City College of New York Sonic Arts Review

Douglas Geers

(Sonic Arts plan Director)

Douglas Geers is a composer who uses technology in most all of his works, whether in the compositional process, as role of their sonic realization, or both. He has created concert music, installation works, and several large multimedia theater works.  He also performs as an improviser, playing laptop and his own custom electronic instruments.

Geers's music has been performed and installations exhibited in a wide range of venues across the world and on a wide range of concerts and festivals. Groups that accept performed Geers'southward music include Ensemble Fa, The Radio-Television Orchestra of Slovenia, the Princeton Academy Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), Speculum Musicae, Ensemble Pi, the NODUS Ensemble, the Verge Ensemble, the NEXt Ens, ConTempo, Miolina, Zeitgeist, The New York University New Music Ensemble, Choral Chameleon, the University of Minnesota Singers, the Richmond University Chorale, the Ball State University Concert Choir, the Western Michigan Academy Chorale, the Commencement Parish Brookline Choir, and the Dessoff Choirs. Performers include Esther Lamneck, Blair McMillen, Madeleine Shapiro, Keith Kirchoff, Maja Cerar, Jinsoo Lim, Lisa Bahn, Saul Bitran, Jed Distler, Kamala Sankaram, Shiau-uen Ding, Junpei Ohtsubo, Darryn Zimmer, Matthew Polashek, and Greg Beyer.

Geers is a Professor of Music at Brooklyn College, a campus of the Metropolis Academy of New York (CUNY). In that location he is Manager of the Center for Computer Music and the MFA plan in Sonic Arts. He also serves on the Ph.D. composition faculty of the CUNY Graduate Centre. As an educator, Geers teaches music composition, electroacoustic music, interactive music and media cosmos with Max/MSP and Arduino/micro:bit, electronic music history, and hardware electronics for music functioning and multimedia installations. Geers completed his DMA in Music Composition at Columbia Academy, where he studied with Brad Garton, Tristan Murail, Fred Lerdahl, and Jonathan D. Kramer.

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Angela Piva

Angela Piva, music industry ace, highly skilled in all aspects of music/audio product, recording, mixing and mastering with over 30 years of professional person audio technology feel and accolades. Recognized past several Grammy accolade nominations from NARAS besides as RIAA multi-platinum sales and awards for many projects both past and present. Angela is currently a member of the Audio and Music Production Staff & Kinesthesia at the Feirstein Graduate School of Movie theater, Brooklyn Higher CUNY located at the Steiner Studios film lot in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Recently elected Chair of the Sound Applied science Society NY Section, interviewed frequently over the years for a diversity of articles, books, press and a popular invitee speaker at many manufacture events, Angela is likewise noted for being 1 of the few successful women recording engineer/mixers in the business and is featured in the Russell Simmons documentary "The Evidence".

Participated as 1 of the invitee speakers that gave testimonials on the get-go inquiry hearing chaired by Tina Tchen for the Recording Academy Task Strength on Diverseness and Inclusion in 2018.

Recording and Mix Credits include: Michael Jackson, Toni Braxton, Naughty Past Nature, Queen Latifah, Run DMC, Ronnie Spector, Groove Theory, Mary J Blige, Colour Me Badd, Heavy D, Christopher Williams, Next, Pat Benatar, Foxy Brown, Shabba Ranks, Ghostface Killah, Zhane, Rita Wilson.  Picture show Music Mixing Credits include: New Jack Metropolis, Poetic Justice, Juice, Love Jones, Toy Story, The Show, Sunset Park, Space Jam, NJ Bulldoze, Why Exercise Fools Autumn in Love. Spoken give-and-take performers including: Crimson Jones, Stanley Tucci, Lynn Redgrave, Lauren Bacall, Anderson Cooper and many more than.

•AES, NARAS and ASCAP member

•AES NY Section Chair / Electric current

•AES Education Commission

•Sound Thinking Pupil Diversity and Inclusive Music Program/Consultant (Mayor'southward Office of Media and Entertainment)

•B.Thousand.  Berklee Schoolhouse of Music, Music Production & Engineering

•MAT, CUNY, Master of the Arts Music

David Grubbs

David Grubbs is Professor of Music at Brooklyn Higher and The Graduate Center, CUNY. At Brooklyn Higher he also teaches in the MFA programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Creative Writing. He is the author of The Voice in the Headphones, Now that the audience is assembled, and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Muzzle, the Sixties, and Audio Recording (all published by Duke Academy Press) and, with Anthony McCall, Simultaneous Soloists (Pioneer Works Printing).

Grubbs has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than than 190 releases; his most recent solo recording is Creep Mission (Blue Chopsticks, 2017). In 2000, his The Spectrum Between (Drag City) was named "Album of the Twelvemonth" in the London Sunday Times. He is known for his ongoing cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe and visual artists Anthony McCall and Angela Bulloch, and his work has been presented at, among other venues, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Tate Mod, and the Centre Pompidou. Grubbs was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Allurement, and has performed with Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Luc Ferrari, Will Oldham, Loren Connors, the Red Krayola, Purple Trux, and many others. He is a grant recipient from the Foundation for Gimmicky Arts, a contributing editor in music for Flop Magazine, chair of the Blank Forms board of directors, and managing director of the Blue Chopsticks record characterization.

Marina Rosenfeld

Marina Rosenfeld is a composer and sound artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Since the early on 1990s, when she created the first 17-womansheer frost orchestra, her works have foregrounded participation, sociality, transdisciplinarity and a feminist arroyo to noise, vocality and acoustic architectures. She has created awe-inspiring sound works in such spaces as the Park Avenue Armory, the Museum of Modernistic Art, the Serralves Foundation and Western Australia'south Midlands Railway Workshops; participated in surveys including the Whitney Biennial (2002 and 2008), Montreal Biennial (2016), Liverpool Biennial (2011) and PERFORMA Biennial (2009 and 2011), and documenta14's radio programme (2017); and equanimous works for festivals including the Holland, Borealis, Wien Modern, Ultima and Donaueschingen Musiktage, amongst many others. Recent solo exhibitions include Portikus Frankfurt, CCS Bard/Hessel Museum, the Artist's Plant and, upcoming in 2021, Kunsthaus Baselland in Basel, Switzerland.

As a turntablist, working with a unique palette of original dub plates, Rosenfeld has also been active as a collaborator and improviser, performing and recording with such figures as George Lewis, Christian Marclay, Annette Henry aka Warrior Queen and Okkyung Lee, among many others. Her music for trip the light fantastic toe includes alive operation with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and works for choreographers Ralph Lemon and Maria Hassabi. Rosenfeld is as well currently a research artist with Experiments in Art and Engineering at Bell Labs/Nokia in New Bailiwick of jersey.

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Ben Vida

Ben Vida is a composer, improviser and artist. In the mid-1990s he co-founded the minimalist quartet Boondocks & Country and released solo records under the moniker Bird Show. He has worked with numerous labels including PAN, Shelter Press and Kranky. Vida'southward composition exercise focuses on the use of electronics and vocalism and has recently expanded to works for pocket-sized ensembles. The text based pieces he produces employ generative writing techniques developed through an appointment with experimental writing practices. In these works linguistic communication is treated as a raw material that tin exist sampled and re-contextualized into numerous mutable forms. In addition to his compositions for voice Vida has produced numerous releases that demonstrate his enquiry into systems and sound syntheses.

Vida'due south work has been featured in Artforum, Modern Painters, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Art Review, Wire Magazine, The Creators Project, WIRED Magazine among others.

Recent projects include a collaboration with YarnWire and vocalist Nina Dante premiered through Lampo at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago and the release of a new LP by his duo with Marina Rosenfeld.

Johanna Devaney

Johanna Devaney'due south research seeks to understand how humans engage with music, primarily through operation, with a item focus on the singing voice, and how computers can be used to model and augment our understanding of this date. Her work draws on the disciplines of music, psychology, and reckoner science and has been published in the Periodical of New Music Inquiry, Psychomusicology, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, and Ex Tempore likewise as presented at numerous international and national conferences. She is currently the speciality principal editor for the Digital Musicology section of Frontiers in Digital Humanities.

Devaney previously taught in the Music Applied science program at NYU Steinhardt and the Music Theory and Noesis program at Ohio State University. She completed her postdoc at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. in music engineering science at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. She too holds an G.Phil. caste in music theory from Columbia University too as an MA in composition from York University in Toronto.

Devaney's research has been funded past the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSRHC), the Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (FRQSC), the Google Kinesthesia Enquiry program, and, near recently, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities program.

Claire Marie Lim

Claire Marie Lim is a Singapore-born music technologist and educator, also active under her artist projection dolltr!ck. She specializes in teaching for live electronic functioning, production and programming, and is an advocate of womxn and Asian representation in music technology.

Classically-trained as a pianist, flautist and composer, Claire slipped headfirst into the abyss of electronic music in college. She emerged from its depths as a DJ, remixer and live performance designer for numerous award-winning artists, including two-time Grammy nominees Alphabet Rockers, acclaimed keyboardist Rachel Z, My Brightest Diamond and Nona Hendryx of Labelle.

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Equally dolltr!ck, Claire presents dynamic live sets of originals and remixes that meld electronica, pop and dance music. Her functioning content has been featured by Genelec, iZotope, Serato and Aodyo Instruments. She was involved in the launch of Berklee College of Music's groundbreaking Electronic Digital Instrument plan, and has played at events by TEDx, Toyota, iHeartRadio, PayPal and KCON.

In music education and arts activism, Claire collaborates with the Girls Rock Campaign, Beats Past Girlz, and the Queens Public Library network, and has received support from the New York City Section of Cultural Affairs and Queens Council on the Arts. She develops curriculum for various ages and experience levels, having consulted for the International Middle of Photography, Queens College, Coursera and the Berklee network.

Students can learn with Claire through in-person private lessons, small group workshops and large-calibration clinics. Remotely, she teaches via video conferencing and offers a selection of online courses as listed on world wide web.clairemarielim.com/learning. Claire also runs the doll troop, a mentorship experience where Thou-12 girls can shadow her in electronic songwriting sessions and alive shows, with signups on a rolling basis at www.dolltrick.com/dolltroop.

Morton Subotnick

Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive estimator music systems. The work that brought Subotnick celebrity was Silver Apples of the Moon [1966–67], commissioned by Nonesuch Records, marking the commencement time an original large-scale composition had been created specifically for the disc medium — a conscious acknowledgment that the habitation stereo system constituted a present-mean solar day form of chamber music. It has become a modern classic and was recently entered into the National Register of Recorded Works at the Library of Congress. Merely 300 recordings throughout the entire history of recorded music accept been called.

In the early 1960s, Subotnick taught at Mills College, and, with Ramon Sender, he co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center. During this period he collaborated with Anna Halprin in two works (the three legged stool and Parades and Changes) and was music managing director of the Actors Workshop. Information technology was also during this period that Subotnick worked with Don Buchla on what may take been the kickoff analog synthesizer (now at the Library of Congress).

In 1966 Subotnick was instrumental in getting a Rockefeller Grant to join the Tape Center with the Mills Bedchamber Players (at Mills College with performers Nate Rubin, violin; Bonnie Hampton, cello; Naomi Sparrow, pianoforte and Subotnick, clarinet). The grant required that the Tape Center relocate to a host institution that became Mills College. Subotnick, however, did not stay with the movement, just went to New York with the Actors Workshop to go the first music director of the Lincoln Heart Rep Visitor in the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Middle. He became an artist in residence at the newly formed Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. The School of the Arts provided him with a studio and a Buchla Synthesizer. During this catamenia he helped develop and became artistic director of the Electric Circus and the Electric Ear. This was besides the time of the creation of Silver Apples of the Moon, The Wild Bull and Touch.

In 1969 Subotnick was invited to be part of a team of artists to motion to Los Angeles to plan a new schoolhouse of the arts. With Mel Powell as dean and a team of 4 other pairs of artists, Subotnick, as associate dean, carved out a new path of music didactics and created the now famous California Institute of the Arts. Subotnick remained acquaintance dean of the music school for four years and then, resigning as associate dean, became the caput of the composition program where, a few years later, he created a new media program that introduced interactive technology and multimedia into the curriculum.

Subotnick is now pioneering works to offer musical creative tools to young children. He is the writer of a series of CD-ROMs for children and a children'due south website and is developing a program for classroom and after-school programs that will soon become bachelor internationally.

Among Subotnick's awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, 3 Rockefeller Grants, 2 Meet the Composers, American Academy of Arts and Letters Composer Honour, Brandies Award, Deutcher Akademisher Austauschdienst Kunsterprogramm (DAAD), Composer in Residence in Berlin, Lifetime Achievement Honor (SEAMUS at Dartmouth), ASCAP: John Muzzle Accolade, ACO: Lifetime Achievement, and Honorary Doctorate from the California Institute of the Arts.

Morton Subotnick tours extensively throughout the United States and Europe as a lecturer and composer/performer.

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Jules Gimbrone

Jules Gimbrone creates delicate corporeal audio and sculptural ensembles that highlight the differentiations between modes of perceptual acquisition—specifically visual and sonic—within circuitous and precarious arrangements of subjects and objects. Edifice on this is an expansive thought of the phenomenology of resonance–social performativity, identity development, subject/object relationships, etc.–all being inherent to the accumulation of layers that are built on materially transparent, fragile, surfaces.

Resonance, as a set of atmospheric condition or relationships between things, becomes activated and legible through light and sound then complicated through abstraction and perceptual manipulations.

Gimbrone's works have appeared at such venues as Walker Art Center, Stellar Projects, SculptureCenter, ISSUE Project Room, The Rubin Museum, MOMA PS1, REDCAT, Human Resources LA, Park View Gallery, Vocalization Populi, and Théâtre de l'Usine, Geneva, Switzerland. Gimbrone received an MFA in Music Limerick and Integrated Media from CalARTS in 2014. In 2018 Gimbrone received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant and was accustomed to In Exercise at SculptureCenter.

Red Wierenga

Red Wierenga is a pianist, accordionist, respectronicist, improviser, and composer based in New York City. His longest artistic association is with the Respect Sextet, chosen "a group which has released i of the about compelling recordings of the twelvemonth" by the Wall Street Periodical and "one of the best and nearly ambitious new ensembles in jazz" by Signal to Noise.

He has performed and/or recorded with artists including The Claudia Quintet, Ensemble Indicate, Salo, the Fireworks Ensemble, and David Crowell.

Wierenga builds and performs with new interfaces for electroacoustic improvisation, working with analog and digital synthesizers.He received his bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music, studying with Harold Danko, Ralph Alessi, and Kevin Puts. After having studied at the Constitute of Sonology in The Hague, holland, with Joel Ryan and Paul Berg, he became an Enhanced Chancellor's Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he received his Ph.D. and his teachers included Jason Eckardt and Douglas Geers. He has taught music appreciation and electronic music at Baruch College (CUNY) and currently teaches at the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music.

Tyondai Braxton

Tyondai Braxton is an American composer of electronic and notated music. He studied music composition at The Hartt Schoolhouse of the Academy of Hartford in Due west Hartford, Connecticut with Robert Carl, Ingram Marshall. His work ranges from solo pieces to music for large orchestra and electronics. Braxton is also the co-founder of the experimental rock ring Battles.

Braxton has been deputed for compositions by ensembles and organizations such every bit The BBC Concert Orchestra, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Blindside on a Can All Stars, Kronos Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, Yarn/Wire, Carnegie Hall, Black Mount College and many more than. His critically acclaimed work, Central Marketplace (Warp Records), has been performed past earth renowned orchestras such equally The LA Philharmonic, The Wordless Music Orchestra, and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Notable collaborations include performing as a duo with Philip Glass for the festival All Tomorrow's Parties, collaborating visual artist Thomas Need presenting work at Los Angeles Canton Museum of Art and Prada Foundation at Venice Biennale in 2017, His multimedia project HIVE for iii percussionists and 2 modular synth performers was commissioned by and premiered at the Guggenheim NYC in 2014 followed by the recording released in 2015 HIVE1 (Nonesuch Records).

In 2018 Braxton premiered Telekinesis for large orchestra, choir and electronics at The Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall in London with the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers. The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra performed the piece in February 2019 in Helsinki, Finland as autonomously of the Music Nova Festival.

 Equally a solo performer of electronic music he has performed all over the world, most notably at Mutek Festival Montreal, Manchester International Festival, The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Commonwealth of australia, Large Ears Festival in Knoxville,Tennessee, The Broad in Los Angeles California, and Sonar Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

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