Research

Gene Coleman
Founder and Director of the Institute for Music and Neuroaesthetics  
Email: soundfield7@gmail.com
Website: genecolemancomposer.com

Awards & Honors

Composer in Residence at Contemporanea Monferrato (2024)

New Jersey Arts Council Fellowship (2024)
Nichibei Creative Arts Fellow (2021 and 2001)

Artistic Director of Site/Sound (2019)

Fromm Foundation Commission (2018)

Director of the Philadelphia Composers Forum (2016-2019)

Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition (2014)
Berlin Prize for Music from the American Academy in Berlin (2013)
William Penn Composer in Residence at The American Academy in Rome (2012)
 

Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and director. He has created over 70 compositions for various instrumentation and media. Central to his work is the inventive use of sound, image and time. He sees Art as a way to expand our understanding and feelings of the world. For many years he has explored the global transformation of culture and music’s relationship with Neuroscience, video and architecture. His most recent research and compositions explore the concepts of Neuro Music and

Neuroaesthetics, incorporating new Neurodata technologies. In 2023 his album of Neuro Music compositions called "Exploratorium" was published by the UK label False Walls. He studied painting, music and film making at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with film artists Stan Brakhage and Ernie Gehr, composer Robert Snyder and visual artists Barbara Rossi and Oliver Jackson. More at: https://www.genecolemancomposer.com/ and https://www.falsewalls.co.uk/release/exploratorium/