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A few things to share from this past spring
As the semester winds down, I have a few things to share from the past few months:
– League of the Unsound Sound premiered my Faulkner-inspired Selfish Houses on Blood Strange Roads, for bassoon, vibes, piano, violin, viola, and double bass. You can check out the piece here, along with reviews of the DC and Baltimore shows (best sentence from a review ever: It was a subtly balanced dissertation on space and distance, time and transference, para-mountaineering, dis-tempering solace and crystal gravy, from the Baltimore What Weekly).
– Maya Stone premiered 8-bit Divertimento, for bassoon and electronics. Go here to listen to the piece and watch a video assembled from clips of old-school 8-bit Nintendo games.
– Listen to David Searle and the CUA orchestra play the heck out of a new revised version of Diaphony:
Diaphony
– I’ve joined the video revolution: I finally have a youtube channel.
New recording, new performance
Pictures on Silence premiered Plunge, for harp, alto sax, and electronics, on Friday, Nov. 12th. Jacky and Noah did a fantastic job with this, and I’m really happy to share this recording from the performance. Their gentle pacing and plaintive lyricism is exactly what I was looking for:
Plunge
More info on the piece can be found here.
If you’re in the Boston area on Friday, Dec. 11th, come check out the world premiere of a new arrangement of And They Sing This, for Bb clarinet and electronics. The piece was selected by the Boston New Music Initiative from a call for scores. Written last spring for oboeist Emily Madsen, And They Sing This uses recordings I made in India around Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi, interviews I conducted with my great-uncle before just before he died, and a delay patch on the live performer. This new version for Clarinet will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11th at Lilypad in Cambridge, MA (tix $10), along with pieces by Jason Bolte, Kyong Mee Choi, John Gibson, Moon Young Ha, Jeff Herriott, Mary Kouyoumdjian, and Kirsten Volness. Map/directions here.