David Evan Jones (composer)
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David Evan Jones (born 1946) is an American pianist and composer of chamber music, opera, and computer music.
Jones was a student of composers Roger Reynolds and Pauline Oliveros at University of California, San Diego. After serving as Composer-in-Residence at York University (England), he joined the faculty at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire in the 1980s before becoming professor of music at University of California, Santa Cruz. Jones has composed in residence at IRCAM in Paris, Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm, and at Bregman Electronic Music Studio at Dartmouth College where he co-founded, with Jon Appleton, the Dartmouth graduate program in Electro-Acoustic Music.{{Cite web|url=https://composers.com/composers/david-evan-jones|title=Biography - American Composers Alliance (publisher)}}
Works
Jones has written articles and created compositions that explore structural relationships between music and phonetics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/i234534|title=Compositional Control of Phonetic/Nonphonetic Perception (JSTOR Article Reference)}} These include compositions such as Pashanti—The Nine Billion Names of God,{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gRXl8iIsnA|title=YouTube recording of Pashanti: The Nine Billion Names of God}} Scritto,{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/857751-Various-Computer-Music-Currents-4|title=Discogs.com re. Wergo Records publication of Scritto}} Still Life in Wood and Metal, Still Life Dancing,{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/composition/still-life-dancing-for-percussion-ensemble-tape-mc0002659451|title=ALLMUSIC Descriptions of Still Life Dancing and Still Life in Wood and Metal}} and the five pieces featured on Centaur Records CRC3500 entitled News from Afar.{{Cite web|url=https://composers.com/content/david-evan-jones-recording-release-news-afar-centaur|title=Program note for News From Afar (CD)}} He has also written libretti and music for two chamber operas. Bardos, the most prominent of these, had its professional premier{{Cite web|url=https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/001/0000589637|title=Korean (Yonhap News) preview of Bardos 2004 performance in Seoul}} in 2004 in Hoam Hall, Seoul, Korea.
Jones also composes for Korean instruments. Most notably, his Dreams of Falling, a composition for the Creative Orchestra of Korea’s National Gugak Center,{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBcp8eka8NM|title=YouTube recording of Dreams of Falling}} received a half dozen performances in the United States{{Cite web|url=https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.ucsc.edu/dist/3/352/files/2017/11/ProgramPacRim-23-spreads-2awkg8l.pdf|title=Program for the Pacific Rim Music Festival including Dreams of Falling}} and Seoul{{Cite web|url=https://www.gugak.go.kr/site/program/performance/detail?menuid=001001001&performance_id=13934|title=Program for 2019 Seoul performance of Dreams of Falling}} over the course of four years 2016-2019.
In recent years, Jones has further developed his use of algorithmic processes in a series of pieces composed for Disklavier (computer-controlled piano) combined with traditional instruments.{{Cite web|url=https://katestenberg.bandcamp.com/track/hyperbolic-variations|title=Program note for 2019 composition for Violin and Disklavier (computerized piano)}}
Most of Jones' scores are available through American Composers Alliance.
Discography
- Fast & Odd: Neo-Balkan Jazz and Concert Music. Centaur CRC2655
- From Sofia to Seoul. New Chamber Music Composed & Directed by David Evan Jones. Centaur CRC3006
- News from Afar. For chamber ensembles with news broadcasts transformed. Centaur CRC3500
- Individual compositions by David Evan Jones are available on compact disks from Wergo Records, Centaur Records, Contemporary Recording Studios, Musical Heritage Society, and Capstone Records.
Selected Journal Articles
- Jones, David Evan. "Compositional Control of Phonetic/Nonphonetic Perception," Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 25:1 & 2, pp. 138–155 (winter, summer 1987)
- Jones, David Evan. "Speech Extrapolated," Perspectives of New Music, Volume 28:1, pp. 112–142 (winter 1990){{Cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/i234539|title=Speech Extrapolated (JSTOR Article Reference)}}
- Jones, David Evan. "A Computational Composer's Assistant for Atonal Counterpoint," Computer Music Journal, M.I.T Press, winter 2001, pp. 33–43{{Cite web|url=https://direct.mit.edu/comj/issue/24/4|title=A Computational Composer's Assistant for Atonal Counterpoint (MIT PRESS Reference)}}
Honors and awards
David Evan Jones' compositions have been honored by first prize awards in the Premio Ancona International Composition Competition (Italy), the national competition of the American New Music Consortium, and the MACRO International Composition Competition.{{Cite web|url=https://music.ucsc.edu/faculty/David-Evan-Jones|title=Faculty Page, University of Santa Cruz, California}} His work has also received Honorable Mentions from the Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) and the Bourges Electro-Acoustic Music Competition (France).
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