#  Miya Masaoka 

 

 



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Miya Masaoka is a composer, sound artist and musician with works that include pieces for orchestra, acoustic phenomena, video, electronics and installation. Her work explores the natural world, bodily perception of vibration, movement, and time while foregrounding complex timbre relationships alongside performance, social, and historical references. Whether recording inside physical objects, plants or the human body or within architecturally resonant spaces or outdoor resonant canyons, Masaoka creates incongruencies that feed the paradox of the contemporary condition.

Her works have been presented at the Venice Biennale, MoMA PS1, Kunstmuseum Bonn, the ICA, PA, the Park Avenue Armory and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Governors Island, and has been commissioned by EMPAC for Wave Field Synthesis, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jack Quartet, MIVOS, Del Sol Quartet, the S.E.M. Ensemble, Bang On a Can, and Kathryn Bates, Volti, Either/Or Ensemble, Momenta, Alonzo King and Lines, the Library of Congress, Darmstadt, Maerzmusik, Dal Niente, and the Festival in Ostrava in the Czech Republic.

Masaoka has received the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Award, The Rome Prize, the

Fulbright, the Alpert Award, the Doris Duke Award and the Studio Artist Residency at Park

Avenue Armory.

As an improvisor, Masaoka has performed and recorded with artists such as Pauline Oliveros,

Cecil Taylor, Pharoah Sanders, Henry Brandt, Christian Wolfe, Anthony Braxton, Andrew Cyrille,

Reggie Workman, Zeena Parkins and Myra Melford.

Her teachers include Alvin Curran, David Tudor, Maryanne Amacher and Togi Suenobu.

Masaoka has held teaching positions at New York University and the Music/Sound program at

the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College and currently is a Professor at Columbia

University and Director of the Sound Art Program, a part of Visual Arts MFA Program.

Her writings have been published by The Theater Review (NYU) and Periferies (Harvard Divinity

School's Center for the Study of World Religions) She is a polyglot and speaks six languages.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Commission Date
    
     [2023](/commission-date/2023)
- ## Composer
    
     [Masaoka, Miya](/composer/masaoka-miya)
- ## Commissions
    
     [Past Commissions](/pastcommisions)