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Greg Jalbert: Full History

2003 New photography, paintings, drawings and digital paintings, published in the Wind Flower CD-ROM and video. Web gallery updated at http://www.imaja.com/artwork/. Classical guitar improvisation and composition development.

2002 Classical guitar improvisation and composition development.

2000-2002 Pen and ink drawings, paintings, digital painting and composites, video works.

2001 Produced September video (60 minutes), an anthology of video and animation, drawings, paintings and music improvisations and compositions.

1999: Video and computer animation performance with Big City Orchestra, Univac, David Tristram, Dan Doerner, and other Omnimedia musicians, at TransCinema '99 at Blasthaus gallery in San Francisco.

1999: Video and computer animation performance with Brain Science and Univac at Worlds Collide.

1999: Video and computer animation performance with Omnimicro musicians at Artist's Theater Workshop in Oakland, California.

1999: Published major upgrade to Bliss Paint 2.0 animation software.

1998: Composed music for Glenn McKay's Feb-May 1999 light show installation, Altered States, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

1998: Published Rainwater CD-ROM of images and music.

1998: Live computer animation performance with David Tristram and others at CELL's OmniMedia 0.04 show.

1997: Released Spaced Garden Meditations package of computer animations, a collaboration with Sara Frucht.

1995: Pro Arts Open Studios, Albany, California.

1995: Watercolor painting exhibit at Albany Community Center, Albany, California.

1994: Live animation/lightshow with Grateful Dead at Oakland Coliseum. Four shows.

1994: Live animated computer painting performances for ACM Multimedia '94 and Multimedia Expo 1994/Creativity Cafe in San Francisco.

1994: Performances of live animated computer paintings with music at Fort Mason, San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Hyatt Regency SF, Gift Center SF, Moscone Center SF. Animations and Bliss Paint software used by Grateful Dead on summer 1994 tour, D'Cuckoo music/dance, Lollapalooza/Electric Carnival, the Shamen from the UK, and musician/producer Brian Eno.

1994: Released Bliss Gallery folio, 200 animated computer paintings.

1993: Released Bliss Saver, screen saver with 130 animated computer paintings.

1992-1993: Pro Arts Open Studios, Albany/Oakland, California.

1992: Works on paper show at Albany Arts Gallery.

1991: Twenty-two works in Pro Arts Open Studios, Oakland, California.

1991: Eight works in a group show at Art Here gallery, Albany, California.

1990: Graphic design on multimedia database system for Media Central, Mountain View, California.

1990-Present: Study of South Indian Classical Carnatic vocal performance with Kala Iyer.

1989-1990: Studied mbira trance/dance music of Zimbabwe with Eric Kundidzora.

1989: Performed with the Beat Freaks, an eight-piece world-beat dance band, at such places as Carnival in San Francisco and La Pena in Berkeley, California.

1989: Contract programming for Apple Computer for the AudioPalette sound recording and editing software that ships with all Macintosh models.

1985-Present: Founded Imaja, a music, graphics, and education software development and publishing company, in Middletown, Connecticut, presently in Albany, California. Wholly owned by Greg Jalbert.

1987-Present: Composed a large body of music for guitar, synthesizers, piano. Styles include chamber music, electronic music, ambient, Afro-beat dance, and eclectic.

1987-1989: Co-founded Resonate, Inc., a music software company, in Menlo Park, California. Developed professional and consumer MIDI music sequencers.

1986: Published Listen, music ear training software.

1984: Studied composition, guitar, and world music with Tom Ross in Middletown, Connecticut.

1981: Won first place music composition award for Barrage (guitar and electronic tape) presented by MENC/Central Connecticut State University

1979-1983: B.S. Computer Science at Central Connecticut State University. Minor in music, studying music theory, composition, electronic music and classical guitar.

1977-1978: Studied jazz guitar and music theory with Tom Majesky and Bob Kobus in Connecticut.

1977-1979: Studied drawing with David Noyes at the University of Hartford, and at the Wethersfield Art League, both in Connecticut.

1976-1978: Exhibited drawings and watercolors in various Connecticut group exhibits, including the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts show in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Norwich Free Academy, Essex Art Gallery, and the Milford Public Library.

Greg Jalbert
1244 Hearst Ave. #7
Berkeley, CA 94702 USA
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