Nathan Corder

Nathan Corder is an Oakland-based composer of works for electronics, objects, and arrays of people. Corder’s music has been honored and programmed at events such as the International Symposium of New Music (Brazil), Le festival International des Arts Sonores EXHIBITRONIC (Strasbourg), MUSLAB (Mexico City), Echofluxx (Czech Republic), mise-en music festival, NUNC!3, NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival, N_SEME, Root Signals, the Yarn/Wire Institute, and SEAMUS. He received the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Award for music composition in 2018 from Mills College. In 2014, Nathan was awarded the Allen Strange Memorial award from SEAMUS.

His music has been described as both “something in common with the act of sowing seeds, digging, dragging, foraging, and repeating the process” (Toneshift), and “dizzyingly kinetic sonic events that constantly interlock and overlap… extreme computer music” (Noise Not Music).

Active as a composer-performer and improviser on custom-designed electronics and guitar, Corder has collaborated with artists such as Roscoe Mitchell, William Winant, Jaap Blonk, Jack Wright, and Barbara Golden. He is also an active member of the bands TONED, monopiece, Mechanical Bull, Nude Tayne, and Jitters.