Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Lee Gilboa is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Music, specializing in multichannel audio composition and sound studies. In addition, she serves as an Assistant Professor in Berklee College of Music’s Department of Electronic Production and Design. Her creative and scholarly work engages with themes such as the sonic identity, representation, collectivity, and self-expression. Currently, she examines the role that listening assumes in the socio-political sphere through a rigorous investigation of testifying voices. In a forthcoming publication, “Against All Odds: Listening for Vocality and Heardness in Oral Testimonies” (Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture), she introduces a transcription methodology that is attuned to the vocality of the testimony through the analysis of Central Park Five member Korey Wise’s coerced confession. Her research received funding from the Jerusalem Institute of Contemporary Music and was supported by Elektronmusikstudion (EMS)’s Artist in Residence Program. Her music was featured in Folly Systems, Cube Fest, NYCEMF, Experimental Intermedia, and Ars-Electronica’s Forum Wallis festivals, among others. She participated in conferences and artist residencies internationally, including Ircam’s ManiFeste Academy, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Sound of Sound Studies, and the SpokenWeb Symposium.