SPATIAL 026 x MESH :: Lee Gilboa | NRSSC Workshop Presentations
Sunday, December 6, 2026
MESH_ARTS at The Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, Gallery C302
DOORS 6:30p | SHOW 7:00p
Off-Axis Listening is a collaboration between MESH_ARTS and New Ear:: SPATIAL, bringing together installations, performances, talks, and a participatory workshop that explore spatial dialogs and perception through the medium of sound. Through experimental sound practices, archival material, and idiosyncratic speaker setups, the program approaches listening as an active, spatial process through which environments are continually produced and shifted.
Lee Gilboa is a US-based composer, scholar, and audio engineer. As a composer, she is focused on spatial audio and primarily uses pre-recorded speech, vocal processing, and audio spatialization techniques in order to engage with themes such as the sonic identity, representation, collectivity, and self-expression. Committed to Practice-Based research, these themes occupy her scholarly work as well. Her current research examines the role that listening assumes in the socio-political sphere through a rigorous investigation of testifying voices. Some of her work in this area was recently published in Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture and was awarded fellowships from the Jerusalem Institute of Contemporary Music and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities.
Gilboa’s music is released by Contour Editions and has been featured internationally in festivals and venues such as MA/IN, ICMC, Experimental Intermedia, Roulette Intermedium, The Immersion Room at NYU, Cube Fest at Virginia Tech, Ars Electronica Forum Wallis Festival, Dissolve Festival, and NYCEMF, among others. She participated in several master classes and artist residencies internationally, including the Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Honk Tweet, IRCAM Manifeste Academy, Elektronmusikstudion, and Spaes Lab. Since 2020, Lee has been a curator for the spatial audio concert series CT::SWaM, currently known as New Ear ::SPATIAL, where she collaborates with Daniel Neumann on the creation of listening spaces dedicated to multichannel audio works. Lee completed her Ph.D. at Brown University’s Music and Multimedia Composition program and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Electronic Production and Design at Berklee College of Music.
Non-Representational Spatial Sound Composition is an approach to spatial sound that engages in direct relation to the architectural space, uses sound to articulate space, to present space through sound, as opposed to representing sound in space. It is an alternative framework to those standardized systems (Dolby Atmos, Surround Sound, Ambisonics etc.) that are built to represent a certain pre-existing spatiality and aim for transferability from one space to another.
Across two days, led by Daniel Neumann, participants will have explored how sound moves through and interacts with a physical environment, treating architecture, speakers, and listeners as active elements in the compositional process. There will be a public presentation of the pieces developed by the participants in addition to Lee’s talk and performance.
