Biography
Jeremy Van Buskirk’s music has been performed by organizations such as Alea III, Longy Chamber Orchestra, Lorelei Ensemble, The Fourth Wall Ensemble, Vento Chairo, Longitude, Aurora Borealis Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, 60x60, SEAMUS, and ICMC.
Jeremy has a passion for electroacoustic music pedagogy. To this end, he has developed several software programs designed to teach electroacoustic music composition. The Max Composition Environment (MAXCE) is designed to aid composers learning to write pieces using the MAX/MSP programming language. Longy multi-fx is a software package that teaches digital signal processing using Csound.
Since 2001, Jeremy has been on faculty at the Longy School of Music where he is director of the Longy Computer Music Studio. During this time, he started a yearly concert series at Longy entitled Wired for Sound. Wired for Sound brings new electroacoustic music from around the world to the Longy community.
B.M., Berklee College of Music; M.M. (Composition), M.M. (Modern American Music), Longy School of Music. D.M.A. (Compostion), Boston University. Priciple teachers: Lukas Foss, Richard Cornell, Joshua Fineberg, John Fitz Rogers, and Paul Brust.
