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Mark Ballora, Technology
Paul Barsom, Composition
Mark Ballora joined the PennState faculty in 2000. He holds a joint appointment in the Schoolof Music and the Department of Integrative Arts. Ballora teaches courses in music technology, history of electroacoustic music, and musical acoustics. He received degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles, New York University, and McGill University. He is the author of Essentials of Music Technology (Prentice Hall, 2002), and has been published in LEONARDO and the College Music Symposium. He has also written short articles in Electronic Musician magazine. Past work includes sound designs and electroacoustic scores for modern dance, theatre, animated films, and radio dramas. His current research focuses on auditory representations of scientific datasets, with an emphasis on auditory displays of heart rate variability data for diagnostic and artistic realizations. His work has been presented at the International Conference on Auditory Display, Computers in Cardiology, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), and the Society for Arts in Healthcare.
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Paul Barsom's works are performed throughout the United States and abroad. He holds degrees from the University of Arizona and the Eastman School of Music. His composition teachers include Joseph Schwantner, Christopher Rouse, Warren Benson, John Corigliano, Jacob Druckman, Robert Morris, Robert Muczynski and Samuel Adler. His composition output is varied, including orchestral, choral and chamber music. He is the recipient of awards, grants and fellowships from such organizations as Meet the Composer, ASCAP, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The National Association of Composers USA, The American Music Center, Alea III and the Eastman School of Music. He teaches composition and electronic music at The Pennsylvania State University and his interests include all genres of popular and world music, which figure prominently in his composition and teaching. His works are published by Ringing Change Music and by Lyceum Press. Recent works include Seventy Thousand Assyrians, commissioned by the Pennsylvania State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble for the centennial of bands at Penn State in the year 2000, The Children of Jericho, commissioned by John Marcellus and the Eastman Trombone Choir and winner of the 1997 Ostrander Prize from Ithaca College, and Arctica, first in a series of works for electric guitar and other instruments.
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