano, Harpsichord | 2001 | 6' |
| Duo for English Horns | 2 English Horns | 2001 | 8' |
| Sustained Tones II | 4 Horns in F | 2000 | Variable |
| Sustained Tones I | 2 Vibraphones, bowed | 2000 | Variable |
| Circular Rotation No. 1 | Winds and strings numbering any power of 2. | 2000 | 12' |
| Spirals for six percussionists | Percussion sextet | 2000 | 4' |
| Wind Octet (in three movements) | Ob, Eh, Bb Cl, Bsn, A Sax, Bar Sax, Hn, Tbn | 2000 | 6' |
| String Quartet | String quartet | 1999 | 6' |
| Bagatelle | Ob, Vn, Vla, Hn, Tbn, Pno, Gt | 1998 | 2' |
| Brass Quintet | Brass quintet | 1997 | 5' |
| Solo Instrumental and Vocal Music | |||
| Title | Instrumentation | Date | Duration |
| Piece for Solo Strolling Violin | Violin alone | 2000 | 6'-9' |
| Five Short Pieces for Piano | Piano | 1999 | 10' |
| Five Short Pieces for Oboe | Oboe alone | 1998 | 10' |
| Piece for Organ | Organ | 1998 | 4' |
| Elegy on "Five Little Ducks" | Soprano and piano | 1998 | 3' |
| Large Ensemble Music | |||
| Title | Instrumentation | Date | Duration |
| Chorale and Interruptions | Young string orchestra, quartet instrumentation | 2001 | 4' |
| Four Sound Fields | Strolling String Orchestra | 2000 | 9' |
| Untitled piece | Concert band | 1996 | 5' |