ELIZABETH HOFFMAN
NYU Music Department, FAS
24 Waverly Place, #268
New York, NY 10003
| 2013- | PROFESSOR, NYU – FAS, Department of Music |
| 2004-2013 | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, New York University |
| 1998-2004 | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, New York University |
| 1997-98 | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, U. Minnesota, Minneapolis |
| 1996-97 | LECTURER, U. Washington – Seattle, WA |
| 1994-96 | RESEARCH ASSOC, Ctr for Advanced Research Technology Arts and Humanities, U. Washington |
PUBLICATIONS
RECORDINGS [monographs]:
| 2012 | 1. | Intérieurs harmoniques, electroacoustic, empreintes DIGITALes, IMED-12115 |
| 2011 | 2. | Pathological Curves, acoustic, World Edition label, WE-17 |
| 2003 | 3. | Modus Nodus: Chamber Music 2002-03, acoustic, Albany Records, TROY 610. |
RECORDINGS [on collections]:
| 2015-16 | 4. | Chacun/e, [in production], Pauline Kim Harris |
| 2012 | 5. | red is the rows (2011), on Perspectives of New Music/Open Space “milton babbitt: a composers’ memorial project.” |
| 2012 | 6. | Through ripple glass (2009), clarinet and live electronics, on through ripple glass, Everglades Records, EVG-1202 |
| 2008 | 7. | Holonyms (2005), on In Four, Innova Records, Innova 700. |
| 2007 | 8. | metalmorphosis (2003), on Capstone Records, CPS-8796. |
| 2006 | 9. | Allamuchy (2002), on Electroacoustic Music VII, Neuma 450-105. |
| 2003 | 10. | Globeland (2002), music/video; w/R.Dorin. Innova, Sonic Circuits X, E119. |
| 2001 | 11. | Vim (1995), Centaur Records, Inc., CRC-2512. |
| 1998 | 12. | Alchemy (1996), on Miniatures Concrètes [II], empreintes DIGITALes,Montréal.Commissioned, Diffusion i MéDIA. IMED 9837. |
| 1998 | 13. | Numbers (1998), for mezzo-sop/computer-realized sounds, on Computer Music Journal CD 22/4,MIT Press. |
| 1995 | 14. | Tesserae (1994), on ORF Prix Ars Electronica ’95 CD, (Austria). |
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Hoffman, E. 2013 15. “No One Perspective: Retrospective on PNM,” invited article. Perspectives of of New Music journal. Published by Perspectives of New Music: Volume 51/1 (Winter 2013): 161-166. And: “Excerpts from a Conversation with Elizabeth Hoffman” pp. 167-173).
Hoffman, E. 2013 16. “Interview with You Nakai on the Music of Ellen C. Covito,” Perspectives of New Music journal: Volume 51/1
(Winter 2013): 5-20.
Hoffman, E. 2013 17. “On Performing Spatialized Electroacoustic Musics: A Non-idiomatic Case Study for Adorno’s Theory of Musical
Reproduction,” Organized Sound journal,Cambridge U. Press; 18/1: pp. 60-70.
Hoffman, E. 2012 18. “’I’-Tunes: Multiple Subjectivities and Narrative Method in Computer Music,” in Computer Music Journal, MIT Press,
36/4, Winter 2012, pp. 40-58.
Hoffman, E. 2011 19. “Contemporary Electroacoustic Music’s Discourse: Chosen aesthetic languages as socio-cultural interventions”: http://www.ems-network.org/spip.php?rubrique6
Hoffman, E. 2008 20. [re], Review article, Computer Music Journal, Volume 32/2, Summer 2008, pp. 82–84.
Hoffman, E. 2006 21. Invited essay for “Tracing Change: Gender and Computer Music,” Array journal. Reprinted in online eContact! 8.2,
Canadian Electroacoustic Community.
Hoffman, E. 2005 22. “Textural Klangfarben in James Dillon’s La femme invisible: an Explanatory Model,” Perspectives of New Music
theory journal, 43/1 (Winter 2005), pp. 4-33.
Hoffman, E. 2005 23. Review article, Music Theory Spectrum journal, University of California Press: ” Microsound by Curtis Roads”
Vol. 27, no. 2 (Fall 2005), pp. 328-335.
Hoffman, E. 1998 24. International Computer Music Conference Proceedings, 1998, U. of Michigan.”Animated Scores for Performance of
Electroacoustic ‘Tape’/Live Performer Compositions” San Franciso: International Computer Music Association, 1998.
BOOK CONTRIBUTION
Hoffman, E. 2001 25. Instrument design examples, in The Csound Book, MIT Press, 2001,(ed.
Richard Boulanger) on compact disc accompanying textbook.
2008 26. Metalmorphosis (Baltimore, MD: Smith Publications)
2004 27. Geminis (Baltimore, MD: Smith Publications)
INVITED LECTURES, AND JURIED CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS
2016 Drake University
2015 Columbia University Music Department
2015 Digital Humanities Forum, NYU (November 2015)
2015 CCNY Non-Credit Course, L. Lehrman, Bible Women in Opera (February 2015)
2014 Institute for the Performance of Contemporary Music, Mannes (June 2014)
2014 CREATE Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara (April 2014).
2013 Institute for Creative Arts and Technology, Virginia Tech. “Sound spatialization as an expressive signifier in fixed media stereo works.”
2012 Brooklyn College (December 2012).
2012 “Towards a theory of listener embeddeness in electroacoustic music,” CUNY, Conference.
2012 “Towards a theory of listener embeddedness in electroacoustic music,” Queen’s U., UK.
2011 Swarthmore College, PA.
2011 Manhattan School of Music, NYC.
2010 University of Oklahoma, Norman, School of Music.
2010 “La Enseñanza de la Composición,” U. Córdoba, Argentina, Biennale.
2010 “Ideas of Social Architecture in Xenakis’ Evryali,” Xenakis Symposium, NYU-Polytechnic.
2008 “Nancian Sharing: Sonic Selves Listening,” AMS/SMT National Conference, Nashville.
2007 Technische Universität, Berlin.
2007 University of North Texas – Music Now series.
2008 “Adorno’s concepts of Mimesis and Logic in the Performance of Fixed Media Musics,” Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, England. Formulate with the greatest care: Adorno and Performance Conference.
2008 “Algorithmic Composition,” IEEE (Inst. of Electrical and Electronics Engineers),Montclair, NJ.
2008 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), NYC chapter.
2005 “Music and Representation,” Liberal Arts at Lunch, New York University.
2002 “Trends in Contemporary Music,” Swarthmore College, PA.
2001 “Organized Disorganization in Dillon’s La femme invisible: Artificial Sound Models of Natural Phenomena, or Physical Modeling Without a Computer,” SMT, National Conference, U of P.
2000 “Masterpiece without a Master,” CAS Scholars Lecture Series, Jurow Hall, NYU.
1998 “Musical Abstraction in the Wake of Serialism,” NYU, Music Department.
1998 International Computer Music Conference. University of Michigan “Animated scores for Electro- acoustic/Live Performer(s) Compositions.”
1995 Institut Universitari de L’audiovisual, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
1994 “An Analysis of Ligeti’s “Double Concerto,” Northwest Music Theory Conference.
INVITED GUEST TEACHING
2014 Institute for the Performance of Contemporary Music, Mannes (June 2014)
2012 Brooklyn College, Seminar Guest; Symposium Speaker
2012 La Pietra Forum, Florence, Italy [featured composer]
2011 John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium, U. New Mexico [featured composer]
INVITED MUSIC PRESENTATIONS [selected]
2014 Third Practice Festival, University of Richmond, November 7, 2014.
2014 CREATE Festival, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2013 QUBIT, Non-ference Noise Music Festival, New York City, March 2013.
2012 Ai-maako International Electroacoustic Music Festival, Santiago, Chile.
2012 University of Southern Alabama, Seventh Annual Electroacoustic Music Festival.
2011 Third Practice Festival, University of Richmond.
2010 National U. of Córdoba, Argentina, Electroacoustic Festival.
2009 Third Practice Festival, Richmond, Virginia, “Through Ripple Glass” [premiere].
2009 Sacramento State University, Festival of New American Music, Sacramento, CA.
2008 New Music Miami, Contemporary Music Festival.
2006 U. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin – “Surroundings” Festival – music presentation.
2005 University of Calgary, Electroacoustic Music Festival.
2005 University of Iowa, Electroacoustic Music Festival.
2002 Panel discussant, “Gender and Electroacoustic Music,” University of Richmond.
1998 SEAMUS Conference, Dartmouth College, Project presentation: Animated Scores.
HONORS/GRANTS
2015 ZeitGeist New Music Composer Residency (NYC)
2015 MacDowell Colony Residency (NYC)
2015 Harvestworks Residency Award and Grant (NYC)
2012 Selected (featured) composer on ICMC2012 Conference CD
2011 Fulbright Research Award Finalist, U.K.
2009 American Composers Forum, Jerome Foundation Composer Commissioning Award
2009 MetLife Creative Connections, Meet the Composer grant
2008 Creative Collaboration Support Grant, NYU, with Marilyn Nonken
2005 Humanities Council Grant, NYU, ‘Current Free Practices in Music and Poetry’
2005 Finalist, Minnesota Orchestra Reading Session
2003 Finalist, Pierre Schaeffer International Computer Music Competition
2002 Mention, World Music Days 2002, ISCM, Miami chapter.
2000 Golden Dozen Excellence in Teaching Award, NYU, College of Arts and Science
2005, 2003 Research Challenge Fund Grant, NYU
2002 American Composers Forum, Jerome Foundation Composer Commissioning Award
2001 Research Challenge Emergency Fund Grant, NYU
2000 Distinguished International Visitors Grant, NYU
1999 Seattle Arts Commission Artists Award
1999 International Computer Music Association ICMC, Commission Award
1996 International Alliance of Women in Music, Search for New Music Award
1995 Mention; ORF Prix Ars Electronica ’95 International Competition, Austria
1995 Western European Research Grant, University of Washington
1994 Bourges Grand Prix Internationaux de Musique Electroacoustique
1994 Seattle Arts Commission Artists Award [for chamber opera project]
1992 Olympia Chamber Orchestra, Search for New Music Award
COMMISSIONS
2015 Harvestworks Creative Residency, with Jane Rigler, NYC, creation of “all the more my thoughts multiply” presented by CT:SWaM and Harvestworks, 2016.
2014 Pauline Kim Harris (NYC) new work for Chaconne album, solo violin music.
2014 Jay Crone (VA) new work for recording to be released in 2016, trombone music.
2014 Festschrift 2015 for Benjamin Boretz, PNM Journal (WA).
2014 Loadbang (NYC) new work for NYC presentation, Spring 2015.
2014 Andy Kozar (NYC) new work for portrait concert, National Opera House, NYC.
2014 Elizabeth Crone, Diversity Concert, new work for Trio, presented two concerts in VA.
2014 Third Practice Festival of New Music, Richmond VA, new work for Jane Rigler.
2014 Nino Jvania (Tbilisi), visiting artist in Residence at NYU, two new works for piano.
2013 Washington Square Contemporary Music Society commission for April 2014.
2013 Max Mandel, Eric Huebner [new work for premiere at Roulette, NYC, April 2014].
2013 Heather Roche (U.K.).
2012-13 Esther Lamneck/NYU (NYC).
2012-13 Delaware Arts Council/Marianne Gythfeldt (DE/NYC)
2012-13 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, Colorado (CO)
2012 Jane Rigler, flute (CO)
2012 League of Composers/ISCM (NYC)
2011-12 Ensemble Mise-En (NYC)
2011 Perspectives of New Music/Open Space journals, Babbitt memorial project (US)
2009 Margaret Lancaster, Women’s Work Festival, March 2010 (NYC)
2009 Glass Farm Ensemble/Stans Music Festival (NYC/SUISSE)
2009 TimeTable Percussion/Argento, Moving Sounds Festival (NYC)
2008 Either/Or Ensemble, Merkin Hall concert (NYC)
2007 Arthur Campbell, recital and CD project (MI)
2006, 2004 Glass Farm Ensemble (NYC/SUISSE)
2006 TimeTable Percussion group (NYC)
2006 Daan Vandewalle pianist (BE)/Táman Trio (US)
2003 Elizabeth McNutt (TX)
2003 Anandance Dance Company (NYC)
2003 Stephen Paysen (NYC)
2003 Dominic Donato (NYC)
2002 Taimur Sullivan (NYC)
2002 New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players(NJ)
2000 Abbie Conant, (Germany)
1996 empreintes DIGITALes label (Montréal, CA)
1996, 1993 The Esoterics a cappella vocal ensemble (Seattle, WA)
MUSIC PERFORMANCES [Recent Selected, Representative]
International
2014 Athens, Greece: International Computer Music Conference, Songstressed (9/14).
2013 ‘Time-Axiom”: a [global] telematic concert organized by Sarah Weaver, NYC. [New work.]
2013 QUBIT ‘Non-ference,’ NYC, wisprs, selected for presentation, 3/30/13. [international call for works.]
2012 Santiago, Chile; Ai-maako Electroacoustic Music Festival, Resonants, 8-ch. (9/2012).
2012 Belfast, UK; Sonorities Festival, Resonants, 8-ch. (3/2012).
2010 Córdoba, AR; Biennale; through ripple glass, Marcelo Barragán, cl.+live electonics. (9/2010).
2009 Jakarta, Indonesia. Salihara Festival. Immer Inner, TimeTable Percussion performing (7/17).
2008 Laufenburg, Switzerland, night slices [solo piano] (2/19).
2007 Bourges, France; Synthèse Festival. Thousand Leaved Green (6/10).
2002 Gent, Belgium, Logos Foundation, Tesserae (8/6).
2002, 2001 Elderberry Goddess (2000), trombone/electroacoustic – Abbie Conant, trombone:
-Vienna, Kosmos Frauenraum, (10/6/01) .
-Münster, Münster Gessellschaft für Neue Musik, (11/29/01).
2001 Birmingham, England, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Simon Hall, Elderberry Goddess (12/7).
National [Recent Selected, Representative]
2015 SEAMUS, VT – ways to leave your hexachord – 124 ch
2015 WEALR, CSUFullerton
2014 NYC, National Opera Center, Andy Kozar portrait recital, Deviations from a theme by Brahms (12/14).
2014 Richmond, VA; Modlin Center for the Arts, Jane Rigler, frôTH (11/14).
2013 Dartmouth College, Arthur Campbell (clarinet) recital, through ripple glass.
2013 New York University, Interactive Arts Series, 3/4/13, new work, wiederfinden, with E. Lamneck.
2012 Texas, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Nebraska [group tours]; Line Upon Line percussion group,
Immer inner, [perc trio]. Also: PASIC percussion arts conference, Nashville.
2009 Grand Rapids, MI. Through Ripple Glass [commission] Arthur Campbell performing (10/20).
2009 Maryland locations, MidAtlantic Symphony Orchestra, barrissement d’éléphant.
2007 Kresge Auditorium, MIT, Cambridge, MA, In red weather (4/22).
2007 Williamstown, MA, Williams College, In red weather [perc. trio] (9/10).
2007 Chicago, IL. Claire Chase, flute. folly for (9/15).
2007 Richmond, VA, University of Richmond. Lisa Cella, flute. folly for (10/20).
2007 Boston Conservatory, Boston, Time Table Percussion, In red weather (4/21).
2006 Arizona State University, Tamán trio, thrum (9/1).
2006 Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin MISE for 8-channel sound (11/16).
2006 Towson University, MD, New Music Ensemble barrissement d’elephant (4/12).
2006 University of South Florida, Alan Brooks, metalmorphosis (4/15).
2003 Paterson, NJ, William Paterson College, Geminis (10/13).
2002 Arkansas State University, Fine Arts Recital Hall, Department Recital Series, Homage to van Gogh (4/29).
2002 Richmond, University of Richmond, VA, Modlin Center for the Arts, Globeland (11/1).
2002 Minneapolis, MN, Bryant Bowl, “Sounds Unseen” Festival, Globeland (9/24).
2002 Temple University, PA, “Cybersounds” Festival, (4/23). Sibilance (2000) electroacoustic.
Local [Selected/Representative]
2015 MANNES – assemblage [4/28]
2015 SKIRBALL – katharsis, FLUX [2/27]
2014 Tenri, NYC, Washington Square Contemporary Music Players, Silky [quartet+ electroacoustic], (5/14).
2012 The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, “Walls and Bridges Transatlantic Festival,” wisprs [SQ+ electroacoustic].
2012 Spectrum, NYC, The Hudson Trio, soundSerrations, for piano, cello, and violin, premiere.
2012 Skirball Performing Arts Center, NYC, League ISCM Concert [commission] (5/10/12).
Paradigms Lost, for orchestra, bs clarinet, Uillean pipes, and live electronics,
2011 Merkin Concert Hall, Talea Ensemble performing, Assemblage [trio+live elec.] [commission], (3/24/11).
2010 Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, Lunar Movements Series, Argento New Music Group, Lochan (12/11).
2009 Le Poisson Rouge. Vissera, Moving Sounds Festival [commission] (9/14).
2009 The Tank, AMP presents SURROUND SOUNDS Part I: Venus. (5/8).
2009 The Players Theater, MacDougal Street. Immer Inner. (4/09).
2009 Merkin Hall, Either/Or Ensemble, Pathological Curves (3/26).
2009 CUNY Graduate Center, NYC Electronic Music Festival, Langanaich (4/3).
2008 Bloomingdale School of Music, TimeTable Percussion, In red weathe (10/12).
2007 Baryshnikov Arts Centre, GlassFarm Ensemble, earthly objects (10/28).
2007 Tenri Cultural Institute, GlassFarm Ensemble, earthly objects, night slices (3/17).
2007 St. Matthews Church, TimeTable Percussion, In red weather (2/16).
2007 Bloomingdale School of Music, In red weather (2/9).
2006 MonkeyTown, Brooklyn, Claire Chase, and Eric Lamb, folly for. (10/24).
2006 Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC., Daan Vandewalle, night slices (3/24).
2006 Symphony Space, Portrait concert: Steven Schick, International Contemporary Ensemble,
agajaggers, for chamber orchestra, three pieces for six percussion (4/8).
2005 Tenri Cultural Institute, GlassFarm Ensemble, holonyms (5/7).
2003 SUNY Purchase, Doubleplay Ensemble, Geminis (9/15).
2003 Queens College, Geminis (10/8).
2003 Thalia Theater, Geminis (10/21).
2003 Look and Listen Festival, Chelsea Art Gallery, Globeland (4/3).
2002 NYU Silver Center, Department of Music FAS EAM Concert, Homage to van Gogh (4/02).
2002 Merkin Hall, barrissement d’éléphant (10/15).
2001 Merkin Hall, Daan Vandewalle, Onder Andere (O.A.) (12/11).
2001 Newark, NJ, NJPAC – NJSO Chamber Players, Taproot (3/18).
JURIED MUSIC PRESENTATIONS [Electroacoustic and Computer Music] [Selected, Representative]
International
2012 International Computer Music Conference. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Soundendipities (9/14).
2010 NYCEMF Festival, CUNY Grad Center, Elebash Hall.
Composition through ripple glass (2000) selected for presentation.
2008 International Computer Music Conference. Sonic Arts Research
Center, Belfast, N. Ireland. Langanaich, premiere. For Uillean pipes and laptop (8/28).
2008 Sonorities Festival, peer reviewed. Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast, N. Ireland (4/21).
2005 International Percussive Arts Society Conference, Columbus, OHI
Composition Geminis selected for presentation (11/3).
2005 Fourteenth Annual Electroacoustic Music Festival, University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida. Composition Color Motions selected for presentation (4/4).
2003 Twelfth Annual International Electroacoustic Music Festival, University of Florida,
Homage to Van Gogh, Gainesville, (4/5).
2002 Eleventh Annual International Electroacoustic Music Festival, University of Florida,
Vim, Gainesville, (3/21).
1998 International Computer Music Conference. University of Michigan SOM. Vim (9/98).
National
2010 Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, Conference, St. Cloud, MN.
Composition through ripple glass (2009) selected for presentation.
2009 Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, Conference, Ft Wayne, IN
Composition langanaich (2008) selected for presentation (4/13).
2008 Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, Conference, SLC, Utah
Composition Venus (2008) selected for presentation (4/4).
2007 Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, Conference, Ames, IA
Composition folly for (2006) selected for presentation (3/9).
2006 Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, Conference, Eugene, OR
Composition the twelfth chapter (2006) selected for presentation (3/31).
2005 Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, Conference, Muncie, IN
Composition filiforms (2004) selected for presentation (4/16).
ADVISING RECORD [PRINCIPAL ADVISOR]
ADVISEES’
NAME DISSERTATION TITLE CURRENT POSITIONS
1- Yoon-Ji Lee For an “I” Larger than Myself: Intercultural Music
Making Based on a Case Study of Elliott Sharp’s THEN GO Defense May 2015.
PhD Recipient Fall 2015.
PhD September 2015.
2- Ryan Carter, Helmut Lachenmann’s Gran Torso and the
PhD 2014 Analysis of Musique Concrète Instrumentale Hamilton College.
DDF Recipient 2013.
3- Adam Mirza,
PhD 2014 Action Aesthetics: Musical Modernism and the PhC [ABD] Problem of Performance DDF Recipient 2014.
4- Stephanie Huguenin Gallatin Degree Program
MA 2014
5- Matthew Quayle, Musical Representations of Power U. Mass, 2008, and
PhD 2009 in Three Orchestrations of Boris Gudonov NYU CAS Abu Dhabi 2009-present.
6- Paula Matthusen, Decentralized Performance in Metacreative
PhD 2007 Musical Systems: Definitional Aspects Wesleyan University. and Performative Qualities of Musical Agents
7 – Bernd Göttinger RethinkingAudio Distortion: Towards a Theory
PhD 2007 of Sonic Signatures SUNY Fredonia.
8 – Christopher Ariza An Open Design for Computer-Aided MIT [09-012];
PhD 2005 Algorithmic Music Composition: athenaCL Towson U., 2007-08.
Private industry 2012-present
9 – Ryan Dorin The Repetitive Sequence: Information Adelphi U., and NYU, CAS
PhD 2005 Loops in the Construction of Western Music [2005-2011].
10 – Juliana Trivers Directed Motion in Stravinsky’s “Mass”
PhD 2004 Independent composer
11 – Sean Carson ‘Trace’ Analysis: Applications to Musical
PhD 2003 Contour and Voice Leading Berkeley CA, museum curator
DISSERTATION COMMITTEE SERVICE (PhD students), Reader on Committees
2010-2014 Peter McCulloch, Steinhardt School, PhD, Music Theory and Performance; reader. PhD 2014.
2013-2014 Jennifer Wilhelms, Steinhardt School, PhD, Music Theory and Performance; reader. PhD 2014.
2010 – present Maria Stankova
Felipe Lara Completed PhD 2014.
Akiva Zamcheck
Yoni Niv
Ivan Goff
2008 – 2010 Rachel Mundy PhD 2011. U. of Pittsburgh, ten.-track
Alexander Ness
Louis Conti PhD 2009.
2008 – 09 Jenny O. Johnson PhD 2009. Wellesley College, ten.-track
2004 – 07 Sanna Iiti PhD 2006.
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESES ADVISED
2012 Rebecca Lientjes, Panel Award Winner, 2012 Undergraduate Research Conference
[secondary advisor on the paper preparation]: Origins of Music Minimalism
2011 Paul DiVincenzo, Thesis: Musical Composition
2007-08 Ethan Bassford, Panel Award Winner, 2008 Undergraduate Research Conference
Topic: Non-parametric musical thinking, and its relationship with standard notation.
2007-08 Oki Ishikawa, Thesis: Japanese Music’s Art of Application: Hybridization
Considered as a National Trait
2005-06 Alexander Starr, Panel Award Winner, 2006 Undergraduate Research Conference
Topic: Heidegger’s Theories of Technology
2004-05 Soonali Maniar, Thesis: Extracting theoretical elements from traditional Indian musical forms
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE [Selected, representative]
BOOK/ARTICLE EXTERNAL EVALUATOR
2014 Women and Music journal, External reader
2013 Invited Board Member, Art and Design Review, //www.scirp.org/journal/adr
2012 Organized Sound Journal, External reader
2010 Women and Music journal, External reader
2008 University of California Press, Pierre Schaeffer’s À la Recherche (1952) in translation from French
2006 Music Analysis Journal, External reader
TENURE REVIEWER FOR OTHER INSTITUTIONS
2014 Stanford University; Northwestern University; Texas Tech University
2012 Columbia University
2011 University of Oklahoma
2009 University of Wisconsin;
2009 Portland State University
2008 Boston University School of Music
2007 University of Michigan
2006 Dartmouth College
2005 University of Richmond
INVITED ADJUDICATION SERVICE
2015 International Computer Music Conference
2014 SEAMUS National Conference; International Computer Music Conference
2014, 2015 Adjudicator, Composers Today State Contest, California, Spring 2014 and 2015.
2013 SEAMUS National Conference
2013 NYCElectronic Music Festival2013
2012 JTTP Electroacoustic Music Competition, Montreal, Canada
2012 Destellos International Electroacoustic Foundation, Competition Adjudicator
2012 International Computer Music Association Paper Reviewer
2011 Electroacoustic Music Studies-Network, Papers Reviewer/Organizer
2009 Papers reviewer, ICMC 2009, McGill University
2009 JTTP Electroacoustic Music Competition, Canada
2008 SEAMUS National Conference
2008 NYC EMFestival, CUNY
2006, 2007 JTTP Electroacoustic Music Competition, Canada
2006 Iowa Pelzer Prize Adjudicator, Iowa
2006 ASCAP/SEAMUS Adjudicator, Student Commissions
2005 Seamus Conference, University of Oregon
2005 Feminist Music Theory Conference 8, Program Committee, CUNY/NYU
2004 SEAMUS National Conference
2003 External Adjudicator, Internal Awards, CUNY Graduate School
2001 SEAMUS, National Conference, University of Iowa
1998-2000 Concert review writer, Array, International Computer Music Association
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, APPOINTMENTS, and ACTIVITIES
2013-14 Dean’s Committee on Technology and the Humanities
2012-13 Steering Committee, NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival; collaboration with CUNY
2002-present Associate Editor, Perspectives of New Music journal
2007, 2003 External reader, PhD dissertation defenses, SUNY Stony Brook, Music Department
2005-2010 Elected Board member, Secretary, SEAMUS national organization
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
New York University:
2016 – P & T, elected committee member
2015 – present Global Coordinator for Music Department
2015 Panel participant, UG CAS Research Conference
2014 Abu Dhabi Music Search Committee
2009-2012 Director of Graduate Studies
2008-09 Acting Director of Graduate Studies
2008, 2009, 2010 NYU Fulbright Committee interviewer
2007 Dissertation Reader, Steinhardt PhD committees
2005-06 Organizer, Humanities Council funded symposium, “Free Practices in Music and Poetry”
2005, 2001-02 Undergraduate Mentor
2002-2005 Director of Undergraduate Studies
DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Department of Music:
2014 Admissions Committee Chair;
Organizer Washington Sq CMS Concert at Skirball
2013 Summer Awards Fellowship Committee, Admissions Committee, Search committee
2011 – 12 PhD Qualifying Exam Committee;
Chair, Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Committee;
Summer Fellowship Committee
2010 – 11 Admissions Committee; Graduate Student Concert Organizer
2008 – 09 Tenure review committee member
2008 – 09 Chair, Admissions Committee
2007 – 08 Organizer and supervisor, First Undergraduate Concert
2006 – 07 Coordinator, Composition/Theory Area Studies
2006 – 07 Search Committee member
2006 – 07 Executive Committee member
2006 – 07 Admissions Committee member
2004 – 05 Committee member, Department Promotion and Tenure committee
2004 – 05 Search Committee member
2003 – 07 Organizer, Annual Department Computer Music Concerts
2003 Speaker, OISS Foreign Student Orientation [summer]
2002 – 03 Search Committee member
2002 – 05 Executive Committee Member
2000 – 02 Coordinator, Colloquium Series
2002 Chair, Graduate Qualifying Exam committee
1999, 2000, 2001 Graduate Exam committee member
1999 – 2000 Curriculum Committee member
1998 – present Founder and Director, Washington Square Computer Music Studio
NEW COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT AT NYU
Graduate
Fall 2014 G71.2198 Special Topics: The Music and Philosophy of Luigi Nono
Fall 2010 GA 2162 Seminar in Composition (seminar component)
Spring 2007 G71.2163 Analysis of 20th-c Music: Polyrhythm
Fall 2004 G71.2198 Special Topics: Xenakis
Spring 2002 G71.2199 Special Topics: Microtonal Twentieth-c. Music
Spring 2001 G71.2134 Studies in Music Theory: Comparative Approaches in Theory and Practice
Spring 1999 G71.2163 Analysis of 20th-c Music: Music of Elliott Carter
1999-2010 G71.2165 Computer Music Composition
Undergraduate
Fall 2016 ]The Art of Listening
Spring 2015 FRESH SEM Sonic Art: Sound, Everyday Life, and Aesthetics
Spring 2015 UA209 Principles of Musical Analysis: Sonification
Fall 2014 UA209 Principles of Musical Analysis: Timbre Studies
Spring 2014 Undergraduate Composition (with an Emphasis on Non-notated musics)
Fall 2013 Revisiting Musical Modernism
Summer 2011 Music in NYC [Existing course, adapted]
Fall 2009 V55.0730 MAP: Expressive Cultures: SOUND [Existing course, adapted]
Spring 2009 V71.0901 Honors Seminar: Historical Performance Practice
Spring 2008 V71.0901 Honors Seminar: Spectral Music
Fall 2006 V71.0307 Electroacoustic Music: History, Theory, and Practice
CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA/CONCERTS ORGANIZED
2015 International Electroacoustic Music Event [concert and lectures], Skirball PAC (NYU).
2013 International Electroacoustic Music Event [concert and lectures], Skirball PAC (NYU).
2011 String Noise: A Concert of Two Violin Music. Curated, organized, and supervised
this event which featured Department of Music 5 graduate composers (NYC).
2011 International Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, June 2011, NYC (NYU).
(This is a musicology oriented organization based in the UK/France.)
2009 Electroacoustic/Video Concert at the Italian Academy, Columbia University.
Organized the concert and student exchange with Luigi Ceccarelli, visiting composer, from Rome.
2008 Feminist Theory and Music, Organizing Committee Member (adjudication and
event planning), New York University and CUNY.
2006 Current Free Practices in Music and Poetry: the Language Poets and Avant-garde Experimental Music
1970 – present. Speakers: George Lewis, Alvin Curran, Barrett Watten, Lytle Shaw,
Mark Applebaum, and Miya Masaoka. NYU Humanties GRANT. This was a complex
day-long event that drew together significant Language poets from across the U.S.
and experimental sound artists from the W. coast and NYC. The event was met with
a packed room that included a significant crowd from the local NYC community.
HUMANITIES GRANT. $1500.
2002 Lectures by visiting English composer James Dillon. Applied for and received an NYU
Distinguished International Visitor GRANT.
EDUCATION
- Doctor of Musical Arts. University of Washington (Seattle); Advisor: Diane Thome.
- Three-month Residency. Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel (Basel, Switzerland). .
- Master of Music. Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY). Study with Bülent Arel.
- Bachelor of Musical Arts. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA). Study with G. Levinson.
DISSERTATION
“Concepts of Value in Art and their Reflection in Contemporary Music,” UMI, 1996.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
International Computer Music Association, Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States,
Society for Music Theory, BMI, American Composers Forum
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING PROFICIENCY
Csound, MAX/MSP, Supercollider, JavaScript.
LANGUAGES
French and German.
RECENT PUBLICATION REVIEWS
[A compilation of those listed below are available at this link:
http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imed_12115/critiques/]
2013 Reviews of IMED-12115 compact disc release.
- By Enrico Bettinello in Blow Up #177 (Italy), February 1, 2013: www.musikansich.de/review.php?id=12047
- By Wolfgang Kabsch in Musik an sich (Germany), September 1, 2012
- By Pierre Durr in Revue & Corrigée #93 (France), September 1, 2012
- In Bad Alchemy (Germany), August 1, 2012
- By GP in Gonzo Circus #112 (Belgium), November 1, 2012
- By Klaus Boss in Hifly (Denmark), October 17, 2012
- By Vito Camarretta in Chain DLK (USA), October 7, 2012
- By multipara in De:Bug #166 (Germany), October 1, 2012
- By Éric Serva in France Musique (France), September 28, 2012
- In RNE3: Atmósfera (Spain), September 9, 2012
COMPLETE MUSICAL WORKSLIST
Available on request.