Amanda Schoofs Artistic Director | Composer | Voice + Electronics | Program Manager [email protected] | 415-606-2998 | soundantisound.com ______Education 2008 Master of Arts, Music Composition Mills College Commencement High Honors Center for Contemporary Music Mentors: Pauline Oliveros, Roscoe Mitchell, Oakland, CA Zeena Parkins, Joëlle Léandre, and Fred Frith

2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Composition & Technology University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Bachelor of Arts, Vocal Performance Peck School of the Arts Dean’s Honors, Phi Kappa Phi, Commencement High Honors Milwaukee, WI Mentor: Christopher Burns

2005 International Art Exchange Studies Santa Reparata–International School of Art Painting and Art History Florence, Italy ______Academic Appointments 2019–2018 Senior Lecturer, Composition & Technology University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee 2018–2010 Lecturer, Composition & Technology Milwaukee, WI

2008–2007 Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Musicianship I–IV Mills College, Oakland, CA ______Artistic Director 2019–2016 Sensoria: Experiments in Sound and Performance Artistic Director New Music Research and Performance Series University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Sensoria | Bridges April 13, 2019 Sensoria | Vox February 16, 2019 Sensoria | Convergence November 3, 2018 Sensoria | Ann Yi April 14, 2018 Sensoria | ElectroAcoustic Music Center March 15, 2018 Sensoria | Mivos String Quartet November 14, 2017 Sensoria | Ann Yi November 04, 2017 Sensoria | Nick Zoulek April 30, 2017 Sensoria | Caught Up in the Moment March, 1, 2017 Sensoria | Pillars of Decay February 18, 2017 Sensoria | Nick Zoulek November 12, 2016 Sensoria | Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra 10th Anniversary Celebration October 22, 2016

2016 Unruly Music Festival Interim Director New Music Performance Series University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Unruly Music | Spektral Quartet UWM Composer Premieres March 8, 2016 Unruly Music | Spektral Quartet March 7, 2016 Unruly Music | ElectroAcoustic Music Center February 4, 2016

2015–2014 Sensoria: Experiments in Sound and Time-based Performance Artistic Director Sonic Arts Research and Performance Series INOVA–Institute of Visual Arts Sensoria | Jon Muller November 19, 2015 Sensoria | Mauriah Kraker and Steve Schlei September 12, 2015 Sensoria | Peter J Woods May 21, 2015 Sensoria | CutUpFemmePop February 12, 2015 Sensoria | Maja Ratkje November 22, 2014 Sensoria | Bitshape + TC-Data October 30, 2014 Sensoria | Skewed and Such July 3, 2014 Amanda Schoofs Artistic Director | Composer | Voice + Electronics | Program 2 Manager [email protected] | 415-606-2998 | soundantisound.com ______Director of Artist Residencies and Exchange Projects 2019–2018 Sensoria: Experiments in Sound and Performance Artist-in-Residence Program A nine-month-long artist residency featuring Ann Yi: workshops and two evening-length performances; six world premieres of new Sensoria commissions composed for piano and electronics by UWM faculty, graduate, and undergraduate composers

2018–2017 Sensoria: Experiments in Sound and Performance Artist-in-Residence Program A nine-month-long artist residency featuring Nick Zoulek: workshops and two evening-length performances, workshops; six world premieres of new Sensoria commissions composed for saxophone and electronics by UWM faculty, graduate, and undergraduate composers

2017 Sensoria: Experiments in Sound and Performance Ensemble-in-Residence Program A community partnership and exchange in collaboration with Wild Space Dance Company and Artistic Director Debra Loewen: lectures, workshops and an interdisciplinary performance

2016 Unruly Music Festival (Interim Director) Ensemble-in-Residence Program A two-day ensemble residency featuring Spektral String Quartet: an evening-length performance and workshop of six world premieres composed for string quartet by UWM faculty, graduate and undergraduate composers

2015 Sensoria | Patterns of Flight Artist-in-Residence Program and Community Exchange A week long residency featuring dancer Mauriah Kraker and sound artist Steve Schlei; an open- to-the-public creation process, culminating in a performance at INOVA–Institute of Visual Arts

Trisha Brown: In Process Interdisciplinary Exchange Project A three-month long collaborative experimental performance and workshop series with UWM Peck School of the Arts students across disciplines, including: Music, Dance, and Art & Design in a community partnership with Walker’s Point Center for the Arts

2014 Experimental Improvisation Artist-in-Residence Program A five-month-long artist residency featuring Hal Rammel and Steve Nelson-Raney: workshops and rehearsals culminating in a freely improvised concert in collaboration with UWM graduate and undergraduate music students

2013–2012 Sound | Anti-Sound Artist-in-Residence Program A nine-month-long artist residency featuring Heather Warren-Crow, Paul Mitchell, and Steve Schlei: lectures, workshops, and a happening with thirteen interdiciplinary world premieres

2011 Ink Makes a Sound Artist Exchange Project and Residency UWM PSoA + Rochester Institute of Technology artist exchange project and artist residency featuring Paul Mitchell: exhibition and performance of fine art prints created for live musical performance during a cross-disciplinary exchange with undergraduate and graduate students ______Ensemble Director 2019–2017 Director of Contemporary Music Ensemble University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Contemporary Music Ensemble December 13, 2018 Contemporary Music Ensemble December 14, 2017 Contemporary Music Ensemble December 10, 2015 John Cage’s Songbooks, Aria, and Concert for Piano and Orchestra December 13, 2014 Listen: A Contemporary Music Ensemble Performance December 07, 2013 Amanda Schoofs Artistic Director | Composer | Voice + Electronics | Program 3 Manager [email protected] | 415-606-2998 | soundantisound.com Contemporary Music Ensemble: Music of the Avant-garde December 17, 2011 2019–2011 Experimental Improvisation University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Experimental Improvisation VI May 09, 2019 Experimental Improvisation V May 09, 2018 Experimental Improvisation IV May 06, 2017 Experimental Improvisation III May 07, 2016 Trisha Brown: In Process at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts March 07, 2015 Experimental Improvisation II May 09, 2015 Experimental Improvisation w/ Hal Rammel and Steve Nelson-Raney May 08, 2014 Sound | AntiSound: An Interdisciplianry Happening May 11, 2013 Improvisation and Aleatoric Scores May 15, 2012 Ink + Sound: New Music on Paper May 14, 2011 ______Fellowships and Residencies 2015 Salem2Salem Artist Residency Salem Art Works, Salem, NY

2014 Salem2Salem International Artist Residency Kulturamt Bodenseekreis, Schloss Salem, Germany

2014 Transdisciplinary Challenge Fellowship Cross-Disciplinary Seminar: Language Center for 21st Century Studies, Milwaukee, WI

2011 Visiting Artist Residency College of Imagining Arts and Sciences, Printmaking Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY ______Awards 2018 Dean’s Faculty Development Award 2015 Academic Staff Professional Development Award 2014–2010 Dean’s Faculty Development Award 2012 First Year Student Success Award for Excellence in Teaching 2011 Leslie Whitaker Memorial Fund Award 2008 Elizabeth Mills Crothers Award for Outstanding Musical Composition ______Grants 2018–2016 William F. Vilas Foundation Grant 2013–2012 William F. Vilas Foundation Grant 2012 Year of the Arts Grant–UWM 2008 Graduate Research Opportunity Grant–Mills College 2005 Wisconsin State Grant for Study Abroad ______A Recent Selection of Musical Compositions 2019 Black Snake Root, 45’ Sensoria | Vox A partita for voice and electronics February 16, 2019 Word Premiere: Kevin Schlei and Amanda Schoofs Jan Serr Studio Milwaukee, WI

2018 Beneath the Surface, 15’ Sensoria | Ann Yi For piano and electronics April 14, 2018 World Premiere: Ann Yi and Amanda Schoofs UWM Recital Hall, Milwaukee, WI

2017 RE: Emergency, 20’ Contemporary Music Ensemble Amanda Schoofs Artistic Director | Composer | Voice + Electronics | Program Manager 4 [email protected] | 415-606-2998 | soundantisound.com For percussion, strings, piano, guitars, and electronics December 14, 2017 World Premiere: Contemporary Music Ensemble UWM Recital Hall, Milwaukee, WI If Not, Winter, 10’ BGSU New Music and Art Festival For vocalizing saxophonist, October 19, 2017 World Premiere: Nick Zoulek Clazel Theatre, Bowling Green, OH

2017 Absentia, 8’ Milwaukee Noise Fest For voice and electronics September 29, 2017 World Premiere: Amanda Schoofs Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI

Relics of this Black Earth, 50’ Pillars of Decay World Premiere Tour A partita for percussion and electronics February 14–18, 2017 World premiere: Trevor Saint and Jeff Herriot UW-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI UW-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI UW-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI UW-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

2015 She Chose Ghosts, 8’ Unruly Music Festival For female vocal quartet April 17, 2015 World Premiere: Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble UWM Recital Hall, Milwaukee, WI

Steal Into the World–A Litany for Solo, 25’ Formations Series For voice, pianolin, and analog electronics February 14, 2015 World premiere: Amanda Schoofs Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI

2014 Black Trumpets, 12’ Castle Spetzgart Farewell Concert For mezzo-soprano and handmade sound box August 24, 2014 World Premiere: Amanda Schoofs and Jonas Linberg Schloss Spetzgart, Überlingen, Germany

Memento Mori, 15’ Vernissage der Ausstellung salem2salem For mezzo-soprano August 22, 2014 World Premiere: Amanda Schoofs Schloss Salem, Salem, Germany

Intimate Addictions, 50’ Intimate Addictions For any performance, no matter how radical July 25, 2014 World premiere: IA Ensemble; film by Paul Mitchell UWM Recital Hall, Milwaukee, WI

Infidelity of Dreams, 15’ Unruly Music Festival For clarinet, marimba, vibraphone, and piano March 27, 2014 World Premiere: Zeitgeist UWM Recital Hall Milwaukee, WI

2013 You Burn Us, 15’ New Keys 10th Anniversary Concert For piano, percussion, voice, and strings November 22, 2013 World premiere: New Keys Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA

2012 This is called breathing, 12’ Unruly Music Festival For clarinet, violin, cello, and piano March 10, 2012 World premiere: Dal Niente Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee, WI

Acedia, 12’ Around 30 For mezzo-soprano, viola, percussion, and dance March 3, 2012 World Premiere: Present Music Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI Amanda Schoofs Artistic Director | Composer | Voice + Electronics | Program Manager 5 [email protected] | 415-606-2998 | soundantisound.com

______Major National and International Repeat Performances: Musical Compositions 2017 Relics of this Black Earth Pillars of Decay East Coast Tour Performance: Trevor Saint and Jeff Herriot May 13–20, 2017 Silo City, Buffalo, NY SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH Fuse Factory, Columbus, OH Sick Warehouse, Detroit, MI

Relics of this Black Earth Reembodied Sound: Festival of Music and Sonic Art Performance: Trevor Saint and Matt Sargent April 8, 2017 Columbia University, New York City, NY

2016 Intimate Addictions Trevor Saint Solo Glockenspiel Tour Performance: Trevor Saint March 19–31, 2016 Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA University of North Alabama, AL University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Stetson University, Deland, FL University of South Florida, Tampa, FL University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC University of North Carolina at Pembroke, NC

2015 Infidelity of Dreams Zeitgeist New Music Cabaret Performance: Zeitgeist November 12–14, 2015 Studio Z, St. Paul, MN

You Burn Us ANU New Music Ensemble Concerts Performance: ANU New Music Ensemble August 28, and October 22, 2015 Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Steal Into the World–A Litany for Solo, 25’ Frequency Series Performance: Amanda Schoofs July 5, 2015 July 5, 2015 Constellation, Chicago, IL

You Burn Us Trevor Saint Solo Glockenspiel Performance: Trevor Saint June 13, 2015 Never Ending Books, New Haven, CT

Intimate Addictions MATA Performance: Bearthoven and Amanda Schoofs April 17, 2015 Curated by Du Yun, Pulitzer Prize 2016 The Kitchen, New York City, NY

2014 You Burn Us UNDUE Percussion Duo Tour Performance: UNDUE October 7–14, 2014 University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL Danville Area Community College, Danville, IL Amanda Schoofs Artistic Director | Composer | Voice + Electronics | Program 6 Manager [email protected] | 415-606-2998 | soundantisound.com University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI

You Burn Us Castle Spetzgart Concert Performance: Uli Johannes Kieckbusch August 24, 2014 Schloss Spetzgart, Überlingen, Germany

Ink Makes a Sound and Intimate Addictions The Art of Music in Milwaukee Performance: Pat Reinholz; IA Ensemble July 11, 2014 Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI

2013 You Burn Us Arbor Composer’s Collective Concert Performance: Cicadas of the Sea December 13, 2013 Canterberry House, Ann Arbor, MI

Fragility of Permanence Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival Performance: Ben Willis July 24, 2013 Mass–MoCA, North Adams, MA

Studies in Space California International Shorts Festival Film by Tate Bunker; Music by Amanda Schoofs March 24, 2013 with Seth Warren-Crow Complex Theater, Hollywood, CA ______A Recent Selection of Vocal Performances: New Music and Experimental Improvisation 2018 Convergence, 90’ Sensoria: Experiments in Sound and Performance Improvisations for voice and electronics November 3, 2018 UWM Recital Hall, Milwaukee, WI

ElectroAcoustic Music Center, 90’ Sensoria: Experiments in Sound and Performance Improvisations for voice, pianolin, and electronics March 15, 2018 UWM Recital Hall, Milwaukee, WI

2016 PadVa + Amanda Schoofs Formations Series Improvisations for voice October 20, 2016 Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI

Melting Point Hyperlocal MKE Improvisations for voice and electronics February 21, 2016 in collaboration with improvised dance INOVA-Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra Unruly Music Festival Performance of Gavin Bryars’ Sinking of the Titanic February 4, 2016 UWM Recital Hall, Milwaukee, WI

2015 Minor Vices Unruly Music Festival Performance of Christopher Burns’ September 23, 2015 Improvisatory scores for Minor Vices UWM Recital Hall, Milwaukee, WI

2014 Nakatani | Nana | Schoofs | Woods, 50’ Tatsuya Nakatani + Friends Improvisations for voice and electronics October 31, 2014 Borg Ward, Milwaukee, WI

Amanda Schoofs Artistic Director | Composer | Voice + Electronics | Program 7 Manager [email protected] | 415-606-2998 | soundantisound.com Salem2Salem Vocal Improvisation Feuchtmayer Museum Empfang Solo Vocal Improvisations August 5, 2014 Feuchtmayer Museum, Salem, Germany Minor Vices Christopher Burns’ Minor Vices Performance of Christopher Burns’ June 22, 2014 Improvisatory scores for Minor Vices Constellation, Chicago, IL

2013 Paper Pieces by Alison Knowles Alison Knowles: Paper as Instrument Performance of seven Fluxus scores; featuring November 08, 2013 Loose Pages duet with Alison Knowles herself Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Skøefst Cadmium Dust Album Release Improvisations for voice and electronics September 11, 2013 INOVA–Institute of Visual Art, Milwaukee, WI

ISIM Quintet Improvisation International Society for Improvised Music Improvisations for voice July 1, 2013 Roulette, Brooklyn, NY

Great Lakes Improvising Orchestra Unruly Music Festival Improvisations for voice April 5, 2013 Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee, WI

2012 Aria w/Fontana Mix Electronic Music and Voice Concert: Music by John Cage Performance of John Cage’s Aria October 28, 2012 Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI

Aria and Songbooks Unruly Music Festival’s John Cage Centeniel Concert Performance of John Cage’s March 9, 2012 Aria and Songbooks Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra MiLO Improvisations for voice and electronics July 13, 2012 Sugar Maple, Milwaukee, WI ______A Recent Selection of Interdisciplinary Collaborations 2018 Elastic Entropy, 10’ Contemporary Music Ensemble An animated glitch score in collaboration with Paul Mitchell December 13, 2018 World Premiere: Contemporary Music Ensemble UWM PSoA, Milwaukee, WI

2017 Internal Divide, 8’ Madison Ballet’s Primavera Fixed media music created in collaboration with Tim Russell March 31–April 1, 2017 and Nick Zoulek; with choreography by Marlene Skog Bartell Theatre, Madison, WI

Caught Up in the Moment, 75’ Sensoria + Wild Space Dance Company Music and dance improvisatory collaboration March, 1, 2017 KSE Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2016 Into the Garden, 90’ Wild Space Dance Company Vocal collaboration with Dance September 14, 2017 Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Milwaukee, WI Amanda Schoofs Artistic Director | Composer | Voice + Electronics | Program 8 Manager [email protected] | 415-606-2998 | soundantisound.com

Some Fledgling Pledge, 30’ Patterns of Flight Hybrid collaboration with Mauriah July 29, 2016 Kraker, Steve Schlei, and Paul Mitchell Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI 2015 Glitchfucked, 12’ MKE Noise Festival A vocal and electronic collaboration September 20, 2015 with Artist Paul Mitchell Borg Ward, Milwaukee, WI

Annuit Coeptis, 20’ Salem2Salem Performing Arts Concert A multimedia collaboration; music created with August 15, 2015 Philippe Wozniak; and film by Hans Seidl Salem Art Works, Salem, New York

2014 Memento Mori–Schloss Salem, 10’ Vernissage der Ausstellung salem2salem A film collaboration with Paul Mitchell August 22, 2014 Schloss Salem, Salem, Germany

Forbidden Beauty|Interference Overload, 12’ salem2salem Kino Abend A film collaboration with Paul Mitchell August 18, 2014 Cine Greth, Überlingen, Germany

2013 For Laura, 15’ Intersect Improvisatory score in collaboration with dance November 15–24, 2013 Dance Works Theatre, Milwaukee, WI

Luscious Layers, 20’ Wild Space Dance Company Vocal and movement collaboration March 14–16, 2013 Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee, WI

Is This Darkness–Steal Into, 15’ Is This Darkness in You Too? Vocal collaboration with artist March 1, 2013 Paul Mitchell’s print series The Artist Proof Gallery, Calgary, Canada

2012 My Lipstick is the Color of Your Heart, 15’ Studio Lounge Performance Series A duet for movement and vocal artists July 20, 2012 created in collaboration with Laura Murphy Studio Lounge, Milwaukee, WI

2012 Studies in Space, 14’ MKE Film Festival Music created in collaboration with Seth Warren-Crow; October 4, 2012 Film directed by Tate Bunker (A Found the Ribbons Film) Oriental Theater, Milwaukee, WI

2011 In the Space Between, 90’ Wild Space Dance Company Music Composed and improvised in September 15–17, 2011 collaboration with dance Pritzlaff, Milwaukee, WI ______Audio Engineer and Album Mixing 2019 (Forthcoming) Amanda Schoofs. HUSH, Noise Baby. CD/DL., 40’

(Forthcoming) Amanda Schoofs. Intimate Addictions, Sound | Anti-Sound. CD/DL., 45’

2017 Bachelorette Party. Forces, Lurker Bias. CT/DL., 40’

Amanda Schoofs Artistic Director | Composer | Voice + Electronics | Program 9 Manager [email protected] | 415-606-2998 | soundantisound.com Bachelorette Party. Discrete Clarifiers, Swamp Circle. DL., 42’

2015 Amanda Schoofs. Esoterica, Sound | Anti-Sound. DL., 11’

______Authorship: Discography 2019 Pillars of Decay Forthcoming Matt Sargent, Amanda Schoofs, and Skewed and Such Irritable Hedgehog, CD/DL

We Made Some Sounds - Live from the 2018 Milwaukee Maker Faire Forthcoming Bachelorette Party FTAM, CT/DL

2018 Submission of Archival Sonic Documentation: Riverwest, WI 2017–2018 June 15, 2018 Bachelorette Party FTAM, CT/DL

2017 Nakatani | Nanna | Schoofs | Woods July 15, 2017 Tatasuya Nakatani, Jason Nanna, Amanda Schoofs, Peter J Woods Full Spectrum, CT/DL

Forces August 26, 2017 Bachelorette Party Lurker Bias, CT/DL

Discrete Clarifiers April 1, 2017 Bachelorette Party Swamp Circle, DL

2015 Esoterica June 8, 2015 Amanda Schoofs Sound|Anti-Sound, DL

2014 Early Works June 10, 2014 Amanda Schoofs, Peter J Woods FTAM, CT/DL

2013 Cadmium Dust September 11, 2013 Skøefst Universal Reptile, CD/DL

Misdemeanors October 28, 2013 Minor Vices Universal Reptile, DL

2007 Subcutaneous Sound–New Music From The Mills Music Community 2007 May 15, 2007 Compilation feating (un)focus by Amanda Schoofs Mills College, CD ______Authorship: Publications 2015 Schoofs, Amanda. ed. John Lane. “Episode 31: Amanda Schoofs.” Standing in the Stream. John Lane., 25 Nov. Web.

2013 ed. Schoofs, Amanda. “Sound | Anti-Sound: an interdisciplinary text score project” limited edition book art. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Schoofs, Amanda. ed. Frédéric, Mathevet. “Fragility of Permanence: Composed and Painted by Amanda Schoofs.” l’Autre Musique Laboratoire: New Writings of Sound and Music. l’Autre Musique., 25 Aug. Web.

Amanda Schoofs Artistic Director | Composer | Voice + Electronics | Program 10 Manager [email protected] | 415-606-2998 | soundantisound.com 2012 ed. Nelson, Amber and FICTILIS “10.22.38 Astoria: a compilation of xerographic prints” limited edition book art. Seatle, Washington.

2008 Schoofs, Amanda. Say Somethings, MA thesis. Mills College, Print.