Matthew Goodheart: New Works for Transducer-Actuated Instruments
Date:
Thu, 10/26/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Face coverings are recommended. We encourage you to continue wearing masks for the comfort of our audience members, artists, and staff. For more information please visit CCRMA's COVID-19 Policies and the COVID-19 safety protocols for Department of Music events.
Matthew Goodheart is a composer, improviser, and sound installation artist who has developed a wide body of work that explores the relationships between sound, materiality, and listener. His diverse creations range from immersive sound installations to large-scale microtonal and spatial compositions to open improvisations and have been featured throughout North America, Europe, and Turkey in such diverse festivals and venues as Estate Fiorentine, Harvestworks, Neue Musik Köln, MaerzMusik, unERHÖRT, New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, Performing Media Festival, The International Spectral Music Festival, Infrequent Seams Streamfest, June in Buffalo, Klappsthulfest, Jazz Ao Centro, The Illuminations New Music & Arts Festival, NIME, and many others. His numerous awards and honors including the Berlin Prize in Music Composition, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, the A. H. Miller Award for Excellence in Composition, and a Fulbright Grant to the Czech Republic where he worked with the historic quartertone pianos designed by Alois Hába. His work is featured in Craig Vear’s recent book The Digital Score. He has performed and recorded with a wide variety of artists, including Glenn Spearman, Wadada Leo Smith, Pamela Z, Cecil Taylor, Pauline Oliveros, Gianni Gebbia, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and sfSoundGroup. With over 15 albums to his name, his group Zen Widow recently released their fourth recording Zen Widow IV: from one dark age to another. His international trio Broken Ghost Consort, dedicated to combining transducer-actuated instruments with live performance, will release their new album Five Apparitions in February of 2024. A lifelong teacher, he is the Assistant Professor of Music Composition in the Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic University.
