An avid collaborator, Camila Agosto is an electroacoustic composer and interdisciplinary artist currently based in New York City. Camila seeks to discover intersections of her work with additional artistic fields through partnerships with other musicians, visual artists, choreographers, instrument builders, and creators. Her projects range from acoustic and electroacoustic concert works and orchestral scores to interdisciplinary projects incorporating visual media and dance, and from solo instruments and larger ensembles to fixed media works. Her music is both fully notated and improvisational and often employs extended instrumental techniques, exhibiting a particular emphasis on the exploration of different timbral and textural elements. Within her works, Camila is interested in uncovering the sonic potentialities of acoustic instruments through highlighting and exposing the human element of live performance. 🌐 https://www.camilagosto.com/ 💿 The Memory of Water: https://www.camilagosto.com/the-memory-of-water 💿 Transparent Balance: https://soundcloud.com/camilagosto/transparent-balance?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing 💿 Paracusia III.descry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzKVFxVtSkQ 📺 Saad’s main channel: https://www.youtube.com/@saadhaddadmusic 👨🏻‍🏫 BOOK a virtual lesson with me here: https://www.saadnhaddad.com/lessons.html 📰 NEWSLETTER that shares the latest news about my music and shows: https://saadnhaddad.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=d52b653fc543f4ca604265d53&id=70d2af18c6 📘 SHOP for composition-related resources: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/saadhaddad/extras 🕒 Timestamps 06:50 "The Memory of Water," for solo viola and electronics 25:40 "Transparent Balance," for solo piano 37:38 "Paracusia III.descry," for saxophone and electronics

Mary Kouyoumdjian is a composer and documentarian with projects ranging from concert works to multimedia collaborations and film scores. As a first generation Armenian-American and having come from a family directly affected by the Lebanese Civil War and Armenian Genocide, her compositional work often integrates recorded testimonies with resilient individuals and field recordings of place to invite empathy by humanizing complex experiences around social and political conflict. She has received commissions from such organizations as the Kronos Quartet, New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alarm Will Sound, Beth Morrison Projects, and Bang on a Can. Kouyoumdjian is a cofounder of the annual new music conference New Music Gathering, is on faculty at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University and The New School, is proud to have her music published on Schott’s PSNY, and is based in Brooklyn, NY. 🌐 www.marykouyoumdjian.com 💿 Bombs of Beirut: https://youtu.be/pNegch1_dyU?si=hwHmZzPgqPIQq_ST 💿 Paper Pianos: https://youtu.be/Llxtb_0HNt0?si=OMY0aR1bT-bDhKvh 💿 Adoration: https://youtu.be/70YnbYCyu0I?si=M1MXJeRcTRLbJB82 📺 Saad’s main channel: https://www.youtube.com/@saadhaddadmusic 👨🏻‍🏫 BOOK a virtual lesson with me here: https://www.saadnhaddad.com/lessons.html 📰 NEWSLETTER that shares the latest news about my music and shows: https://saadnhaddad.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=d52b653fc543f4ca604265d53&id=70d2af18c6 📘 SHOP for composition-related resources: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/saadhaddad/extras 🕒 Timestamps 05:26 "Bombs of Beirut," for string quartet and electronics 17:30 "Paper Pianos," for chamber orchestra and electronics 30:55 "Adoration," an opera for voices, string quartet and electronics

Carrie Frey is a New York City-based violist, teacher, improviser, and composer focused on inquisitive collaborations and encouraging creativity in her students. An enthusiastic proponent of new music, she has premiered over 250 pieces. Frey is the violist of the Rhythm Method (“a group of individuals with distinct compositional voices and a collective vision for the future of the string quartet” - I Care If You Listen) and a founding member of string trio Chartreuse and string quartet Desdemona. She has performed with many of New York City’s notable contemporary ensembles, including Wet Ink Large Ensemble, AMOC*, Talea Ensemble, Wavefield, Cantata Profana, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. Frey improvises as a member of Simone Baron’s genre-bending Arco Belo ensemble and with electroacoustic trio Hierophant (with Alex van Gils and Alec Goldfarb). Her compositions, described as “a moldering compost heap” (I Care if You Listen), have been performed by the Rhythm Method, Arco Belo, Adrianne Munden-Dixon, and Kal Sugatski. Her debut sonata album, The Grey Light of Day, with pianist Robert Fleitz, was released in 2016, and her first solo album will be released on Gold Bolus in December 2023. Carrie is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and the Manhattan School of Music Contemporary Performance Program, and is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

🌐 https://freyaviol.tumblr.com/

💿 a chorus like distant screaming: https://youtu.be/paNHWcMPlvQ?si=dKhr80sRBL-XYrq2

💿 Seaglass/Pebble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeVIT8mKhTM

💿 Gone / Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1661SnhWKvk

📺 Saad’s main channel: https://www.youtube.com/@saadhaddadmusic

👨🏻‍🏫 BOOK a lesson with me here: https://www.saadnhaddad.com/lessons.html

📰 NEWSLETTER that shares the latest news about my music and shows: https://saadnhaddad.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=d52b653fc543f4ca604265d53&id=70d2af18c6

📘 SHOP for composition-related resources: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/saadhaddad/extras

🕒 Timestamps

02:18 “a chorus like distant screaming,” for string quartet

14:35 “Gone / Back,” for string quartet

25:16 “Seaglass/Pebble,” for string quartet