Composing
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Dan Langa
Dan is a composer, producer, recording and mix engineer primarily focused on electroacoustic music that explores vivid, bold textures. A collaborative spirit, Langa often works across mediums and genres, teaming up with other artists in film, dance, and other areas of music to create multimedia works. Langa’s recent projects emphasize these strong interests in cross-disciplinary…
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Sami Seif
Lebanese composer and music theorist Sami Seif (b. 1998) has been praised as “a distinctive compositional voice” who creates “intoxicating and fascinating soundworld[s]” (Carla Rees, Pan Journal of the British Flute Society). His music is inspired by the aesthetics, philosophies, paradigms and poetry of his Middle-Eastern heritage. Seif’s music has been performed by world-renowned artists…
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Erika Lantz
Erika is a documentary artist and musician based in Minneapolis. Her audio stories merge investigative journalism with music and metaphor to express things that are hard to say—whether because emotions have been too ineffable to articulate, or because very real forces and systems have coerced people into silence. Critics have lauded her “linguistic arabesques” and…
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Simon Rivet
Simon is a Canadian composer creating music for concert, film, and dance. Rooted in contemporary spirituality, his music unfolds as an invitation to listen deeply. By weaving tradition and experimentation, nature and inner perception, his work creates spaces of stillness and presence where sound becomes a pathway toward intimacy, connection, and one’s own silent sanctuary.
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Cerulean S. Payne-Passmore
Cerulean is a composer and performer whose work lives at the intersection of identity, technology, and the outer edges of music. Drawing on processes of collaborative improvisation and the integration of electronics with acoustic sound, their music often navigates themes of grief, the climate crisis, and genderqueer expression, making what seems strange sound beautiful. Cerulean…
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Elizabeth Kate
Elizabeth Kate is a Brooklyn-based cellist and vocalist working in contemporary classical music. Her practice centers on expanding the repertoire for vocalizing cellist, merging voice and instrument into asingle expressive body. As One, her most recent solo project, is a compositional and performative exploration of the bodies relationship to sound. By merging the voice with…
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Seare Farhat
Seare draws inspiration from myriad sources: poetry, mathematics, his Afghan heritage, and Medieval music. He is particularly interested in the way language, as a musical tool, encodes and defines history. Seare has received commissions from the JACK and FLUX Quartets, Longleash Ensemble, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Moscow New Music Ensemble, and Byrne-Kozar Duo among others. Seare has…
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Iddo Aharony
Continuously exploring the myriad intersections of sound, environment, culture, and technology, Iddo’s diverse body of work spans a wide variety of instrumentations, media, and interdisciplinary collaborations, from a fully-staged opera to various experimental projects utilizing live electronics and video. Iddo is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Technology at Colorado College, where he teaches courses…
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Adam Mirza
“I am a composer and sound artist who works with acoustic and electronic instruments as well as video and other media. My work involves the abstraction and reconfiguration of bodily gestures and politically charged or otherwise culturally resonant sonic media. I use the tools of production (microphones and loudspeakers, audio and video processors, musical instruments, objects,…