Tag Archives: Percussive Arts Society

If you’re in Indianapolis on Saturday, November 13th, come and see Blake Wilkins and the Moores School Percussion Ensemble from the University of Houston play Push at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. More info on that event here. They’ll be premiering the piece on Monday, November 1st at a special preview concert at the University of Houston before they hit the road for the trip up north.

Closer to home, Pictures on Silence will premiere Plunge, for harp, alto sax, and electronic sounds, on Friday, November 12th on a concert in John Paul Hall at Catholic University in Washington, DC at 7:30pm (free!). As promised in my August post, this piece involves sounds I recorded while traveling this past summer with my trusty microtrack. Most of them come from the harbor in Southampton, UK (the place where both the Mayflower and the Titanic left from!): lots of boats and docks creaking in the waves. Giving in to my long-time fascination with British accents, I also used a bunch of conversations I picked up around town. Pictures on Silence will take the Plunge on what’s shaping up to be a pretty exciting event: lots of electronics, some pieces that involve film, and another world premiere by composer Anna Rubin.

Signals, commissioned by the NOW Ensemble last year, will be played by DC’s Great Noise Ensemble on Friday, December 3rd. Info and tickets to that event can be found here.

On Sunday, October 3rd, Collide-O-Scope Music got off to a great start this season with an opening event at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church in NYC. Along with my piece Surely Some Revelation?, we featured works by Cage and co-director Christopher Bailey. In addition to this first event, we’ll also be putting on another NYC event at the Issue Project Room on Feb. 24th, and on March 11th here in DC at the Atlas Theatre, as part of the Intersections DC festival (Collide-O-Scope’s DC debut!).