Miriama Young composes for voice, instruments and electronics, and her music moves freely between media.
Much of her work playfully glides and elides distinctions of musical genre. Some projects involve interdisciplinary collaboration, and include works for radio, spoken poetry projects, and interactive electro-acoustic music for dance. She composes
songs for her voice, and these feature on her forthcoming debut
album.
As writer and scholar, Singing the Body Electric: The Recorded Voice, the Mediated
Body examines the human voice, the mediated body, and the
sound of its transformation through technology.
Originally
from New Zealand, Miriama recently took up a Lecturership in Music at the University of Aberdeen,
Scotland, UK. In 2000 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship
to pursue graduate study in the United States, and
gained her PhD in Music Composition at Princeton University (2007).