Madelyn Byrne - composer

Welcome and thank you for visiting my website. I believe that excellent quality music and communication with a diverse audience are attainable goals in all genres of music. I have composed concert music, (acoustic and electroacoustic), soundtracks, and I've scored and performed in intermedia pieces. I enjoy writing for a wide variety of media and my goals for excellent quality music and respect for the audience are consistent throughout.

MUSIC CATALOG
Solo instrument with computer-generated sounds	Small ensemble with computer-generated sounds	Audio-visual	Electro-acoustic	Orchestra	Soundtracks

Aries Music Festival 2011 at Colorado State University.

Madelyn Byrne’s In a Winter Landscape provides a full and atmospherically resonant opening, with a bass flute creating lyrical lines over some highly attractive electronic sounds which work in sympathy with the soloist, making it sound as if the performer is in a vast space, “an austere winter landscape after a powerful storm.” - Dominy Clements, Musicweb website

INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER MUSIC
CONFERENCE 2006
Dream Tableaux by Madelyn Byrne was one of the pieces that left the greatest impression on me during this conference. The piece is well structured and was beautifully performed by Javier Olondo on acoustic guitar. The electronics for this piece and the acoustic sounds were equally interwoven, while the selection of the processed sounds complemented and extended the sound of the acoustic guitar, a true marriage between electronics and acoustic instrument.
Silvia Matheus Computer Music Journal
Vol.31-issue 2 - MIT Press

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Audience member at SoundWalk 2011.

Newly Release CD
Peter Gach, pianist created this CD to highlight contemporary piano music written by living Southern California composers. Two of Madelyn's pieces... "Northern Flight" & "The Elements" are featured. (more info)

DVD RELEASE

Sounding Out!
released by Everglade Records, featuring Arrival (music by Madelyn Byrne and video art by Lily Glass) (more info)

Commissioning
I enjoy collaborating with a wide variety of musicians and across disciplines. I am open and flexible with regard to commissions and I am also sensitive to the varying budgets that many in the arts may have. Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions.

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Wheels at SoundWalk 2011. Ellen Weller, Randy Hoffman, Bob Weller and me.

Audience members lining up for the microphone. I used Max/MSP to process their voices.

UPCOMING EVENTS

March 3, 2012
WEALR - 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
CSUF 11th Annual New Music Festival
California State University, Fullerton
800 North State College Blvd., Fullerton, CA 92831
First Flight, Early Spring (Soliloquy)
Electro-acoustic arrangement of a new piece.

March 16, 2012 -7:30 PM
Spring Awakening Improvisation with
members of FINC
Mira Costa College, Bldg. 2400,
1 Barnard Drive, Oceanside, CA

April 12, 2012
Peter Sheridan performs In A Winter Landscape on Palomar College's Concert Hour
12:30 to 1:30 -- free admission.
Performance Lab, D-10
1140 West Mission Rd., San Marcos, CA.

June 2, 2012
Dream Tableaux to be performed on the New York Composers Circle Concert at Symphony Space Thalia at 7:30, Broadway and 95th Street, New York City. Performer Bill Anderson.

July 12 through July 15
In A Winter Landscape
Selected for the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2012
To be performed by Peter Sheridan. Precise time and venue to be announced.

November 15, 2012
Rain, Sea, and Sky selected for performance at the Fifty-fifth National Annual Conference of the College Music Society. To be performed by the New Music Ensemble of California State University – Los Angeles at the San Diego Convention Center.

First ever performance with a punching bag behind my head. Nathan Hubbard, Ellen Weller, and me at the Kava Gallery - which doubles as a dojo.