Technology for Creativity Course Description:

This workshop will provide an introduction to using electronics to create and extend musical performance in solo and chamber music contexts. Using free software tools and a laptop, this course will lead performers through a sequence of building and exploration which will result in each participant making their own interactive electronic performance platform that is an extension of their instrument.
All levels welcome.

Joshua Rubin is clarinetist of the International Contemporary Ensemble (iceorg.org), where he previously served as the Program Director and then Artistic Director from 2011-2018, overseeing the creative direction of more than one hundred concerts per season in the United States and abroad. The New York Times has praised him in performances as, "incapable of playing an inexpressive note."

Joshua has worked closely with many of the prominent performers and composers of our time, including George Crumb, Matana Roberts, Alvin Lucier, David Lang, Chaya Czernowin, Du Yun, Christian Wolff, Cory Smythe, George Lewis, Vijay Iyer, Steven Schick, Claire Chase, Kaija Saariaho, Craig Taborn, Pauline Oliveros, Okkyung Lee, Nathan Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, John Zorn, and Mario Davidovsky. Joshua can be heard on recordings from the Nonesuch, Kairos, New Focus, Mode, Cedille, Naxos, Bridge, New Amsterdam, and Tzadik labels. His album There Never is No Light, available on New Focus Recordings label, highlights music that uses technology to capture the human engagement of the performer and the listener.

Joshua holds degrees in Biology and Clarinet from Oberlin College and Conservatory, and a Master's degree from the Mannes School of Music.

He served on the faculty of the Banff Music Centre's Ensemble Evolution summer program from 2016-2019. Rubin is on the faculty of soundSCAPE Festival and Ensemble Evolution. He is also on the faculty of the College of the Performing Arts at The New School.

This season he will perform on modern and historical clarinets in New York with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Teatro Nuovo,and the American Composers Orchestra, in Los Angeles with Wild Up, Monday Evening Concerts, Tesserae, at the Ojai Music Festival, and on tour in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Berlin, Miami, Boston, Houston, Kansas City, San Diego, and Chicago.

His passion for technology in arts led Joshua to develop LUIGI, management software that is available to ensembles and other arts organizations who value transparency and collective