Nolan Hildebrand is a composer and noise artist based in Toronto, Canada. He composes electroacoustic, instrumental, and acousmatic music, and performs in his solo noise project, BLACK GALAXIE. He synthesizes noise music with his contemporary classical composition practice to create work that is intense, colorful, and viscerally engaging. This synthesis manifests sonically through noise, excess, physicality, and

a touch of humor and absurdity. His creative output integrates computer-assisted composition, open graphic scores, oversaturated timbres, extended techniques, spatialized sound, chaotic feedback networks, interactive computer systems, and more. 

 

Nolan’s music has been performed at major festivals around the world including Darmstädter Ferienkurse (GER), International Computer Music Conference (CN), Forum Wallis (CH), reMusik (RUS), Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend (USA), MoxSONIC (USA), and more. He has worked with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, ECM+ Ensemble, XelmYa Ensemble, Jonny Axelsson, Nick Photinos, and has participated in masterclasses

with Panayiotis Kokoras, Stefan Prins, Ana Sokolovic, Fernando Garnero, and Malin Bång. He has presented his music and research at the 2023 International Computer Music Conference (CN), the 2023 SPLICE Festival (US), the 2022 Korean Electro Acoustic Music Society’s Annual Conference, the 2021 Anestis Logothetis Centenary Symposium (GR), and the CeReNeM Composers’ Colloquia (UK).

 

Nolan completed his BMus in composition with Dr. Gordon Fitzell and Örjan Sandred at the University of Manitoba, and an MMus in composition under the supervision of Dr. Eliot Britton at the University of Toronto. He is currently pursuing a DMA in Music Composition at the University of Toronto with a focus on electroacoustic music under the guidance of Dr. Kotoka Suzuki.