New Orleans / Noise Ordinance LLC
Sultana Isham explores sound as biology through composition and ethnomusicology. She is an award-winning composer, violinist, scholar, curator and interdisciplinary fellow at The Sundance Institute. Her recent score for the Emmy-nominated documentary, “The Neutral Ground,” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and earned her an IDA nomination for best score of 2021. In 2023, she made her composer/conductor debut with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Her upcoming score for the doc-series “Stax Records” will broadcast nationally on HBO in 2024. Her scholarship has expanded into a touring multi-sensory archival exhibition on the lives and works of performers-musicologists, Dr. Geneva Handy-Southall and D. Antoinette Handy. Her curation is in collaboration with their descendants of Handy Heights, Emory University, University of Minnesota, and University of Iowa Women’s Archive.