final show of 2017...
Rounding out the year at the Active Music Series with John McCowen, James Fei and Kanoko Nishi-Smith. What a deeply satisfying way to finish this year of concerts...
Video Sketches
I've been creating video sketches which experiment with color, gesture, materials, surfaces, light and spacial settings. Steeping in thoughts of color and gesture as pre-linguistic forms of expression, I see this work developing in many future forms, including an upcoming string quartet that will premiere in November as a part of Del Sol Quartet's 25th Anniversary Festival.
Now Hear This! @ Montalvo Arts Center July 21st - Oct 22nd
I'm very thrilled to be part of Now Hear This! An Exercise in Listening - a special exhibition/event at Montalvo Arts Center. This is an outdoor exhibition featuring immersive site-specific soundscapes, sonic experiences and workshops, sound sculptures, and a new digital curatorial platform, Soundings. My piece, "Venice Is A Fish" will be part of an onsite sound walk of musical pieces set in the residency grounds. The many contributing artists include: Taraneh Hemami, Shane Myrbeck, Emily Shisko, Stephen Vitiello, Walter Kitundu, Hugh Livingston, Luciano Chessa, Elana Mann, Ashley Bellouin, Stuart Dempster, Ramon Sender, Fernando Vigueras, Daniel Godínez Nivón, Arshia Fatima Haq, Taro Hattori, Motoko Honda, Jen Shyu, Henry Threadgill, Mike Gamble, Carmina Escobar, Wayne Horvitz, Nina C. Young.
Letters To A Friend at Switchboard Festival
Splinter Reeds gave its second performance of Letters To A Friend at Switchboard's 10th Annual Festival at Z Space in San Francisco. The finale to the 6 hour music marathon was none other than the legendary Kronos Quartet. Here's a link to a review in the San Francisco Classical Voice.
To Burst To Bloom - joining forces with Vajra Voices
I had the sheer pleasure of joining the magnificent singers of Vajra Voices in the premiere of To Burst To Bloom, three settings of poems by the 12th Century Taoist adept Sun Bu'Er. Three more pieces are forthcoming to finish off this collection. The songs were included in the program Remembered Migrations this past weekend at the Presidio Officer's Club (photo by Omid Zoufonoun) in SF and the Berkeley Jazz School.
Letters To A Friend premiere by Splinter Reeds
Huge thank you to Splinter Reeds for a superb performance of Letters To A Friend last night! Dedicated to my dearly departed friend, Alessia Pugliatti, the piece is a musical transmission of Augusto de Campos' poem O Pulsar. The evening's trailblazing program included Babbling by Ken Ueno and Tom Johnson's Narayana's Cows narrated by the one and only Pamela Z.