isaac Charliemagne composes for the moment after waking and before sleep. Isaac’s music exists in a tradition of relational art. Poetry plays a prominent role in Isaac’s life, parallel to his compositional process, appreciating particularly how it can “act as a mechanical device apart from the meaning, creating and reacting to a logic of its own.” Visual art too plays a significant role in his life, particularly the works of Brueghel the Elder, Franz Kupka, Odilon Redon, Marc Chagall, and Bohumil Kubišta. Often Isaac’s work is ekphrastic in nature, responding to and recontextualizing visual works such as his Lullaby after Breughel’s “El Misantropo” and Summer after Monet’s series on water lilies. He has written music for Tim Fain, Trio de Bois, the St Francis Choristers, and Brad Balliett among others. He has studied composition with Michael Hersch, Mark Lackey, and William Price as well as percussion with Mark Lanter and trombone with Chad Fisher.