June 2:  I just found out today that Scrap Metal was Selected for Recognition at the Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art!  

April 6:  At the SEAMUS conference over the weekend I won an ASCAP/SEAMUS commission for change in the summation (2nd prize).  The new piece will be premiered at next years conference.

March 27:  I just found out today that change in the summation was selected as a finalist for the ASCAP/SEAMUS student award!  The conference is next week, we’ll see what happens.

November 10:  This past Friday was the premier performance of my new work, Scrap Metal for piano and fixed media, at the Missouri Music Teachers Association Conference.  Special thanks goes out to Blas Gonzales for a wonderful performance!  I should have a mp3 of the performance up on the Compositions page soon. 

October 8:  The Electronic Music Midwest Festival is fast approaching (October 11-13).  This year EMM is being held at the Kansas City Kansas Community College Performing Arts Center.  So, if you are in the area, stop by and check it out.  My piece And Death... will be performed on the Thursday 8PM concert.

July 27:  If anyone is interested, here is a list of the composers-in-residence at ACA.  All are linked to their websites or other site with information and music.... 

Denis Smalley - Master Artist
Manuella Blackburn, Daniel Blinkhorn, Suk-Jun Kim, Yutaka Makino, Damian  O'Riain, Diana Simpson, 
Mike Vernusky - Associate Artists

July 26:  Well, I am down in Florida at ACA, and so far it has been a great experience!  If you ever have a chance to attend this type of residency, make sure you take it!!!!  More to come....... Hopefully I will get some pictures up on the website in the next few days.

July 21:  I received a great review of change in the summation from the Digital Arts Week in Zurich Switzerland. Check it out here, my review is at the bottom of the page.  BTW, I am off to the ACA on Monday... really looking forward to it.  

July 1:  O.K., I finally put up a myspace music page.  You can check it out (and become my myspace friend) at: www.myspace.com/jasonbolte.   

June 13: I have some pretty exciting performances coming up.  All of them in Europe: Digital Arts Week - Zurich, Switzerland, and the Soundwaves Festival - Brighton and Hove, England.  Check Everything out on my Performances page.


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Jason Bolte
composer, sound artist, audio engineer
The second half of the concert began with my favorite electronic piece of the conference, Jason Bolte’s Friction, which is a musique concrete piece entirely made up of sounds of things rubbing against one another.
 
Friction
Christopher Gable, SCI News Letter, XXXVI:2
Last Updated: 06/09/08
Jason Bolte, Electronic Music, Musician, Acousmatic, Electronic Music, Electroacoustic, Composer,  LIve Electronics, Sound Artist, Musique Concerte, Audio Engineer
This fantastically complex piece creates a perfect balance between the virtual and the real taking the listener on a journey through an unforeseen zoo of sounds from singing birds and chords of an organ to a Doctor Who and Star Wars-esque portal.  A very exciting and polished piece.
 
change in the summation
Rachael Watts, Networked Music Review, 07/10/07
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Jason Bolte’s tape compositon, change in the summation, takes the listener through the continuum of the realm of controlled pitches and its evolution into noise.
 
change in the summation
Matthew Boleyn, SCI News Letter, XXXVII:2
The most visceral piece of the evening...
 
And Death...
asymmetry Music Magazine
Mad propz go to Jason Bolte and his fine, fine, fine piece, Scrap Metal which is, I think, the greatest piece for piano and tape since Davidovsky
 
Scrap Metal
Jay C. Batzner