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2025 MOXsonic- Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival
Time: March 19-21, 2025
Location: Warrensburg, Missouri
Role: Composer-performer
The Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival (MOXsonic) is three days of concerts, research presentations, workshops, installations, and conversations. Our goal is that academic and independent artists, individuals and groups, music and sonic adventurers, and more will gather for an exploration of sonic possibilities and community.
Redline Redefined- Interactive map
Time: December 8, 2024
Location: SF Bay Area
Role: Composer/collaborator
East Bay: Redline Redefined explores the history of redlining through the lens of 8 East Bay artists and encourages its audience to take a second look at who is included and excluded from conversations about development in modern-day East Bay. We believe the most effective way for audiences to understand who benefits and loses from urban restructuring is by listening to neighborhoods through new ears. This is neither a symphony nor a history tour - it’s a unique artwork that will prompt audiences to consider the foundation on which the East Bay cities are built.
Commissioned by thingamajigs
Proud to have Commons Archive, Golden Gate Branch Library, and City of Oakland as our partners for this project. This project was made possible thanks to the generous support of California Arts Council, The Bill Graham Foundation and The Puffin Foundation.
Sounding Psychedelia
Time: November 16, 2024
Location: Holden Chapel, Harvard Yard
Role: performer
An immersive brainwave centered experience from the mind of CPCI graduate student Micah Huang –– Micah’s psychedelic brain waves, rendered by Dr. Ying Wu and her team at the UCSD Swarts Center for Computational Neuroscience are transformed into a musical performance by the ensemble: Michele Cheng (synth), Devon Gates (bass), Marrise Cato (voice), Weilu Ge (brain EEG), John Pax (serge modular synth), and Micah Huang (guitar).
A short discussion will follow the performance lead by assistant professor Yvette Jackson
Sonorities Festival Belfast
Time: April 12, 2024 (UTC+0)
Location: Accidental Theatre, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Role: Composer-performer
For forty years Sonorities has led the way for musicians, composers and sound artists from around the world to make and present work for curious listeners.
A biennial festival of sound and music, making a joyful commotion in Belfast since 1981.
X Meoarks the Spot @ CCRMA
Time: April 5, 2024 (Pacific Standard Time UTC-8)
Location: CCRMA Stage, Stanford University
Role: Meoark
Meoark performs live with special guests at CCRMA.
Meoark (Michele Cheng & Hassan Estakhrian) is a duo from the San Francisco Bay Area. Their music draws inspiration from different genres and cultures of music including funk, rock, experimental, electronic, contemporary classical, and film music. The duo also incorporates custom instruments and audio effects, as well as puppetry, games, and visuals.
Sound Collage: performance workshop with Harvard Art Museums
Time: March 15, 2024 (Eastern Standard Time UTC-5)
Location: Harvard Art Museum
Role: Improviser-performer (collaborator)
A performance-workshop series curated by Xavier Emmanuel with the Harvard Art Museums titled “Sound Collage.” Beginning on Friday, March 8, 2024, the series will feature collage-making and live ambient sound.
CCA Freedom of Expression Exhibition at Cornell AAP
Time: March 11-22, 2024 (Eastern Standard Time UTC-5)
Location: Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Cornell University
Role: Installation
Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) and the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) partner to host an exhibition that explores freedom of expression. In fall 2023, CCA announced a competition open to the Cornell community to propose projects associated with this theme, with the goal of showcasing these projects in AAP’s galleries. CCA selected 15 proposals to receive funding.
Past Events (from Archives)
Density 2036: Craig Taborn’s “Busy Griefs and Endangered Charms”
Time: December 9, 2023 (Eastern Daylight Time GMT-4)
Location: Holden Chapel, Harvard University
Role: Performer
The New York Times called the world premiere of Craig Taborn’s Fromm Foundation-commissioned work Busy Griefs and Endangered Charms “one of the best shows I’ve experienced this season.” Join us for the Boston premiere of this new evening-length quartet, which was written for Professor Claire Chase as part of her ongoing Density 2036 project. Taborn and Chase are joined by Susie Ibarra (percussion), Joshua Rubin (clarinets), and Levy Lorenzo (sound design). For this special immersive performance in the intimate venue of Holden Chapel, Taborn expands the final movement of the work to include members of the Harvard New Music Ensemble.
Sound, Meaning, Education: CONVERSATIONS & improvisations
Time: October 20-22, 2023 (Eastern Daylight Time GMT-4)
Location: University of Guelph, Ont., Canada
Role: Composer-performer & presenter
International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) / University of Guelph,
Concert performance- Meoark
Workshop presentation
Decolonial Love: Learning to Redream Dangerously Again
Time: May 13-14, 2023
Location: Cornell University
Role: Panelist (Panel I - Identities)
How might we learn to redream dangerously again?
Join us for a two-day symposium that brings together scholars, creative writers, and activists to discuss and envisage how the theories, practices, and visions of the roles of love, identity, and land are complexly intertwined with (trans)national structured challenges.
Hosted by the Einaudi Center as part of its inequalities, identities, and justice global research priority, and co-sponsored by Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.
JACK Studio
Photo by Shervin Lainez
Time: January 28, 2023 (EST)
Location: Manhattan, NY, U.S.
Role: Composer & Puppeteer
In a day-long affair, JACK presents five premieres by JACK Studio artists.
Amy Brandon: new work (world premiere)
Michele Cheng: new work (world premiere)
Joy Guidry: new work (world premiere)
X. Lee: new work (world premiere)
Njabulo Phungula: new work (world premiere)
MATA Festival 2022
Time: May 4, 2022 (EDT)
Location: Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.
Role: Composer/Performer
2022 Panelists
Sugar Vendil, Mark Thomas Taylor Composer, Fay Victor, Marta Sanchez, Brandee Younger, Joshua White, Cooper Moore , and Ben Gerstein.
2022 Featured Composers
John Aulich | Laura Brackney | Michele Cheng | Wajdi Abou Diab | Christian Dimpker | Francisco del Pino | Nina Fukuoka | Cameron Graham | Vicente Hansen | Nyokabi Kariũki | June Young Will Kim | Travis LaPlante | Shuyu Lin | Piyawat Louilarpprasert | Shara Lunon | Fernanda Navarro | Jess Rowland | Naftali Schindler | Hakan Ulus | Mengmeng Wang | Christopher Williams
Reimagining Accessibility and Inclusivity in Virtual Events I CARE IF YOU LISTEN "Casting Light" essay series #3
July 28, 2021
"Why not use the positive aspects of digital platforms to create something totally new and free from unnecessary comparisons, or reimagine our existing platforms in ways that intentionally diversify experiences? How can we transform our educational and performance spaces in more equitably accessible and equally inclusive ways?"
In the third installment of ACF and I Care if You Listen (.com)'s Casting Light series, Michele Cheng speak with artists about their experiences with virtual concerts over the last year and imagines a hybrid future for concerts, festivals, and lessons. With streaming, "institutions have a unique opportunity to address the many problems that have been ignored long before the pandemic," Cheng writes.
- American Composers Forum
Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency #182
Time: June 27-July17, 2021
Location: Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Role: Associate Artist
"We are in our first week of Residency #182 and proud to be hosting composer Marcos Balter, writer/cultural critic Carol Becker, cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner, and 19 Associate Artists from across the United States." - Atlantic Center for the Arts eNewsletter July 2021
New Music USA Creator Development Fund
April 6, 2021
I'm excited to share that “A Different Reality”― an intermedia project for solo marimba and electronics written for the incomparable percussionist/collaborator Ian Rosenbaum― has been selected as part of the New Music USA #CreatorDevelopmentFund. This project is an expansion of a work initially commissioned and premiered by National Sawdust. I’m so thankful to National Sawdust for the initial opportunity to carry out this work and to New Music USA for the support. Can’t wait to bring this project to fruition!
The project is supported by New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund with major support from Howard Gilman Foundation, The Amphion Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Sony Music Group, Cheswatyr Foundation, The ASCAP Foundation, and BMI Foundation. The work is also made possible through donations to the New Music USA Endowment.
Pamela Z + fff ensemble
Time: March 19, 2021 (Pacific Daylight Time)
Location: CCRMA Live, Stanford University, U.S. (Virtual streaming)
Role: Performer (fff ensemble)
Denning Artist in residency Pamela Z and members of the fff ensemble present a joint concert.
Register here for an after-concert panel with Pamela Z and the members of the fff ensemble, joined by special guests Margaret Schedel and Jocelyn Ho. The discussion will begin at 6pm PDT and will focus on performance with technology from a feminist perspective, including the Women's Labor project.
National Sawdust New Works Commission
Time: December 10, 2020
Location: National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY (Virtual performance)
Role: Composer
National Sawdust Ensemble performance will stream on Facebook and the Live@ digital stage on Thursday, December 10 at 5pm Eastern
JACK Quartet performance will stream on Facebook and the Live@ digital stage on Friday, December 11 at 5pm Eastern
New Works Commission winners:
Daniel Sabzghabaei, Eddie Codrington, Jessie Cox, Nicholas Tran, Nina Shekhar, Rajna Swaminathan, Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, Ted Moore, Yaz Lancaster, Golnaz Shariatzadeh, Baldwin Giang, Bethany Younge, Clifton Joey Guidry III, Finola Merivale, James Diaz, Julie Herndon, Kelley Sheehan, Manjing Zhang, Mario Layne Fabrizio, and Michele Cheng.
Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2020
Time: October 30, 2020 (KST)
Location: Jayu Theater, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
Role: Composer/Performer
Seoul International Computer Music Festival(SICMF) is a sonic-art performance embracing musical instruments, electronics, audiovisuals, multimedia, etc. as well as a special event showing new approaches and possibilities to combine music with technology finely, opening every autumn in Seoul. From starting in 1994 as the first computer music festival in Asia to its 27th festival this year, SICMF played over a thousand of high-end works and has grown as the major stage leading the global computer music trend.
Time: August 15, 2020
Location: Irish Sound, Science & Technology Association (Virtual conference)
Role: Composer / Piece: Blursday
The worldwide spread of COVID-19 and the associated social changes have impacted our lives in a manner that has no precedent in recent times. How has the initial shock changed our professional and personal relationships? Does this pandemic mark a permanent change to how we work and share? Is this a societal event that will soon be normalised?
ISSTA has invited international artists working with sound to share their responses to this situation as composers and performers. We have curated a series of three concerts featuring live performance and fixed media works in audio and video formats. We feel that this selection of work demonstrates a range of changing methods of individual practice, collaboration, and sonic discovery made during 2020.
Time: April 25-26, 2020
Location: London, England (Virtual conference)
Role: Presenter
The eavesdropping season culminates in a weekend-long symposium which will be an opportunity for local and visiting artists alike to reflect together on 'creative activism: radical responses within new music'. The symposium is designed to be open, inclusive and positive in its approach to this theme: the programme will feature a broad variety of papers, presentations, performances and discussions reflecting the diversity of issues and responses within the international new music scene. Special guests Marlo De Lara and Sarah Nicolls will be offering their thoughts on resistance and activism, and Extinction Rebellion activist Cathy Eastburn will be filling the chapel with the therapeutic resonances of a gong bath focusing on reconnection. The programme will also feature several discussions and a selection of shorter contributions gathered through a Call for Papers.
Time:
CONCERT 1: Friday, May 31, 7:30 PM, 2019
CONCERT 2: Saturday, June 1, 7:30 PM
Location: Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, CA
Role: Composer / Piece: Speed Dating (Ambisonics premiere)
Free admission
Please join us for the second installment of our epic concert series "The Lord of the Bings: The Two Bings". We will present two different evening programs of multichannel immersive music, soundscapes, and visuals in Bing Concert Hall Studio. Our GRAIL sound system will be deployed again in a 3D setup for a selection of pieces from CCRMA and around the Middle-earth.
UCI Illuminations: Asian Immigration as Creative Muse
Time: Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 5 pm
Location: Winifred Smith Hall, University of California, Irvine
Role: Performer & Composer / Piece: Speed Dating
Free Admission
I Dream, therefore I Am explores interrelated aspects of immigration, Asian American, and dream. Do “dreamers” (DACA), 1.5 generation, and recent immigrants share similar immigration experience or have distinctive “American dreams”? How is their dream shaped, nurtured, pursued, or crushed? Do memories, nostalgia, or broken dreams inspire artistic creation? Do we all have the right to dream? With live music, theatre, poetry, puppetry, and improvisation, dreams are created and shared in front of your eyes. The program includes original music composed and performed by Michele Cheng and Shih-Wei Wu, dramatic work by Theatre Woks, puppetry by Chee-Hann Wu, and text by Daphne Lei.