Christopher Dylan Bailey

Education

D.M.A., Composition, Columbia University, 2002

Dissertation Composition: Sand, computer-music with interactive interface

Dissertation Paper: "Aspects of Sand "

Committee: Joseph Dubiel, Bradford Garton, Fred Lerdahl

Composition Studies with: Fred Lerdahl, Joseph Dubiel, Tristan Murail, Jonathan Kramer, Sebastian Currier

Computer-Music Studies with: Bradford Garton, Tristan Murail, Thanassis Rikakis

Music-Theory Studies with: Joseph Dubiel, Fred Lerdahl, Jonathan Kramer

M.A., Composition, Columbia University, 1997

B.A., Composition, Eastman School of Music, 1995

Composition Studies with: Joseph Schwantner, Robert Morris, Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, Allan Schindler

Computer-Music Studies with: Allan Schindler

Employment

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, 2007 – 2008

Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary, 2006 – 2007

Visiting Adjunct Assistant Professor, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2002 – 2004

Mellon Teaching Fellow, Columbia University 1995 – 2002

Fellowships and Awards

Balladei, Finalist, Earplay Aird Memorial Composition Competition, 2007.

Artist-In-Residence, Harvestworks, 2007.

Sand, Finalist, Infinite Composing, SPOR 2007, Aarhus, Denmark, 2007.

Timelash, Second Prize, Third Seoul International Competition for Composers, Korea, 2005.

Sand, dissertation, awarded with Distinction at Columbia University, September 13, 2002.

Fellowship awarded for stay at Music/Omi arts colony in Omi, NY, summer 2001.

Seidel Fellowship in Composition, Columbia University, 1999-2000.

ASCAP Grant for Young Composers, for Sonata for piano solo, 1998.

Ow My Head included on the official International Computer Music Association CD, 1997.

Bearns Prize, for 6 Songs on Poems of John Monroe, 1996.

Columbia University’s Rapaport Prize, for 6 Songs on Poems of John Monroe, 1996.

BMI’s Boudleaux Bryant Prize, for Sands, 1994.

Mellon Teaching Fellowship, Columbia University, 1995-2002.

Eastman School of Music’s Bernard Rogers Prize, for Sands, 1994.

Commissions

Harvestworks, new computer music work, 2007.

Marilyn Nonken, piano, Out Of, 2006.

NeXT Ens, for The Quiet Play of Busy Pipes, 2004.

MATA (Music At The Anthology), for a new version of Dein Kuss for 2 voices, piano, khaen, trumpet, and electronics, 2002.

String Orchestra of New York City, and the Luzerne Music Center, for Meditation by the Lake, 2000.

Speculum Musicae, for Enchanted Quaaludes, 1996.

Wallingford, Pennsylvania, Community Arts Center, for Sands, 1994.

Discography

Sonata/Balladei, Piano Music. 2007.

60X60 2005, compilation of 60 1’ works, including Nanosymph. 2007.

Defiant, second album by the "Electric Music Collective" featuring Ooogaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship and Conceptual Study. 2005.

Incandescence, album of works produced by the members of the "Electric Music Collective," featuring Ow, My Head and Duude. 2003.

Ooogaah, Dungeony Specimen Spaceship, included on Go.Go.Go, a CD of works by Columbia University Computer Music Center composers. 2000.

Ow My Head, included on the International Computer Music Conference CD. 1997.

Publications

"An Interface for Flat Music" Organized Sound, Volume 9, #3, December 2004, 243-250.

“Composing Gestures on the Computer: Paradigms and Problems.” Current Musicology 67-68, (2002), 7-29.

“Review of John McGuire, Electronic Music 1978-1997,” Array (online at http://www.computermusic.org/array.php?artid=121)

“Review of Pure Water Construction by Simon H. Fell and Martin Archer,” Diffusion 20 (2001), 40-41.

Presentations

“A Databased-based Musique-Concrete Gesture Creation Tool” presented at Harvestworks, New York City, November 2007.

“Virtual Instruments” presented at the University of Minnesota School of Music, Minneapolis, MN, March 2006.

“Micromidi converter” presented at the Spark Festival, Minneapolis, MN, February 2005.

“Abstraction 6: An Approach to Just Intonation” presented to composers at New York University, New York, NY, February 2006.

“Sand and its Interface: A Solution to the Problems of Musical Flat Surfaces” presented at Subtle Technologies, a Symposium on the relationships between art and science, Toronto, May 2004.

Teaching Experience

Visiting Adjunct Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, 2007 – 2008 :

• Individual composition lessons

Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary, 2006 – 2007:

• Theory 301 (3^rd semester tonal theory), autumn & spring semesters 2006-2007
• Theory 401 (20^th-century music analysis), spring semester 2007
• Orchestration, spring semester 2007
• Introduction to Electroacoustic Music, autumn semester 2006

Visiting Adjunct Assistant Professor, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 2002 – 2004:

• Theory III (20^th-century music analysis), winter & spring quarters 2004
• Approaches to Microtonality, spring quarter, 2003
• Advanced Computer-Music II: Synthesis, winter quarter, 2003
• Harmony and Form in Post-Romantic Music, autumn quarter, 2002 & 2003
• Individual Composition Lessons, 2002-2003 academic year

Mellon Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, 1996-2002:

• Music Humanities (music literature & history for non-majors), 2001-2002
• Undergraduate Composition, assisting John McGuire, spring 2001
• Undergraduate Composition, assisting Joseph Dubiel, autumn 2000
• Introductory Ear Training, autumn 2000
• Computer Music II, assisting Brad Garton, 1999-2000
• Chromatic Harmony and Counterpoint, assisting Joseph Dubiel, 1998-1999
• Basic Electroacoustics, assisting Thanassis Rikakis, 1996-1998

Other Teaching Qualifications

Composition/Theory:

• courses on 20^th-century composers or groups of composers, especially:

2^nd Viennese School, Stravinsky, Serialism in Europe and the US, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Minimalism, New Complexity

• approaches to microtonality: Just Intonation, Spectral Techniques, Equal and

Non-Equal Temperaments

Computer-music topics:

• computer-assisted & algorithmic composition

• recording studio techniques

• interfaces

• modeling of natural phenomena in music

Related Professional Experience

Co-Producer, Midwest Microtonal Music Festival, Chicago, IL, October 20, 2007.

Co-Director, Electric Music Collective, 2003-ongoing.

Producer, Electric Music Collective and University of Minnesota Exchange Festival, at University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, April 2004.

Sound Designer, for A King Listens, a multi-media opera by Margaret Schedel, June 2004.

Panelist, Symposium on Experimental Music, SSNOVA, Cincinnati, August 2003.

Member, Editorial Staff, Organized Sound, spring 2003.

Director, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, Center for Computer Music, winter-spring 2003.

Producer, Go.Go.Go, CD collection of works composed at the Columbia University Computer Music Center, 2000.

Producer, Columbia University Computer Music Center concerts, various venues in New York City, 1998-2002.

Member, Editorial Staff, Current Musicology, 1998-2002.

Audio Producer, Columbia University Music Department's Online Sonic Glossary project, 1998-2002.

Event manager, IRCAM forum '99 in New York, Columbia University, November 1999.

Director, Columbia Composers, graduate student composers’ performance group.

Member, Senior Faculty Composer Search Committee, Columbia University, spring 1996.

Member, International Computer Music Association, 1996-ongoing.

Summer Instructor, of composition, piano literature, & chamber music coaching, Luzerne Music Center, Lake Luzerne, New York, summers 1993 & 2000.

Performance Experience

Pianist, Walking Down the Hillside at Cortona, Ditty, Midwest Microfest, October 2007.

Conductor, Quiet Play of Busy Pipes, Third Practice, University of Richmond, October 2004.

Conductor, Quiet Play of Busy Pipes, Electronic Music Midwest, Chicago, September 2004.

Conductor, Quiet Play of Busy Pipes, Music'04, CCM, June 2004.

Conductor, A Dead Virgin's Voice, Jon-Chang Lee, MA recital, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, May 2004.

Conductor, Quiet Play of Busy Pipes, EMC guest composer concert, and NeXT Ens Premiere Performance, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, May 2004.

Conductor, Dein Kuss, Spark Festival, Minnesota, February 2004.

Pianist, Quiet Play of Lights, Music ’03, CCM, June 2003.

Pianist, Motet, CCM, June 2003.

Pianist, 8 Terrains, Sonic Explorations, CCM, October 2002.

Conductor, Dein Kuss, MATA festival, New York City, April 2002.

Pianist, 8 Terrains, Music/Omi arts colony, Omi, New York, summer 2001.

Conductor, a few notes found mentioning volume, heft, response, by Keith Moore, Miller Theatre, Columbia University, autumn 2000.

Tenor Vocalist, 1999-2000, Columbia University Collegium Musicum.

Conductor, mugen. . . escape from the inner sky, by Miyuki Ito, Miller Theatre, Columbia University, winter 1999.

Conductor, The Wauzeka Confluence, by Timothy Polashek, Miller Theatre, Columbia University, winter 1998.

Pianist, Dein Kuss, Miller Theatre, Columbia University, winter 1998.

Conductor, The Selfish Giant, version 1, Bowdoin Summer Music Fesival, 1996.

Pianist, Sands, Eastman School of Music, autumn 1995.

Dance Collaborations

Terabyte Breakfast: 4 dancers, speaker, sleeper, runner, pianist, live-electronic and acoustic sounds; made in collaboration with Julie Grinfeld, choreographer; performed on the Barnard College Dance Department Showcase, Miller Theatre, Columbia University, autumn 2000.

Ooogaaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship choreographed by Julie Grinfeld for the Barnard Dance Festival, winter 2000.

3 works: Duude, Ooogaaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship, and Minimalism for Meggie, choreographed by Ana Majewska and Julie Grinfeld for the Barnard Dance Festival, spring, 1999.

Summer Festivals

Music/Omi arts colony, Omi, New York, summer 2001.

Saarbrucken Contemporary Music Festival, Saarbrucken, Germany, 1998.

Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Bowdoin, Maine, 1996.

Computer Applications (music-related) Knowledge

ProTools, Logic Pro, Digital Performer, Ardour

Final Cut Pro

Audio editors: Peak, Audacity, mxv, etc.

MAX/MSP, Pd

MusicX: RTCMIX / Csound

IRCAM-forum applications: AudioSculpt, OpenMusic

Metasynth

Notation applications: Finale, Score, etc.

Interactive Tools: Basic Stamps

General Computer Languages/software Knowledge

LISP

C

HTML

PHP

SQL

FILEMAKER (Certified Developer)

UNIX / LINUX