EDUCATION:

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

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

September 2005-Present
Teaching Spcialist: University of Minnesota School of Music.
Adjunct instructor for MUS 5591 - Electronic Music History, Liter, and Principles

September 2002-January 2004
Graduate Assistant: University of Minnesota School of Music.

September 2000-May 2001
Adjunct instructor for Music Theory: Stivers High School for the Arts, Dayton, OH.
Courses in music theory and ear training for select high school students. Typical class: 3-4 students at widely varying levels of experience in the course material.

1999-2001
Private oboe instruction: Dayton, OH.

RECENT EMPLOYMENT

November 2005-Present
Information Technology Professional: MINITEX Library Information Network (Interlibrary loan services)
Provide statistical reporting, applications programming, computer support, and assist with Windows and Linux administration

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

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

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'