David Evan Jones (composer)

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David Evan Jones (born 1946) is an American pianist and composer of chamber music, opera, and computer music.

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Jones was a student of composers Roger Reynolds and Pauline Oliveros at University of California, San Diego. After serving as Composer-in-Residence at York University (England), he joined the faculty at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire in the 1980s before becoming professor of music at University of California, Santa Cruz. Jones has composed in residence at IRCAM in Paris, Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm, and at Bregman Electronic Music Studio at Dartmouth College where he co-founded, with Jon Appleton, the Dartmouth graduate program in Electro-Acoustic Music. [1]

Works

Jones has written articles and created compositions that explore structural relationships between music and phonetics. [2] These include compositions such as Pashanti—The Nine Billion Names of God, [3] Scritto, [4] Still Life in Wood and Metal, Still Life Dancing, [5] and the five pieces featured on Centaur Records CRC3500 entitled News from Afar. [6] He has also written libretti and music for two chamber operas. Bardos, the most prominent of these, had its professional premier [7] in 2004 in Hoam Hall, Seoul, Korea.

Jones also composes for Korean instruments. Most notably, his Dreams of Falling, a composition for the Creative Orchestra of Korea’s National Gugak Center, [8] received a half dozen performances in the United States [9] and Seoul [10] over the course of four years 2016-2019.

In recent years, Jones has further developed his use of algorithmic processes in a series of pieces composed for Disklavier (computer-controlled piano) combined with traditional instruments. [11]

Most of Jones' scores are available through American Composers Alliance. [1]

Discography

Source: [12]

Selected Journal Articles

Honors and awards

David Evan Jones' compositions have been honored by first prize awards in the Premio Ancona International Composition Competition (Italy), the national competition of the American New Music Consortium, and the MACRO International Composition Competition. [15] His work has also received Honorable Mentions from the Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) and the Bourges Electro-Acoustic Music Competition (France). [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Biography - American Composers Alliance (publisher)".
  2. 1 2 "Compositional Control of Phonetic/Nonphonetic Perception (JSTOR Article Reference)".
  3. ↑ "YouTube recording of Pashanti: The Nine Billion Names of God".
  4. ↑ "Discogs.com re. Wergo Records publication of Scritto".
  5. ↑ "ALLMUSIC Descriptions of Still Life Dancing and Still Life in Wood and Metal".
  6. ↑ "Program note for News From Afar (CD)".
  7. ↑ "Korean (Yonhap News) preview of Bardos 2004 performance in Seoul".
  8. ↑ "YouTube recording of Dreams of Falling".
  9. ↑ "Program for the Pacific Rim Music Festival including Dreams of Falling" (PDF).
  10. ↑ "Program for 2019 Seoul performance of Dreams of Falling".
  11. ↑ "Program note for 2019 composition for Violin and Disklavier (computerized piano)".
  12. ↑ "Complete Discography at University of California Santa Cruz faculty page".
  13. ↑ "Speech Extrapolated (JSTOR Article Reference)".
  14. ↑ "A Computational Composer's Assistant for Atonal Counterpoint (MIT PRESS Reference)".
  15. 1 2 "Faculty Page, University of Santa Cruz, California".
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