BIOGRAPHY

Gabriel Gekoskie (he/him, b. 2001) is a composer, sound artist, and engineer based in State College, Pennsylvania. His work operates at the intersection of absurdity, system, and signal, treating sound as both material and residue. Drawing from corpus-based methodologies, Gekoskie constructs compositional environments from aggregated, recontextualized, and destabilized source materials, allowing musical form to emerge through processes of recombination. In this framework, authorship is diffuse, continuity is suspect, and meaning is negotiated as opposed to fixed.

His creative practice spans acoustic and electroacoustic composition, installation, and performance, often integrating interactive electronics and responsive systems. These works function less as static objects and more as dynamic systems in which performers co-produce outcomes in real time. Influenced by post-digital aesthetics and fluxus-informed logics, Gekoskie embraces instability, failure, and excess as generative forces. His music resists singular narratives; instead, he foregrounds multiplicity, contradiction, and rupture as essential conditions of contemporary listening.

As an academic, Gabriel’s research is as an extension of his artistic practice, grounded in principles of equity and accessibility. He frequently collaborates with artists across extramusical disciplines, which treats improvisation and abstraction as modes of inquiry. These concerns coalesce in his 2024 chamber opera The Cascades of Ares, an interdisciplinary work integrating ceramic, projection, and sound art. 

Gekoskie’s 2025 paper, “The Salient Aesthetics of Hyperpop,” published in Emille, the journal of the Korean Electroacoustic Music Society (KEAMS), examines hyperpop as a site of aesthetic extremity, cultural hybridity, and technological saturation. This research situates experimental music within larger conversations about media, identity, and the conditions of late-capitalist production.

His work has been recognized through competitive residencies that support interdisciplinary research and artistic development. He has held artistic residencies at the Catwalk Institute of Art (2023, 2025), where he developed new works for large ensemble and interactive electronics, as well as an artist residency at Penn State’s Learning Factory, a College of Engineering–supported initiative that fosters collaboration between artists, engineers, and researchers. These residencies have provided sustained institutional support for his exploration of sound as a material, social, and technological practice.

Gekoskie holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition and Music Theory from the University of Florida and a Master of Music in Composition and Theory from Penn State University. He currently serves as the Assistant Recital Hall Manager at Penn State.