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BEN JUODVALKIS

Composer, Sound Designer, Musician, Educator

Education

UC Santa Cruz

BA in Music 2005

College Honors

Skills

Music Composition

Traditional notation and electronic scores for large and small ensembles.

Music Performance

Piano, percussion, keyboards, voice, analog and digital synthesis, sampling, music software, and anything else that will make noise.

Record Production

Engineering, arranging, mixing, mastering, vocal and instrument production.

Sound Design

Live sound, audio recording, digital video processing, sound and video installations.

Music Direction

Collaborating with filmmakers, choreographers, event producers, theater directors, and educators to realize complex productions. Clear communication and highly efficient production skills to fit the urgent pace of large productions.

Education

Ability to teach and mentor students from varied backgrounds and all levels of training.

Selected Compositions

2024

Somewhere to Land

Bandaloop

Are You Ok?

Joe Goode

2023

Bird Strike

Bandaloop

As We Go

Joe Goode

2020

Flood

Bandaloop

Breathe Through

Bandaloop

Unwind

Fog Beast

2019

The Big Reveal

Fog Beast

Oil Change

Bandaloop

Alice in Californialand

AXIS Dance

Still Standing

Joe Goode

2018

MESH

KINITECH

Furling Polyphony

Bandaloop

Manimal Suite

Fog Beast

Atlanta Public Canvas

Bandaloop

Still Standing

Joe Goode

kosmos

tinypistol

Berkeley Dance Project

UC Berkeley

The Undefended Heart

UC Berkeley

Make the Hold Happen

CSU Long Beach

Sea Change

Joe Goode

2017

He's One of Us

Fog Beast

Providence Public Canvas

Bandaloop

SuccessConnect Keynote London

SAP

SuccessConnect Keynote Las Vegas

SAP

Berkeley Dance Project

UC Berkeley

Sound Design for the Stage

AME

2016

San Francisco Public Canvas

Bandaloop

Upwell

CISCO

Berkeley Dance Project

UC Berkeley

2015

Change

Fog Beast

@Large

ODC Dance

StateSpace

KINITECH

To Go Again

AXIS Dance

Poetics of Space

Joe Goode

Comfort Space

The Exploratorium

The New Normal

Nueva

2014

Bad Here Day

Fog Beast

Comb your Here

Fog Beast

The Aftermath Affair

Blind Tiger Society

Status Update

Nueva

2013

HUSH

Joe Goode

Fox and the Donkey

Fog Beast

Sent

Nueva

2012

Constellation

LINES Ballet

Move Here

Fog Beast

Other Experience

2023-2024

Created Maestro Modern, a music website and app for dance and theater

2007-2024

Accompanying dance classes at UC Berkeley, ODC, and Dominican University

2007-2017

Performing, songwriting and recording with rock'n'roll band Battlehooch