Joyce Shintani

Dear Reader,

Note Dec 2024: Twelve years ago, I started writing a novel called "Paris Choice". This week, it went up for sale on Amazon. A lot of water under the bridge. Three composers have set my poems to music...Writing, music. Music, writing. Life. I'll be reading on TikTok soon. Catch you there! @shintani.writing_music. Thanks for having a look!

Note 2019: For several years I used a pseudonym for writing fiction: Vanessa Araya. A main reason was to spare my relatives from association with the topics of my writing. Another reason was that I had published musicological works under my real name (Joyce Shintani) for several years, and I wanted to keep those identities separate. In 2019, I celebrated my 66th birthday. The year before, they thought I had a stroke; it was 'only temporary amnesia'. Now, I'm trying to simplify and only publish under the Shintani moniker. Anyway, by now the relatives are dead or indifferent.

BIO:

- Master of Music in Conducting USC (Los Angeles) 1980; Kapellmeisterprüfung Musikhochschule Stuttgart 1983. Assistant to Dennis Russell Davies, Stuttgart Opera 1982-84; guest conducting, primarily new music 1982-1997; work with Pierre Boulez & ensemble intercontemporain, Paris 1989; Diplôme d’études approfondies in ‘Music and Musicology of the 20th Century’ IRCAM / EHESS (Paris) 1992. Founder of music ensemble Prisme, Paris.

- Founder of Ensemble Neue Musik and teaching at Musikhochschule Stuttgart 1994-96. Work in music industry 1996-2004: A&R and IT at Universal Edition, Vienna; project manager for music downloads, publishing, and later finances at BMG, Munich. Numerous publications, broadcasts, lectures and translations. Got married to the best man on earth in 2005.

- Doctoral defense 12 April 2008 (summa cum laude) at Université Paris-Est, title: Gendertronics. Toward A ‘lecture féminine’ of Emerging Musical Technologies and Their Aesthetics – Gerhard Stäbler, Terre Thaemlitz, Miss Kittin. Docent, author, guest lecturer and translator of music texts 2005-2016. Institutional affiliations: docent for “Musikkonzepte nach 1945” [Music Concepts after 1945] at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany, 2005-2012, and Researcher at LISAA, Université Paris-Est, France, 2013-present.

- Retired 2012.