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Horacio Fernández

Horacio Fernández

 

Horacio Fernández composes classical music by day and writes pop songs by night. He is a Mexican artist that engages diverse audiences in both the concert stage and online, where he makes music for an audience of thousands. He is currently completing his master's degree at The Juilliard School. He has received commissions by Albany Symphony, the New Juilliard Ensemble, collaborated with esteemed artists such as Zlatomir Fung, the Oregon Symphony, David Allan Miller, Tony Glausi and is currently producing music for several promising young artists in the Latin music scene.

 

 
 

Phong Tran

Phong Tran

Phong Tran is a Brooklyn-based composer, electronicist, and visual artist. His works are heavily inspired by the sound of early synthesizers, late night wikipedia dives, simulation theory, RPGs, and vaporwave eccojams. Phong performs in MEDIAQUEER, a synthesizer and violin duo formed in 2018 with Darian Thomas. Phong’s solo work has been released through New Amsterdam Records, people | places | records and slashsound.

Armistead Booker

Armistead Booker

 

Armistead Booker is the director of digital media and community engagement for Metropolis Ensemble. Since the organization's inception in 2006, he has served in several roles (marketing director, consultant, founding member) alongside the Grammy-nominated artistic director Andrew Cyr. Together, they have shaped immersive audience experiences, produced innovative digital projects, and created a wealth of online content over the years.

Armistead also runs a design studio serving digital-native artists, nonprofits, and startups for the greater good. Previously he was director of design at the American Museum of Natural History, show runner for a popular episodic kids show, and strategist at a creative agency. He and his family live in Brooklyn with three generations of hostas, an aquarium, and a well-loved Brio set.

 

 
 

Skyler Hill

Skyler Hill

 

Skyler Hill is a sound maker, performer, and improviser who is deeply interested in dissolving sonic, social, and performative boundaries.

Currently, they are pursuing research into interactive musical spaces and creating a new form of musical game, titled House, which questions the audience-performer binary and allows for experimental forms of participation. Under the name Wavy Enneper, they also recently completed a concept EP which documents the process of trans becoming through the musical embodiments of anxiety, euphoria, and self acceptance.

With backgrounds in jazz and improvisation, the making of sound in particular moments and environments is a lens through which many of their projects are focused. However, they are also active as a producer, electronic/electroacoustic artist, and mixing and mastering engineer, working with sound in unique ways through analog and digital means.

A recent piece of theirs which combines many of these methods is Mood, Irrealis, for string quintet, saxophone, voice, and electronics. Written, arranged, recorded, mixed, and mastered by them, this piece shows the beginning-to-end process of music making that they’ve grown to enjoy, as well as the combinations of song and experimentalism that informs much of their work.