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Interview of me in Fenderhardt

There is a very fine arts blog known as Fenderhardt and I am interviewed in it about the Outsound New Music Summit coming up this week.  I've run across people who didn't believe graphic scores were "real"...well, they are, and they will be an integral part of night 2 of the Summit.  And in this interview, we uncover some of their inner workings.

With Reconnaissance Fly June 20th at Berkeley Arts Festival

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I'm going to New York City with Theatre of Yugen...

...and we need your support to get me there.  Travel funding, specifically.  I would deeply appreciate anything you can contribute.  Click on the widget over there on the right, to go to my personal fundraising page for the tour.  There you can view a video trailer for the play, Cordelia, which we'll be performing three times at the La Mama theater in NYC.  And also a personal video message from me.  Every little bit helps!  Thank you ever so much.

My role in a world premiere on July 19th

The 2012 Outsound New Music Summit is coming up soon.  The Thursday night concert on July 19th, "The Composer's Muse", is my curation and consists of world premieres by Christina Stanley, Matthew Goodheart, and John Shiurba.

After everything was all confirmed John asked me to be the flutist and vocalist in his new work, 9x9.  Here's from his description: "The score will utilize nine different types of notation all of which are somehow derived from the newspaper, so the piece acts as a celebration and/or elegy for the old-fashioned print medium. The notation types will vary from standard music notation to graphic, textual and pictorial notation, allowing the ensemble some creative input in the interpretation. The form of the suite will be open, allowing the conductor and the players to spontaneously shape the way the music develops in real time."

This coming September 14th

Project Soundwave is San Francisco's experimental arts biennial.  This year's is the 5th, with the theme "Humanities".  My piece Genesis will be performed on September 14th at Intersection for the Arts, in a performance night entitled Revelations: Body & Space.