Sarah Rose Weaver

Sarah Rose Weaver, Ph.D. is a New York-based contemporary composer, conductor, technologist, educator, and researcher working internationally as a specialist in ensemble composition and network arts. Her network composition system innovates contemplative concepts on synchrony, synthesis, transmission, and interconnection for artistic and social purpose. Weaver is Adjunct Faculty at New York University, Director of Sarah Rose Weaver Ensemble, Director of NowNet Arts, and Editor of the Journal of Network Music and Arts (JONMA).

Weaver has developed her network composition system over the past twenty years as an innovator in network arts advancing live performance via the internet by musicians and artists in different geographic locations. The network arts technological system utilizes JackTrip audio (authored by Chris Chafe) together with specialized audio and video technology for low-latency, multichannel, performance-quality experience. Her composition system is conceived for both localized and network settings as an integrated concept of network within the music for elements of time, pitch, harmony, timbre, instrumentation, and form. 

Weaver began working in network arts in 2006 through Pauline Oliveros and Chris Chafe. The projects grew into a scene of many collaborations in New York and internationally including close collaboration with Mark Dresser for several years. Pioneering performers and improvisers in her works have included Ray Anderson, Jane Ira Bloom, Yoon Sun Choi, Robert Dick, Marty Ehrlich, Min Xiao-Fen, Gerry Hemingway, Jonathan Impett, Oliver Lake, Denman Maroney, Ned Rothenberg, Ursel Schlicht, David Taylor, and Matthias Zielger. In recent years she has incorporated work with visual and video artists including Kit Fitzgerald, Katherine Liberovskaya, Anna Pasztor, and Beth Warshafsky, along with an international array of audiovisual artists and technologists for network arts developments.

Her works have been performed at contemporary venues throughout New York including Austrian Cultural Forum of New York, Experimental Intermedia, Harvestworks, Iridium Jazz Club, Last Frontier, Roulette, The Stone, Symphony Space, United Nations Headquarters in New York, and Washington Square Park. Her works have also been performed at many sites internationally such as Audio Foundation in Auckland, CHOPPA Festival Singapore, KLEX Series in Kuala Lumpur, Moods Jazz Club in Zurich, Triskel Arts Centre in Ireland, and online in the NowNet Arts Virtual Venue.

As an educator, Weaver has taught and presented work internationally. This features leading institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Detmold University of Music Germany, Harvard University, iHub Nairobi, Johns Hopkins University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), LaSalle School of Contemporary Music Singapore, New York University (New York, Abu Dhabi, Florence), New Zealand School of Music, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Orpheus Institute in Belgium, Queens University Belfast, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Royal College of Music London, Silpakorn University Bangkok, Sivas Cumhuriyet University Turkey, Stanford University, Stony Brook University, University of California San Diego, University of Michigan, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) Edith Cowan University, and Zurich University of the Arts. 

Weaver has received grants and support from City Artist Corp, Composers Now, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants, Harvestworks, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and NYSERNET. Her education credentials include certificates in Deep Listening and Soundpainting, Bachelor of Music with Education Certificate from University of Michigan, Master of Music in Music Technology from New York University, and Ph.D. in Music Composition from Stony Brook University. Weaver is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).