School of Music

Fátima Miranda was born in Salamanca and lives in Madrid. She is a singer-performer and composer, from 1983 to today she carries out research work on the experimental voice and vocal music of traditional cultures. Fleeing from comfortable stereotypes, she combines Eastern and Western vocal techniques and those of her own invention, conceiving the voice as a wind and percussion instrument installed in her own body. This has allowed her to develop a register of more than four octaves that she puts at the service of creation, VOCAL ART and an entire musical language of her own in which the borders between singing, poetry, theater, composition, improvisation and interpretation are blurred. In her concerts, a single voice in symbiosis with a significant poetic, gestural, visual, dramatic and humorous component moves us to the depths.
 

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Sarah Robinson is the flutist and cofounder of Helix Collective, a Los Angeles-based ensemble of classical musicians busting out of the traditional mold from crossover dance music to storytelling to music for film, t.v., and games. The ensemble has released three critically acclaimed albums and has recorded the scores for over fifty films. She is the director of Helix Collective’s Los Angeles Live Score Film Festival and a coach for iCadenza, a consulting and coaching company serving artists. Sarah is the author of Clubbing for Classical Musicians, a guide to presenting music in alternative venues which has been called “enlightening, instructional, and inspiring.”

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Artist in Residence Series- Fall 2022

Ellen Arkbro (b. 1990) is a composer musician sound-artist working with precision-tuned intervallic harmony. Her work includes compositions for acoustic instruments and for synthetic sound, and for combinations of both, as well as installation work. She has presented her site-specific work at Barbican in London, Kölner Philharmonie, Serralves in Porto, Issue Project Room in New York, Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, Silent Green in Berlin, Ina GRM in Paris and Tempelaukkio Kirke in Helsinki. In all of her work, Arkbro focuses on the qualities of harmonic sound that reveal listening as an active process of creative participation, inviting the listener to gradually transform into the sound itself.

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Artist in Residence Series- Fall 2022

Olivia Block is a media artist and composer. Currently, her practice includes live performance, recordings, audio-visual installations, sound design, and scores for orchestra and chamber music concerts. Block's studio pieces often combine field recordings, electronic sounds, electric organ, piano and long chamber music passages. She composes scores for ensemble, orchestra, pipe organ and piano. Her recordings are published on Another Timbre, Erstwhile, Glistening Examples, NNA Tapes, Room40, Sedimental, and Touch, among other labels. Block performs using various techniques and instruments. She plays improvised and composed pieces on synth organ, laptop, analog synth, amplified objects, inside of grand piano and microphone, among other materials. Block creates multi-channel diffusion concerts and site-specific, multi-channel sound installations. She recently completed a 14-channel sound installation featuring sounds from Harry Bertoia's "Sonambient” sculptures for the Nasher Sculpture Gallery in Dallas, TX.

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Artist in Residence Series- Fall 2022

Steve has performed and recorded with many well-known and highly esteemed musicians. Notably, he was a longstanding member of the Paul Motian Electric Bebop Band, Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, Steve Swallow Quintet and Joey Baron’s Killer Joey. Steve is currently a member of the John Patitucci Electric Guitar Quartet, Jon Cowherd Mercy Project, Adam Nussbaum Lead Belly Project and Ben Allison Band. Steve has also performed regularly with such artists as Madeleine Peyroux, Eliane Elias and Norah Jones, as well as toured extensively performing at countless international music festivals, theaters and clubs. Steve is the Charlie Haden Artist in Residence.

 

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Artist in Residence Series- Fall 2022

LARAAJI is a musician, multi-instrumentalist, mystic, and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He attended Howard University, a historically black university in Washington D.C. on a scholarship to study composition and piano. LARAAJI’S experiments and explorations with the open tuned electric autoharp/zither began with a gentle nudge from his divine guidance. In 1976, in Queens, NY, he had gone into a pawn shop to trade his guitar for much-needed cash, but was guided to instead acquire the autoharp/zither in the store window. Heeding this mystical and startling guidance, he left the shop with a Kentucky BlueGrass instrument he had never touched before. Within a few weeks, LARAAJI had discovered a new sound vocabulary with this 36-stringed American folk instrument. After open-minded experimentation with altered tunings, LARAAJI arrived at a deeply engaging and exotic new age music performance sound, which he sometimes refers to as “Celestial Vibration,” recalling an earlier paranormal sound hearing experience. LARAAJI began studying Eastern mysticism and improvising trance-inducing jams on his modified autoharp, processed through various electronic effects. In 1979, Brian Eno saw LARAAJI playing in Washington Square Park, NYC and invited him to record an album for his seminal ambient series “Ambient 3: Day of Radiance,” released 1980. Since then, LARAAJI has recorded over 50 solo and collaborative albums, the latest of which are three solo piano improvisation LPs, SUN PIANO, MOON PIANO & THROUGH LUMINOUS EYES. He also conducts healing laughter playshops around the world.

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Ela Orleans is an experimental pop, electronic sound and visual artist, performer, cinematic composer and academic. Born in Oswiecim, Poland, Ela Orleans moved to Glasgow, Scotland in 1997 and joined collage-pop group Hassle Hound.The band signed with Staubgold, which released the LP Limelight Cordial in 2006, and Born In A Night in 2010.
 

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