Rohan Sridharan
2026
The Ascender is a cinematic, concept Hip-hop music project that uses a space-themed narrative to parallel key growth experiences in my life regarding love, loss and my South Asian heritage.
Ravish Momin (Sunken Cages)
2026
Memories of Water-with collaborators Ishita Mili (dancer) and Art Jones (video-artist) seeks to weave forgotten histories of the Siddis (Indians of East African descent), along with resistance and healing rituals, while maintaining a live interdisciplinary performance as the focus. They draw on street-rhythms from Mumbai, live electronics, ancient Chhau and Bharatanatyam to contemporary dance styles along with live-video manipulation and projection mapping.
Stephanie Ann Boyd, Geoff Robertson & Audrey Wright
2026
In PRISMBODY, sound becomes color as Stephanie Ann Boyd composes through her synesthetic lens, building a new work with multidisciplinary artist and inventor Geoff Robertson for New York Philharmonic violinist Audrey Wright. As part of the work, Audrey will be wearing Geoff’s creation The Garment, which transforms the solo violin into a radiant, multi-sensory instrument in this commission that explores how music can reach and resonate with audiences of varied abilities and ways of perceiving. Through a journey across the spectrums of vibration, PRISMBODY asks what new possibilities emerge when music is crafted to be felt through more than one sense.
Mari Kimura
2026
MIGRATION PATTERNS is an interdisciplinary performance co-created with choreographer Adrienne Westwood. Dancers wear MUGIC® motion sensors to generate, interrupt, and shape a cyclically responsive audiovisual environment in real time. Rooted in notions of belonging, adaptation, and lineage, the work weaves memory-based choreography with sensor-driven interactivity — collapsing boundaries between choreography, composition, and technology.
MaYita (Maya Martínez Gómez)
2026
"MaYita" is a Colombian-born, NYC-raised ceremonial artist, composer, and multidisciplinary creator weaving ancestral wisdom, prayer, and future-facing sound into immersive musical experiences. In service to the Earth and humanity, her work bridges music, ritual, storytelling, and collective remembrance to inspire coherence, reciprocity, and connection.
Meadow Bridgham
2026
Composer Meadow Bridgham challenges the traditional norms of the classical piano recital with a set of autobiographical character pieces for pianist Clare Longendyke.
MOYANA
2026
Performer, educator, and musicologist MOYANA is recording an original song: “BLU MONDAY.” This song weaves themes of works by painter Annie Lee together, crafting an anthem of hope for Black girls. MOYANA will accompany this release with a film photography exhibit to foster education of Black history, combating systemic erasure.
Marshall Trammell (Music Research Strategies)
2026
Music Research Strategies is Marshall Trammell. "TOTAL MUSIC FACT: A Taxonomy of This-ness" is an emergent compositional form for the real-time, micro-''tuning' of rope tension percussion in critical improvised music performance. Collaborating with Maud Seuntjens, "TOTAL MUSIC FACT: A Taxonomy of This-ness" stands as a polyproxy for an eco-ethnomethodological social practice, active listening applications to the virtues of noise, sound, improvisation and symbol and community-based participation in self-documentary and community archives as a critical pedagogy and live, film scoring performances.
Nelle June Anderson & Anne LeBaron
2026
“All Waste Accepted” is a one-act solo vocal hyperopera by Anne LeBaron and Nelle June Anderson. In Earth’s final recycling center after environmental collapse, a lone attendant feverishly repurposes sound, movement, and notation to maximize post-performer recycled content. Workshop premiere: University of Michigan, February 2027.
Niko Eme
2026
“Worship Urbano 2” is a Spanish album that blends worship with urban sounds like reggaetón and afro beat. It carries a strong message of faith, hope, and gratitude, delivered through modern rhythms. This project creates a fresh space where worship connects with today’s culture in an authentic and powerful way.
John Roseboro
2026
John presents his most arousing work to date. Va Va Voom focuses on romance, religion, and regrets.
Obediya Jones-Darrell
2026
Obediya Jones-Darrell writes and records orchestral arrangements for Ohio and New York based hip-hop artists.
Paul Pinto
2026
Estebanico:Etudes is a set of modular theatrical chamber pieces for percussion quartet and fixed media. This series of standalone works also functions as the musical backbone of what will become an epic multilingual operatic spectacle for voices, orchestra and electronics inspired by the 16th Century Black African who explored much of modern day Florida, Texas and the U.S. Mexican border.
Phyllis Chen & Benjamin Lazar Davis
2026
CIRCADIAN CYCLES is a series of songs that explores the intrinsic rhythms in plants using Plantwaves technology. Custom designed to play these organic rhythms with samples of flatfooting/tap dancing, the music draws from traditional fiddle music and integrates toy instruments, pump organs and miniature objects.
Rohan Sridharan
2026
Memories of Water-with collaborators Ishita Mili (dancer) and Art Jones (video-artist) seeks to weave forgotten histories of the Siddis (Indians of East African descent), along with resistance and healing rituals, while maintaining a live interdisciplinary performance as the focus. They draw on street-rhythms from Mumbai, live electronics, ancient Chhau and Bharatanatyam to contemporary dance styles along with live-video manipulation and projection mapping.
Salina Kuo
2026
St. John's Wort is an indie-rnb project led by vibraphonist and songwriter Salina Kuo. By confronting personal experiences with grief and depression, Kuo's debut album invites listeners to share in their healing, following the passing of their brother to suicide.
Sarah Hennies & Bhob Rainey
2026
"Soft Mist" is a new work for solo saxophone by Sarah Hennies composed for Bhob Rainey. Hennies is working collaboratively to develop a method of composing and notating Bhob Rainey's typically improvised and also unconventional extended techniques with multiphonics, articulation, and other unusual approaches.
Sarah Khatami
2026
“Shaydaayi” (“شیدایی”) is a word that transcends the limitations of the English language. It lives somewhere between love and longing, passion and sacrifice, devotion and madness. Featuring Shami Arabic music group, ASAFIR, this project will be a collection of five of my father's original Persian poems reimagined as songs, with each piece reflecting a different facet of “Shaydaayi” (“شیدایی”).
Sasha Ishov & Will Yager
2026
TERNS is flutist Sasha Ishov and bassist Will Yager, a flute–double bass duo expanding the repertoire of this uncommon pairing. The project launches a commissioning initiative featuring a new work by Michael Hersch, alongside ongoing collaborations with composers.
Scott Robinson & aRT
2026
This project, "Neurovisceral Sonifications," will result in a new album by my cooperative trio "aRT" (akLaff, Robinson, Thayer), integrating our music with sonifications provided to us by the late percussion master and physiological researcher Milford Graves, which he created from his own psychophysiological data. This project will carry on collaborative work that we had begun in earnest with him, but which he did not live to see completed.
Scott Wollschleger
2026
Ghost Song is a new, hour-long solo piano work created in close collaboration with pianist Karl Larson. The composition builds on a shared musical language rooted in patience, intuition, and the slow illumination of fragile sonic worlds. Ghost Song extends this language into new territory: a long-form meditation on piano harmonics, resonance, and the blurred boundary between presence and disappearance. Formally, the work unfolds as a sequence of interconnected “ghost melodies” that emerge from the interaction between the piano’s harmonics and its regular tones, exploring elusive material that threatens to vanish as it comes into focus.
Seth Cluett & Abigail Levine
2026
Composer Seth Cluett and choreographer Abigail Levine stage a new work using visual artist Walter De Maria’s "360° I Ching" as a choreographic and sonic score. Taking place of the course of a full day, dancers arrange and rearrange handmade tuned rods in an exploration of De Maria's concepts of Invisible Drawing and Meaningless Work.
Shara Nova (My Brightest Diamond)
2026
Having inherited her Pentecostal grandfather’s sermon notebooks—documents of his lifetime spent leading revivals across the American South—Shara Nova fastens on his guitar strap to create a revival of her own, rooted not in belief but in chosen inheritance and the search for communal practices that tend the soul.
Sound Sovereign
2026
Data and the Disciple vol. 1 is a sacred container of chamber chants, song landscapes, and groove adagios that are rooted in ritual, rest, earth, body, and ancestral pathways as means for accessing our lost medicines, unraveling and dissolving trauma, and re-membering our inherent, indigenous, decolonized/precolonial knowing.
Su Lee
2026
"Animot’s Dilemma: Between the Raw and the Tempered" is a new work for saxophone and pipe organ. The project explores the tension between raw sonic gestures and tempered systems and is planned for performance as part of the Studio frische Klänge Artist Series by Daehoon Kim (saxophone) and Su Lee (organ).
Svjetlana Bukvich & Carl Stone
2026
Svjetlana Bukvich and Carl Stone will create Ximer Naklab, an electroacoustic work blending phonograph recordings of Bosnian ganga, Herzegovinian silent dances, ex‑Yugoslav rock voices, and Tokyo street recordings. Rather than treating these materials as static artifacts, the project engages them as living, unstable sources, continually reframed through algorithms and composition. Ximer Naklab navigates hope and doubt, asking when technology shifts from tool to agent and opening new sonic space across cultures through history, memory, and uncertainty.
Talia Billig
2026
Minimal Change is an album and performance model reimagining how music is made, presented, and toured for disabled, chronically ill, and exhausted bodies. Emerging from illness and displacement after the Eaton Fire, it asks how rest, access, and slower timelines might become not limits on art, but the method itself.
The Narcotix: Becky Foinchas & Esther Quansah
2026
The Narcotix project, Earthbound, is a collaborative album and performance work exploring sound as spiritual technology for emotional, psychological, and ancestral healing. Through immersive composition and intimate community performances, the project creates sonic environments that invite deep inner investigation, transformation, and collective restoration.
Wolf Weston (Selkist)
2026
“i am no longer trying to escape” is the debut solo project of Selkist (Wolf Weston) and a sonic meditation on detangling debt and personhood. It ruminates on the struggle for autonomy in a world that runs on extraction, drawing from personal experience how true agency shapes hope, opportunity, and connection.
Pascal Le Boeuf, Miguel Zenon, & Anna Huang's Human-AI Resonance Lab
2026
"Oneness & Separateness" is an acoustic chamber work for saxophone, Disklavier piano, and AI improviser that examines how humans and machines listen, respond, and co-create.
