| Noah Thorp Noah Thorp is a San Francisco based composer and multi-instrumentalist who has composed music for Movies, Theatre, Dance, CD-ROM, and live performance. His recent works include designing software for live electronic improvisation, composing jazz/electronic hybrids, and converting scientific data into music. In 1998 he founded Listen Labs a media-think tank and record label, which specializes in cross-pollinating musical forms. Recent projects include work with the dance group Capacitor and supporting musicians for Beck, Tom Waits, Meat Beat Manifesto, Meshell Ndegeocello, Antibalas, and Steve Coleman. He was recently awarded a Meet The Composer Grant for his work with Capacitor. In addition to composition skills Noah is also an accomplished audio engineer and has worked for Digidesign, the leading Digital Audio Workstation company providing Audio Engineering instruction for over 200 Digidesign products to Warner Brothers, Disney, The US Navy, Aerosmith, and thousands of others. Noah's cross-disciplinary approach began at the age of six when he started programming music in BASIC on the Commodore 64. He took piano lessons from his Julliard trained grandmother and guitar lessons from his Aunt. In 1992 he attended classes at the Five College Consortium (Hampshire, Amherst, Mount Holyoke , Smith, UMASS) where he studied Jazz with Yusef Lateef and Andrew Jaffe and programmed Artificial Intellegence music systems in the C and LISP computer languages. His interest in ethnomusicology led him to study West African drumming with master Drummer David Locke. Later he spent 6 months in India where he studied North Indian classical sitar music with R. N. Goswami and Danye (Tibetan Lute) at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts. He has also traveled to Germany where he attended courses with Karlheinz Stockhausen and has spent the last 3 years studying music theory with W.A. Mathieu (author of Harmonic Experience).
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