Sabrina Pena Young

Music Composer, Editor, Animator, Sound Editor, Sound Designer, Sound Mixer and Screenwriter

Buffalo, New York

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November 2014

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About Sabrina

Award-winning composer and obsessive sci-fi fan. Director/Composer of the "epic" and "groundbreaking" machinima opera Libertara: The Virtual Opera and experimental films, as well as commercial composer for film, media, and classical music. I love mixing animation, sci-fi, film, and technology into new and exciting expressions of visual art.

ABOUT
Sabrina Peña Young, the daughter of Dominican and Cuban parents, grew up in South Florida during the 1980s. Starting her creative journey as a musician, Young spent her teen years and much of her college life performing in various orchestras, alternative bands, and avant-garde ensembles. While at University of South Florida in Tampa in 2000, Sabrina Peña Young became involved with SYCOM (Systems Complex for the Recording and Performing Arts), an experimental enclave of composers and media artists and abandoned the sticks for technology. She worked with Emmy-winning director Charles Lyman at Atlantic Productions before leaving Tampa to study music technology at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, in 2003.

Over the next several years Young explored media and music, writing music and creating zombie effects for indie B horror films, composing complex electronic media works like World Order #5, composing music for Kalup Linzy in his film Conversations wid de churn II and studying film for a year at Florida International University in Miami where she premiered works like A Portrait of Urban Life at Art Basil Miami and Arts Miami before dropping out in 2006 to teach art to homeless children.

Combining her love of music and love of science fiction imagery, in 2011 Young received a New Genre Award from the International Alliance for Women in Music for her futuristic multimedia oratorio Creation. In 2012 Young composed scores for the Rob Cabrera animated short Monica (2012) and Sean Fleck's time-laps film Americana.

Wanting to explore film further, Sabrina Peña Young began production on Libertaria: The Virtual Opera, a science fiction machinima opera produced entirely online. In 2013 Libertaria: The Virtual Opera was premiered in Lake Worth, Florida.

Unique traits: Music Technology, Machinima, Animation, Sci-fi, Horror, Musicals, Opera, Video Editing, Writing

Gender:
Female

Ethnicity:
Latin/Hispanic

Badges

Photos

Speaking on Internet Collaboration and the Arts at TedX.

Talk on "Singing Geneticists and EPIC Virtual Machinima Opera". Buffalo, NY.

Posing with other TEDxBuffalo speakers after giving talk on "Singing Geneticists and EPIC Virtual Machinima Opera". Buffalo, NY.

Videos

Loglines

Libertaria: The Virtual Opera Animation ⋄ Musical ⋄ Sci-fi In a post-USA dystopia, Libertaria escapes from GenTech and teams up with her addict father to destroy evil reverse-aging geneticists with a cyborg army in this "groundbreaking" animated opera.

Credits

Invisible Strings (2016)
Film (Animation, Short, Fantasy, Music and 1 More) Composer Add a Plot »
Bug Love (2015)
Film (Short and Drama) Composer Add a Plot »
Singularity (2015)
Film (Animation, Short, Romance and Sci-Fi) Composer In a time when progress has outstripped the need for humankind, a young cyborg attempts to save his lover from a fate worst than death in this experimental animated film by award-winning composer Sabrina Pena Young.
Urban Night: Sounds (In progress) (2014)
Film (short) Composer/Animator
The Village (in progress) (2014)
Internet Composer
Destiny: Eondwyr (in progress) (2014)
Music Composer/Graphic Artist
TimeMan (2014)
Film (Animation, Short, Fantasy and Music) Composer Add a Plot »
Libertaria: The Virtual Opera (2013)
Music Director/Composer
Libertaria (2013)
Film (Animation, Horror, Music and Sci-Fi) Composer Teen runaway Libertaria escapes a genetics factory and teams up with her addict father to rescue her adoptive mother from the evil Collective in this post-apocalyptic animated musical by award-winning composer Sabrina Pena Young.
Americana (2012)
Internet by Mount Airy Films Composer
Monica (2012)
Film (short) by Robert Cabrera Composer
Creation Oratorio (2010)
Music by Millkin University Composer/Animator
World Order 5 (2009)
Video (Animation, Short and Sci-Fi) Composer In this science fiction animation short Alien beings discover a dangerous secret when they happen upon a now desolate planet called Earth. The haunting music and disturbing alien imagery of composer and filmmaker Sabrina Pena Young accompany this surreal experimental short.
Virelaan (2008)
by Millikin University Composer/Animator
US vs. Them (2008)
Music by Kansas State University Composer/Animator
REQUIEM (2008)
Film (short) Director/Composer
Looking Glass (2008)
Music Composer/Animator
World Order #5 (2008)
Music by Kansas State University Director/Composer/Animator
As I Lay (2007)
Film (Animation, Short, Drama and Music) Composer Add a Plot »
Abuelito (2006)
Documentary Director/Composer
Psychosis I: Dissociation (2006)
Film (short) Director/Composer/Animator
Innermost Thoughts of the Distorted Psyche' (2006)
Music Composer/Animator
Psychosis I (2006)
Film (Animation, Short, Fantasy, Horror and 1 More) Composer Add a Plot »
Innermost Thoughts of the Distorted Psyche (2005)
Film (Animation, Short, Music and Sci-Fi) Composer Add a Plot »
World Order #4 (2004)
Music by Florida International University Composer/Animator
Valley of the Shadow (2004)
Film (short) Director/Composer/Animator
ENIGMA (2004)
Music Composer/Animator
Serenade (2003)
Film (short) Director/Composer
Portrait of Urban Life (2003)
Documentary Director/Composer
Metamorph (2003)
Music Composer/Animator
The War (2003)
Film (short) by Bill Garcia Composer/Production Assistant
World Order #2 (2003)
Music Director/Composer
Conversations wit de Children (2003)
Film by Kalup Linzy Composer
World Order 2 (2003)
Video (Short) Composer Add a Plot »