Musical recognition: Bourges International Electroacoustic Residency Prize, Prix Ars Electronica Mention, Pierre Schaeffer Mention, MacDowell Foundation Residency Award, NEA Award, Seattle Arts Commission Artist Awards, Jerome Foundation commissions, URCF NYU awards, ICMA [International Computer Music Association] 2000 commission for Berlin premiere; 2024 Discovery Grant Recipient, OPERA America.
Compositional interests include micro-timbre, texture, tuning, and, spatialization. My first sound installation opened in September 2019; titled RETU(R)NINGS, it sounds daily for 1 – 2 minutes in the Bobst Library Atrium precisely at sunset.
Collaborations with Marilyn Nonken, Margaret Lancaster, Ivan Goff, Pauline Kim Harris, GlassFarm Ensemble, Marianne Gythfeldt, Sarah Plum, Abbie Conant, Jane Rigler, Andy Kozar, and others.
Current projects include new works for gamin, Azalea Twining, and HYPERCUBE.
Published theoretical work on electroacoustic and avant-garde musics addresses the significance of often indirectly perceived qualities in musics; point of view in abstract and representational electronic musics; spatialization as interpretive practice and ontologically; ethics of digital humanities’ archival practices; and musical embodiment and personal formalization in composition. Articles appear in The Computer Music Journal, Organized Sound, Array, and Perspectives of New Music.
My music appears on empreintes DIGITALes, NEUMA, Centaur, World-Edition, Capstone, Innova, Everglade, and New Focus labels. I teach in the Department of Music at NYU. Computer and electroacoustic music studies with Bülent Arel, Diane Thome, Richard Karpen, and John Rahn. Composition study with Gerry Levinson at Swarthmore.
contact: elizabeth.hoffman@nyu.edu
Professor, NYU Music FAS
Co-director, Music FAS Sound Studios and Labs
24 Waverly Place, #268
NY, NY 10003
