For the past twenty years Judy Dunaway has primarily been known for her
numerous works for latex balloons as sound producers, including free improvisations,
electronic and multi-media works, sound installations, and compositions. She has
presented these works throughout North America and Europe at many important venues,
festivals, museums and galleries including the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
(Germany), Alternative Museum (NYC), Bang on a Can Festival (NYC), Everson Art
Museum (Syracuse), Frau Musica Nova (Germany), the Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada),
Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NYC), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC),
Performance Space 122 (NYC), Podewil (Berlin), Roulette (NYC), the Roy and Edna
Disney Center (Los Angeles), Seltsame Musik Festival (Austria) and STEIM
(Netherlands). Her discography includes CDs on the CRI and Innova labels. Her
awards/grants/residencies include the Electronic Music Studios Stockholm, New York
State Music Fund. the Aaron Copland Fund Recording Grant, the American Composers
Forum’s Composers Commissioning Fund, ZKM, Harvestworks and the National Endowment
for the Arts performance fund. She has given academic presentations about her works
at many colleges and universities, including The Berlin University of the Arts,
Cornell University, Rennselaer Polytechnic, Tufts University, Syracuse University,
Juilliard School of Music, Musik Akademie Basel (Switzerland), University of
Gothenberg (Sweden), Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan, Italy) and Hochschule
fuer Gestaltung, Karlsruhe (Germany). She has a Ph.D. in music composition from
Stony Brook University and an M.A. with emphasis in experimental music composition
from Wesleyan University, where she studied with Alvin Lucier. She has been a
Visiting Lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design since 2005. She has
been working with Cycling 74‘s Max for the past 10 years and received a
Max/MSP/Jitter certificate from Harvestworks in May 2011.
