Harvestworks

Annie Gosfield, whom the BBC called “A one woman Hadron collider” lives
in New York City and works on the boundaries between notated and improvised music,
electronic and acoustic sounds, refined timbres and noise. She composes for others
and performs with her own band, taking her music on a path through festivals,
factories, clubs, art spaces, and concert halls. Her most recent CD “Almost Truths
and Open Deceptions” features a piece for piano and broken shortwave radio, a cello
concerto, a 5-minute blast by her band, and music inspired by baseball and warped
78‘s. Her music has been performed worldwide at Warsaw Autumn, the Bang on a Can
Marathon, MATA, MaerzMusik, the Venice Biennale, OtherMinds, Lincoln Center, The
Stone, The Miller Theatre, Merkin Hall, and The Kitchen. Recent work includes
compositions inspired by factory environments, jammed radio signals from WWII, and
her grandparents’ immigrant experiences in New York City during the industrial
revolution. Annie’s discography includes four solo releases on the Tzadik label, and
she often writes on the compositional process for the New York Times’ series “The
Score.” She was a 2012 fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, held the Milhaud
chair of composition at Mills College, and has taught at Princeton University and
California Institute of the Arts.