Mantratron goes to Canadia

Mantra Percussion sound check at The Music Gallery for the Canadian premiere of Michael Gordon's Timber.

If you are at PASIC in Indy this year come see us get our Timber on. Excerpt with So Percussion, Cincinnati Percussion, Doug Perkins and Steve Schick on the 9th, full piece at the Artsgarden on the 10th (night concert after the Schwantner concerto).

NewMusicBox » The Sublime in Bowling Green

"an incredible display of unified virtuosity" Write up in NewMusicBox for Mantra Percussion's premier of Michael Gordon's Timber at Bowling Green State University
NewMusicBox » The Sublime in Bowling Green

Self-titled Magazine bit on Michael Gordon's Timber

Self-titled magazine piece on 'Timber'

Redbench Music 2011 Summer Concert Series. Redbench is a free concert series at the Brooklyn Art Library. Together, cellist Richard Vaudrey and I created this series to bring a concert hall level of performance to everyday folks who are interested in seeing some great music. Or, maybe you just happening to be walking down the street and want to stop in to see what is going on. Redbench features standing length concerts from artists of many genres and is happening on 103A North 3rd St. between Berry and Whythe. Come check it out.

Ligeti Artikulation

1958 electronic composition complete with graphic score by Rainer Wehinger

Franco file

Tierkreis

Recently I've been working on an arrangement/interpretation of Stockhausen's Tierkreis. The Tierkreis are a series of 12 melodies each with an accompaniment. The instrumentation is open.

Originally these pieces were written for musical boxes as a part of Stockhausen's percussion sextet Musik im Bauch in which some of these music boxes are drawn from the belly of a giant bird figure named Miron. Each melody corresponds to a specific sign of the zodiac and should be repeated several times.

I came across this recording which has been interpreted for a trio. Interestingly the trumpet and piano player is Markus Stockhausen, who is Karlheinz Stockhausen's son.

These three YouTube "videos" each contain four pieces. In this recording the melodies are played through 3 times, each time with a different arrangement.

Part 1 (Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini):


Part 2 (Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra)


Part 3 (Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius)

Interview and Video with John Luther Adams

Nice video and interview with composer John Luther Adams. Plus... sweet shot of my music half way down the page!


http://www.newmusicbox.net/article.nmbx?id=6803

Inuksuit @ the Park Ave. Armory

Photos by Mario Gotoh

NY Times critic Alex Ross' post.

video.

Watch Peter Ablinger's Weiss/Weisslich 31e, Membrane, Regen

No Such Thing As Blorg

I just finished reading Kyle Gann's book No Such Thing as Silence about John Cage's 4'33". If you are interested in Cage I would suggest checking this out. Gann knows so much about Cage's history and the history of the abstract expressionist movement and he is able to write about music in a way that few musicologists or music historians can. The book is never dry, mostly it seems because he comes to the subject as a total nerd. He is fascinated by the subject and his writings are driven by his fascination. This really came through to me as a reader and offered insight and perspective into of Cage's aesthetics within his artistic time period. Ch Ch check it out!