Doug Michael
Alumni
BA, San Jose State University, 1996 (Electro-Acoustics)

Email: dmichael@ispwest.com
URL: http://members.ispwest.com/dmichael

Doug Michael is a composer/guitarist who has completed his music degree at San Jose State University, enrolled in the Electro-Acoustic Music program under the direction of Allen Strange. He has studied composition with Dr. Brian Belet, Daniel Wyman, Dr. Aldag and guitar with Ted Greene. Doug has won various composition awards including the Eva Thompson Philips Composition Award in 1994, 1995, & 1997, the ASCAP Standard Award for Composition in 1996 - 1998, and the 1997 Student Composition Award from the College Music Society, Pacific Central Chapter. His music has been performed at many music festivals throughout the world, most notably the 1996 International Computer Music Conference in Hong Kong, The Novum Events in Dresden, Germany, The Laboratorio de Investigacion y Produccion Musical (LIPM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, The 4th Annual Electroacoustic Music Festival at the University of Florida, The Society of Composer's Inc. 1997 Regional VII Conference at California State University Fresno, and the 1998 Next Wave Music Festival in Australia. His composition "Radio Sky Part II" has also been released on a Frog Peak Music CD entitled The Frog Peak Collaborations Project.


Performances

Commercial Constipation - for Digital Media (1999)

• Big Sur Experimental Music Festival - Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA - May 29 & 30, 1999
  

Crescent - 13 second composition for the Ghost Train CD (1998)

• Luxe 2000 International - Lyon, France - June 5, 1999

Before Sundown - for Digital Media (1998)

• Big Sur Experimental Music Festival - Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA - May 29 & 30, 1999

Extensions #2 for Tape (1998)

• Society of Composers Region VIII Conference - Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon - October 30, 1999
• Vast Field (not to scale) - KAZU 90.3 FM, Pacific Grove, CA - June 9, 1999
• Big Sur Experimental Music Festival - Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA - May 29th & 30th, 1999
• Art Opening & Big Sur Experimental Music Festival Preview - Martin LaBorde Gallery, Carmel, CA - May 21, 1999
• 8th Annual Electro-Acoustic Music Festival - University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida - April 9th, 1999
• Sound Box 2.0 - Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland - May 3 1999 - August 1999

Extensions #3 for Tape (1998)

• Big Sur Experimental Music Festival - Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA - May 29 & 30, 1999
• 1998 SEAMUS AudioClip Web Concert - November 1998
• The Kalvos and Damian New Music Bazaar - WGDR 91.1 FM, Northfield, Vermont - November 7th, 1998

Radio Sky Part II - for Tape (1997)

• Imaginary Space (Part of the ex static show) - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand - July 7, 1999
• Big Sur Experimental Music Festival - Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA - May 29 & 30, 1999
• Space Junk - Channel #2, Yleisradio, Finland - July 12, 1998
• Electromusica - National Radio of Argentina - June 9, 1998
• The Kalvos and Damian New Music Bazaar - WGDR 91.1 FM, Northfield, Vermont - May 9 & November 7, 1998
• Next Wave Festival (ex static) - simulcast on 3RRR 102.7 FM - 5/, Melbourne, Australia - May 22 & 23, 1998
• The Latest Score - WOMR 92.1 FM, Provincetown, Massachusetts - January 19 & March 23, 1998
• 1997 SEAMUS AudioClip Web Concert - November 1 - 20, 1997
• SEAMUS/SJSU Electro-Acoustic Music Week (Concert for Recorded Media) - San Jose State University, San Jose, CA - November 12 & 13, 1997

Extensions #1 for Electric Guitar & Tape (1996)

• Momentum 2 (Doug Michael - Electric Guitar) - Cultural Labyrinth and 2779, San Francisco, CA June 27, 1997
• The Annual Pacific Central Chapter College Music Society Meeting (Doug Michael - Electric Guitar) - San Jose State University, San Jose, CA - March 1, 1997

Iridescence - for Tape (1996)

• Big Sur Experimental Music Festival - Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA - May 29 & 30, 1999
• The Latest Score - WOMR 92.1 FM, Provincetown, Massachusetts - January 19, 1999 & March 23rd, 1998
• Society of Composers Region VII Conference - California State University of Fresno, Fresno, CA - November 8, 1997
• Something Else - WLUW 88.7 FM, Chicago, Illinois - June 22 & November 16, 1997
• Electroacoustic Music at the Planetarium - The Planetarium in the Museum of Man & Nature, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - November 21, 1996
• Musica y Tecnologia - National Radio of Argentina - October 16, 1996

The Addict - Text Music (1996)

• Big Sur Experimental Music Festival - Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA - May 29 & 30, 1999
• The Latest Score - WOMR 92.1 FM, Provincetown, Massachusetts - January 19, 1999

Eleven - for Tape (1995)

• Delire actuel - CFLX 95.5 FM, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada - July 15, 1996
• The New European Music Overseas - NEMO96, Navy Pier for Art, Chicago, Il - May 1996

Isara - for Tape (1995)

• SoundCulture 96 - San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA - March 29 - April 13, 1996
• Montage Concert - San Jose State University, San Jose, CA - October 29, 1995
• A Brief Concert of New and Recent Compositions - San Jose State University, San Jose, CA - October 26, 1995

A Trio of Songs - for Bb Clarinet and Piano (1994)

• The Latest Score - WOMR 92.1 FM, Provincetown, Massachusetts - January 19, 1999, March 23, 1998, June 23, 1998

Velvet - for Tape (1994)

• Big Sur Experimental Music Festival - Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, Ca - May 29 & 30, 1999
• NOVUM Festival der aussergewohnlichen Musik - Dresden, Germany - October 27, 1996
• Electro-Acoustic Concert - Laboratorio de Investigacion y Produccion Musical (LIPM), Buenos Aires, Argentina - June 19, 1996
• 1996 International Computer Music Conference - Zuni Theater, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong - August 20, 1996
• Fourth Annual Electro-Acoustic Music Festival - University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida - March 30, 1995
• Bentsound - WRSU 88.7 FM, Rutgers University Radio, New Jersey - February 1995

Submerge - for Piano & Tape (1994)

• Bentsound - WRSU 88.7 FM, Rutgers University Radio, New Jersey - February 1995

Clarinet For One - (1993)

• The Latest Score - WOMR 92.1 FM, Provincetown, Massachusetts - January 19, 1999 & March 23, 1998
• Bentsound - WRSU 88.7 FM, Rutgers University Radio, New Jersey - March 1995
• Voces Novae Festival (Kelly LaMar, Clarinet) - California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA - April 14th, 1994

Completely Accidental - (1993)
• Musical Transportation Spree - Minneapolis, MN KFAI 90.3 FM & St. Paul, MN 106.7 FM - January 27, 1996
• A Concert of Electronic Music - Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA - May 1993

Day One - (1992)
• Musical Transportation Spree - Minneapolis, MN KFAI 90.3 FM & St. Paul, MN 106.7 FM - November 4, 1995
• A Concert of Electronic Music - Diablo Valley College , Pleasant Hill, CA - December 1992

• 1994 Eva Thompson Award in Music Composition
  
• 1995 Eva Thompson Award in Music Composition
  
• 1997 Eva Thompson Award in Music Composition
  
• 1996 - 1998 ASCAP Standard Award for Composition
• 1997 Student Composition Award from the College Music Society, Pacific Central Chapter

Recordings

Extensions #1 - 1995/1996

• Music From Cream - CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 26 (1998)

Radio Sky Part II

• The Frog Peak Colaborations Project (1998)

Listen to Doug's music!

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