vita

Michael S. Pounds

http://www.bsu.edu/web/mspounds/

http://www.bsu.edu/musictech/

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor: Ball State University, Muncie, IN

August 2000 - Present

Coordinator, Music Technology (acting as an interim director, 2006-07)

Assistant Director, Music Technology

Undergraduate courses taught: Acoustics, Music Perception, Introduction to Electronic Music, Compositional Practices in Electro-Acoustic Music, Computer Music 2, Sound Synthesis 2, Advanced Projects in Computer Music, Introduction to Recording Technology, Advanced Recording Technology, Recording Workshop, Production Workshop, Independent Study in Music Theory.

Graduate courses taught: Electronic Music Studio 1, Electronic Music Studio 2, Independent Study in Music Theory.

Composition teacher, individual lessons, both acoustic and electro-acoustic, at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Served on Master's Thesis and Master's Comprehensive Exam committees.

Administrative activities:

Answer various inquiries about the program and related activities.

Faculty advisor for student section of the Audio Engineering Society.

Faculty advisor for over 40 students.

Coordinate travel and meeting schedules for visits from guest presenters/consultants.

Promote and support collaborative activities with Ball State's Center for Media Design.

Gather and post information about opportunities for internships, employment, graduate study, music submissions, conferences, festivals, etc.

Maintain a Blackboard Community site for the Music Technology program, including information, opportunities, links, discussion board, etc. (19,469 hits from July 2006 to October 31, 2006)

Promote networking among alumni and students.

Initiated listserv email lists for students and alumni.

Initiated the creation of a web site with information for alumni (www.bsu.edu/musictech/alumni).

Initiated the creation of an online survey for alumni (www.bsu.edu/musictech/alumnisurvey).

Assist the Director of Music Technology in establishing studio policies.

Meet with prospective students to discuss the program and show the facilities.

Give various tours of the facilities.

Answer technical questions from students.

Check out equipment to students for recording projects.

Provide various kinds of support for concerts involving electronic music.

Assist with grant proposals.

Contribute to changes in curriculum and course content.

Helped with final plans for the new Music Technology Studios in the new Music Instruction Building (completed in summer of 2004).

Help plan equipment purchases and budgets for the Music Technology Studios

Graduate Assistant: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

August 1995 - August 1999

Instructor: Electronic Music Techniques II, Advanced Studio Techniques.

Teaching Assistant: Music Theory and Practice I, Aural Skills I.

Operations Assistant for the Experimental Music Studios.

In charge of operations of the Experimental Music Studios for one semester.

Played an important role in the rebuilding of five electro-acoustic music studios.

Graduate Assistant: Ball State University, Muncie, IN

August 1993 - May 1995

Acoustics instructor, Assistant to the Director of the Music Engineering Technology Studios.

Lectured on topics in sound synthesis and computer music applications.

Structural Engineer/Software Engineer: Analex Corporation, Brook Park, OH

May 1992 - August 1996 (Summers), temporary position

Part of a software development team programming in C++.

Undergraduate Assistant: Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

January 1991 - May 1992

Assistant for the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music.

Mechanical Engineer: Aerospace Design and Fabrication, Inc., Brook Park, OH

December 1990 - January 1991, temporary position

Mechanical Engineer/Structural Analyst: NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH

October 1986 - August 1990

Research Assistant: Ohio University Mechanical Engineering Department, Athens, OH

April 1985 - September 1985

EDUCATION

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

August 1995 – December 2004

Doctor of Musical Arts (Composition).

Minor field of study: ethnomusicology.

Cumulative G.P.A. 4.00.

Studied composition with Erik Lund and Guy Garnett, and electro-acoustic composition with Scott Wyatt and Guy Garnett.

University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England

October 1999 – September 2000

Master of Music (Composition).

Studied electro-acoustic composition with Jonty Harrison.

Ball State University, Muncie, IN

August 1992 – May 1995

Master of Music (Composition). Cumulative G.P.A. 3.94. Thesis: Using Spatial Analogy to Control Musical Parameters in Algorithmic Composition.

Studied composition with David Foley, Ernesto Pellegrini and Eleanor Trawick, and electro-acoustic composition with Jody Nagel and Cleve Scott.

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

August 1990 – May 1992

Undergraduate student of music composition. Cumulative G.P.A. 3.88.

Studied composition with Burton Beerman and Donald Wilson.

The Right Track Recording Studio, Cleveland, OH

1989. Completed a 10-week course in recording techniques, taught by Trent Reznor (currently leader of the rock band Nine Inch Nails).

Volunteered as assistant in the recording studio during many commercial sessions.

Ohio University, Athens, OH

Graduated June 1986, B.S. Mechanical Engineering. Cumulative G.P.A. 3.91.

HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS, COMMISSIONS

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States President's Award, in recognition of service as co-director of the 2005 National Conference.

Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship, 1999.

Residence Prize at the 1998 International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France.

1998 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Award.

Commissioned by Scott Wyatt to compose an electro-acoustic piece in honor of the 40th anniversary of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios.

Ball State University:

University Graduate Fellowship

Bowling Green State University:

Music Talent Award

Alumni Book Scholarship

Phi Kappa Phi (honor society)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Composers Forum

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers

Audio Engineering Society

College Music Society

International Computer Music Association

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States

Society of Composers, Inc.

Sonic Arts Network

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Co-host of the 1995 National Conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US (SEAMUS).

Paper presentation: "Studio Report: Music Technology at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana" presented by Keith Kothman; co-authored by Keith Kothman, Michael Pounds and Jeff Seitz; International Computer Music Conference, Coral Gables, Florida, November 1, 2004.

Interview on The Sound Experiment, radio show on WBST (Muncie, IN), discussing Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique. Feb. 15, 2004.

Guest lecturer for a computer music class at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, July 1999.

Residence in the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada,

July 1999.

Attended conferences of the Audio Engineering Society, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, International Computer Music Association, Society of Composers, Inc., and the Sonic Arts Network.

COMPOSITIONS

ACOUSTIC COMPOSITIONS

Inescapable for orchestra (1998)

Grip for percussion trio (1997)

Chain of Thought for string quartet (1996)

Loose Associations for brass and percussion (1996)

Three Love Songs for soprano, baritone and chamber ensemble (1995)

Octet for winds (1994)

Evolutions for wind ensemble (1994)

Prelude and Fugue for piano (1993)

Variations for chamber orchestra (1992)

The Maelstrom for flute, alto saxophone, violin, and cello (1991)

Last Summer for flute and piano (1991, rev. 1992)

ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC COMPOSITIONS

Meiso (Meditation) for stereo digital audio (2006)

Jam for stereo digital audio (2005)

Blowout (expanded) for stereo digital audio (2005)

Still for seven mixed instruments and digital audio (2004)

Still Transformations for digital audio (2004)

Mixed Messages for digital audio (2002)

Jonty's Blowout for digital audio (2002)

Messages for digital audio (2000)

Teufelskreis for dancers and digital audio (2000) in collaboration with choreographer Valerie Klein

Release for percussion solo and tape (1999)

Cry Out for trumpet solo and tape (1999)

Critical Mass for tape (1997)

The Truth of Suffering for tape (1996)

Liquid Desires for tape (1995)

Reflections for alto saxophone and tape (1995)

Breathing for tape (1994)

Industrial Evolution for quadraphonic tape (1993)

In a Box for video tape (1992)

Retardation for tape (1991)

Transmogrification for tape (1991)

RECORDINGS AND PUBLICATIONS

Critical Mass appears on the CD Music from SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S.), Volume 8.

Release appears on the CD Music from SEAMUS, Volume 9.

Cry Out has been released on the CD entitled Passages, produced at the University of Illinois.

"Studio Report: Music Technology at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana," co-authored by Keith Kothman, Michael Pounds and Jeff Seitz, published in the Proceedings of the 2004 International Computer Music Conference, International Computer Music Association, 2004.

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

International

Critical Mass for digital audio. November 16, 2005.

Electroacoustiques universite Concordia university Electroacoustics (EuCuE) concert series, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Blowout (expanded) for digital audio. September 21, 2005 (Mexico City); September 30 - October 1, 2005 (Portland); October 7-8 (San Diego). NWEAMO (New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization) Festival, one of five works presented as "Headphone Features." Mexico City, Mexico; Portland, Oregon; San Diego.

Teufelskreis for digital audio. November 1-6, 2004.

International Computer Music Conference, included in the "Digital Jukebox" installation. Coral Gables, Florida.

Blowout for tape (edited version of Jonty's Blowout). June 6, 2004.

Electrolune performance, at 3^rd Rencontres Musiques Nouvelles, Lunel, France.

Messages for tape (edited for a dance piece entitled "Bekväm" choreographed by Valerie Klein). January 19, 2003. Tanzpool Young Forward, a series of dance performances, Vienna, Austria.

Messages for tape (edited for a dance piece entitled "Bekväm" choreographed by Valerie Klein). December 4-7, 2002. Tanzpool Young Forward, a series of dance performances, Vienna, Austria.

Jonty's Blowout for tape. April 27, 2002.

A celebratory concert and CD in honor of the birthday of composer/teacher Jonty Harrison, Birmingham, England.

Release for percussion solo and tape. November 8, 2000.

Electroacoustiques universite Concordia university Electroacoustics (EuCuE) concert series, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Cry Out for trumpet solo and tape. November 3, 2000.

Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2000, Seoul, Korea.

Critical Mass for tape. February 13, 2000.

Sonic Arts Network Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Teufelskreis for dancers and tape. February 5, 2000.

Aural Kinetics, a series of concerts presented by the Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST) at the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, England.

Critical Mass for tape. July 7, 1999.

Part of the eXstatic Project, Australasian Computer Music Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.

Critical Mass for tape. June 4, 1999.

Synthèse 99, international festival of electroacoustic music in Bourges, France.

(Award winner)

Critical Mass for tape. December 3, 1998.

The 5th Computer Music Festival in Seoul, Korea.

Critical Mass for tape. October 30, 1998.

The 1st International Music Festival of Cadiz, Spain.

Critical Mass for tape. May 22-23, 1998.

Part of the eXstatic Project, Next Wave Festival, West Melbourne, Australia.

National

Jam for digital audio. November 2, 2006.

Imagine II Festival, Memphis, Tennessee.

Jam for digital audio. October 13, 2006.

Electronic Music Midwest, Romeoville, Illinois.

Jam for digital audio. September 24, 2006 (Portland, Oregon); September 28 - 30, 2006 (San Diego); October 6-7 (New York). NWEAMO (New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization) Festival, one of ten works presented as a "CD Jukebox" at each event. Portland, Oregon, San Diego, New York.

Blowout (expanded) for digital audio. April 8, 2006.

Fifteenth Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Gainesville, Florida.

Jam for digital audio. March 31, 2006.

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference, Eugene, Oregon.

Critical Mass for digital audio. February 22, 2006.

Cybersounds: Video Animation and Electroacoustic Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Blowout (expanded) for digital audio. October 22, 2005.

Electronic Music Midwest, Kansas City, Kansas.

Blowout (expanded) for digital audio. April 26, 2005.

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference, Muncie, Indiana.

Mixed Messages for digital audio. November 12, 2004.

Society of Composers, Inc. Region IV Conference, Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Release for percussion solo and tape. April 15, 2004.

Concert at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Mixed Messages for tape. March 15, 2003.

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States National Conference, Tempe, Arizona.

Teufelskreis for tape. March 1, 2001.

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States National Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Cry Out for trumpet solo and tape. March 9, 2000.

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States National Conference, Denton, Texas.

Release for percussion solo and tape. October 24, 1999.

Computer Music at Stony Brook IX, a concert at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York.

Release for percussion solo and tape. May 13, 1999.

Faculty recital at Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana.

Release for percussion solo and tape. March 28, 1999.

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States National Conference, San Jose, California. (Commissioned piece)

Critical Mass for tape. February 27, 1999.

Society of Composers, Inc. National Student Conference, Austin, Texas.

Critical Mass for tape. November 13, 1998.

Varese 40th Anniversary Event at Mills College, Oakland, California.

Critical Mass for tape. April 17, 1998.

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States National Conference,

Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Critical Mass for tape. April 10, 1998.

Seventh Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Gainesville, Florida.

Industrial Evolution for quadraphonic tape. April 30, 1994.

Sonic Circuits II, an electronic music festival in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Regional

Jam for digital audio. April 10, 2006.

Broadcast on the radio show "Foldovers" on WOBC, Oberlin, Ohio.

Blowout (expanded) for digital audio. April 25, 2005.

Broadcast on the radio show "Foldovers" on WOBC, Oberlin, Ohio.

Still Transformations for tape. September 18, 2004.

Electronic Music Midwest, Romeoville, Illinois.

Release for percussion solo and tape. November 5, 2001.

Broadcast on the radio show "Foldovers" on WOBC, Oberlin, Ohio.

Release for percussion solo and tape. April 8, 2001.

Doctoral performance recital, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

Release for percussion solo and tape. February 8, 2001.

Society of Composers, Inc., Region V Conference, Muncie, Indiana.

Critical Mass for tape. November 27, 2000.

Broadcast on the radio show "Foldovers" on WOBC, Oberlin, Ohio.

Critical Mass for tape. November 7, 1998.

Midwest Composers' Symposium at the University of Iowa.

Loose Associations for brass and percussion. November 6, 1998.

Midwest Composers' Symposium at the University of Iowa.

Chain of Thought for string quartet. November 2, 1996.

Midwest Composers' Symposium at Indiana University.

Variations for chamber orchestra. July 26, 1992.

Open Orchestral Reading at the Lancaster Festival in Lancaster, Ohio.

Local

Jam for digital audio. Februay 17, 2006.