Creative Research Grants

Eliza Bagg
Music/Sound
Los Angeles, CA
2025

Eliza Bagg, a vocalist and composer, will develop a sonic and physical language that merges polyphonic vocal writing, ambient electronics, and movement to reimagine Renaissance vocal forms. Her research into 16th- and 17th-century madrigals will inform her use of complex electronic processing to compose a multi-layered vocal work that investigates historical and contemporary concepts of femininity and maternal identity.

DoYeon Kim
Music/Sound
Brooklyn, NY
2025

DoYeon Kim, a composer and gayageum musician, will conduct site-specific research to explore memory, grief, and resistance in connection to the 1980 Gwangju Uprising in South Korea. In Gwangju, Kim will engage with survivors' stories, archives, and historical sites in collaboration with a video artist.

Matthew Ostrowski
Music/Sound
Brooklyn, NY
2025

Matthew Ostrowski, a composer and performer, will explore intersections between obsolete sound technologies and contemporary, AI-based synthesis techniques. Research will include material investigations using AI-driven audio synthesis and historical recording devices such as Edison wax cylinder phonographs to explore how technologies reveal their own limitations as carriers of “the real.’’

Marta Sanchez
Music/Sound
Brooklyn, NY
2025

Marta Sanchez, a jazz pianist and composer, will initiate an experimental period to reconfigure her sonic language and embrace new sounds and influences. She will work to develop fluency with electronic tools and the culture of electronic music—through live shows, jam sessions, and digital forums—to better understand how groove, texture, and repetition can reshape storytelling and sonic connection.

Nate Wooley
Music/Sound
Brooklyn, NY
2025

Nate Wooley, a trumpet player, improvisor, and composer, will travel the length of the Columbia River to develop a song format for untrained voices rooted in ancient song traditions, field recordings, and new visual methods of notation. Wooley will conduct interviews with Sinixt and Chinook song leaders, Lutheran dalakoral singers, mariner musicians, and community members with deep ties to the river’s history. (Photo by Julia Dratel)

Luke Wyland
Music/Sound
Portland, OR
2025

Luke Wyland, an interdisciplinary artist and musician who stutters, will expand his work translating dysfluent speech into immersive audiovisual compositions. In partnership with SPACE, a stuttering nonprofit, he will broaden the multilingual Library of Dysfluent Voices and engage disability communities in Japan and the UK, amplifying the sonic qualities and lived experiences of dysfluency. (Photo by Mia Braverman)