SPLICE Festival V 2023 Workshop 1

Friday November 3, 2023
4:00pm EDT
Loft, Berklee College of Music
921 Boylston Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02115

Nilou Nourbakhsh

Novel Interfaces of Expression

A one-hour laptop ensemble workshop that can work with 4 participants or more, up to 40. This workshop includes an introduction to building a simple max patch that we will then use to improvise within a structured improvisation. This workshop also includes a rehearsal of two pieces from the laptop ensemble repertoire: Sonorous Noise by Oliver Hickman and Callings by Spencer Topel

Bio

Described as “stark” by WNPR and “darkly lyrical” by the New York Times, a winner of the Second International Hildegard commission award, a 2019 recipient of Opera America’s Discovery Grant, and winner of 2022 Beth Morrison Projects Next Generation competition, Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s music has been performed at numerous festivals and venues including Carnegie Hall, Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center, and Direct Current Festival at the Kennedy Center. A founding member and co-director of Iranian Female Composers Association, Nourbakhsh is a strong advocate of music education and equal opportunities. She is currently the co-artistic director of Peabody Conservatory Laptop Orchestra and teaches composition at Longy School of Music of Bard college. Niloufar holds a doctoral degree from Stony Brook University and regularly performs with her Ensemble Decipher.