Background
Alden Jenks was born in Michigan and received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and an Master of Arts
Alden Jenks was born in Michigan and received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and an Master of Arts
He studied composition with Lawrence Moss, Andrew Imbrie and Seymour Shifrin. He also studied composition in 1967 with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the University of California, Davis (Kramer 1998, 248), and electronic music with David Tudor and Anthony Gnazzo.
From the University of California, Berkeley. As a performer, he served as a controller of the live electronics for Stockhausen’s 1967 Darmstadt collective-composition project, Ensemble (Gehlhaar 1968, 39 and 75), and performed on synthesizer in the 25th anniversary concert of Terry Riley"s In C in 1989, released as a recording in 1995 on New Albion Records Civil Defense NA071. As a composer he is primarily known for his work in electronic media, and is Professor of Composition and Director of the East. L. Wiegand Composition Studio at the San Francisco Conservatory.
Nagasaki, electronic music (1983) awarded a prize at the Bourges Festival in 1983
Those Long Canadian Winters, theatre music
Mummermusic, music for a mime act by Peter Kors (1974)
Ansichtskarte an Johann, for two pianos (1978/83)
Femme Fatale: The Invention of Personality, incidental music for the play by Laura Farabough (1981)
""Calcululations, MIDI composition (1990)
MENAGE, for synthesizer, piano, and percussion (1994)
"Letter from Linda" (1998-1999)
Martin Put That Gun Away, electroacoustic music (2000)
Ognaggio al"Anzzonio, electroacoustic music (2003)
Sour Music (2003)
"Prelude", for organ (2003)
"Ghost Songs" (2004)
"Five California Songs" on texts by Richard Brautigan, Robert Hass, Leonard Nathan, and Philip Whalen for tenor, cello, and piano (2006)
"The Soup" (2008/09)
"Tokyo Crow" (2009)
"Unrestful Sleep", piano solo (2011)
"Hammered", piano and computer (2013)
"Oh, lieutenant"s You", soprano and electronics (2013).