Elliot Cole
composer, performer, teacher


SHOW: ALL, COMPOSITIONS, TOOLS, ALBUMS, TEACHING

Macro-Harmonizer

2024 Max for Live device for organizing music by macroharmony, the frequency distribution of pitches in recent memory. Analyze macroharmony from any MIDI input or draw your own, generate random notes based on the same distribution, and create tonality map to travel and blend.

Download beta version
Category
Tools

Musicambia


2014-2024 Helped found non-profit dedicated to serving musical communities in prisons
Program director at Sing Sing Correctional Facility (NY) and Lansing Correctional Facility (KS)
Have run over 100 workshops and produced 25+ concerts in correctional facilities since 2015

Text of my talk reflecting on 10 years of Musicambia; what it’s like & what I’ve learned.
Category
Teaching

New Course @ NYU ITP


2024 I am designing a new course for the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU Tisch called Music Design & Discovery for Fall 2024.
As ITP students are not necessarily musicians, we will approach music as a design problem, grounded more in information theory than music theory. Coursework will explore efficient heuristics for compositional play that sidestep the need for traditional music theory.
Category
Teaching

Creative Music Intensive


2022- Two week summer retreat at Arts, Letters and Numbers (Albany, NY), and online.
Faculty include Elliot Cole, Michael Harrison, Aleksandra Vrebelov, Payton McDonald, and the Bergamot Quartet.
Workshop topics include composition, counterpoint, Just Intonation, music production, Classical Indian rhythm and raga, and more.

CMI 2023 website
Category
Teaching

Lato-Sargam


2023 Font designed for Hindustani music notation
Based on Lato by Łukasz Dziedzic 
Lato and Lato-Sargam are licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

Download
Category
Tools, Raga

Creative Ableton: Complete Course


2022 Video course designed to help you learn how to compose music while learning how to use Ableton Live
Material covers two semesters of what I teach at Juilliard and the New School
Beginner/intermediate level
Learn by doing, guided by 142 short videos

Learn More Category
Teaching

Flowerpot Music


2020- Evolving collection of games, improvisation scores, and sonic meditations employing the flowerpot 
Since 2020, Flowerpot Music has been an special project of Make Music Day, and is performed in dozens of cities each year on June 21
Events are promoted and supported by Peter Ferry
Note: Not the same piece as Flowerpot Music No. 1, a fully notated duo, which probably needs a new name!

Contact for more information
Make Music Day Book

Category
Community Music, Compositions

Bloom.sc


2013- Software for musical modeling and exploration
Aided composition of many of my works, including Bloom Suite + Trio, Facets / Well of Whales, New Year’s Day, Flows, Nocturnes, Hashflowers.

Dissertation (Princeton PhD *23)
Github
Category
Tools

Passage


2022-2023 A nine-hour cycle of raga-based music for voice, Just Intonation piano, and Prophet synthesizer.
Created with Michael Harrison, Ina Filip, and Benoît Rolland, with lighting by Nina Elder.
Commissioned by the Turchin Center for the Arts in Boone, North Carolina, and exhibited July-December 2023.
Category
Raga, Compositions

Tam Lin


2021 Celtic-baroque-rock-opera by me and Fiona Gillespie, for a big band of old and new instruments (Makaris).
Story comes from a 16th century Scottish ballad.

Album at Long Echo Records
Category
Storytelling, Early Music, Albums, Compositions
©2024 ECMake the medium resistant, so as to conquer it patiently. (Delacroix)