2022 New Works Residency

  • Miya Masaoka

    Miya Masaoka is an American composer and sound artist. Her work explores bodily perception of vibration, movement and time while foregrounding complex timbre relationships. In 2018 she joined the Columbia Visual Arts Department as an Associate Professor, where she is the director of the Sound Arts Program, a joint program with the Computer Music Center. […]

  • Cleek Schrey

    Described by the Irish Times as “a musician utterly at one with his instrument and his music,” Cleek Schrey is a fiddler and composer from Virginia. An active member of traditional music communities in America and Ireland, he plays in the Ghost Trio with Ivan Goff and Iarla O Lionaird. His work has been presented […]

  • William Hooker

    William Hooker’s body of uninterrupted work beginning in the mid-seventies defines him as one of the most important composers and players in jazz. As bandleader, Hooker has fielded ensembles in an incredibly diverse array of configurations. Each collaboration has brought a serious investigation of his compositional agenda and the science of the modern drum kit. […]

  • Yasunao Tone

    Composer Yasunao Tone discussed the creation of his new work “Musica Simulacra,” a CD-ROM project based on the Japanese anthology of poems “The Manyoushu.”