OVERVIEW

Unheard-of//Ensemble and our composition faculty Nirmali Fenn, Katherine Young, Christopher Stark, and Reiko Fueting are hosting the Collaborative Composition Initiative workshop (CCI//Sessions) live and in-person from Brooklyn, NY from July 20–24, 2022. This CCI, we will be focusing on a connecting inspiring composers and their art with our New York community. The ensemble and ten composer participants will work closely with our composition faculty to develop new premieres for Unheard-of ensemble incorporating multimedia or electronics. In addition, participants and the ensemble will collaborate developing a group work using sound samples and field recordings taken during the week in New York. Unheard-of will host the CCI opening concert on July 20th featuring works by faculty composers and CCI premieres parts one and two on July 22nd and 24th. Workshops and the premieres performances will take place at Mise-en_Place Greenpoint.

In addition to our ensemble workshops, there will be a variety of workshop topics including instrumental writing for electroacoustic ensemble, Working digital electronics (streaming, live processing, and more), and topics selected by our composition faculty. 

We are limiting the workshop to nine composer participants to write full ensemble works for Unheard-of to be workshopped and recorded throughout the week. Ford and Matheus will work with participants to edit and mix the tracks for release as part of CCI//Sessions, vol. 4.