andrew aziz '07 Born on an ant farm in Crooklyn, New York, Andrew Aziz was categorized as "extraterrestrial" until morphing into a brilliant pianistic savant at the age of three. Andrew's genius transcended all expectations when he was accepted to the Juilliard School in 1993, and Manhattan School of Music in 1994. Andrew became burnt out and stopped practicing at age 13. At age 18, he got rejected from Brown University. Since then, he consumes exorbitant amounts of spare ribs and meat sauce and has conjured an intense hatred for any person who drinks diet soda, listens to rap, or eats only food from the Roots and Shoots station. Andrew is currently taking a nap in the animal house known as Delta Phi. Performed in Brown Newd Music, Fall 2005 whit bernard '07 Whit Bernard is, at his best moments, a hearter. The impulse to heart emerged in his childhood, when he was always the last one to get picked in gym class and dreamed of a better world for the non-this or thats of the universe. It crystallized with the emergence of Barold Truax, primary hearter of the mundo and chief priest of the international school of hearting in Zurich, CH. Él is student of composition and an amalgamation of other things that might be labeled "cultural studies" by someone who knows about how to label that kind of thing. His primary teachers have included Butch Rovan, Shep Shapiro, Caroline Mallonée, Tom Lopez and Carl Grubbs. The vast majority of his training as a musician and creative person have come from his time in residence at the Walden School, a summer institute for young composers and interdisciplinary artists in Dublin, NH. Originally attending as a composition student, he now works on staff there and teaches improvisation and composition to the younger hearters of the community. Someday he hopes the world will evolve to better resemble the Walden School. That would be . The only other thing to mention is that he doesn't spend enough time composing or thinking while in college but has other hobbies, including road biking, anything BNM, bush jumping, talking about his friend Boob, expanding/expounding upon the ongoing narrative of Barold Truax, that subliminal pup, and drinking coffee. Current projects that may interest the reader who has not given up by now include two site-specific performance pieces, one for the Boston Architecture Society's Wind Ideas Competition involving a mixed wind ensemble and a wind turbine in Hull, MA, and the other oriented towards marginal urban space in providence, with an acoustic setting of the shifting phase patterns of those three blinking lights on the smokestacks by the hurricane barrier, to be performed in some forlorn parking lot next to I-195. Co-Chair of BNM, 2004-2006. Performed in Don't Sweat the Harmonic Tension, 2004; Brown Newd Music, Fall 2005; Schitt, Fall 2004. gwen fuertes '05 gwen fuertes is an avocado-fox hybrid who lives on the west side of providence. she has been involved with bnm on- and off-stage since 2004. graduation proved to be no obstacle. in case you are curious about the avocado-fox hybrid species, you might like to know that the "gwen" avocado and the "fuerte" avocado are legitimate varieties of avocado. read more here. as for the fox, gwen has reddish hair and a sly demeanor, and wears ears sometimes. she does eat chicken, but she will not steal your hens. Performed in Don't Sweat the Harmonic Tension, 2004; Schitt, Fall 2004, Brown Newd Music, Fall 2005. Foxy web lady. patrick harrison '08 Patrick Harrison '08 is a transfer student from Amherst College. He is concentrating in modern cultura and media and is being held without trial or formal charges in Guantanamo Bay. Performed in Brown Newd Music, Fall 2005. alex kotch '06 Alex is a composer, clarinetist, saxophonist, and lover of bowling. His artistic interests include progressive house music, Calatrava, time perception, Raymond Carver, bathroom graffiti, and Southern cuisine. He'll begin Duke's Ph.D. program in composition in fall 2007. www.alexkotch.com www.myspace.com/alexkotch BNM co-chair, 2004-2007. Performed in Don't Sweat the Harmonic Tension, 2004; Brown Newd Music, Fall 2005; Schitt, Fall 2004. nora krohn '06 Nora Krohn, peripatetic wanderer of the east coast, is a rabid lover of the phallocentric, avant-post-structuralist, signifier-ridden and politically incorrect music of dead white European men. But she also hearts Pärt--and near-rhymes-- whose marriage to a certain Nora Pärt (née Truax) is clearly an homage to aforementioned Nora Krohn's vast impact on his compositional style. Before coming to Brown, Krohn was awarded a bachelor's degree from San Diego State University in Abstruse Logoechografia, the construction of endless, uncannily awkward and mimetic sentences that upon further examination in fact contain no lingusitic or metaphysical meaning or versimulitude, and certainly no facts. One third Hispanic Studies, two thirds Music and 0g of trans fat, (PDV are based on a 2,000 calorie diet), Nora can be found studying the viola in preparation for a career in artistic servitude to the status quo, confusing herself with her own incomprehensible verbosity, and writing painfully self-aware bios for BNM. Performed in Don't Sweat the Harmonic Tension, 2004; Schitt, Fall 2004, Brown Newd Music, Fall 2005. greg kuwaye '08 Performed in Schitt, Fall 2004; Brown Newd Music, Fall 2005. rohan maddamsetti A recent dream of mine: I see a T. Rex prowling around my backyard. Thinking I'm safe inside, I stand very still. But it sees me and uproots a tree to break into my house, so I run outside, and suddenly I'm on a beach next to a bunker that the Nazis could have used in preparation for D-Day. It's now used by aliens: the ones responsible for the dinosaurs. Red-eyed and suited in white rubber, they soon spot me. I run past them shooting, towards a squad of the resistance fortified in an airplane hangar. I run in, and the door clangs shut. The commander has fresh cuts on his brow from the fighting. He leads a group of pilots wearing leather flying caps. He awards a brass medal that reads "The Best Pilot in the Navy" to the Best Pilot in the Navy, who resembles a cute girl I know. She's not very pleased, because the medal sucks. If she were a man, she would have gotten a much better medal. Performed in Brown Newd Music, Fall 2005. adam pogoff '05 “Pogoff is one of today’s leading composers of contemporary art music, obliterating convention and thrilling audiences. A wunderkind to keep your eyes on!” – Die Profunctus Quarterly. “At his peak, Pogoff was a pretentious bottom-dwelling composer. He has struggled to find a foothold in even the most outer orbit of peripheral composing circles” - C. Whit Bernard. Composer Adam Pogoff (b. 1982) has carved out an interesting if not controversial niche in the modern composing soundscape. Pogoff comes from unlikely beginnings. Born into an imperial family, Adam Hapsburg spent the first few years of his life in a Russian stetl. His family was forced to move to the “New World” after a Neo-Bolshevik uprising burnt his village to the ground. The name “Pogoff” was assigned by the host family who sponsored his evacuation. Adam refers to himself as a “citizen of the world”, and draws artistic inspiration from women. Pogoff studied counterpoint under the unlikely hand of Nomar Garciaparra, of the Boston Red Sox, and while still in high school worked as protégé to the late Robert Craft. Earning a B.F.A. at the Richard Taruskin School of Music, and an honorary degree from the New Mme. Boulangier Institute in Bemidji, Minnesota, Pogoff holds senior lecturing positions from three Northern Minnesota colleges. His doctoral thesis, “What IS Art, Man?”, can be found in Wesleyan University Press’s Way Out catalog. Aside from premiers, rehearsals and workshops, Pogoff keeps busy touring the Colloquiaea circuit. Pogoff’s most recent projects include: “The Homoerotic Thermometer”; “Variations on a Theme of Paul Newman’s Salad Dressing”; “Three Bagatelles for Wet Blanket and Orchestra”; “Arby’s Curly Fries Song Cycle”; “Odd Size in Odd Meter – Levi’s 41”x30”. In his free time Pogoff enjoys runway modeling and intramural jai-lai. (Email: pogoff@gmail.com) Involved with Brown New Music from 2001-2004. michael soule '06 michael soule is enjoyed best over ice. he willingly participates in, nay joyously tumbles around in, all cacaphonous activities he can possilby get his muddy mitts on. he also like harmonious things that make you feel like the big G is coming down to say "Holla back, girl." he is not a CIA agent. or is he? he also does not sub-contract for Deutchesbank. nor would he ever. his natural habitat is high in the branches of the skyscrapers that overlook lake michigan. he is likely found mucking about in pools of half-formed semi-quavers. he speaks a smattering of languages. he wants to be a doctor, teacher, waiter, photographer, musician, poet, astronaut, and architect. wish him luck in at least two of the above endeavors. Performed in Don't Sweat the Harmonic Tension, 2004; Brown Newd Music, Fall 2005.