Composers and technologists Jason Thorpe Buchanan and Christopher Chandler are in residence in Studio 1—Goodman to develop and workshop their new interactive spatial sound, video, and light environment for an upcoming commissioned project with contemporary music ensemble [Switch~ Ensemble]. During this residency period, they also experiment with new VR interfacing technology developed by EMPAC audio engineers which utilizes gaming technology to deploy spatial audio in the venue.

Composer Sarah Davachi’s residency takes place in the EMPAC Concert Hall to begin preliminary recording for a new work to be premiered in fall 2025.

Composer-performers Charmaine Lee and Conrad Tao are in residence in EMPAC Studio 1—Goodman to record new music drawn from the sonic language of their eight-year-long duo collaboration.

Belgian sound and visual artist Maika Garnica is in residence in Studio 2 and the Concert Hall to document her sound sculptures. Her work examines and questions the relationships between object, body, sound, and space.

Pan Daijing conducts a research and development residency to establish work on a possible future commission with the curatorial program. Taking full advantage of the expert staff and advanced technical venues at the center, Daijing explores the implications of music, dance, and video intersections following her monograph exhibition at Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany.

Pianists Ning Yu and Corey Smythe, along with technologist and performer Levy Lorenzo, develop and prepare Brigitta Muntendorf’s two piano work Trilogy for two pianos, tape, and live electronics for its premiere at the 2024 edition of TIME:SPANS Festival in New York City.

Brigitta Muntendorf makes the concert introduction at the festival with curator Amadeus Julian Regucera.

Composer Rama Gottfried is in residence with contemporary music ensemble Yarn/Wire to develop the experimental music theater piece Ontopoeisis (formerly Schismogenesis).

Artist Julia Phillips is in residence to film and test scenes for Pentasomnia, a work intended to become a five-channel video installation. At EMPAC with her collaborators, she develops key movement scenes with a choreographer, uses rear projection to test scenarios for further filming, and undertakes some outdoor shooting.

Within | Without Limit is a series of two solo performances from internationally acclaimed musician Charles Curtis. Tied to both uptown and downtown New York City scenes in the 1980s and noted for his collaborations with composers La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, and Éliane Radigue, as well as with poetry-rock pioneers King Missile, among others, Curtis’s repertoire spans classical, avant-garde, minimal, noise, and popular genres.

At EMPAC, Curtis performs a listening odyssey of works by Radigue, Carolyn Chen, French medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut, and his own work. The two programs feature delicate yet visceral works that challenge—and reward—the listener, opening up new musical landscapes both outside and within the work.