Alden Jenks (born 1940 in Michigan) is an American composer. Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...

Alden Jenks received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied composition with Andrew Imbrie and Seymour Shifrin. He also studied composition in 1967 with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the University of California, Davis (Kramer 1998), and electronic music with David Tudor and Anthony Gnazzo. Yale redirects here. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ... Andrew Imbrie (Born April 6, 1921) is an American composer of classical music. ... Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22, 1928) is a German composer, and one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th century. ... The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 - August 13, 1996) was a pianist and composer of experimental music. ...

As a performer, he served as a controller of the live electronics for Stockhausen’s 1967 Darmstadt collective-composition project, Ensemble (Gehlhaar 1968, 39 and 75), and performed on synthesizer in the 25th anniversary concert of Terry Riley's In C in 1989, released as a recording in 1995 on New Albion Records CD NA071. A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, or phase distortion. ... Terry Riley – (Portrait by Betty Freeman) Terry Riley (born 24 June 1935) is an American composer associated with the minimalist school. ... In C is an aleatoric musical piece composed by Terry Riley in 1964 for any number of unspecified performers, but preferably 35 or more. ...

As a composer he is primarily known for his work in electronic media, and is Professor of Composition and Director of the E. L. Wiegand Composition Studio at the San Francisco Conservatory. His most illustrious student is John Adams[1]. His composition Nagasaki won the Bourges Electronic Music Competition, and Marrying Music won the and Viotti-Valsesia International Music Competition award. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer, with strong roots in minimalism. ... Bourges is a town and commune in central France. ...

Compositions (selective list)

• Ansichtskarte an Johann, for two pianos (2001)
• Calcululations, MIDI composition
• Femme Fatale: The Invention of Personality, incidental music for the play by Laura Farabough (1981)
• MENAGE, for synthesizer, piano, and percussion
• Marrying Music, for two pianos
• Martin Put That Gun Away, electroacoustic music (2000)
• Mummermusic, music for a mime act by Peter Kors (1974)
• Nagasaki, electronic music
• Ognaggio al'Anzzonio, electroacoustic music
• Prelude, for organ
• Sour Music (2002)
• Those Long Canadian Winters, theatre music

Sources

• Gehlhaar, Rolf. 1968. Zur Komposition Ensemble: Kompositionsstudio Karlheiz Stockhausen, Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt 1967. Darmstadter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik 11, ed. Ernst Thomas. Mainz: B. Schott’s Söhne.
• Kramer, Jonathan. 1998. "Karlheinz in California." Perspectives of New Music 36, no. 1 (Winter): 247–61.

External Links

• Alden Jenks’s website.
• San Francisco Conservatory biography page