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Sprint Center | Kansas City, Missouri
Cosentino’s Market | Kansas City, Missouri
Atchison County Courthouse | Rock Port, Missouri
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Hoyt Sherman Place | Des Moines, Iowa
Doll Museum | Marysville, Kansas
Memorial Stadium & Go Big Red | Lincoln, NebraskaJen-Kuang Chang, a native of Taiwan, is working on the acoustic, electro-acoustic, and audiovisual composition as expressive agents.
Dr. Chang's chamber ensemble work, "Chakra", was named the Second Prize winner of the JIMS "Stadtpfeifer" International Composition Contest for Improvised Chamber Music in Salzburg and was premiered by the Vienna-based Janus Ensemble under the direction of Christoph Cech. The score of "Chakra" has been selected for inclusion in the SCI Journal of Music Scores, published by EAM, the European American Music Distributors Corporation.
Dr. Chang's works have been selected for inclusion in the International Computer Music Conference, SCI National Conference, SCI Regional Conference, SCI Student National Conference, CMS National Conference, CMS Regional Conference, NACUSA National Conference, Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Summer Studies for Jazz & Improvised Music Salzburg, Sonoimágenes International Acousmatic and Multimedia Festival and IV Jornadas Argentinas de Música Contemporánea in Argentina, Visionaria International Toscana Videofestival, Festival Internazionale di Musica Elettroacustica del Conservatorio S.Cecilia, ASTAS ROMAS 404 International Electronic Art Festival, Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media and Time Based Art in Italy, CYNETart Festival, Backup Festival, B-Seite Verein für Visuelle Kunst und Jetztkultur, transNATURALE Festival of Sound and Light in Germany, ElectroMediaWorks Festival and Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival in Greece, Signal and Noise Festival, NAISA SOUNDplay Festival, and UPART Contemporary Art Fair in Canada, Canariasmediafest Gran Canaria International Festival of Arts and Digital Cultures, International Forum Art Tech Media Códoba, and Zeppelin Sound Art Festival in Spain, FONLAD Digital Arts Festival in Portugal, Expo Brighton and Sound:Space Sound Art Symposium in UK, International Les Instants Vidéo Festival and Festival des musiques d'aujourd'hui Un son par là, Carré d'Art in France, FIAD Festival Internacional de Arte Digital in El Salvador, Australasian Computer Music Conference in Australia and other events.
What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don’t know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they’ve been listening to the sad songs longer than they’ve been living the unhappy lives.
— Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
