Judy Dunaway

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Judy Dunaway
Born1964 (age 59–60)
balloons

Judy Dunaway (born 1964, in

balloons
. Since 1990 she has created over thirty works for balloons as sound conduits and has also made this her main instrument for improvisation.

Background

Judy Dunaway has presented her compositions, improvisations and installations for balloons throughout North America and Europe at many venues including

sound installations, and works that incorporate more traditional instrumentation such as string quartet, chorus and Japanese koto.[1]

Awards include a recording grant from the Aaron Copland Fund of the

Meet the Composer and the Kalliste Foundation. Ms. Dunaway has published two articles in Musicworks magazine about her work with balloons: A History of the Balloon as a Sound Producer in Experimental Music (Fall 2001), and, Orchestration and Playing Techniques for Balloons as Sound Producers (Spring 2002). Ms. Dunaway's scores are published by Material Press (Frankfurt)
.

Dunaway has a Ph.D. in Music Composition from State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with analog electronic music composer Daria Semegen and multi-media artist Christa Erickson, and a M.A. in Experimental Music from Wesleyan University (Connecticut) where she studied with composer Alvin Lucier. She also holds a B.S. in Music Education from Hunter College (New York City). In academic year 2004-2005 she was full-time Visiting Faculty in Sound at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Art History Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Dunaway has also created other works, often to do with social activism or cultural critique. In late 2006 Dunaway founded "S.W.I.R.L." a not-for-profit educational website for audio art and activism concerning the

WKCR (New York);[2] and the score for Diane Torr's performance art piece Crossing the River Styx, the "high decibel music"[3]
that instigated the closing of the Franklin Furnace performance space in 1990.

Notes

  1. ISBN 3-89727-272-5
    .
  2. ISBN 978-1-55554-151-4
    .
  3. ISBN 0-8195-6269-6
    .

Discography

  • Mother of Balloon Music (Innova Recordings 2006) - Compositions and improvisations for balloons by Judy Dunaway. Featuring performances by the FLUX Quartet, Ryuko Mizutani, Damian Catera and Judy Dunaway.
  • Shar: Pop Music (Outer Realm Records 2001). Avant-noise-rock with balloons (Judy Dunaway), bass (Ilja Komarov) and drums (Trixa Arnold).
  • Judy Dunaway: Balloon Music (Composers Recordings, Inc./CRI (now part of New World Records) 1998) - Compositions and improvisations for balloons, including collaborations with Yasunao Tone and Dan Evans Farkas.
  • “The Alt.coffee Tapes” (Katahdin Recordings) - Balloon improvisation with Matt Moran and John Hollenbeck.
  • “New York Guitars” compilation (Composers Recordings, Inc./CRI,1995) - “Fifty 210” (for electric guitar and Yamaha Fifty 210 amplifier) - Electric guitar composition.
  • John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory (Knitting Factory Works 1994) - Balloon, guitar and vocal improvisations in the context of the John Zorn composition “Cobra.”
  • “Judy Dunaway and the Evan Gallagher Little Band” (AMF 1993/Lilly Myrtle Music 2002) - Art-rock compositions.
  • “Judy Dunaway” (Lost 1991) - Avant-garde folk songs and free-improvisations.

Further reading

  • Musicworks Magazine, Winter, 2002, “My Beautiful Balloon, Part II: Orchestration and Playing Techniques for Balloons as Sound Producers,” by Judy Dunaway, pp. 40–46.
  • Musicworks Magazine, Fall, 2001, “My Beautiful Balloon, Part I: A History of the Balloon as a Sound Producer in Experimental Music,” by Judy Dunaway, pp. 14–21.
  • "Getting Physical (New York Guitars: Loren Mazzacane Connors, Didkovsky, Phil Kline, John King, Judy Dunaway; Emergency Broadcast Network)" by
    Village Voice
    , October 10, 1995 (Vol. XL No. 41, p. 66).
  • "Pop! Goes the Music," by
    Village Voice
    , August 8, 1995 (Vol. XL No. 32, p. 67).

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