Current CMC Work

Showcasing work by our current and recent female/non-binary alumni of the Sound Art MFAs and DMA composers.

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Camila Agosto

An avid collaborator, Camila Agosto seeks to discover intersections of her work with artistic fields through partnerships with other musicians, visual artists, choreographers, and creators. Within her works, Camila often employs extended instrumental techniques and exhibits a particular emphasis on the exploration of different timbral and textural elements. Often seeking to explore the sonic potentialities of acoustic instruments, she highlights and exposes the human element of live performance. Her music has been featured at venues and festivals in the U.S. and abroad. A finalist of the 2019 Los Angeles Philharmonic National Composer Intensive, Camila was commissioned to create Tybontoan, a new work for the International Contemporary Ensemble, which premiered during the Noon to Midnight Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Upcoming projects include The thinness of, a work for solo cello and electronics commissioned by Amanda Gookin for Forward Music Project 3.0, and a new collaborative work for electronics and dancers with choreographer Daniel Padierna. Camila is currently pursuing a DMA in composition at Columbia University. She holds a Master's degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelors in Music from Montclair State University. 

Listen to Paracusia III. descry.

 
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Alice Emily Baird

Alice Emily Baird is an audio and speech researcher from the UK, with interdisplinary experience across computer science and the arts. Currently, Alice is a research assistant and Ph.D candidate, supervised by Dr. Björn Schuller @EIHW, Augsburg, Germany. Her research is focused on improving individual wellbeing, in the field of intelligent audio analysis and multimodal signal processing. Her core research interests include but are not limited to: computer audition, health informatics, affective computing, computational paralinguistics, speech pathologies, audio synthesis, and the perception of sound.

 
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Katherine Balch

Called “spellbinding” (Seen and Heard International) with “glow and poise and electric tension” (The Daily Telegraph), the music of composer Katherine Balch captures the magic of everyday sounds, inviting audiences into a sonic world characterized by imagination, discovery, and stylistic variety. Often inspired by literature, nature, and science, she has been described as “some kind of musical Thomas Edison – you can just hear her tinkering around in her workshop, putting together new sounds and textural ideas” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Katherine’s work has been commissioned and performed by leading ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the symphony orchestras of Minnesota, Oregon, Albany, Indianapolis, and Tokyo. She has been featured on IRCAM’s ManiFeste, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Festival MANCA in Europe, Suntory Summer Arts and Takefu Music Festival in Japan, and the Aspen, Norfolk, Santa Fe, and Tanglewood music festivals in the United States.

Katherine recently completed her tenure as composer-in-residence for the California Symphony, where she was lauded by the Mercury News as a “superbly gifted composer [with] a compositional voice that is truly unique and full of wonder.” She held the 2017-2019 William B. Butz Composition Chair at Young Concert Artists, Inc.

Katherine is the recipient of the 2020-2021 Elliot Carter Rome Prize Fellowship. She has also been honored by ASCAP, BMI, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chamber Music America, the Barlow Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Her music is published exclusively worldwide by Schott Music.

Deeply committed to pursuing inclusive, engaging pedagogical practices that empower students through creative music-making, Katherine is currently faculty at Mannes School of Music and a DMA candidate at Columbia University. When not making or listening to music, she can be found hiking, cooking, or napping with her feline sidekick, Zarathustra.

Listen to Off Hesperus.

 
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Anna Barth

Anna Barth is an Earth Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. She was drawn to the CMC by Ben Holtzman’s class on data sonification four years ago and finds great satisfaction in the collaborations that have emerged since. She uses the combined force of sounds and visuals to help perceive patterns and relationships in complex, often noisy, data. Anna helps to run the Seismic Soundlab and Volcano Listening Project, which provide science- and sound-based educational material. Currently based in New York, she will be moving to Berkeley in Fall 2021 to begin a Miller Fellowship, where she hopes to incorporate elements of machine learning into her data sonification work. When her fingers are not injured from rock climbing adventures, Anna loves to play the cello.

Read Anna’s work here.

 
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Cândida Borges

Cândida Borges (Brazil) is a transmedia artist, musician, educator and researcher based in NYC, where she is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (2019-2021). Associate Professor at the Department of Composition of the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro since 2009, currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Plymouth University (UK) in Arts under the supervision of Dr. Eduardo Miranda, she has been creating works on sound art, image, performance and emerging technologies. She holds a Bachelor and Master in Piano Performance from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she also studied Vocal Performance and Composition, and later on she expanded her artistic and creative interests. She developed an established musician’s career from an early age, as a classically trained pianist, singer-songwriter and composer, having performed in theaters and festivals worldwide. In 2012, she was awarded 1st Prize by the National Foundation of Arts in Brazil and since then she has been developing an international career. Her transmedial and musical works, especially her last composition Transeuntis Mundi - a body of works that includes VR and installations - have received commissions and been presented internationally in festivals and exhibitions, to mention the New York Foundation for the Arts (NY), Art Basel Miami, Museum of the Moving Image (NY), Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (UK) and the Rochester Institute of Technology (NY). As a Scholar, she has been teaching in universities worldwide and publishing texts in conferences and publications of the field. In NYC since 2013, she has been a resident composer for the IBOC Opera Company and actively performed as an educator and artist.

Listen to Transeuntis Mundi.

 
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Julia Hyland Bruno, PhD

Julia Hyland Bruno is an ethologist interested in the ontogeny of communication. She received her PhD in Psychology from the City University of New York and is currently a postdoc in Columbia’s Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program, where she studies birdsong at the intersection of neuroscience, sociology and music.

 
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Rosana Cabán

Rosana Cabán is a Puerto Rican born, Brooklyn based artist. She uses sound, sculpture and performance as mediums to probe problematic binaries such as masculinity and femininity, good and evil, and technology vs human progress. As a producer and recording artist, Cabán has been a part of releases from artists in the Brooklyn DIY scene including Psychic Twin, Primitive Heart, Shrines, GhostPiss, SPRNGVLVT, and Prima. She has most notably performed at the Brooklyn Museum, National Sawdust, the Fillmore, Webster Hall, and over 80 rock venues across the US and Canada through touring with Strfkr, LadyHawke, and the Generationals and opening for Sylvan Esso. She has collaborated with Naama Tsabar to perform at the Kasmin Gallery, the Guggenheim, and the High Line. Cabán was a Marble House Project Artist in Residence in 2018, an Ace Hotel AIR 2017, and a guest collaborator for Lucas Artists Fellow Xandra Ibarra at Montalvo Arts Center in 2020.

 
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Carla Cisno

Carla Cisno is an award-winning sound & live media artist working at the intersection of art, music, design, and technology. Ranging from electroacoustic and mixed-media projects to photography and performance art, she develops open, permeable, responsive environments for the stage or in installations. Carla is the founder and principle designer for Bureau Echoic, an immersive design studio producing site-specific, responsive and experiential sound environments at the intersection of art, music, architecture and technology.

 
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Lauren Covey

Lauren Covey (b. 1982 Lynchburg. Virginia) creates thought-provoking work in a wide range of media, including video, sound, installation, photography, and performance. Her work intuitively pulls from the public and private worlds of psychoanalysis, self-help literature, and therapy to produce enigmatic narratives using  appropriated found material to create a series of invented as well as self-reflective characters. After completing a B.S. in Fashion Design from Drexel University and working in the fashion industry, Covey studied at the Art Students League before joining the MFA Sound Art Program at Columbia University. Her work has been exhibited at the Governors Island Art Fair, Fridman Gallery, and the Fountain House gallery.

Listen to Would You Like A New Set Of Eyes.

 
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Anthony Sertel Dean

Anthony Sertel Dean (they/he) is an artist using sound and media to elicit, enhance, and explore stories of self. This is achieved through an embrace of openness and experimentation, thriving when intimate connections are made internally and collectively - communicating through technology and culture. These works can exist as publicly as radio broadcasts and as privately as personal messages sent through a telephone, but they are all intended to bring listeners together. Anthony’s sound work has been heard at The Kennedy Center, Busan International Film Festival, WNYC, The New Victory Theater, The Kitchen, but mostly with The New York Neo-Futurists.

 
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Dani Dobkin

Dani Dobkin is a resonant body and artist working with sound as a sculptural medium.  Their  work investigates elements of noise, signal flow, forced resonance, drone texture and the liminal spaces between.  As a sound artist, Dobkin works with both large and small scale ideas of sound through physical materials with a focus on intentionality and occupation of space. As a composer, Dobkin has recently been exploring the vast sonic landscape of ceramic and clay material.  Their work has been shown both locally and internationally.  Dobkin lives and works in New York where they hold an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University, teaches sound and synthesis at Bard College, and is currently a DMA candidate in Music Composition at Columbia University.  

Listen to (…of the earth).

 
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Christine Dysers

Dr. Christine Dysers is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Music, Columbia University. Her research is broadly concerned with 20th- and 21st-century music, with particular attention to contemporary composition and the aesthetics of repetition. Her research interests include music and the political, musical borrowing, and the notion of the uncanny. Methodologically, her work occupies the spaces between musicology and philosophy.

Christine holds a PhD in Music from City, University of London. She holds a PGCert in Academic Practice and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Christine has published in several peer-reviewed journals and has presented her work internationally at academic conferences, panel discussions, and invited seminars. Her first monograph, on repetition in the work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang, is currently under contract with Intellect Books. 

 
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Fjóla Evans

Fjóla Evans is a Canadian/Icelandic composer and cellist. Her work explores the visceral physicality of sound while drawing inspiration from patterns of natural phenomena. Commissions and performances have come from musicians such as Bang on a Can All-Stars pianist Vicky Chow, Grammy-winning ensemble eighth blackbird, and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Her work has been featured on the MATA Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, Gaudeamus Music Week, Ung Nordisk Musik, and the American Composers Orchestra's SONiC Festival. In September 2019 she began doctoral studies in composition at Columbia University where her research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Fjóla is the 2017 winner of the Robert Fleming Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Listen to The Visitor.

 
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Meesh Fradkin

Meesh Fradkin is a researcher and audio-visual artist working across sound studies, disability justice, and technology. Currently, Meesh’s research is on sound studies as an interdisciplinary field productively adjacent to sociology, looking to issues of expertise, communication, and power among its actors while locating the disability justice framework as a way to resolve some of the cross-field dynamics. Other projects that Meesh is working on include accessibility in immersive media and the sonification of the archival data included in “Get Well Soon.” Meesh is an MA candidate in Sociology at Columbia University.

 
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Nina Fukuoka

Nina Fukuoka’s works have been premiered at numerous festivals and venues in Europe, North America, and Japan. She has collaborated with many new music ensembles from Europe as well as film makers and choreographers. Her works inhabit a number of contemporary and experimental settings such as video scores and performance pieces with multimedia and live electronics, as well as orchestra and ensemble works. 

With an international upbringing and as a result of being exposed to different cultural perspectives, Nina’s focuses center on intricacies of the modern reality and the Internet. In her works, she explores possibilities of communicating through music and other contemporary media by superimposing latent meanings with distinct images, within the context of tradition and mass culture.

Nina is currently pursuing a DMA in Music Composition at Columbia University in New York.

Listen to Zansei.

 
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Ashley Grier

Ashley Grier is a performer, sound artist, and composer working primarily in live performance and video. She utilizes her background as a classically trained singer and performer to create mythologies and build worlds with and around the human voice and body. Her work often traverses opera and art song forms, drawing upon their histories to investigate the limitations of language - spoken, written, and gestural - and its function in meaning-making. Grier holds a BM from Oberlin Conservatory in Vocal Performance and an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University. Her work has been performed and exhibited in places such as The Drawing Center, Fridman Gallery, and Issue Project Room.

Listen to Talent Show and I Think We’re Compatible.

 
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Lemon Guo

Lemon Guo is a vocalist, composer, and interdisciplinary sound artist from a humid coastal city in southeast China. Drawn to the visceral and evocative nature of the voice, she creates voice-based performances and installations that connect people to current environmental and cultural realities. In recent years, she spent time recording whales in Alaska and learning ancient tunes in Kam (侗) villages. Currently based in New York, where she completed an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University, Lemon has performed and exhibited her works internationally, in places such as Rubin Museum of Art, Ambient Church, Headlands Center for the Arts, EcoSono Festival of Environmental Music and Sound Art (US), BBC Radio 3, BBC Sounds, the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Resonance FM (UK), International Computer Music Conference (Korea), Chronus Arts Center, and Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (China).

Lemon is half of Southeast of Rain, an experimental duo founded with San Francisco-based composer and pipa player Sophia Shen. Their recently released debut album “42 Days” was hailed as “a collaborative gem and a highlight among this year’s new releases... inspires a sort of breathless introspection–a meditation on the perception of time and space in sound.” (I Care If You Listen)

Listen to 42 Days 四十二天.

 
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Laure M. Hiendl

Laure M. Hiendl (*1986, pronouns: xier/they) is a composer and performer based in Berlin. Their work is situated between concert music, performance, music theater, installation and other interdisciplinary realms, employing instruments mainly in interaction with electronic means, and exploring the performativity of the space-time-body relationship in music as a live act — as a shared space in time between bodies for an event that is inherently theatrical and political. Hiendl earned their DMA at Columbia University New York and is currently Assistant Professor at the University Mozarteum Salzburg.

Listen to White Radiance TM.

 
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Hannah Kendall

Hannah Kendall’s work has been widely celebrated. She has created pieces such as Disillusioned Dreamer (2018), which the San Francisco Chronicle praised for having a ‘rich inner life’, as well as The Knife of Dawn (2016), a chamber opera that received critical acclaim for its involving and claustrophobic representation of the incarceration of Guyanese political activist Martin Carter. Her work has been performed extensively, and across many platforms. She has worked with ensembles including London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, The Hallé, Ensemble Modern, and London Sinfonietta, but you’ll also find her collaborating with choreographers, poets and art galleries; crossing over to different art-forms, and celebrating the impact these unique settings have on sound. She is currently composing an Afrofuturist opera for experimental vocalist and movement artist Elaine Mitchener.

Born in London in 1984, Kendall is based in New York City as a Doctoral Fellow in composition at Columbia University.

Listen to Tuxedo: Hot Summer No Water.

 
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Mary Kouyoumdjian

MARY KOUYOUMDJIAN is a composer and documentarian with projects ranging from concert works to multimedia collaborations and film scores. As a first generation Armenian-American and having come from a family directly affected by the Lebanese Civil War and Armenian Genocide, she uses a sonic palette that draws on her heritage, interest in music as documentary, and background in experimental composition to progressively blend the old with the new. She has received commissions from the Kronos Quartet, New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alarm Will Sound, Roomful of Teeth, OPERA America, Beth Morrison Projects, the American Composers Forum, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Friction Quartet, and Experiments in Opera among others. Kouyoumdjian is pursuing her D.M.A. in Composition at Columbia University, holds an M.A. in Composition from Columbia University, an M.A. in Scoring for Film & Multimedia from New York University, and a B.A. in Music Composition from UC San Diego. Kouyoumdjian is a cofounder of the annual new music conference New Music Gathering, is on composition faculty at Brooklyn College’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema and The New School, and is published by Schott’s PSNY.

Listen to They Will Take My Island.

 
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Finola Merivale

Finola Merivale is an Irish composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music, living in New York. She is a DMA candidate in Composition at Columbia University, where she is studying with George Lewis, Georg Friedrich Haas and Zosha Di Castri. Her music has been performed internationally and featured at festivals such as Huddersfield, the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival and the Contemporary Music Festival of Buenos Aires. Her works have been played by International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, and musicians of the Chicago and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras, amongst others.

She was recently named the winner of the National Concert Hall and Sounding the Feminists’ Music Recording Award – a grant that will fund the release of her debut album. In 2020, she was a winner of the inaugural National Sawdust New Works Commission Competition, and awarded a four-month residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. She has recently been commissioned by Rebekah Heller, the West Cork Chamber Music Festival and Irish National Opera.

2021–2022 projects include her first multimedia piece entitled Trash Vortex for the Real Loud Ensemble, and a community opera in virtual reality.

Listen to Do You Hear Me Now?

 
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Emily Praetorius

Emily Praetorius is from Ojai, CA. She studied clarinet and composition at University of Redlands and composition at Manhattan School of Music. She is a 5th year DMA at Columbia University, where she has taught Intro to Digital Music at the Computer Music Center and is currently the assistant conductor for the Columbia University Orchestra. Her previous teachers include Anthony Suter, Susan Botti, Georg Friedrich Haas, and George Lewis, with additional guidance from Reiko Füting and Sam Pluta. Emily resides in New York City where she co-owns Kuro Kirin Espresso & Coffee in Inwood, Manhattan.

Listen to Something Like Your Lagrangian Point.

 
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Avishag Cohen Rodrigues

Avishag Cohen Rodrigues is a musician and multidisciplinary artist from Tel-Aviv, currently living in New York. She is pursuing her MFA in Sound Art at Columbia University. Her main mediums are sound, sculpture and animation. She creates interdisciplinary sculptures and installations that function both as instruments and amplifiers using ceramics and found objects.

 
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Diana Marcela Rodriguez

DM R was born and raised in Bogotá, and she is currently based in NYC.

She is a composer of electroacoustic music, a concert series curator in Columbia Composers, C3, and CanvaSound, and a 90s anime aficionado. Having its footholds in pop culture, Colombian folk, and Rock en Español, her work has been presented by artists like ICE, Yarn Wire, ECCE Ensemble, Ludovico Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, Berrow Duo, Eric Drescher, and Josh Modney at the BANFF Centre for the Arts and Creativity, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the Boston Conservatory, University of North Colorado, the Coral Gables Museum, and the New England Conservatory.

Currently pursuing a DMA at Columbia University, DM R holds a master’s degree from the Boston Conservatory and a bachelor’s degree from the New World School of the Arts at the University of Florida. Her ongoing projects include collaborations with TAK ensemble, Fonema Consort, and Yarn/Wire.

Listen to Studies for Violin and Cello (Remix) and Variation X.

 
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Yixuan Shao

Yixuan Shao’s practice is one of listening before it is one of making —— listening, not only as a physiological function but also as a subjective internal experience. She creates installation works using spatialized sound, image, and writing to gauge the physical space while inviting the viewers to take parts with their own subjectivities. Audio as a material, its substance, vibrational property, and auditory procedure, are emblematic information to process other tangible materials. Her sculptures are inner sounds materialized in visual forms. Stretched out and slowed down in time and space, these objects speak their alter-egos in noise and silence —— two contradicting yet connected margins in soundmaking. 

Yixuan has exhibited at the Wallach Art Gallery, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Block Gallery, Arts Letters & Numbers, Spectrum, Lenfest Center for the Arts, The FRONT Arte Cultura, the Semana Internacional de Improvisación in Ensenada, Mexico, the Athenaeum Art Center, and the Conrad Prebys Music Center. She is collaborating with Michael Joo’s Studio to create a body of sound and video works. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Composition at UC San Diego. She is currently a MFA candidate in Sound Art at Columbia University and the cofounder of Alchemyverse and Cheat of Grass, collaborating across disciplines.  

Listen to ABSTRACCION.

 
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Corie Rose Soumah

Corie Rose Soumah draws inspiration and creates her music for common places such as bus stops and waiting rooms. Her pieces mainly seek the middle ground between aggressiveness and fragility.

Winner of a SOCAN Foundation Award, Corie Rose works have been performed by the guitar quartet Instruments of Happiness, string quartet Flux, choir Les voix parallèles, ensemble Paramirabo, percussion sextet Sixtrum, ensemble Contemporary Insight, New Music Concerts and Orkest de Ereprijs. She also participated to the “24th Young composer meeting” in the Netherlands, “highSCORE festival” and “soundSCAPE festival” both in Italy. Passionate about the encounter between music and other artistic forms, she contributed to several multidisciplinary projects with students from L’École supérieure de Ballet du Québec and students from the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Montréal as well as the actor Yves Desgagnés.

Corie Rose holds a Bachelor’s degree in composition from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal where she studied with Nicolas Gilbert and Jimmie Leblanc. She is currently pursuing a DMA at Columbia University.

Listen to Reflets.

 
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Suzanne Thorpe

Suzanne Thorpe is a composer-performer, researcher and educator. She creates compositions with a variety of media and technology, and performs electroacoustic flute. Her career as a professional recording artist initiated as a founding member of the critically acclaimed band Mercury Rev with whom she produced numerous recordings for major and indie labels. As an electro-acoustic improvisor she’s performed with a wide array of inspiring musicians, and has appeared internationally. Her research attends to her interest in sound and listening contributions to our knowledge of each other and our environments, and takes place in a variety of forms, including performance, installation and text. She has been awarded several residencies and awards for her research, and published and presented her work in various settings, including journals, conferences and lectures, visiting scholar and artistic residencies, museum and gallery exhibitions. Thorpe holds an MFA in Electronic Music & Media from Mills College, a Ph.D. in Integrative Studies from the University of California, San Diego, and is a Deep Listening instructor, having studied in depth with American composer and Deep Listening founder Pauline Oliveros. Thorpe is currently a Mellon Teaching Fellow​/Lecturer in Music at Columbia University​, and co-founder/co-director of TECHNE, an arts-education nonprofit dedicated to nurturing generous practices in creative technology fields.

Listen to Border Fandango.

 
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Anna-Louise Walton

Anna-Louise Walton is an American composer of chamber and electronic music. Her works have been performed by ensembles such as TAK Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Trio Catch, Fonema Consort, Quatuor Diotima, Mivos Quartet, Surplus Ensemble, Ecce Ensemble, [Switch~ Ensemble], and Versipel Collective. Her music has also been featured at MATA Festival, IRCAM’s ManiFeste, Darmstadt International Summer Course, Heidelberger Frühling Festival, Schloss Summer Academy, impuls Festival, VIPA Festival, Electric LaTex Festival, New Music on the Bayou, and highSCORE Festival. In 2019, she was awarded a BMI Student Composer Award. Current projects include a new piece for Ekmeles and a commission from [Switch~ Ensemble] with a grant awarded from New Music USA.

Though Walton did not start composing formally until her junior year at Scripps College, where she received a B.A. in music studying under Tom Flaherty, she grew up playing the piano and singing from a young age. She then went on to study composition at Kunstuniversität Graz with Beat Furrer. Walton received an M.A. in music composition from Tulane University in 2018, where she studied with Maxwell Dulaney and Rick Snow. She then went on to study Sonology at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She is currently pursuing a DMA in composition at Columbia University.

Listen to my mouth is the transmitter.

 
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Bethany Younge

Bethany Younge’s acoustic and electronic music explores the manifold kinesthetic properties of musical performance. For her, the act of music-making cannot be divorced from the physical presence of the human instigator. Her works often incorporate instrumental deconstruction, exaggerated movement, motion tracking, sounding costumes, and/or other aesthetic devices to sonically heighten corporeal expressivity.

Younge is currently pursuing her DMA in Music Composition at Columbia University in New York. Her works have been featured in the 2016 and 2018 International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, MATA Festival, Resonant Bodies Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, The 16th International Young Composers Meeting, and many other festivals. She has worked with many ensembles including JACK Quartet, Distractfold, ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble, TAK Ensemble, Dal Niente, TILT Brass, Sputter Box, KLANG, Ereprijs Orkestra, Fonema Consort, AndPlay, Chartreuse, Gyre Ensemble, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, Inversion Ensemble, Mocrep, and others throughout Europe and the USA. In 2016, she was awarded the Stipend Prize at the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt. She was also awarded a commission prize by National Sawdust, in New York City and the 10th Mivos/Kanter prize.

Listen to at midnight i walked into the middle of the desert.