well-weathered music

There are two Ne(x)tworks related gigs coming up the second week of October. A trio concert with Cornelius Dufallo, violin; Joan LaBarbara, voice; and me, glass & electronics, at The Stone, Sunday October 7, at 8pm. Then the full ensemble at The Kitchen, Wednesday October 10, at 8pm. Each show will be very different, so come to both. The trio will be exploring some very new territory. The ensemble will be playing works by composers in the graphic score exhibit at The Kitchen, including Earl Brown, Wadada Leo Smith, Cardew, LaBarbara, and Schumacher.

Here is an excerpt from the piece I wrote for Ne(x)tworks earlier this year, premiered at The Stone in June. It was a music theater piece called Tasks & Objects. (You haven’t lived ’til you’ve seen Joan LaBarbara totally wrapped in paper, singing her favorite aria.) Unfortunately I didn’t videotape it (doh!) but did get a good recording. Here is a 3 minute excerpt.

Now that I know how to add videos to this page, thought I’d put these up. They are two short excerpts of a concert I did with Morton Subotnick and Sue Costabile in San Francisco this past March (2007). They look like they were shot by someone in the audience on their cellphone camera. Very odd. We spend a week at Naut Humon’s Recombinant Media Labs recording and filming the entire piece for Mode Records. The DVD will be released next year sometime. In this section of the piece, the changes to the various soundfiles, triggered from the computer, follow the dynamics of my voice. My actual vocal sounds are not heard, but the loudness and articulation have a huge effect. The visuals in the back are being created live by Sue.

The trio, left to right, Mort, me, Sue:

Me rocking out:

I’ve been touring with Mort pretty regularly since we both performed our music with Anna Halprin in Paris in 2004. (I performed my score for Intensive Care, and he and I performed his score for Parades & Changes.) We started working on his Until Spring Revisited, with Sue Costabile providing the visuals, and have performed it about a dozen times over the last few years, including a gig at the Library of Congress last year. Hopefully we’ll present it one last time in NY next year when the DVD is released.

There is an article on the Playbill site today about the upcoming MCDC music series of which I’m a part. I’ll be performing with David Behrman, Richard Teitelbaum (my teacher 20 30(!) years ago), and Marina Rosenfeld. At this point it’s scheduled for Monday, May 5, 2008 in NYC. Then future dates at Bard and Dia Beacon.
http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/6921.html

(By the way, I’m still trying to get the hang of this WordPress program, so I’m not blogging in earnest yet. But I have added some listening links over on the right.)