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I am a composer and educator based in New York, writing music inspired by minimalism, Croatian folk traditions, and American popular music. I am an artist who welcomes collaboration in my process, composing for performances, films, and installations, using both acoustic instruments and electronic sound design.
As Lecturer of Composition and Music Creation Technologies at Binghamton University, I support students’ creative development, helping them find their own artistic voices and paths. I teach both composition lessons and the department’s composition seminar, and have designed upper level courses that bring together technology and creative work, with Digital Music Creation and Songwriting & Production.
During my Ph.D. at Duke University I taught Introduction to Music Theory for multiple semesters, and directed the Duke New Music Ensemble in the 2019-20 academic year, producing concerts across Duke and Durham, NC, and mentoring undergraduate composers in their writing processes.
My scholarly research focuses on the Danish New Simplicity movement, and the composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, observing how different artistic mediums shaped his compositional language and this postmodernist movement more generally. For my research, I spent the 2020-21 academic year in residence at Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Academy of Music as a Fulbright Scholar.
Email: james.budinich@gmail.com