It's been over 20 years since Ohio composer Tom Jordan started coaxing "beeps and dweedles" out of synthesizers and making music with his new found instruments. Today, he still composes, performs, and spends lots of time working with students of all ages.

After a life of classical training as a singer, clarinetist, and composer of more traditional music, Tom "Met the Moog" when he went to Brown University for graduate work. Now, his music is also created with computer-based musical instruments including some of his own design; and his music ranges from choral anthems to artsy, environmental installations for outdoor festivals to a mini-concert performed on bumper to bumper car stereos!

Tom stayed in Providence, Rhode Island long enough to direct the electronic music program at Brown for a year and to get his feet wet in some of the first Artist In Schools activity in the nation, setting his mind on a populist approach for his new art form. He went on to become composer-in-residence for Indianapolis Public Schools for 4 years directing a composition program for high school students.

For a Columbus, OH Riverfront Celebration he composed a fanfare for trumpets on top of the state office building, music for dancers and lights on boats, plus music and sounds for a flaming dragon floating on the Scioto River. It was quite a spectacle, attended by about 50,000 people! He has performed an hour-long public radio concert, live - just Tom and his machines; an evening celebration to mark the first Moon Landing; and he has produced an event for dancers and hardhat construction workers on scaffolding 30 feet in the air on the streets of Fort Worth, Texas.

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Tom Jordan Wired for Sound! Cincinnati OH tom@wiredfortom.com