New Ear is focused on fostering experimentation in time-based media and interdisciplinary collaboration in New York City and beyond. 

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works in progress, rough mixes, demos and some finished pieces... mostly for films. 

Batya is an oboist and composer-improviser.  With a focus on experimental new music and sound, Sobel views her art as an offering of honesty and vulnerability. At Hampshire College, she studied with Dr Yusef Lateef, who became a life-changing mentor. Batya is a lay homeopath, a marketing consultant for print music publishers, and a caretaker of older horses. As Brother Yusef said, ‘remember to express the beauty.’

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