Programs
Clinic
Join us for our first SydeBoob Duo Clinic in Brooklyn, NY May 14-18, 2026. This Fall, we will invite 10 Emerging Composers to attend a 5 day immersive experience either in person or virtually where we will lecture them on such topics as Writing for the Voice and Flute, The Performing Composer, Connecting Communities, Maintaining Inspiration and Creative Funding in 2025, Music Business, Improvisation, Extended Techniques Lab, and Professional Development. We will then read, record, and perform their new works written for this opportunity. Participants will receive both a studio recording, a performance recording, and video of their piece, as well as the opportunity to work with a professional ensemble for 3 months. SydeBoob Duo and our Guest Lecturer, composer Brian Riordan will lead lecturers and lessons on MaxMSP, Jitter, Abelton, Improving with Electronics, and writing for electronics. Brian Riordan will give private lessons. Other guest faculty will be announced in October of 2025. In addition to the music, other activities include an NYC Soundwalk, Group Dinners, Movie Night, and Concerts. 10 participants will be chosen by December 15, 2025 and the workshop will be held in Brooklyn, May 14-18, 2026. Applications open November 15, 2025 and close December 1, 2025. You must be 21 to apply. No application fee.
Operator
Operator is a multimedia 2 day sex-positive event that features 6 new works by queer composers and features local vendors, activists, and guest artists Heather Michele Meyer and Hot Fix Sideshow. This event co-produced by our friends ChamberQUEER. Read more about 2025’s Operator below and you can watch the show here.
Operator is a radically expansive rethinking of the chamber duet for the modern audience. The project is an evening-length showcase of sex-positive New Music, explicit art, and exciting stunts featuring guest artists Heather Michele Meyer, Hot Fix Sideshow, and Infrasound as well as 6 new compositions by queer composers. This year’s composers are Michael Genese, Anthony R. Green, Nathan Hall, Liz Gre, and Anna Elder. The two day event also includes local vendors and a stand alone interactive exhibit of audio erotica by writers from Deviance Magazine (including Lux Pyre, Vincent Lechery and Helen Juliet), oral interviews from Decriminalize Sex Work, Deviance Magazine, Bluestockings Cooperative, Helen Juliet, and 7 Days ofDomination on vintage telephones. The project raises money for Decriminalize Sex Work, Red Canary Song, and G.L.I.T.S. and promotes normalizing consensual sex work; bringing together the sex work and art communities. Anna Elder the soprano for SydeBoob, created this program to help her fellow sex workers. Anna works as an online cam and phone domme and is an in-person dominatrix. She payed off all of her music conservatory debt with sex work and remains forever grateful to her community.