Jay C. Batzner (b. 1974) is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida where he teaches music composition and technology courses as well as coordinates the composition program. In his first year, Jay received two prestigious grants: one to create collaborative works with visual artist Carla Poindexter and the second to initiate electroacoustic music concerts in Orlando. Prior to this position, Jay was an active adjunct professor at several colleges in the Kansas City area while he completed his D.M.A. in Composition at the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory. While at UMKC, Jay received honors including a Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship and a Dean's Doctoral Scholar Fellowship.
Jay's music ranges from instrumental chamber works to electroacoustic compositions. He has participated in numerous national and international festivals including the Wellesley Composers Conference and the International Young Composers' Meeting in the Netherlands. His music is published by Unsafe Bull Music and has been recorded on the Capstone and Vox Novus labels. Jay is a frequent contributor to the new music website Sequenza21.com and a founding member of the composers organization The Collected.
Jay is a sci-fi geek, an amateur banjoist, a home brewer, and juggler.
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4/19/2007
By popular demand...
Here is that sound that took 6 hours to process last week. I used it in the podcast (as that snare-drummy kind of sound).
ambergran.mp3
I don't even remember what sound I started with. Probably clinking bottles. I like those.
It sounds good, but not entirely worth the 6 hour wait. Which is not the program's fault at all. I gave it a very linear course of action, a 24-bit file that was about 2 minutes long, and got what I asked for. Garbage in, granular out.
What I like about Amber is all of the morphing options. Most of the granular tools I use are plug-ins, which don't necessarily transform grains in time. Anyhow, I got some good use out of the sound, and the program is free. What more could I want?
New episode will be up tomorrow.
UPDATE:
Screw tomorrow. The podcast is up right now.
posted by Jay C. Batzner
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