jonathon kirk |||| biographical
jonathon kirk (b. 1975, peoria, IL) is a chicago-based composer and teacher active in many areas of new music, improvisation, electronic music, multimedia, sound art, installation, and music theory. he is currently assistant professor of music composition and theory at north central college in naperville, illinois. his work has recently been shown or heard at the tate modern in london, the london international animation festival, the melbourne international animation festival, weisman museum of art in minneapolis, the los angeles short film festival, the courtisane festival in brussels, belgium, the boston cyberarts festival, visual music marathon, listening in the sound kitchen, icmc, nime, ZKM center for art and media in karlsruhe , germany, and spark festival. in late 2009 he was an artist-in-residence at the petrified forest national park in arizona.
his works have been performed by many international musicians and he continues to compose both acoustic and electronic works for a wide variety of ensembles and soloists, including the harvard collegium musicum, the millennium chamber players, and members of alarm will sound. in 2000 and 2001 he received a grant from the belgian government to be in residence at the logos foundation for experimental music in gent, belgium where he worked with godfried willem-raes and collaborated with thomas smetryns, brent wetters, joann cho, and heleen van haegenborgh.
he also works closely with composer and sound artist lee weisert on several sound projects and installations; most recently the argus project, an environmental sound installation involving underwater recording, laser modulation, and real-time processing of natural sounds with a multichannel outdoor speaker array. his research includes desert and natural soundscapes and otoacoustic emissions. he studied at the eastman school of music, augustana, brown university, and recieved his doctorate at northwestern university. he is a member of the duo pendulum with randall hall, the tomorrow music orchestra of chicago and the chicago-based post-rock ensemble, maurice. his works have been recorded on innova records, medusa records, and ears and eyes records.
he can be contacted at jonathonkirk at gmail dot com.
