Peninsula Women's Chorus premieres "Night Into Dawn"
Peninsula Women’s Chorus will present the world premiere of “𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗮𝘄𝗻,” the newly commissioned work written by 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗮 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗴, PWC’s 2023-24 Composer-in-Residence and dedicated to the community of Lahaina. Tickets at: pwchorus.org
Composers Now with Annie Gosfield - video online
I’m honored to have been a guest along with Jessie Cox and Carl Stone on Annie Gosfield’s ‘Composer Curator’ video, presented by Composers Now. Checkout the interviews - now archived online.
Residency at The Stone
What a huge joy to be back in NYC and reconnect with folks after a long pandemic hiatus! Thanks to everyone who came out to join us at The Stone. Photo by Heike Liss: Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, TW, Nava Dunkelman
Tzadik albums now streaming
News here that Tzadik, the music imprint founded by John Zorn, is now available on streaming services. Take a listen to The Unlearning, a record I released in 2011: twenty-one miniatures for violin, cello and two voices, inspired by Francisco Goya’s Disasters of War etchings. All too relevant today, these images make me wonder - will we ever unlearn?
Soundless in Australia
Thank you to the amazing crew at Art Gallery of New South Wales and to everyone who came out to hear Soundless - a new work created with Ellen Fullman for Long String Instrument, cello, electric guitar and electronics. So grateful to Lawrence English for bringing us to AGNSW in Sidney and the Powerhouse in Brisbane.
Invisible Jukebox Archival Picks
Thanks to Marc Masters of The Wire for including my Invisible Jukebox with Ellen Fullman in his top 10 archival picks! Read more at thewire.co.uk
Celebrating Pride on KALW
Take a listen to this 2 hour program of Ellen Fullman and I celebrating Pride with Sarah Cahill on Revolutions per Minute, KALW. We share our music along with conversations on songs, tuning, poetry, and composers who have influenced us.
Live at Grabinski Point, Bologna - out on Impulse Response
Out today - a recording of Fluency of Trees performed live at Grabinski Point in Bologna. A truly special encounter back in February thanks to Stefano Pilia, Matilde Piazzi, Michele Bonifati, Giulio Stermieri, Liviana Davi, SIlvia Tarozzi and Impulse Response. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Michele Bonifati, Artwork by Dario Martorana. Listen/download at impulseresponse.bandcamp.com
Review of Practicing Sands
“Practicing Sands is a poignant document of a very strange time, and one that blurs the boundary between creation and reception, between performer and listener and between personal and collective experience. What is more, it is simply good, experimental music.” Thanks to Nick Ostrum for this review of Practicing Sands in the Squid’s Ear - read the full review here.
Upcoming trio with Haruka Fujii and Kanoko Nishi-Smith
I’m very excited for this first time performance in trio with Haruka Fujii (percussion) and Kanoko Nishi-Smith (bass koto). We’ll be playing an evening of improvised music at Spruce Street Concerts, a house concert series in Berkeley curated by Harry Bernstein. To reserve a seat, email: harry@fullplatemedia.com. Tickets are $30, payable in advance of the concert via PayPal (to harry@fullplatemedia.com) or Venmo (@harry-bernstein). Join us on May 27th at 8pm!
New piece up on Assemblage Manifesto
Here’s a solo piece I made for cello and 2 electric guitars for Brandon Locher‘s “Ongoing Solo” series, which will be part of a larger music and visual art series “Assemblage Manifesto”. assemblagemanifesto.bandcamp.com
Composer-in-residence with Peninsula Women's Chorus
I’m very pleased to share that I'm the 2023-24 Composer-In-Residence with Peninsula Women’s Chorus, led fearlessly by Anne Hege. Upcoming this May 6th and 13th in the SF Southbay, PWC’s Radiance Ensemble will be performing “To Burst To Bloom”, setting 6 poems by the 12th Century Taoist Sun Bu’er, which I originally composed in collaboration with Vajra Voices. I’ll also be performing on cello for other pieces of this fantastic program. Stay tuned for a newly commissioned work for PWC coming in 2024! Concert info here
Interview at MAO Torino, Italy
Here is an interview I did in February with Chiara Lee at the Museo d’Arte Orientale in Torino Italy about my work and recent performance of In the Cave of Guanyin, for live and multi-tracked cello. Many thanks to Chiara, Freddy Murphy, Barbara Corradino, Yi Zhong Art and the team at MAO for such a terrific evening!
Upcoming European dates:
Residency at the Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy: Jan 10 - Feb 12
Solo Performances:
Feb 1: Masterclass and performance, Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
Feb 9: Grabinski Point, via grabinki 2/g, Bologna, Italy 19:00
Feb 11: Cavana dei Miracoli / Studio Morgan O’Hara, Campo dei Miracoli, Venice, Italy 16:00
Feb 13: Duo w/ Francesca Naibo, Spazio Pontano, Civico 35, Milano, Italy 21:00
Feb 16: La Fine Gueule, Paris, France (presented by Infuse) 21:00
Feb 23: Raum 013, Progr, Waisenhausplatz 30, Bern, Switzerland 20:00
Feb 26: MAO, Torino, Italy
Mar. 3: Echoraum, Vienna, Austria
Evolving Soundscapes on Radio Banda Larga, Torino
In preparation for my performance at the Museum d’Arte Orientale di Torino, curators Freddy Murphy and Chiara Lee share some of my music on “Evolving Soundscapes”, a program of Torino’s Radio Banda Larga.
The program also includes conversations with members of Yi Zhong Art Project, which will perform an opening ritual to Sunday’s concert at MAO.
Composers Now IMPACT video is now online:
Many thanks to Composers Now, founded and directed by Tania León, for the invitation to share this video on my recent work on the IMPACT series.
Interview on Practicing Sands - with Frantz Loriot in Recordedness
I’m pleased to share a conversation with Frantz Loriot on Practicing Sands, out in the latest issue of Recordedness along with other writing by Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker, Matt Robidoux, and many more.
Infuse présente podcast - on "Fluency of Trees"
In preparation for an upcoming concert presented by Infuse in Paris, here is a short podcast about compositional aspects of “Fluency of Trees”, which I’ll be performing on Feb. 16th in Paris. Many thanks to Sarah Elzas, Nissim Schaul and Masha Lankovsky.