John Young is an electroacoustic music composer born March 4, 1962 in Christchurch, New Zealand, and currently living in Leicester, UK. He is often referred to as a techno-musologist by his sleep deprived nephew, Nick Stevens. The terms Electroacoustics and its sub-discipline Electroacoustic music have been used to describe several different sonic and musical genres or musical techniques. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Christchurch is the regional capital of Canterbury, New Zealand. ... Leicester city centre, looking towards the Clock Tower Leicester (pronounced ) is the largest city and unitary authority in the English East Midlands. ...

Recordings

• La limite du bruit (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0261, 2002)

empreintes DIGITALes -- a record label founded in 1990 and based in Montreal -- specialises in contemporary electroacoustic music, acousmatic and musique concrète. ...

List of Works

• Allting Runt Omkring (1998)
• Arrivederci (2006), ensemble, and tape
• Inner (1995)
• Liquid Sky (1998)
• Pythagoras's Curtain (2001)
• Ricordiamo Forlì (2005)
• Sju (1999)
• Time, Motion and Memory (1997, 2001)
• Tongue (2001)
• Trace (2003)
• Virtual (1997)

External Links

• His personal site