Donald Craig

PO Box 95983
Seattle, WA 98145
USA

Phone: 410-858-6543
Email: donald.d.craig@gmail.com

Education

• Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition, June 2009
  University of Washington
  • Dissertation: Symphony by Numbers
• Master of Music in Composition, June 2004
  University of Washington
  • Thesis: Tor Aetherius
• Bachelor of Music in Composition, June 2000
  University of Washington
• Bachelor of Arts, June 2000
  University of Washington

Compositions

• The Guitarist and Aural Fauna (with Eunsu Kang), Cultured Data Symposium, February 2020.
• Enhanced Harmony, Project Amelia, Bricolage Production Company, September 2019.
• Musings of Geometer III (2018) for real-time graphics and sound. July 2018.
• Blue Goodbye for abstract animation and computer-realized sound. July 2017.
• Assonaglyph for abstract animation and computer-realized sound. June 2017.
• Helix Vortex (graphics only) 2017.
• Musings of a Geometer II (2017) for real-time graphics and sound. May 2017.
• Hatteras (graphics only) 2016.
• Musings of a Geometer I (2015) for real-time graphics and sound. March 2015.
• 19-Tone Improvisations for electric guitar. May 2015.
• Twitity Twixt Audity (graphics only) May 2015.
• aurora florialis for abstract animation and computer-realized sound. March 2013.
• Vaporous Comix for abstract animation and computer-realized sound. November 2012.
• Fluid Mechanics for computer-realized sound. December 2011.
• 16 November for viola and live electronics. November 2011.
• Midnight at Loch Ness for abstract animation and computer-realized sound. May 2011.
• Study in 31 October 2010.
• Little Suite in 19 October 2009.
• Sediment for flute, clarinet, electric guitar, cello, and percussion. October 2009.
• Symphony by Numbers for computer realized sound. (This is my Doctoral dissertation work.) June 2009.
• Metamorphosis: an Intermedia Study. Soundtrack for video by Eunsu Kang. 2008.
• Pod for computer realized sound. 2008.
• Trio for 2 Guitars and Wacom Tablet. 2007.
• Etude for electric guitar and computer realized score. 2006.
• Intrombouversion for trombone and interactive computer score. 2006.
• permutatis permutandis for trombone, piano, and video score. 2005.
• Tor Aetherius for computer realized sound and video. (This is my Master's thesis.) 2004.
• Tor Aetherius for computer realized sound. 2003.
• Phantastitablatura for electric guitar and chamber orchestra. 2002.
• Assonaglyph for computer realized sound. 2001.
• Bone Spill Suite. Music for dance. 2001.
• Deep Surfaces for violin. 2000.
• Cri du Chat. Music for dance. 2000.
• Trio for flute, cello, and percussion. 1999.
• Blue Goodbye for computer realized sound. 1999.
• Music for flute and computer realized sound. 1999.
• Midnight at Loch Ness for computer realized sound. 1998.
• Tapestries for flute and violin. 1998.

Awards, Recognition and Scholarships

• Punto y Raya Festival Honorable Mention, Punto y Raya Festival, November 2011.
  Midnight at Loch Ness was awarded Honorable Mention and included on the festival DVD.
• Untwelve Composition Finalist, Untwelve, October 2010.
  Study in 31 was a finalist in the competition for microtonal music.
• In Scena!, Fiari Ensemble, December 2009.
  Sediment for flute, clarinet, electric guitar, cello, and percussion performed by the Ensemble Fiari.
• Untwelve Composition Finalist, Untwelve, October 2009.
  Little Suite in 19 was a finalist in the competition for microtonal music.
• Punto y Raya Festival Selection, Punto y Raya Festival, November 2009.
  Symphony by Numbers IV was selected to be part of the festival.
• Spark Festival Software Showcase, Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, February 2007.
  Limn, software for doing interactive graphic scores, was featured as part of the Software Showcase.
• Bourges Festival, Concours International de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustique de Bourges, 2004.
  Tor Aetherius was also selected in addition to the works awarded prizes.
• Performance, EarFest, Stony Brook Studios, Stony Brook University, New York, April 2003.
  Assonaglyph chosen for performance at EarFest.
• Performance, Phantastitablatura performed, Seattle Creative Orchestra, 2002.
  Phantastitablatura for electric guitar and chamber orchestra performed. The piece was chosen in an anonymous call for scores by the Seattle Creative Orchestra.
• Performance, The Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), April 2002.
  Assonaglyph chosen for performance at SEAMUS, Iowa City.
• Selection, Jack Straw Foundation, 2000.
  Trio for flute, cello and percussion chosen in an anonymous competition by Jack Straw Foundation.
• Brechemin Scholarship, University of Washington, School of Music, 2000.
  Awarded in the area of Composition.

Publications

• Donald Craig. "Symphony by Numbers: Creating an Intermedia Work". Proceedings of MAIA 2009 (The 2nd International Conference on Media Art and Information Aesthetics) in Beijing, China. July 2009. 132-136.

Computer Skills

• Languages:
  • C, C++, Objective C, Lisp, Python, PHP, Java, XML, XSLT.
• Applications:
  • mySQL, AfterEffects, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Supercollider, Max MSP, csound, Sound Studio, TwistedWave, Finale, Blender, Word, Excel, Gimp, Photoshop.

Research

• Visual Music. Intermedia works where music and animation come together to form a unified art form.
• Graphic Scores. Ways of notating music but not with common music notation.

Software

• The Guitarist and Aural Fauna (with Eunsu Kang), Cultured Data Symposium, February 2020.
• Enhanced Harmony, Project Amelia, Bricolage Production Company, September 2019.
• microSketch An iOS app for exploring equal divisions of the octave. microSketch
• Vapor An iOS app using a interactive fluid visualization. Vapor
• The People vs. Wall St. An iOS game app. The People vs. Wall St.
• cdraw. Command-line application for the creation of procedural animation. This was a component of my dissertation.
• csynth. Command-line application for the creation of sound synthesis. This was a component of my dissertation.
• Intermedia. A project for generating and controlling both visual and auditory media. Includes a lisp library for generating event lists and several command line tools for editing Quicktime movies and generating abstract animation with Quartz or OpenGL. The event lists can also be used for Synthesis applications like SuperCollider and Csound. This was a component of my dissertation.
• Limn. Interactive Music Notation; A Carbon application using the Quartz API to draw graphic scores for musical performance. Can also display images and play audio files. Is interactive with audio input, MIDI, and OSC.
• Stereo Movie. Plays two Quicktime movies in sync. Used for projecting 3D stereo movies. This application was used for one work of 3D:Dancing in the Digital Domain, a dance concert held in Meany Hall, May 18-21, 2006.

Last modified July 2017.