Michael McNabb - Biography
Michael
McNabb is a composer, performer, installation artist and computer
music veteran. He has received awards
from the Prix Ars Electronica, the U.S. National Endowment for
the Arts, the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Festival, and the
League of Composers /ISCM. Two CD releases are available on the
Wergo label, "Invisible
Cities" (Wer 2015-50), and "Dreamsong"
(Wer 2020-2), whose title piece New Yorker writer Andrew Porter
termed "a classic of the
genre", and the San Jose Mercury News named as one of
the best works of the last 40 years. His many international performances and installations include
the Almeida Festival in London, the ISEA conferences in Groningen,
Minneapolis, and Montreal, the Computer Music Conferences in Venice,
Glasgow, Tokyo, and San Jose, and collaborations with dance companies
(including ODC/San Francisco and
Liss Fain Dance) and film
and video artists.
McNabb holds a doctorate
in Music Composition from Stanford University, where he studied
at the Center
for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics with John Chowning
and Leland Smith. He is also senior Silicon Valley leading-edge
technology consultant,
V.P. of Technology at AquaMinds Software,
the former manager of Sound and Music Software at NeXT Computer,
and author of the real-time audio/MIDI performance application
Fantasia.
Articles and essays by McNabb appear in the books "The Language
of Electroacoustic Music" (Macmillan Press) and "The
Music Machine" (MIT Press), and in the Computer Music Journal
and Leonardo Journal. His current work focuses on media-enhanced
electroacoustic musical performance and interactive installation
art.
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Contact Info
Mailing address
Mad As Birds Studios
400 Brannon Street, Suite 3
San Francisco, CA 94107
Email
michael@mcnabb.com
Phone
Studio: 1.415.495.8595
Michael
McNabb is a composer, performer, installation artist and computer
music veteran. He has received awards
from the Prix Ars Electronica, the U.S. National Endowment for
the Arts, the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Festival, and the
League of Composers /ISCM. Two CD releases are available on the
Wergo label, "Invisible
Cities" (Wer 2015-50), and "Dreamsong"
(Wer 2020-2), whose title piece New Yorker writer Andrew Porter
termed "a classic of the
genre", and the San Jose Mercury News named as one of
the best works of the last 40 years. His many international performances and installations include
the Almeida Festival in London, the ISEA conferences in Groningen,
Minneapolis, and Montreal, the Computer Music Conferences in Venice,
Glasgow, Tokyo, and San Jose, and collaborations with dance companies
(including ODC/San Francisco and
Liss Fain Dance) and film
and video artists.