Decipher This!

The music of Tomás Henriques has been performed in Europe and the USA by groups such as the Psaphha Ensemble, the Switch~ Ensemble, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Champs d’Action, and Ensemble Antipodes. Dr. Henriques’ research encompasses the fields of music theory, electronic instrument creation, game-interfaces, spatial audio design and computer-aided vision. This research is internationally recognized by his First Place win at the 2010 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, with the invention of the “Double Slide Controller,” the multi-patented "Sonik Spring" technology, and most recently, his work developing a 52.1 surround mixing system, installed at Ciminelli Hall in Buffalo State.

Music: Song of Solomon by Tomás Henriques, performed by Tomás Henriques; Redshift by Tomás Henriques, performed by Emily Boyce; Sudeste by Tomás Henriques, performed by percussion players from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Time Warp by Tomás Henriques, for tape

Double Slide Controller video

Sonik Spring video

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Co-hosts: Rob Cosgrove and Eric Lemmon

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Decipher This! is produced by Joseph Bohigian; intro sounds by Eric Lemmon; outro music toy_3 by Eric Lemmon.

Darian Donovan Thomas is a Brooklyn based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and interdisciplinary artist. He is interested in combining genres into a singular vocabulary that can express ideas about intersectionality (of medium and identity). Necessarily, he is interested in redacting all barriers to entry that have existed at the gates of any genre - this vocabulary of multiplicity will be intersectional, and therefore all-inclusive. He has received a Bachelors in Music Composition from The University of the Incarnate Word, and was a 2018 New Amsterdam Composer Lab Fellow, 2018 SoSI Composer Fellow, and 2019 Banglewood Composition Fellow. He is currently touring with Moses Sumney and Balùn.

Music: Pith of Crepuscule, composed and performed by Darian Donovan Thomas; Wings, composed and performed by Darian Donovan Thomas

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Co-hosts: Eric Lemmon and Taylor Long

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With an interdisciplinary career blending classical training in cello and composition, audio research, and computational arts education, Stony Brook professor Margaret Anne Schedel transcends the boundaries of disparate fields to produce integrated work at the nexus of computation and arts.

Music: After | Apple Box by Margaret Schedel, performed by Ensemble Decipher

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Co-hosts: Joseph Bohigian and Eric Lemmon

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Howie Kenty is a Brooklyn-based composer and performer, occasionally known by his musical alter-ego, Hwarg. His music, called “remarkable” with “astonishing poetic power” by the International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica, is stylistically diverse, encompassing ideas from contemporary classical, electronic, rock, ambient, sound art, and everything in between. His works are often politically oriented, and occasionally incorporate visual and theatrical elements. Howie is half of the electronic operatic duo Ju-eh+Hwarg and plays guitar in the progressive rock band The Benzene Ring. He recently earned his PhD in Music Composition from Stony Brook University, and is on the faculty of the Kaufman Music Center, teaching music technology, composition, and theory.

Music: When Were You Silent? by Howie Kenty, performed by Ensemble Decipher; Futility by Howie Kenty, performed by Ginevra Petrucci; “Ottavia E Mars” from Outer Side by Howie Kenty, performed by Ju-eh+Hwarg

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Co-hosts: Chelsea Loew and Joseph Bohigian

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Decipher This! is produced by Joseph Bohigian; intro sounds by Eric Lemmon; outro music toy_3 by Eric Lemmon.

Scott Deal engages new pathways of computer interactivity, networked systems, and electroacoustics. His recordings have been described as “soaring, shimmering explorations of resplendent mood and incredible scale.” In the network arts, Deal is an award-winning creator, producer, author, and performer. Deal and composer Matthew Burtner were awarded the Internet2 IDEA award for their creation of Auksalaq, a telematic opera described as “an important realization of opera for today’s world.” He is the founder of Earth Day Art Model, a 24-hour, worldwide telematic festival. Deal is the Director of the Tavel Arts and Technology Research Center at IUPUI, Indianapolis.

Music: Auksalaq by Matthew Burtner and Scott Deal, performed by Joan La Barbara (singer/narrator), NYU New Music Ensemble (Esther Lamneck), and Percussion Ensemble (Jonathan Haas); AVATAR Improvisations, performed by Scott Deal

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Co-hosts: Taylor Long and Rob Cosgrove

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Decipher This! is produced by Joseph Bohigian; intro sounds by Eric Lemmon; outro music toy_3 by Eric Lemmon.

Sarah Weaver, Ph.D. is a New York-based contemporary composer, conductor, technologist, educator, and researcher working internationally as a specialist in Network Arts. Weaver has composed solo, chamber, and large ensemble works for groundbreaking musicians for twenty-five years, integrating influences of jazz, contemporary classical, improvisation, computer music, world music, and individual music languages of performers. She is an innovator of live performance via the internet by musicians and artists in different geographic locations, encompassing numerous artistic projects with collaborators and interdisciplinary projects with groups such as NASA Kepler/K2 Mission and United Nations. Weaver is the director of NowNet Arts, director of the Sarah Weaver Ensemble, and editor of the Journal of Network Music and Arts (JONMA). She is on the faculty of New School College of Performing Arts, Performer-Composer Masters Program. Weaver is a member of ASCAP, College Music Society, National Association of Composers, and board member of the JackTrip Foundation.

Music: “Sound in Peace" by Sarah Weaver, performed by Joe McPhee and Sarah Weaver; TeleCello Concerto by Sarah Weaver and Chris Chafe, performed by Tintinnabulate and SoundWIRE; "Universal Synchrony Music: Kepler/K2" by Sarah Weaver, performed by NowNet Arts Ensemble

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Co-hosts: Eric Lemmon and Niloufar Nourbakhsh

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Lainie Fefferman is a composer, performer, teacher, organizer, and general proponent of new and forward-thinking music. Her most recent commissions have been from JACK Quartet, Tenth Intervention, and So Percussion. "White Fire," her electroacoustic meditation on the heroines of the Hebrew Bible has been touring internationally and is coming out as an album in 2021. She is a co-founder and director of New Music Gathering. She got her doctorate in composition from Princeton University and is a programming/performing member of Princeton-based laptop ensemble Sideband. She is currently a professor of Music & Technology at Stevens Institute of Technology and recently concluded her time as artist in residence at Nokia Bell Labs.

Music: Overshare by Lainie Fefferman, performed by Ensemble Decipher

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Co-hosts: Joseph Bohigian and Taylor Long

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Welcome to Decipher This!, a podcast about music and technology. On the podcast, members of the technology-focused, experimental music group Ensemble Decipher interview their collaborators on composing and performing music with vintage, contemporary, and emerging technologies. In the first episode, the Decipherists talk about the group’s history and pieces they’ve written for the ensemble.

Music: toy_5 by Eric Lemmon, Remember Me by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and coat by Rob Cosgrove, performed by Ensemble Decipher

Co-hosts: Joseph Bohigian, Robert Cosgrove, Eric Lemmon, Chelsea Loew, Taylor Long, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh

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Decipher This! is produced by Joseph Bohigian; intro sounds by Eric Lemmon; outro music toy_3 by Eric Lemmon.

Members of the technology-focused, experimental music group Ensemble Decipher interview their collaborators on composing and performing music with vintage, contemporary, and emerging technologies. Subscribe to hear upcoming episodes with Lainie Fefferman and Sarah Weaver.

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ensembledecipher.com

Contact us at [email protected].

Decipher This! is produced by Joseph Bohigian; intro sounds by Eric Lemmon.