Clinton McCallum Ph.D.

Lecturer, English
English | School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Education

  • Ph.D. in Music Composition, University of California at San Diego, 2013.
  • M.A. in Music Composition, University of California at San Diego, 2008.
  • B.M. in Music Composition, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 2003.

Research

Primary research interests include:

  • Real time computer music
  • Music of the African Diaspora
  • Underground Musics
  • Interdisciplinary music theory, drawing on linguistics, psycho-acoustics, cognitive science, and sociology
  • The intersection of speculative fiction with real world social experiments and with science

Publications

Publications

  • McCallum, Clinton. “Falling Up: Ascent in Electronic Dance Music.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 33, No. 2 (June 2021): 99-129.
  • McCallum, Clinton. “in a hall of mirrors waiting to die.” (Saint Paul, MN: 113 Publishing, forthcoming).

Recordings

  • Shut Open, INNI Music, 2021.
  • Twinzies, Parlour Tapes PT+ 011, 2017.
  • Bowel Resection, Populist Records PR 009, 2015.
  • Round Round Down, New World Records NW 80748, 2013.
  • in a hall of mirrors waiting to die, Spektral Records SRL4-08039, 2009.

Selected Performances

  • 11/9-10/22: Plastic Fish at Tulane and Hoter and Peter Paul Hall, New Orleans, LA.
  • 5/27-29/22: Paradise TBD at Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA.
  • 11/26/21: You Are a Flame Burning Blue at Tónar, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  • 6/19/21: Future Ruin Meditation No. 7 at Franconia Sculpture Park, Minneapolis, MN.
  • 3/25/21: Float Together, Forever One at Red Room, Baltimore, MD.
  • 7/12-8/11/19: Doubt Before Wild Delight screened at Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN.
  • 6/6/19: Be a Man at 5th Dimension in Baltimore, MD.
  • 5/20/19: Behind Silver Clouds at De Construkt in New York City.
  • 6/16-18/18: Plastic Fish at Marigny Opera House New Orleans, LA.
  • 4/20/18: in a hall of mirrors waiting to die at University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain.
  • 4/3/17: in a hall of mirrors waiting to die at Saxophone Festival ZHDK, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 11/11/16: Mar the Mirror at the Ljubljana Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • 8/16/16: Mar The Mirror in Darmstadt, Germany.
  • 4/18/16: Gnarphwhallanie at Clausen Recital Hall, Los Angeles, CA.
  • 2/5/16: in a hall of mirrors waiting to die at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
  • 11/20/15: Twinzies at Mengi in Reykjavik, Iceland.
  • 11/17/15: Twinzies at the NUNC Conference, Northwestern University, Chicago, Il.
  • 5/6/15: Gnarphwhallanie at The Neighborhood Church, Pasadena, CA.
  • 4/26/15: Twinzies at Constellation in Chicago, Il.
  • 2/15/15: Jejunum Pummeller (Band Version) at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.
  • 9-10/1/14: Theme Song (Beachday Version) installed at the Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
  • 8/11/14: Bowel Resection at the Darmstadt Summer Festival, Darmstadt, Germany.
  • 3/13/14: Dead Songs in Reykjavik, Iceland.
  • 2/7/14: Bowel Resection at Art Share-LA, Los Angeles, CA.
  • 8/18/13: Round Round Down in Antwerp, Belgium.
  • 7/10/13: in a hall of mirrors waiting to die at Tzlil Meudican Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • 3/17/13: Round Round Down at the Ars Musica Festival, Brussels, Belgium.
  • 12/12/12: April 18th  1993, Waco, Texas at Opéra de Lille, Lille, France.
  • 11/29/12: Dance Up Close to Me II at the Grandtheatre, Luxembourg.
  • 7/29/12: April 18th and Dance Up Close… at the Darmstadium, Darmstadt, Germany.
  • 5/21/12: in a hall of mirrors waiting to die at WDR Studios, Berlin, Germany.
  • 3/9-10/12: April 18th 1993, Waco, Texas premiered at Kaaitheatre, Brussels, Belgium.
  • 12/20/11: in hall of mirrors waiting to die at the Theatrehaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
  • 12/3/11: onanspazautonomotor at Exapno, Brooklyn, New York.
  • 6/14/11: in a hall of mirrors waiting to die at Berlin, Germany.

Highlights

Awards

  • Project [Blank] commission for Paradise TBD, an opera: 2022
  • Franconia fellowship: 2021
  • Staubach Fellowship from Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt: 2016
  • New Music USA Project Grant: 2015
  • ZWERM commission: 2012
  • Ensemble Ictus commission: 2011
  • American Composer’s Forum Subito Grant: 2010
  • Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt commission: 2010
  • Darmstadt Stipendium Prize: 2008
  • Gluck Fellowship: 2006
  • Ohio Ballet commission: 2004
  • Oberlin Conservatory Herbert Eldwell Memorial Composition Prize: 2003

DISCLAIMER: The content of this faculty profile page was created, authored, and published by the identified faculty member. Stevenson University (SU) makes absolutely no guarantee as to the currency, accuracy, or quality of information published. The views and opinions expressed on this page or any links made available are strictly those of the author and do not necessarily state or reflect those of SU. The content of this profile page has not been reviewed or approved by Stevenson University.