In The Teeth Of was composed for Transient Canvas during their residency with the Frost School of Music’s SCI chapter. The performers operate live electronics, triggering fixed audio samples and live audio processing. Much of this piece was composed during my time in Maine’s Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, where I drew inspiration from the stillness and expansiveness of the quiet island.

Born in Marietta, GA, Sydney Doemel (b.1996) is an acoustic and electro-acoustic composer and violinist.​ Her music has been performed by The Bent Frequency Duo, Transient Canvas, Sonic Apricity, The Departure Duo, and The UGA Symphony Orchestra, with premieres in Alba Italy, Prague, Vienna, and Salzburg. Sydney is now in her second year of her Masters in Music Composition at the University of Miami, where she has been selected as the Student Composer-in-Residence for Seraphic Fire’s 2021-2022 season. Sydney holds degrees in Music Composition and Violin Performance from the University of Georgia, where she was the 2018-19 Student Composer-in-Residence with the UGA Symphony Orchestra; her work “Synapse” was performed in UGA’s Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. Most recently, Sydney composed a solo ukulele work for Giovanni Albini as part of the highSCORE New Music Festival which will be released in 2022.