Chad McKinney is an experimental musician/electronic necromancer. He has an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College where he studied with Chris Brown, John Bischoff, and Roscoe Mitchell. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in 2007 from the University of Oklahoma, studying with Christian Asplund, John Haek, and Michael Lee. McKinney has recently been studying towards towards a doctorate at the University of Sussex under Nick Collins where he is researching topics in network music. When not programming Chad is performing with the transcontinental network laptop quartet glitch lich, brewing beer with his wife, Jessica McKinney, as well as designing small video games and playing noisey math metal.
Chad McKinney
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Curriculum Vitae
Chad McKinney
EDUCATION
Ph. D. Music Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. October 2011 - Current
M.F.A. Electronic Music & Recording Media, Mills College, Oakland, CA. May, 2009
B.M. Music Composition (with distinction), University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. May, 2007
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Music for Children LLC
Piano and Guitar private and class lessons. September 2007 – September 2011.
Independent SuperCollider Instructor
SuperCollider workshop instructor at 21 Grand in Oakland,CA. November 2010.
John Bischoff
Independent contract for SuperCollider coding assistance. May 2010 – September 2010.
Chris Brown
Independent contract for SuperCollider coding assistance. July 2009 – December 2009.
Infinite Improbability LLC
Self owned video game music production company. May 2005 – September 2007.
Credits include music composed for the video game Hellgate: London (2007)
Cinderella: an Interactive Storybook
Music for an online interactive storybook. January 2006.
Moment Trio – Constructions One
Mastering service for recording released on Foxglove records. February 2005.
HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2011 – Sussex 50th Anniversary Research Scholarship
2011 – Performance in the 2011 Sound and Computer Music conference in Italy.
2010 – Inclusion in the Deustchland Radio Kultur broadcast
2010 – Performance in the 2010 SuperCollider Symposium in Berlin
2009 – Inclusion in the glitch art book Glitch: Designing Imperfection
2009 – Frog Peak Collective Award, Mills College.
2008 – Graduate Music Alumnae Scholarship, Mills College.
2008 – Inclusion in the Village Radio Nomad Project broadcast.
2007 – Graduate Research Opportunities Program Grant, Mills College.
2007 – Inclusion in the 60x60 project Midwest Mix.
2006 – Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Grant, University of Oklahoma.
2006 – OU Percussion Composition Contest winner, University of Oklahoma.
2005 – Kirkpatrick Memorial Scholarship, University of Oklahoma.
SOFTWARE AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
C++ – programming language.
Java – programming language.
Qt – cross platform application framework.
SuperCollider – audio environment and programming language.
Processing – visual environment and programming language.
Max/MSP – audio synthesis software.
Sibelius – music notation software.
Finale – music notation software.
Pro Tools – recording software.
Logic – recording software.
Nuendo – recording software.