Aida Shirazi, Miles Friday,
and the SoundMap Ensemble
an evening of contemporary electronic music

 dadaLab | 2008 Alexander Ave.
Thursday, May 15 | 7:30p

This event is FREE and open to the public. Learn more about each artist below.

Aida Shirazi
Improvisation

Aida Shirazi , Born and raised in Tehran, Iran, Aida Shirazi s a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. Shirazi’s music is described as ”unfolding with deliberation” by The New York Times, “well-made” and “affecting” by The New Yorker, and “unusually creative” by San Francisco Classical Voice. in her works for solo instruments, voice, ensemble, orchestra, and electronics, she mainly focuses on timbre for organizing structures inspired by Persian and English languages and literature. Shirazi’s music has been featured at festivals and concert series, including Manifeste, Wien Modern, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Mostly Mozart, OutHear New Music Week, MATA, Marlboro Music Festival, Direct Current, Taproot, and Tehran Contemporary Music Festival in venues such as Maison de la Radio France, Radialsystem Berlin, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Kennedy Center.

Miles Friday
Improvisation

Miles Jefferson Friday is an Assistant Professor of Digital Music at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Miles holds a doctorate from Cornell University, an MA from the Eastman School of Music, and a BM from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Miles has had his works presented at festivals such as the 11th International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky-city, IRCAM’s ManiFeste Académie, the SinusTon Electronic Music Festival, the ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week, the Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium, the St. Petersburg International New Music Festival “reMusik.org”, the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the Grafenegg Ink Still Wet Festival, June in Buffalo, the Red Note New Music Festival, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) Conference, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), the National Student Electronic Music Event (NSEME), the Splice Institute, the Music and Movement Conference at the University of Pittsburgh, precept.concept.percept., the Twisted Spruce Guitar and Composition Symposium, and others.    

SoundMap Ensemble
Works for solo and Electronics

SoundMap ensemble is a contemporary music group focused on promoting, developing and producing creative sound projects. We use creative spaces as a way to empower communities by art, by promoting artists, creating new works, developing the concert experience, and building resilient, interconnected communities.