Kwami Coleman is a composer, producer, and musicologist specializing in improvised music. He is an Associate Professor of Music at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University and has published scholarly work on topics in experimental and black music history, music aesthetics, technology, and vernacular music cultures. His first album, Local Music (2017), contains original compositions interpolated with original field recordings capturing the streets of Harlem, New York City--his childhood neighborhood. Coleman has also had works commissioned for the Studio Museum of Harlem (2023), March on Washington Film Festival (2020), and appears in rapper Common's "Black America Again" (2016).