Joshua Parmenter

Joshua D. Parmenter

josh_at_realizedsound_dot_net
http://www.realizedsound.net/josh

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

University of Washington, Seattle - Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media Research Artist -- Summer 2007 – Spring 2013

University of Washington, Seattle - Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media Post-Doctoral Research Associate / Lecturer -- Fall 2005 – Spring 2007

University of Washington, Seattle - School of Music Lecturer - Music Theory and Composition -- Fall 2006 – Spring 2007

EDUCATION

D.M.A. Composition, University of Washington, Seattle - June, 2005
Dissertation: Organon Sostenuto for flute, cello, bassoon, double bass and live
electronics
Concentration: Electroacoustic Music (with an emphasis on real-time electronics), Music
Composition, Music Theory, 20th Century Music
Committee: Professor Richard Karpen, chair, Professor Joël Durand, and Professor
Juan Pampin
Doctoral Exam topics
Bach and the Lutheran Passion Tradition,
New Music, Old Notation: Problems of Music Notation and Composition
African-American Music and Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo
Schenkerian Analysis and the Orchestra: A Surface Detail
Ambisonics and Spatialization in Music
Dissonance Treatment from 1600 to 1800
The SuperCollider Synthesis Language.
Edgard Varese’s Density 21. 5
Luigi Nono’s Fragmente Stille, an Diotima
The Sonogram as an Analytical Tool

M.M. Composition, University of Washington, Seattle - June, 2002
Master’s Project: Three Songs for low voice, three cellos and percussion
Committee: Professor Richard Karpen and Professor Joël Durand

B.A. Music (with honors), University of California, Berkeley - December, 1998
Honor’s project: Fantasia and Passacaglia for large orchestra.
Supervisor: Professor Edwin Dugger

HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

2010 – Keynote speaker - XVII CIM (Colloquio di Informatica Musicale) Conference, Torino, Italy.

2007 – International Computer Music Association Award for Organon Sostenuto (Best Composition from the Americas).

2004, 2002 – Brechemin Scholar, University of Washington.

1998 – Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program- University of California at Berkeley.

1996–8 – Hertz Memorial Scholarship, University of California and Berkeley, Department of Music.

FESTIVALS

2010 – XVII CIM (Colloquio di Informatica Musicale) Conference, Torino, Italy.

2009 – Warsaw Autumn Festival.

2009 – Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF) invited guest composer. Bellingham, Washington.

2008 and 2007 – Spark Festival of Electronic Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2007 – International Computer Music Conference / ReNew Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2006 – International Digital Arts Festival, Århus, Denmark.

2006 – Mid-autumn Harvest Moon Festival, Montreal, Quebec.

2006 – Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2006 – New Music Marathon - Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

2005 and 2004 – Ny Musik Uge, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2004 – International Computer Music Conference, University of Florida, Miami, Florida.

2000 – Northwest Mahler Festival, Call for Scores, Orchestral Reading and Recording Session. Seattle,
Washington.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

“The Composers Toolkit: A Library for Algorithmic Music Composition and Performance”, Keynote Address,
XVII CIM (Colloquio di Informatica Musicale) Conference, Torino, Italy, October 8th, 2010.

“Organon Sostenuto for Flute, Cello, Bassoon, Double Bass and Live Electronics”, Official Selection,
ICMC 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Monday, August 27th, 2007.

“Decrescendo: Spectrally Stripping Away Sound in Cadence for computer realized sound.” Guest
Lecture. Digital Sound Class, Northwestern University. May 22nd, 2006.

“SuperCollider 3 and Real-time Electronic Interaction”
Guest lecture with violist Garth Knox. Conservatoio de “Jesus Guiri” as part of the Festival
Sinkro - Vitoria, Spain. February 24th and 25th 2006.
Guest lecture. Danish Royal Conservatory of Music. January 11th, 2004.

“Live Electronics and the Performer: Organon Sostenuto, SuperCollider 3 and a Real-time Performance Interface”
Guest Lecture. Introduction to Digital Arts (DXARTS 200), October 5, 2005.
Guest Lecture. University of Puget Sound New Music Society, September 21, 2005.
Composer Spotlight, Washington Composers Forum and Jack Straw Productions, August 10, 2005.
Guest lecture. Danish Royal Conservatory of Music. January 29th, 2005.

“Music for Bassoon and Live Electronics”, Official selection, ICMC 2004, Miami, Florida. October 2004.

“Three Poems for Baritone, Three Cellos and Percussion”. Guest lecture for Introduction to Composition
Seminar at the University of Washington, Seattle. May, 2003.

TEACHING AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

University of Washington
Instructor – DXARTS 462/ Music 402- Digital Sound Processing - Winter 2006, Winter 2009, Winter 2010, Winter 2011
Instructor – DXARTS 461/ Music 401 - Introduction to Sound Synthesis - Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010
Instructor – DXARTS 498 / Music 490 Real-time sound processing: The SuperCollider Language - Summer 2006, 2007
Instructor – Music 218 Class Music Composition - Spring 2007
Instructor – Music 487 Tonal Counterpoint - Spring 2007
Instructor – Music 217 Introduction to Music Composition - Winter 2007
Instructor – Music 203 First Year Music Theory III - Fall 2006
Instructor – Music 303 Second Year Music Theory III - Fall 2006
Instructor – DXARTS 498 / Music 490 Algorithmic Music Composition - Summer 2006
Instructor – DXARTS 460 Introduction to Digital Sound - Spring 2006
Teaching Assistant – DXARTS 461 / Music 401 Digital Sound Synthesis - Fall 2003, 2004
Teaching Assistant – DXARTS 462 / Music 402 Digital Sound Processing - Winter 2004, 2005
Teaching Assistant – DXARTS 463 / Music 403 Advanced Digital Sound Synthesis and Processing - Spring 2004, 2005
Instructor – Music 117 Elementary Music Theory (for non-music majors) - Fall 2002, Winter and Spring 2003
Teaching assistant – Music 302 Second Year Theory II (advanced chromatic harmony / model composition) - Spring 2002
Instructor – Music 305 Ear Training and Musicianship - Spring 2002
Teaching Assistant – Music 301 Second Year Theory I (chromatic harmony and model composition) - Winter 2002
Instructor – Music 304 Ear Training and Musicianship - Winter 2002
Teaching Assistant – Music 303 Second Year Theory III (introduction to 20th century music theory) - Fall 2001
Instructor – Music 306 Ear Training and Musicianship - Fall 2001
Teaching Assistant – Music 202 First Year Theory II (tonal harmony and counterpoint) - Spring 2001
Instructor – Music 205 Ear Training and Musicianship - Spring 2001
Teaching Assistant – Music 201 First Year Theory I (tonal harmony and counterpoint) - Winter 2001
Instructor – Music 204 Ear Training and Musicianship - Winter 2001
Teaching Assistant – Music 203 First Year Theory III (introduction to chromatic harmony) Fall 2000
Instructor – Music 206 Ear Training and Musicianship - Fall 2000

Seattle Conservatory of Music
Instructor – Music Theory III 16th and 18th Century Counterpoint. Advanced Ear Training and Musicianship - 2003–4
Instructor – Advanced Special Topics - Orchestration - 2003–4
Instructor – Music History II Music History from 1600 to 1825 - 2003–4

PUBLICATIONS

“SuperCollider Unit Generators (Ugens)”, The SuperCollider Book. April 2011. MIT Press.

“Non-realtime Synthesis with SuperCollider”, The SuperCollider Book. April 2011. MIT Press.

“Dynamic Large-Scale Gestural Control in SuperCollider Server”. Paper selection, ICMC 2007, Copenhagen,
Denmark. Monday, August 27th, 2007. Published in the ICMC 2007 Proceedings.

RECENT COMMISSIONS AND COLLABORATIONS

XVII CIM (Colloquio di Informatica Musicale) Conference, Ensemble Fiari – Corpi Sonori for flute, clarinet, cello and live electronics.

Warsaw Autumn Festival – Risonanza for computer realized sound.

Teruko Nimura – Please touch the art - current work. New installation piece for bronze sculpture and live electronics.

Garth Knox – Theta (IV. Ritardando) for viola and live electronics.

Pia Enblom – Anacrusis (I. Crescendo) for amplified cello and chamber chorus.

Irina-Kalina Goudeva – Phoenix- a duet for high voice, double bass and live electronics.

Kritstjan Sigurleifsson – Concerto for Double Bass and Computer-Realized Sound (II. Accelerando).

Ensemble 4+ – Organon Sostenuto for flute, bassoon, cello, double bass and live electronics.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND COMMITTEES

Paper Adjudicator - NIME Conference 2009.

Paper Adjudicator - International Computer Music Conference 2008.

Washington Composers Forum – Board Member (2007)

Paper Adjudicator - International Computer Music Conference 2004.

Lead Teaching Assistant- Theory Division (September 2002 – June 2003).

Student Advisory Committee to the School of Music for department 10 year review (2003).

School of Music Library Advisory Committee. (2002 – 2006).

Participant in Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT) 25 year reunion (2002).

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

International Computer Music Association (ICMA)

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS)

College Music Society (CMS)

ASCAP

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

SuperCollider 3 real-time synthesis software. Open source project developer.

C / C++ programming languages

Objective-C / Cocoa and Cocoa Touch

LISP programming language

Ardour and Reaper Digital Audio Workstation

Common Music algorithmic music software

Finale, LilyPond and NoteAbility Pro notation software

CSound and MAX/MSP synthesis software

RECORDINGS

Concerto for Double Bass and Computer-Realized Sound (II. Accelerando). Release date: Summer 2010.

Risonanza: Warsaw Autumn Chronicles 2009. Release Date: Summer 2010.

Organon Sostenuto. ICMC 2007 conference compact disc. Release Date: August 2007.

Music for Bassoon and Computer (2002-2003). Present Sounds Recordings. Release date: March 2004.

RECENT COMPOSITIONS

d'Amore - for violin and live electronics (2010-11)

Copri Sonori - for flute, clarinet, cello and live electronics (2009-10)

Risonanza - for computer-realized sound (2009)

Contracantus I - for flute and / or recorder and live electronics (2008)

Theta (IV. Ritardando) – for viola and live electronics (2006-8)

Anacrusis (I. Crescendo) – for cello and eight voice amplified choir (2006–7)

Palimpsest for electric guitar and live electronics (2003-2006)

Phoenix- a duet for high voice, double bass and live electronics (2006)

Concerto for Double Bass (II. Accelerando) for double bass and computer realized sound (2005–6)

Cadence (III. Decrescendo) for computer realized sound (2005)

Organon Sostenuto for flute, bassoon, cello, double bass and live electronics (2004)

Cross-tide for computer realized sound and choreography (2003-2004) (choreography by Rebecca Chisman)

Music for Bassoon and live electronics (2002-2003)

Music for Periphery of Knowing for computer realized sound and choreography (2002) (choreography by Kelly Knox)

Music for Guitar and Vibraphone (2002)

I Was Born To Sing for computer realized sound, live electronics and audience (2002)

Three Poems (on texts by S. Tanikawa) for low voice, three cellos and percussion (2002)

Music for Solo Viola (2001)

Music for G4 for computer realized sound (2001)

Music for Trombone and Ensemble (2001)

RECENT AND UPCOMING PERFORMANCES


Colloquio de Informatica Musicale
Torino, Italy
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Corpi Sonori for flute, clarinet, cello and live electronics

Sonic Arts at G.A.S.P.
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
Risonanza for computer realized sound and resonant space

DXARTS Concert. University of Washington, Seattle – Meany Hall, October 27th, 2009.
Risonanza for computer realized-sound and resonant space

4@Q Ciclo de Audiciones en Cuadrafonía
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes Próximo Monday, October 5th, 2009
Cadence for computer-realized sound

Warsaw Autumn Festival 2009 - Highest Voltage Hall, Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Risonanza for computer realized-sound and resonant space

Chapel Performance Space - Wayward Music Series featuring Clifford Dunn - flute, Friday, June 26th 2009
Contracantus I (version for solo flute) and live electronics

Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival - Guest Composer, Saturday May 2nd, 2009
Cadence (III. Decrescendo) for computer realized sound
Theta (IV. Ritardando) for viola and live electronics

DXARTS Presents new music for electronics and digital video
Chapel Performance Space - Wayward Music Series, Monday April 27th, 2009
Theta (IV. Ritardando) for viola and live electronics

The Tank II - Rebekah Heller of ICE Bassoon Recital, Wednesday, Oct. 29th, 2008
Music for Bassoon and Live Electronics.

Spark Festival. Ultan Hall. Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Palimpsest for electric guitar and live electronics

BYU New Music Concert. Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Cadence (III. Decrescendo) for computer realized sound

ICMC 2007 – Copenhagen, Denmark. Black Diamond. Royal Library. Monday August 27th, 2007
Organon Sostenuto for flute, bassoon, cello, double bass and live electronics

Washington State University New Music Ensemble, Friday, March 3rd, 2007
Music for Bassoon and Live Electronics

Spark Festival Ted Mann Concert Hall, University of Minnesota, Friday, Feb. 23rd, 2007
Cadence (III. Decrescendo) for computer realized sound.

Brechemin Auditorium at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Friday, December 1st, 2006
Palimpsest for electric guitar and live electronics

Contemporary Group University of Washington, Seattle – Meany Hall, November 20th, 2006.
Organon Sostenuto for flute, bassoon, cello, double bass and live electronics

International Digital Arts Festival, Arhus, Denmark – November 8th, 2006
Phoenix - a duet for high voice, double bass and live electronics

DXARTS Concert. University of Washington, Seattle – Meany Hall, October 24th, 2006.
Palimpsest for electric guitar and live electronics

Mid-autumn Harvest Moon Festival. Concordia University, Loyola, Montreal, Quebec, Sept. 21st, 2006
Cadence (III. Decrescendo) for computer realized sound

LAVARAHAYA Copenhagen Jazz Festival Copenhagen, Denmark– Sunday, July 9th, 2006
Phoenix - a duet for high voice, double bass and live electronics

New Music Marathon. Northwestern University – Sunday, May 21st, 2006
Cadence (III. Decrescendo) for computer realized sound

LAVARAHAYA University of Washington, Seattle – Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Phoenix - a duet for high voice, double bass and live electronics

LAVARAHAYA UC San Diego – Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Phoenix - a duet for high voice, double bass and live electronics

Gallery 1412, Seattle Washington. The Slide Show Secret - Saturday, March 18th, 2006
Concerto for Double Bass and Electronics (II. Accelerando)

DXARTS New Music Session presents The Slide Show Secret – Friday, March 17th, 2006
Concerto for Double Bass and Electronics (II. Accelerando)


DXARTS Concert University of Washington, Seattle – Meany Hall, October 25th, 2005
Cadence (III. Decrescendo) for computer realized sound

Doctoral Recital
DXARTS at the University of Washington, Seattle - Fremont Studio, Saturday, April 9th, 2005
Organon Sostenuto
Cross-tide for computer realized sound
plus new music for performer and live electronics from Scandinavia