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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2/04/2008
Guest variations
My podcast is currently doing a "theme and variations" thing. I made a theme from sounds of my mancala game board and starting composing variations on that theme. I'll stop soon, I promise, but I wanted to get the Wise and Learned Internet's contribution first.
Here is the deal: Go to my website and select the Mancala Samples page. Download as many of those things as you would like, make a media piece out of it, and send it to me (my email is on my bio page). I'll put it up on the podcast during March to celebrate my first year of podcasting. If I get a lot, I might even make an installation of the whole project sometime.
At any rate, these pieces should be free for distribution. I will not pursue any commercial applications of these pieces. This is just meant to be a fun experience and a means of getting lots of sounds flowing around the universe. If you want to use my samples in any commercial work, you are free to do so. They are also up on the Freesound Archive. Use them, dismiss them, do whatcha like with them.
That is all there is to it. Have fun with the sounds.
posted by Jay C. Batzner
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