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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11/05/2007
Don't let the TWITs win!
Everyone,
Overnight, This Week in Tech surged ahead in the Best Podcast polls. I suspect some kind of foul play since they were quite a bit behind until this morning. Then, poof! almost 50% of the vote. You know how crafty those tech guys can be. The server has been acting funny all morning!
Vote for The Unsafe Bull podcast.
I'm not going to name names, but everything that my opponents do is encompassed by my podcast.
You want tech? Everything I make for the podcast is done with tech. AND love.
You want politics? Check out episode 34.
You want economics? I use lots of samples from Freesound. In today's hard economy, doesn't it just make sense? Plus, I used a clip from "Money" in Episode 30.
You want magic and geekiness? Check out episode 26. How much geekier could I be?
You want science? Music IS science, baby! And my music is electrified science.
Also, do you really want to support a podcast that claims to be daily but only comes out 5 times a week? Last time I checked there were 7 days in a week.
So please, Go vote. Remember, your computer can vote every day until Thursday. If you have access to, say, more than one computer, you can make sure your vote counts double. Or maybe even more.
This message has been brought to you by the Unsafe Bull is Cooler than Harry Potter Brigade.
posted by Jay C. Batzner
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