April 29, 2008: I'll present my work at Harvard
University along with Scott Smallwood and Stephan Moore. We'll be talking about marrying sound and image in our work, as collaborators and separately.
April 17, 2008: Laptop performance with WEAVE at
Roulette. I will be performing with Sarah Weaver's group, WEAVE, using soundpainting techniques.
March 28-29, 2008: Sonic Fragments Symposium
The Sonic Fragments sound art symposiuim, co-chaired by Seth Cluett and myself, invites sound artists and scholars to convene to explore ideas of narrative and mediation in sound art.
Feb 23, 2008: Sound Art panel at CAA Conference
(College Art Association) in Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas. I'll be giving a paper about the ways that public sound art can be looked at as a soundtrack to physical life, looking at works by Janet Cardiff, Christina Kubisch and Max Neuhaus.
Jan 7, 2008: Chuck Johnson, Suzanne Thorpe and I
will play laptop, lap steel and electronics, and flute and electronics, at Williamsburg's ParisLondonWestNile Gallery in Brooklyn.
Oct 10, 2007: Sam Solomon plays "Happy Idiot" at
Princeton's Taplin Auditorium. Works by John Cage, Michael Early, Judd Greenstein, Andrew Lee and David Little will also be performed.
Oct 7, 2007: Laptop performance with WEAVE at
Roulette. I will be performing with Sarah Weaver's group, WEAVE, using soundpainting techniques she has furthered, for her piece "Resonessence."
Sept 28-29, 2007: "Shadow Mix: Fairyland" in Oakland
This sonic intervention hits Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, as part of the 2007 Music and Thingamajigs Festival. "Shadow Mix" will allow passersby to create sound mixes by using their movies to move shadows, facilitating social and aesthetic interactions among the general public. All sounds will be drawn from the immediate area.
Sept 13-16, 2007: Park Bench Cinema at Conflux
Festival in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Conflux, put on by Glowlab, is an annual festival dedicated to contemporary psychogeography. My piece will be a symphony for the city for sitters at the East River State Park.
June 29, 2007: "Constellation" for 16 Speakers at
Issue Project Room. Richard Chartier will also play. "Constellation" explores the idea that all sounds ever made are floating in the stratosphere somewhere. This will be Issue's last show in the silo!
June 10, 2007: "Tipping Point" exhibited at Columbia
University Computer Music Center as part of the 2007 NIME Festival, along with several other interactive sound pieces.
May 30, 2007: "Tryptich No. 1 (Trinidad)" Screens at
Issue Project Room as part of an evening of video/film works in dialogue with new music by women, curated by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer
May 6, 2007: Sam Solomon Plays "Happy Idiot" at
the Boston Conservatory. Works by Marcos Bolter, Judd Greenstein, Andrew Lee and David Little will also be performed.
May 1, 2007: "Fragments and Rumors" performed by
Flux Quartet and three singers. "Fragments and Rumors" is a setting of some fragments of Sappho's poetry for string quartet and three
singers. The concert will also feature works by Lisa Coons, Anne Hege, Sean McClowry and
John Supko, and takes place at Princeton's Taplin Auditorium at 8pm. Like most Taplin concerts,
it's free!
April 27, 2007: Release Party for Evidence "Iris"
including my piece "Path 1," which was commissioned by Evidence for this DVD.
April 1, 2007: The Nash Ensemble will perform "Spell"
for alto flute, harp, piano, and string trio at Princeton's sumptuous Richardson Auditorium, at 3pm.
The concert will also include a premiere of "Silverplated" by Scott Smallwood, as well as pieces by Haydn,
Ravel, Francaix and Brahms.
March 13, 2007: "Path 1" screens at Experimental
Intermedia as part of an evening dedicated to "Screen Compositions," organized by Katherine Liberovskaya
and Phill Niblock. Experimental Intermedia is located at 224 Centre Street, New York, NY.
March 6, 2007: Sam Solomon will play "Happy Idiot,"
for solo percussion, at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ at 8pm. The piece is fun,
jerky, and well, a bit idiotic. It was written for Sam last fall.
March 3, 2007: "Warmup/Untangled" will play at Cal
State Fullerton, as part of Pamela Madsen's excellent International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room project. The piece will be played
alongside works by Anne Hege, Chantal Dumas, Vonn New, Monique Buzzart, Pamela Z, and others. The
listening room is part of the Women in New Music Festival, which will include performances by Meredith
Monk, Zeitgeist and composer-in-residence Tania Leon.
Feb 27, 2007: "Fear of Flying," a video collaboration
with So Percussion, will be performed at Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium at 8pm. This 20-minute piece explores
the exhilaration and fear of journeys -- both emotional and physical -- through the heavens.
Feb 23, 2007: Becca Stuhlbarg premieres "Lost and
Found" in Santa Cruz. "Lost and Found" is a meditation on four haiku for singer, contrabass, tenor sax, percussion, and projected video
that she commissioned from me.
Feb 3, 2007: I'll present my work as part of a Slowlab
dialogue about the connections between listening and slowing down.
Dec 14, 2006 - Jan 18, 2007: "Circling" exhibited at
Newark's City Without Walls art center, as part of the exhibition "1800 Frames Take 3,"
curated by Mica Scalin and Lee Wells. Circling is one of a series
of audiovisual portraits made during a 2006 residency in southern Colorado.
Dec 12, 2006: Now Ensemble plays "Six for Seven" at
Princeton's Taplin Auditorium. "Six for Seven" is a jazzy mimimalist piece written for
six people in seven time, with a core piano part, improvised instrumental parts, and abstract
accompanying visuals. This should be a great concert, with work by
Mark Dancigers,
Andrew Lee,
Gregory Spears,
Stefan Weisman,
Kar Fai Samson Young,
Miriama Young
and myself.
Dec 9, 2006: BB and The BSC at Brooklyn's Issue
Project Room with video score "The dark has its own light," as well as a sound and video immprovisation,
"Warmup/Untangled." The BSC will also play a set of their own improvisations.
Don't miss them - they're a virtuosic group sliding effortlessly between beauty and noise.
Dec 5, 2006: "Path 1" & "Warmup/Untangled" will
screen at Princeton's Taplin Auditorium. This should be a strong show, with work by
Scott Smallwood,
Judd Greenstein,
Chris Tignor,
M.R. Daniel,
Nathan Michel,
Seth Cluett,
and myself.
Oct 30, 2006: I'll present my work at NYU as part of
Luke Dubois'"Algorithmic Composition" class, offered through NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
July-August 2006: Trinidad, Colorado Art Residency
Last summer, I spent a month doing a residency at the First Street Gallery
in Trinidad, Colorado. I installed three large interactive sound and video pieces
at the gallery, and also worked with several fifth and sixth-graders to create
audiovisual portraits of their community.
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