Crazy

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Oy. I have been too crazy busy to do any posting.

I did have a great time in Kosovo, though. If you’d like to see photos go here.

Once I get this Art of Memory show up and running, I’ll have more time.

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NewBorn Debut

Monday, June 1, 2009

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NewBorn Trio @ Cornelia St. Cafe. This Wednesday.

Recorded four days ago:

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Katie Down : glass, strings, and wind.
Miguel Frasconi : glass and small instruments.
Jeffrey Lependorf : shakuhachi and global flutes.

Getting ready for our residency in Kosovo next week.

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Yimpa 1978

Saturday, May 23, 2009

I just found this total gem of a piece from an old recording of YIMPA, the York Improvisation Agreement, from a concert in 1978. Yimpa was the performing ensemble of the improvisation class at York University, Toronto, taught (even now) by the amazing pianist Casey Sokol. I was in this group for all 4 years I was at York. I usually played flute or piano, but in this recording I am playing melodica & harmonicas.

There is a short phrase at the very end that sounds like an electronic filter sweep. It took me a while to figure out what it was (since there were no electronics in the band). I realized it was a very brief duet by me and “altered-sax” player John Oswald . Enjoy.

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Leigh Evans

Friday, May 22, 2009

from TRACES (May 15-21, 2009, NYC):

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Review

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Benedetti/Frasconi

May 21, 2009

Here is one of my father’s woodcuts, a color version of a print used to illustrate a poem of Benedetti’s in Unstill Life:

Still Life, woodcut by Antonio Frasconi

Here is a video of Benedetti reading a poem about The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos)

Here is some of my father’s work on the same subject:

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Mario Benedetti, 1920-2009

May 20, 2009

Mario Benedetti, the great Latin American writer and poet, died last sunday. The LA Times wrote:
Although he wasn’t widely known in the United States, Benedetti’s more than 60 volumes of poems, prose, essays and drama helped secure a prominent place for Latin America in global literature, along with the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos [...]

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Traces

May 17, 2009

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Here is a bit of the music I just finished for Leigh Evans’ Traces, up right now at the DR2 Theatre off of Union Square. If you are in NY, please come see it.
Tuesday & Thursday, May 19, 21 @ 7pm,
DR2 Theatre, 103 East 15 Street (@ Union Square), NYC
$20, $15. students/seniors.
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New Newsletter

May 17, 2009

Read my May ‘09 newsletter here. If it’s not in your email inbox, you can sign up for the next one over here on the right.

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Non-virtual

May 6, 2009

It’s interesting to see that computers have become so fast that something can be referred to as “non-virtual” without there being even at touch of irony. Non-virtual. That means it’s real, right?
And so it is. Some folks in Germany have put a “non-virtual” reverb devise on line. Tank-FX is literally that: a huge, 11 meter [...]

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Duykers The First

May 3, 2009

I was just going to write about the upcoming recording session I put together for this Wednesday at my studio in Inwood. I’ve invited three of my favorite musician to come improvise with me. Two of which I play with regularly in Ne(x)tworks and one whom I’ve been working with since 1987, on and off. [...]

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