2002-present

Ensemble Pamplemousse
New York, New York
Co-Founder/Composer in Residence
A non-profit organization and electro-acoustic composer/performer collective focusing on new advances in music and sound art.
www.ensemblepamplemousse.org

Meisterschüler
2007-2009

Universität der Künste / Technische Universität
Berlin, Germany
Composition studies with Walter Zimmermann
Intonation/Akustik and Mathematics with Marc Sabat
Digital Synthesis and Spatial Technologies with Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Introduction to Physical Modeling with Stefan Bilbao

Master of Music
Composition
2005-2007

Manhattan School of Music
New York, New York
Computer Music with Joel Chadabe and Langdon Crawford
Interactive Computer Music Performance with Patti Monson
*Awarded Manhattan Prize 2006

Master of Art
Composition
2001-2004

New York University
New York, New York
Composition studies with Justin Dello Joio

Bachelor of Music
Music Theory
1995-1999

University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
Composition and Theory Studies with T.L. Read
Archetypal Symbolism in Music with T.L. Read
Independent Composition Studies with Ernest Stires

RESIDENCIES/CONFERENCES

2008

Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)
Max 5 Developers Workshop, developing external objects for Max 5
Paris, France

2008

European Course for Musical Composition and Technologies (ECMCT)
Audited courses at the Technische Universität
Berlin, Germany

2006

Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik
Personal consultations with Helmut Lachenmann and Beat Furrer
Darmstadt, Germany

2005

Ostrava Days New Music Institute and Festival
Personal consultations with Christian Wolff, Phill Niblock, Petr Kotik and Alvin Lucier
Ostrava, Czech Republic

SELECTED HONORS

2008-2009

Trinoc (2007) published by Verlag Neue Musik Berlin

2008

Audio Portrait of the Berliner Congress Center
for Web 2.0 Expo Europe,  co-produced by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb
A web-based sound installation, using binaural recordings made in contrasting acoustic spaces in the historic Berliner Congress Center.  The recordings were convolved using small sound events as impulse responses. During the conference, attendees were able to listen to the recordings via WIFI connection while being physically in the original acoustic space.
www.ramagottfried.com/bcc

2008

Bessel Function and Value Wrap Java Objects for Max/Msp
Coded Max External Java (MXJ) objects for calculating the Bessel Function of the first kind, and wrapping values between upper and lower limit, available at www.maxobjects.com.

2007-2008

Cycling ’74 Beta Tester
Worked with a team of software developers to aid in the launch of Max 5.

2006

Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) Ear to the Earth festival
Featured in concert of emerging New York composers, and included in the Suspended Sounds installation along with composers Morton Subotnick, Joan La Barbara, Alvin Curran, Joel Chadabe and Aleksei Stevens.

2005

Ostrava Days 2005 Report Editor
Edited the raw transcription of Christian Wolff and Alvin Lucier’s seminars, for publication in the annual festival report.

Nest
for amplified piccolo, violin, violin, violoncello, toy piano and electronics
Duration: ca. 15'
commissioned by Ensemble Pamplemousse
Premiere: December 2009 New York

Surface Tension
for snare drum, and feedback system
Duration: ca. 15'
Commissioned by Matthias Engler
Premiere: Klangwerkstatt Festival, October 2009, Berlin
Repeat Performaces: November 2009, UC Berkeley

Music Box Organism
for five motorized music boxes which play hole punch paper - each tuned differently, 100 meters plastic strip with hand punched holes, push button
Duration: Installation, full cycle 60', played in 5' sections via push button
Exposition: La Choose Projects "Spirits" Exposition, October 2009, Berlin

Langenscheidt Euro Edition: Teil "A"
a series of musical definitions of the A section of the Langenscheidt "Euro Edition" German-English dictionary
for speaker and violin, on 462 flash cards
Duration: Installation-Performance, full ca. 90'
for Johnny Chang, and Kerstin Fuchs and Gallery Complice
Premiere: May 2009, Berlin

twelve interruptions
composed for Ensemble Pamplemousse's Blocks Tour - for amplified piccolo, violin, violoncello, piano, toy piano, percussion and loose cables
Duration: ca. 15'
Premiere: March 2009, Brooklyn
Repeat Performances: March 2009 - Baltimore, Philidelphia, Burlington (VT), Montreal, and New Haven

one roll for two music boxes
for two performers playing music boxes, each tuned diatonically a semi-tone apart, strip of plastic, punched holes
Duration: 20'
Premiere: January 2009, Berlin
Repeat Performances: March 2009, Brooklyn; May 2009, Berlin

2008

Audio Portrait of the Berliner Congress Center
A Web-based Binaural Sound Installation for the Web 2.0 Expo Europe
Sponsored by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb
Duration: Installation - full: ca. 40'
Premiere: October 2008 Berlin
http://www.ramagottfried.com/bcc

“the be to of … ”
for amplified horn, trombone, and tuba
Duration: 12’
Commissioned by Zinc and Copper Works
Premiere: October 2008 Berlin

Wave/Time
Soundtrack for installation film by Michael Douglas Hawk
Premiere: August 2008 Voices of the Waters Film Festival, Bangalore India.
http://www.vimeo.com/1736718

2007

Trinoc
for tenor saxophone, guitar and accordion
Duration: 6’
Commissioned by Riot
Publisher: Neue Musik Verlag Berlin (2009)
Premiere: December 2007 Berlin
Repeat Performances: April 2008  New York
http://www.ramagottfried.com/trinoc.html

Raumwerk
sound installation/live score generation; for max/msp analysis and live performer
Premiere: November 2007 Berlin

Renga
a group composition piece with Vincent Raikhel, Kyle Hillbrand, and Yoav Pasovsky
for saxophones, piano, percussion and double bass
Duration: 10’ & 10’
Commissioned by klangnetz kollektiv
Premiere: October 2007 Berlin

e80i.1
for amplified piccolo, violin and percussion
Duration: 9'
Premiere: June 2007 New York
Repeat performances: 8/10/07, 12/16/07 New York

e80i.2
for amplified piccolo, violin and percussion
Duration: 12'
Premiere: April 2007 New York

e80i.3
for amplified piccolo, violin, percussion and Fender Rhodes
Duration: 20'
Premiere: June 2007 - Brooklyn
Repeat performances: 6/20/07 New York; 4/11/08 Art Institute of Chicago,

2006

Envelopes
for orchestra with solo string quintet
Duration: 6'
Commissioned by The Manhattan School of Music Composer's Orchestra
Premiere: February 2007 New York
http://www.ramagottfried.com/envelopes.html

Sudoku
for amplified bassoon and max/msp
Duration: 15'
Premiere:  December 2006 New York

BX51
for amplified solo flute
Duration 7’
Premiered:  September 2006 - Berlin
Repeat Performances: 11/06, 12/5/06, 12/6/06, 3/07, 12/16/07, 4/11/08, 5/3/08 New York/Chicago
http://www.ramagottfried.com/bx51.html

transparencies 2
for short-wave radio and max/msp for 8 channels
Duration: 10’
Commissioned by Electronic Music Foundation (EMF)
Premiered at EMF's Ear to the Earth Festival: September 2006 New York

Suspended Sounds
for tape, 12 channel installation of endangered birds  as part of group piece with Joel Chadabe, Morton Subotnick, Joan La Barbara, Alvin Curran and Aleksei Stevens
Duration: 5’
Commissioned by EMF
Premiere: EMF's Ear to the Earth Festival: September 2006 New York
http://www.eartotheearth.org/reports/0610_festival/suspendedsounds2.html

rambox 1
short-wave radio recordings
Duration: 40’
Subscription Audio Mail Series, June 2006 - Delivered to 65 addresses, in 5 countries
http://www.ramagottfried.com/rambox.html

quiet
short-wave radio recordings
Duration: 10'
Commissioned by Choreographer Tzveta Kassabova
Premiered at The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., July 2006

transparencies
for flute, trombone, electric guitar, violin, violoncello, percussion, white & brown noise, short-wave radio and loose stereo 1/8" cable
Duration: 40'
Commissioned by Choreographer Tommy Noonan
Premiered by Ensemble Pamplemousse: March 2006 New York
Repeat performances:  6/06 New York
http://www.ramagottfried.com/transparencies.html

Alicia'
for tape
Duration: 15'
Commissioned by Choreographer Tzveta Kassabova
Premiered at The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., February 2006

2005

orbits
electronics controlled by theremin interacting with dancer
Duration: 15’
Premiered: December 2005 New York

The Book Of Thel
A chamber operetta for 3 voices, violin and piano with preparations
Duration: 30’
Premiere: April 2006 New York (excerpt)

Death of Samoⓒ™
for trombone quartet
Duration: 10'
Commissioned by Ensemble Pamplemousse
Premiered: October 2005 New York
Repeat performances: 11/05, 12/05, 11/06 New York
http://www.ramagottfried.com/death_of_samo.html

Pluto
for orchestra
Duration: 15'
Read by The Ostrava Festival Orchestra
July 2005 - Ostrava (Czech Republic)

2004

Elemental Etudes
for string quartet and drumset
Duration: 15’
Commissioned by Ensemble Pamplemousse
Premiered: April 2004 New York
Repeat performances: 5/1/04, 11/21/04, 12/2/04, 12/3/04, 12/4/04, 9/20/05, 4/25/07 New York
http://www.ramagottfried.com/etudes.html

Cannon/Piano Approx. 48 sec.
solo piano
Duration: 48”
Premiered March 18, 2005, by the Brooklyn New Music Collective

2003

Chamber Concerto de Pamplemousse
for piccolo/flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano
Commissioned by Ensemble Pamplemousse
Duration: 15’
Premiere: June 2003 Bucharest (Romania)
Repeat performances: 6/03 Assisi (Italy); 11/03, 5/1/04 New York;
8/05 Ostrava, (Czech Republic)

Introvert/Extrovert
for flute, bass clarinet and drumset
Duration: 30’
For the Safe-T Gallery DuBuQUE New Music Series
Premiere: October 2003 - Brooklyn
Repeat performances:  12/03, 3/04, 5/04 New York

Memory Zero
for 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, tuba, drumset, 4 double basses and ‘cello
Duration: 45’
For The Multiple Choice Conducted Improvisation Ensemble
Premiere: September 2003 New York
Repeat performances: 11/03 Brooklyn

Aeneas in Ayodhya: vignette for the ballet ‘The Travels of Aeneas’
for 2 oboes, 2 trumpets, 2 percussionists, 2 contra basses and tape
Duration: 5’
Commissioned by the Oleg Danovski Ballet Company
Premiere: June 2003 Constanta, Romania

2002

Epitaph of Seikilos adapted from the Greek manuscript
for flute, microtonal guitar, drumset, sampler and 2 mini-disk players.
Duration: 6’
Premiere: November 2002 New York

Rondeau for Celesta
flute, oboe, clarinet, string quartet and piano
Duration: 15’
Premiere: July 2002 New York

Planes
for string quartet
Duration: 3’
Read by the Brentano Quartet April 2002 New York

pre-2000 Worked in improvised music – performing on electric guitar and assorted electronics