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'''Christopher Dylan Bailey''' is an American composer and sound artist. {{todo|improve synopsis|improve layout|update}}

 

* D.M.A., Composition, Columbia University, 2002

* Dissertation Composition: Sand, computer-music with interactive interface

* Dissertation Paper: "Aspects of Sand "

* Committee: Joseph Dubiel, Bradford Garton, Fred Lerdahl

* Composition Studies with: Fred Lerdahl, Joseph Dubiel, Tristan Murail, Jonathan Kramer, Sebastian Currier

* Computer-Music Studies with: Bradford Garton, Tristan Murail, Thanassis Rikakis

* Music-Theory Studies with: Joseph Dubiel, Fred Lerdahl, Jonathan Kramer

* M.A., Composition, Columbia University, 1997

* B.A., Composition, Eastman School of Music, 1995

* Composition Studies with: Joseph Schwantner, Robert Morris, Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, Allan Schindler

* Computer-Music Studies with: Allan Schindler

 

== Employment ==

* Database Architect, Baytaflow Consulting, 2009 – present

* Visiting Assistant Professor, Bates College, 2008 – 2009

* Adjunct Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, 2007 – 2008

* Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary, 2006 – 2007

* Adjunct Assistant Professor, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2002 – 2004

* Mellon Teaching Fellow, Columbia University 1995 – 2002

 

== Fellowships and Awards ==

* Residency, Diapason multi-channel sound gallery, 2010 - 2011.

* Walking Down the Hillside at Cortona, and Seeing its Towers Rise Before Me, Honorable Mention, Salvatore Martirano Competition, 2009.

* Artist-In-Residence, I-Park Enclave, 2008.

* Balladei, Finalist, Earplay Aird Memorial Composition Competition, 2007.

* Artist-In-Residence, Harvestworks, 2007.

* Sand, Finalist, Infinite Composing, SPOR 2007, Aarhus, Denmark, 2007.

* Timelash, Second Prize, Third Seoul International Competition for Composers, Korea, 2005.

* Sand, dissertation, awarded with Distinction at Columbia University, 2002.

* Fellowship awarded for stay at Music/Omi arts colony in Omi, NY, summer 2001.

* Seidel Fellowship in Composition, Columbia University, 1999-2000.

* ASCAP Grant for Young Composers, for Sonata for piano solo, 1998.

* Ow My Head included on the official International Computer Music Association CD, 1997.

* Bearns Prize, for 6 Songs on Poems of John Monroe, 1996.

* Columbia University’s Rapaport Prize, for 6 Songs on Poems of John Monroe, 1996.

* BMI’s Boudleaux Bryant Prize, for Sands, 1994.

* Mellon Teaching Fellowship, Columbia University, 1995 - 2002.

* Eastman School of Music’s Bernard Rogers Prize, for Sands, 1994.

 

== Commissions ==

* Allen Strange award, for new [[:Category:Piano|piano]] & electronics work, 2010.

* Harvestworks, Harvest Kitchen, 2007.

* Marilyn Nonken, piano, Out Of,  2006.

* NeXT Ens, for The Quiet Play of Busy Pipes, 2004.

* MATA (Music At The Anthology), for a new version of Dein Kuss for 2 voices, piano, khaen, trumpet, and electronics, 2002.

* String Orchestra of New York City, and the Luzerne Music Center, for Meditation by the Lake, 2000.       

* Speculum Musicae, for Enchanted Quaaludes, 1996.

* Wallingford, Pennsylvania, Community Arts Center, for Sands, 1994.

 

== Discography ==

* Immolation Ritual, Innova Records #695, October 2010.

* Radtke, Bach, Berio, Bailey, featuring Arc of Infinity, Konnex Records, 2009.

* Sonata/Balladei, Piano Music. 2007.

* 60X60 2005, compilation of 60 1’ works, including Nanosymph. 2007.

* Defiant, second album by the "Electric Music Collective" featuring Ooogaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship and Conceptual Study. 2005.

* Incandescence, album of works produced by the members of the "Electric Music Collective," featuring Ow, My Head and Duude. 2003.

* Ow My Head, included on the International Computer Music Conference CD. 1997.

 

== Publications ==

* "An Interface for Flat Music" Organized Sound, Volume 9, #3, December 2004, 243-250.

* “Composing Gestures on the Computer: Paradigms and Problems.” Current Musicology  67-68, (2002), 7-29.

* “Review of John McGuire, Electronic Music 1978-1997,” Array (online at [http://www.computermusic.org/array.php?artid=121 http://www.computermusic.org/array.php?artid=121])

* “Review of Pure Water Construction by Simon H. Fell and Martin Archer,” Diffusion 20 (2001), 40-41.

 

== Presentations ==

* “A Databased-based Musique-Concrete Gesture Creation Tool” presented at International Computer Music Conference, SUNY Stony Brook, June 2010.

* “A Databased-based Musique-Concrete Gesture Creation Tool” presented at Harvestworks, New York City, November 2007.

* “Virtual Instruments” presented at the University of Minnesota School of Music, Minneapolis, MN, March 2006.

* “Micromidi converter” presented at the Spark Festival, Minneapolis, MN, February 2005.

* “Abstraction 6: An Approach to Just Intonation” presented to composers at New York University, New York, NY, February 2006.                   

* “Sand and its Interface:  A Solution to the Problems of Musical Flat Surfaces” presented at Subtle Technologies, a Symposium on the relationships between art and science, Toronto, May 2004.

 

== Teaching Experience ==

* Visiting Assistant Professor, Bates College, 2008 – 2009:

** introduction to composition

** Theory 331 (3rd semester tonal theory)

** Introduction to electroacoustic music

** Theory 332 (20th-century music analysis)

* Visiting Adjunct Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, 2007 – 2008:

** Individual composition lessons

* Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary, 2006 – 2007:

** Theory 301 (3rd semester tonal theory), autumn & spring semesters 2006-2007

** Theory 401 (20th-century music analysis), spring semester 2007

** Orchestration, spring semester 2007

** Introduction to Electroacoustic Music, autumn semester 2006

 

* Visiting Adjunct Assistant Professor, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2002 – 2004:

** Theory III (20th-century music analysis), winter & spring quarters 2004

** Approaches to Microtonality, spring quarter, 2003

** Advanced Computer-Music II:  [[Software|Synthesis]], winter quarter, 2003

** Harmony and Form in Post-Romantic Music, autumn quarter, 2002 & 2003

** Individual Composition Lessons, 2002-2003 academic year

 

* Mellon Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, 1996 - 2002:

** Music Humanities (music literature & history for non-majors), 2001 - 2002

** Undergraduate Composition, assisting John McGuire, spring 2001

** Undergraduate Composition, assisting Joseph Dubiel, autumn 2000

** Introductory Ear Training, autumn 2000

** Computer Music II, assisting Brad Garton, 1999-2000

** Chromatic Harmony and Counterpoint, assisting Joseph Dubiel, 1998 - 1999

** Basic Electroacoustics, assisting Thanassis Rikakis, 1996 - 1998

 

== Other Teaching Qualifications ==

* Composition/Theory:

** courses on 20th-century composers or groups of composers, especially 2nd Viennese School, Stravinsky, Serialism in Europe and the US, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Minimalism, New Complexity

** approaches to microtonality: [[Just Intonation]], Spectral Techniques, [[Equal]] and Non-Equal Temperaments

* Computer-music topics:

** computer-assisted & algorithmic composition

** recording studio techniques

** interfaces & interactivity

** modeling of natural phenomena in music

 

== Related Professional Experience ==

* Co-Director, Collide-O-Scope Multimedia, New York City (and elsewhere), 2010-ongoing.

* Co-Director, UnTwelve Microtonal Music Festival, Chicago, IL, 2007 - ongoing.

* Co-Director, Electric Music Collective, 2003-ongoing.

* Producer, Electric Music Collective and University of Minnesota Exchange Festival, at University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, April 2004.

* Panelist, Symposium on Experimental Music, SSNOVA, Cincinnati, August 2003.

* Member, Editorial Staff, Organized Sound, spring 2003.

* Director, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, Center for Computer Music, winter-spring 2003.

* Producer, Go.Go.Go, CD collection of works composed at the Columbia University Computer Music Center, 2000.

* Producer, Columbia University Computer Music Center concerts, various venues in New York City, 1998-2002.

* Member, Editorial Staff, Current Musicology, 1998-2002.

* Audio Producer, Columbia University Music Department's Online Sonic Glossary  project, 1998-2002.

* Event manager, IRCAM forum '99 in New York, Columbia University, November 1999.

* Director, Columbia Composers, graduate student composers’ performance group.

* Member, Senior Faculty Composer Search Committee, Columbia University, spring 1996.

* Member, International Computer Music Association, 1996-ongoing.

* Summer Instructor, of composition, piano literature, & chamber music coaching, Luzerne Music Center, Lake Luzerne, New York, summers 1993 & 2000.

 

== Dance Collaborations ==

* Terabyte Breakfast: 4 dancers, speaker, sleeper, runner, pianist, live-electronic and acoustic sounds; made in collaboration with Julie Grinfeld, choreographer; performed on the Barnard College Dance Department Showcase, Miller Theatre, Columbia University, autumn 2000.

* Ooogaaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship choreographed by Julie Grinfeld for the Barnard Dance Festival, winter 2000.

* 3 works: Duude, Ooogaaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship, and Minimalism for Meggie, choreographed by Ana Majewska and Julie Grinfeld for the Barnard Dance Festival, spring, 1999.

 

== Summer Festivals ==

* I-Park arts colony, East Haddam, Connecticut, August 2008.

* Music/Omi arts colony, Omi, New York, summer 2001.

* Saarbrücken Contemporary Music Festival, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1998.

* Bowdoin  Summer Music Festival, Bowdoin, Maine, 1996.

 

== Computer Applications (music-related) Knowledge ==

* Audio Mixing and Production: ProTools, Logic Pro, Digital Performer, Ardour

* Audio editors: Peak, Audacity, mxv, etc.

* Final Cut Pro

* MAX/MSP, Pd

* MusicX:  RTCMIX / Csound

* IRCAM-forum applications: AudioSculpt, OpenMusic

* Metasynth

* Notation applications: Finale, Score

* General Computer Languages/software Knowledge

* FILEMAKER (Certified Developer)

* HTML/CSS

* PHP

* SQL

* LISP

* C

* UNIX / LINUX

 

* [http://christopherbaileymusic.com/ Official website]

 

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