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Upcoming concerts.
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| 8.15.09 New York, NY | ||
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The Secret Life of Pop Music: Uncovering the hidden strangeness in familiar sounds. I'll be performing two pieces about trauma and repression: The White-Walled Room, and Imogene, for which I'll be joined by singer Toby C. Siegel. Then Ensemble de Sade co-founders Matt Marks and Mellissa Hughes present The Melly and Mafoo Variety Hour, project designed to bring out the latent masochism and desperation in seemingly lightweight pop tunes by setting them in darker, more melancholic styles. The concert is at Gershwin Hotel (7 E 27th St.), at 8 PM. Cover is $10. |
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| 8.24.09 Brooklyn, NY | ||
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Jeremiah Bornfield presents All New & Old All, a dispatch from a genreless future of thought. I'll be performing The White-Walled Room and the duo version of Imogene with Toby C. Siegel. Also on the concert: neo-Baroque music by Jeremiah Bornfield, neo-Romantic music by Jessica Sibelman, and neo-contemporary music by Marie Incontrera. The concert is at Galapagos Arts Space (16 Main St., Brooklyn), at 8 PM. $10 if you buy tickets in advance, $15 at the door.
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Past concerts.
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| 7.6.09 New York, NY | ||
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I performed new solo voice + electronics versions of two of my recent pieces: Imogene and The White-Walled Room. "Electronics" in this case includes my new vocoder.
The concert was part of the Comformer Perposers Series at the The University of The Streets; it was at 7 PM (not 8 PM) and also included new pieces by Andrea La Rose and Tor Snyder. |
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| 7.2.09 Natick, MA | ||
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Website-less multi-instrumentalist Juliet Grabowski premiered my new piece for microtonally tuned koto at the The Center for Arts in Natick. | |
| 5.31.09 New York, NY | ||
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DETOUR presented works by six emerging composers from NYC and LA: Timothy Andres, Robby Elfman, Noam Faingold, Brian Mark, Angélica Negrón and me. My pieces on the concert: a new and improved version of Slightly Less Awkward People, performed by Sara Budde and James Moore, and a set of piano miniatures called Character Pieces, performed by Timothy Andres. The concert was at Roulette. |
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| 4.27.09 Valencia, CA | ||
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Julieanne Klein performed The White-Walled Room, as part of a lecture at CalArts on the interaction between contemporary classical music and electronic pop music. The piece is about the psychology of trauma and repressed memory. | |
| 4.17.09 Brooklyn, NY | ||
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World premiere! Ensemble De Sade performed The Order of Omphale at the New Music Bake Sale. The performers were Mellissa Hughes (voice), Jessica Schmitz (flute), Eileen Mack (clarinet), Peter Wise (drums), James Moore (electric guitar), Amir Khosrowpour (piano), Andie Springer (violin) and Kevin McFarland (cello). The piece is about an initiation into a Marin County sex cult, and is loosely inspired by the writing of Alain Robbe-Grillet. The event was co-hosted by Ensemble De Sade and Newspeak, and it was at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, 124 Henry St. between Clark St. and Love Ln. Also on the program were So Percussion, Lisa Moore, Martin Bresnick, Lukas Ligeti, ACME, JACK Quartet, Dither, and loadbang ensemble. |
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| 3.26.09 Cambridge, MA | ||
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Dan VanHassel played two movements from Three Creatures on a concert by Boston-based new music collective Embryonic NOISE! Also on the program: works by Dan himself as well as Christopher Biggs, Asha Srinivasan and Liza White, plus a rock band playing Ives, Messiaen, Cage and Shostakovich. The concert was at 7 PM at All Asia, 334 Mass Ave at the corner of Mass Ave and State St., Cambridge, MA |
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| 3.9.09 Brooklyn, NY | ||
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New York premiere! Celestial Mechanics performed my retrofuturist New Wave song cycle Imogene -- this time accompanied by images of my design -- along with music by Lainie Fefferman, Anne Hege, Jascha Narveson and György Ligeti. I also performed my experimental radio drama, The Travels of E.C. Dumonde, and Jascha will present a set of multichannel electronic works. The concert was at 8 PM at Monkeytown, 58 N 3rd St between Kent and Wythe.
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| 3.6.09 Princeton, NJ | ||
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World premiere! Celestial Mechanics performed my retrofuturist New Wave song cycle Imogene, along with music by Lainie Fefferman, Anne Hege, Jascha Narveson and György Ligeti. I also performed my experimental radio drama, The Travels of E.C. Dumonde. The concert was at 8 PM in Rocky-Mathey Theater in Madison Hall, on the corner of Nassau and University.
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| 1.21.09 New York, NY | ||
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After many years, the triumphant return of Three Creatures, played by the inimitable Mark Dancigers. Also on the program: works by Mark and speech-sample guru Scott Johnson.
The performers: The concert was at 8:30 PM at Roulette, 20 Greene St. between Canal and Grand. |
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| 1.10.09 Oakland, CA | ||
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Another Celestial Mechanics show, with the same program as the one in Santa Cruz (including three movements from Imogene). The concert was at 8 PM at the Oakopolis Creativity Center, 447 25th St. between Broadway and Telegraph. The group also ran a vocal and somatic improvisation workshop at the same venue, from 2-5 PM.
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| 1.07.09 Santa Cruz, CA | ||
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Princeton-based vocal trio Celestial Mechanics performed three movements from my recent song cycle Imogene at a house concert. Also on the program: works by Anne Hege, Lainie Fefferman, György Ligeti, Jascha Narveson and Sarah Paden, plus a group improvisation. The concert was at 8 PM, at 220 Spring St. between High St. and Bradley Dr., Santa Cruz, CA.
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| 11.2.08 New York, NY | ||
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Composer/pianist Timothy Andres played my piece Grass Stem Behaviors (described by Richard Dyer as a "knockout") in a concert organized by and featuring the music of Noam Faingold. Also on the program: music by Timothy Andres, Michael Brown and Nick Csicsko.
The concert was at 7:30 PM in Room 303 at NYU Steinhardt, 35 W 4th St. between Greene and University. |
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| 10.17.08 New York, NY | ||
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Residents of Clear Lake, Alaska have claimed for years that Alex Temple performed The Travels of E.C. Dumonde on October 17, 2008. They said that he played This Changes Everything!, part of Nobody Cares About Your Dreams But You, and another piece -- one whose name was never spoken out loud. The legend says that this took place at 8:30 PM at Roulette (20 Greene St. between Canal and Grand). Some claim to have experienced a vision: words written into the colors of the Northern Lights, saying that Temple was joined by experimental guitarist Chris Forsyth. | |
| 5.3.08 Montreal, QC | ||
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Flutist Daria Binkowski and pianist Pamela Reimer performed a new-and-improved version of my piece Stile Antico (later recorded by Daria and Timothy Andres). The concert was in Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, 555 Rue Sherbrooke O., Montreal, QC. Also on the program were pieces by Gilles Tremblay, Michal Novotny, Jonathan Harvey, Wes Matthews, and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez. |
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| 4.25.08 New York, NY | ||
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UPDATE: I withdrew my piece for technical reasons, but the machines were cool. |
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| 4.19.08 Hanover, NH | ||
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Lainie Fefferman and I played two of her pieces, Do You? and Say When for voice and melodica, at a concert of works by Princeton and Dartmouth grad students. The concert was in Hallgarten Hall, on the corner of Connecticut River Byway and Crosby St., Hanover, NH. | |
| 4.4.08 New York, NY | ||
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I performed an abbreviated version of The Travels of E.C. Dumonde, along with This Changes Everything!, at the Yippie Museum Café. I was joined by Jody Redhage, Jennifer Stock and Baltimore improvisors No Signal. | |
| 3.19.08 New York, NY | ||
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I performed The Travels of E.C. Dumonde, along with This Changes Everything!, a new version of "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," and a mystery cover. The show was at The Tank. Also performing was songwriter, singer and pump-organist Vuk, who you may also remember from the album version of Schwarzwaldmusik III. |
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| 3.14.08 New York, NY | ||
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I performed The Travels of E.C. Dumonde in the upstairs lounge at Piano's. I was joined by Lainie Fefferman's vocal trio Celestial Mechanics, singer and accordionist Molly Thompson, and new-music improv trio Skakk Rocket. |
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| 3.1.08 New York, NY | ||
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IGIGI, a collective of former and current Yale musicians, presents works by Timothy Andres, Lainie Fefferman, Jennifer Stock and me, at Roulette in SoHo. I had three pieces on the concert: The Last Resort Party Band, Slightly Less Awkward People and Inland. Performers included members of Dither, NOW Ensemble and The Hindemith Ensemble. I also played melodica in Lainie's new piece, Do You?. |
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| 2.16.08 New York, NY | ||
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I performed The Travels of E.C. Dumonde at the Yippie Museum Café in NoHo. After me was The Electric Poet Gathering. |
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