David Nguyen

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About me

David Quang-Minh Nguyen is a composer of concert music. Along with the concert music that he composes, he also enjoys doing sound design for film. His current interests lie in composing acousmatic works dealing with multi-channel loudspeaker expansion, sound spatialization, and immersive audio.

Being recognized nationally and internationally, David has had his pieces presented at the June in Buffalo New Music Festival, during which he received individual master classes with Harvey Sollberger, Martin Bresnick, Roger Reynolds and Brian Ferneyhough. David was an active participant for Festival DME under the direction of Åke Parmerud, Musique & Recherches Académie d'été de composition éléctroacoustique under the direction of Annette Vande Gorne and João Pedro Oliveira, and the Sounds Around Me Festival under Thomas Gorbach. He was also selected by Master Artist Robert Normandeau for a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

Among others, his works have been performed at Electronic Music Midwest Festival, New York City Electronic Music Festival, SEAMUS, Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, International Computer Music Conference, 15th Sound & Music Computational Conference, 2018 MISE-EN Place Bushwick Open Studios, 2018 Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, Spaced-Out Radia, Washington State Festival Of Contemporary Art Music, CEMI Circles, MOXSonic, and Diffrazioni multimedia festival. He has been published on ABLAZE records Electronic Masters Vol. 7 and received an honorable mention for the XII° Destellos Electroacoustic Competition 2019 for his work Misprints as well as achieving 2nd place for XIII° Destellos for Adumbrations , a finalist for PRIX CIME 2019 and won 2nd for the ASCAP/SEAMUS award for his work Weight Stranding.

David Q. Nguyen holds a BM from Old Dominion University where he studied with Andrey R. Kasparov and Mark Chambers. He has received his Masters and is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where his primary teachers are Sever Tipei and Scott A. Wyatt.

"I'm looking to content create as much as possible, as long as I'm working in a DAW I can be happy".
"I have love for film and love just being immersed in amazing sound design of a film"
"Anything Audio I will provide professional Quality"
Additional skills:
-Post Production sound
Foley,
Sound design
Sound Effects
Sound Editing
ADR
Re-recording mixing

-Recording, mixing, and mastering,

- Composing, scoring, orchestrating
Additional information:
- https://soundcloud.com/dqncomposer
- https://vimeo.com/showcase/8587569 (December songs I mixed)

-Home Studio with Dolby Atmos, 7.1, and 5.1 capabilities
-Can work remotely

Skills

Secondary Job Title	Sound Engineer
Job Titles	Music Production, Theatre Technician, Composer, Sound Designer, Sound Mixer / Recordist, Sound Operator / Engineer, Production Assistant (PA), Post-Production Assistant
Years in industry	6+ years
Musical Style	Ambient, Avant-garde, Classical, Close harmony, Concerto, Dance music, Electronica, Experimental, Hip hop, Trance