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All Our Broken Instruments (2015) for percussion and electronics

Posted on September 8, 2016September 8, 2016 by Jay Batzner

Composed in the summer of 2015 for Andrew Spencer, All Our Broken Instruments is a musical adaptation of the Robert Fanning poem “May Our Young Find Music in All Our Broken Instruments.” The percussion soloist speaks the poem’s text while playing a mixed batch of instruments and triggering the electroacoustic sounds.   Download the score: All…

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Abstain Red Hells for soprano saxophone and fixed media

Posted on August 30, 2016August 30, 2016 by Jay Batzner

Abstain Red Hells takes its title from a movement of a forgotten piece of mine for flute and soprano saxophone. The basic idea of a stubborn ostinato and a tense-yet-lyrical melody was played out in the very small scale in this earlier piece and has since been liberated into a bigger and more open musical…

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Downtown Mt. Pleasant – Revitalization

Posted on August 24, 2016November 20, 2020 by Jay Batzner

In August 2016, artists took to some of the empty storefronts in Mt. Pleasant, MI. My artist partner in crime, Heather Trommer-Beardslee, is always looking for ways to put music and dance into unexpected places. She asked me for a handful of pieces to choreograph and took a handful of dancers to go play in…

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ArtBattle 2015

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Jay Batzner

On July 30, 2015, Heather Trommer-Beardslee and I participated in our local Art Battle. Visual artists gathered to create new art in 2 hours and this year, we decided to throw a dance/music collaboration into the mix. We started at 6 PM and by 8 PM we had a 4 minute dance piece. While Heather…

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as if to each other

Posted on July 9, 2015July 9, 2015 by Jay Batzner

It is here! My 25-minute long piece for piano and electronics as if to each other… which I composed for the RPM Challenge in February 2011 has been recorded by none other than R. Andrew Lee and is now available from Irritable Hedgehog! I’m absolutely thrilled with the quality of Andrew’s performance and Irritable Hedgehog’s usual…

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Soon.

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Jay Batzner

I’m so proud to announce that my 2011 work as if to each other… for piano and electronics has been recorded by R. Andrew Lee and will soon be released on Irritable Hedgehog! Here is the cover art:   The official release date is in a few weeks. Rest assured, I’ll keep you updated!

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Digital Banshee for fixed media (2013)

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Jay Batzner

I recently found this file and forgot that I ever composed it! Done in a San Diego hotel room in…2013 maybe?…this work draws on a set of piano samples used for the 60×60 Piano Mix project. Inspired by Henry Cowell’s use of the piano in The Banshee, I thought it would be fun to explore…

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Patch(ed) In

Posted on March 26, 2015April 1, 2015 by Jay Batzner

I should have posted this here sooner but about 6 months ago I was interviewed on the podcast Patch In. It was a fun honor and a good time. The video of it is up on YouTube for your viewing enjoyment. I’ve posted it here, too!

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Faculty Excellence Exhibition!

Posted on March 25, 2015March 26, 2015 by Jay Batzner

This semester I was nominated to display my creative work at the CMU Faculty Excellence Exhibition.  I’m honored to be nominated for something like that, obviously, and have about a half-dozen of my scores laid out on a table amidst a sea of poster presentations. I’ll post pictures soon. I focused on my recent electroacoustic…

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I Can Haz Tenure

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Jay Batzner

Got the official letter today. Tenure and promotion! Hooray!

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