A collaboration between urbanSTEW and ASU Physics Professor Dr. Vaiana, the purpose of this project is to create a multifaceted artwork that will bring research about intrinsically disordered proteins to life. Makezine just recently featured our work in progress, read more here: http://makezine.com/magazine/the-amyloid-project/ My main contribution to the project is the audio design and music composition. … [Read more…]
Another year another X-Fest. This year we championed the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen. To much of the appeal of the avant-garde community, Stockhausen writes music that is to some difficult (to say the least.) When you program the music of this new music giant you are taking a risk, but most often a rewarding risk. … [Read more…]
A new piece by Lisa Tolentino and myself as part of our group Rules of Play. This piece was performed for the Tempe storytelling event “The Feast” at Tempe Community Christian Church. The piece uses recipes that were written by children from the Ishikawa Elementary School approximately ten years ago. One of the teachers from … [Read more…]
On June 21st, 2012, as part of the Make Music New York festival, dozens of vibraphonists around the world took part in the World Wide Vexations project, a Doug Perkins and Amy Garapic joint. My part was in Phoenix, AZ with approximately eight – ten colleagues. Vexations is a piece by Erik Satie that is … [Read more…]
April 17-21, ASU hosted a celebration of the composer John Cage. 2012 commemorates 100 years after the birth of the famed composer. Doug Nottingham organized a version of Variations III, which essentially hosts works within the work. I am sitting in my setup of Fontana Mix, based on a graphical score, as part of Crossing … [Read more…]
With urbanSTEW and Crossing 32nd Street on March 23-24 performed three concerts laced with interactive art installations and games. We brought in the composer Cristyn Magnus and premiered her new piece, “Percussion vs. Percussion” a two player game piece where each player uses a battery of instruments to control a simple game space. The festival … [Read more…]
Garth Paine and I performed a quasi-improvisation at the Emerge event at Arizona State University, which was a large-scoped conference and concert event that speculated on the future through science fiction and academic wizardy. Garth is using a Wacom tablet interfaced with the robust DSP engine of the Kyma software and hardware platform. I am … [Read more…]
On January 26th, 2012 Crossing 32nd Street performing at Chabot College in Hayward, CA. We played: Music for Pieces of Wood by Steven Reich Temezcal by Javier Alvarez Fireflies by Eric Schultz Credo in US by John Cage Boom! by Terry Longshore and Brett Reed Drumming part 1 by Steven Reich This picture was taken … [Read more…]
An avant-garde buffet of intensity and grace. We played the following: For a Large Open Space by James Tenney Three Songs from Mad Coyote by Peter Garland Critical Band by James Tenney Workers’ Union by Louis Andriessen Fireflies by Eric Schultz (X32ST band member) In C by Terry Riley This photo includes Simone Mancuso, Myself, … [Read more…]