Terry Pender, Technical Director, Computer Music Center Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music DMA composition (Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music 1996)

Terry Pender is the Technical Director of the Columbia University Computer Music Center and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Music Depatrtment. He studied composition with Darrell Handel and Allen Sapp and computer music with Brad Garton. Terry was the Sound Manager for the 1997 International Computer Music Conference, Technical Coordinator and Sound Engineer for the interactive portion of the Sonic Boom Festival 1997, and the Technical Director for the Columbia University Interactive Arts Festival 1999.

Selected Compositions

• enter, activity (1999), for electric guitar and interactive electronics
• Ascension (1998), for computer generated tape
• Re-Bach, (1998), for mandolin orchestra
• air2.blow2 (1997), for computer generated tape
• Three Places I've Never Been (1996), for soparano and mandolin
• Recognitions (1996) A Multimedia Opera for soprano and chamber orchestra

Selected Recordings as a performer/composer

• Mandolin X 4, PSD 006, Plucked String Discs, 1998 - Terry played mandolin on 6 songs including his own Three Places I've Never Been.
• Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Wind Symphony Songs and Dances, MCD-1116,, Mark Records, 1993 - Terry played electric guitar on Envelopes and Dog Breath Variations by Frank Zappa.
• Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Wind Symphony, KCD-11047, Klavier Records, 1992 - Terry played tenor banjo on Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin.
  

Selected Recordings as an engineer/technician

• Morton Subotnick All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis, New Albion Records, 1997.
• Charles Ives Universe Symphony - Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra, CRC 2205, Centaur Records, 1994.

Selected writings and presentations

• Mandolin Quarterly - Contributing Editor, 1997 to present.
• Connecticut Council on the Arts - panelist for Council's awarding of grants for composition of new works, 1998
• USA/Japan Intercollege Computer Music Conference - lecturer and panelist regarding the future of music technology, 1997.
• Governor's Conference on Art and Technology - panelist and moderator regarding the future of music and technology, 1997.

Selected Publications

• The Brooklyn Waltz, from MelBay's Collector's Edition, An Anthology of Mandolin Solos, 1999
• Letter To Gorbachev, Plucked Strings Inc., NLP 009 for mandolin and guitar, 1998
• Re-Bach, Plucked Strings Inc., NLP004, for mandolin orchestra, 1998
• Three Places I've Never Been, Plucked Strings, Inc., for mandolin and soprano, 1998 (text by Langston Hughes)

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