2025-2026 Review Panel

Tim Feeney performs, composes, and improvises sounds and images in and for forests and waterfronts, investigating unstable sound and duration. He appears in bookstores and basements with Sarah Hennies and Greg Stuart as the trio Meridian; in galleries and libraries with Vic Rawlings and Annie Lewandowski; in living rooms and warehouses with Clay Chaplin, Davy Sumner, and Volker Straebel; in tunnels and train stops with Cody Putman and Cassia Streb; in colleges and museums with Andrew Raffo Dewar, Holland Hopson, and Jane Cassidy; on recordings for Intakt, Black Truffle, Rhizome.s, Caduc, Full Spectrum, Sedimental, and Marginal Frequency; and in the occasional festival or concert hall with Anthony Braxton, Ingrid Laubrock, and the Partch Ensemble. He is a faculty member in percussion, improvisation, composition, and experimental sound practices at the California Institute of the Arts. http://timfeeney.com https://music.calarts.edu/faculty-and-staff/tim-feeney

The music of Boston-based composer Nomi Epstein has been described as “magical, otherworldly” (The New York Music Daily). Centered around her interest in sonic fragility, her work invites both performer and listener to enter into the sound world through focused listening. Structures emerge from the subtleties of each sound and their placement, even if indeterminate, in sonic/temporal space. Her music has been performed throughout the US and Europe, working with ensembles such as SurPlus, ICE, Wet Ink, Mivos Quartet, Wild Rumpus, the Industry, Apartment House, Dedalus, Southland, and counter)induction. Composer portrait albums include “sounds” (New Focus Recordings, 2020), “cubes” (Sawyer Editions, 2023), and her most recent release, “shades” (Another Timbre, 2024), described in The Wire as “fragile beauty that clearly arises from her cohesive and firmly coordinated compositional orientation.”  

An active practitioner and advocate of experimental music, she is the founder/director of the critically acclaimed, experimental music ensemble a•pe•ri•od•ic, in which she also performs. Her curatorial work includes large scale festivals as in the Chicago area 2012 centennial John Cage Festival, the 2014 Chicago Wandelweiser Festival, the 2017 Galina Ustvolskaya Festival, in addition to experimental music concerts in the US and abroad involving guest composers and performers from across the globe. She continues to research, write, and lecture on post-Cagean, notated, experimental music. Epstein currently serves as Associate Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music, and as a certified practitioner leading Deep Listening® Workshops.