Selected for Ensemble Proton Bern's Protonwerk No. 6 .
The following composers, Maurizio Azzan, David Bird, Paul Clift, Andreas Eduardo Frank, and Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, have been selected for Ensemble Proton Bern's Protonwerk No. 6.
The following composers, Maurizio Azzan, David Bird, Paul Clift, Andreas Eduardo Frank, and Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, have been selected for Ensemble Proton Bern's Protonwerk No. 6.
Winner of Loadbang's 2015 Call for Scores
Loadbang is a New York City-based new music chamber group. Since their founding in 2008, they have been praised as ‘cultivated’ by The New Yorker, ‘an extra-cool new music group’ and ‘exhilarating’ by the Baltimore Sun, ‘inventive’ by the New York Times and called a 'formidable new-music force' by TimeOutNY. Loadbang will premiere my work "Dyson Poems" at The National Opera Center on May 2nd alongside works by Per Bloland, Christina Green, Angelica Negron, Gary Philom, and Beth Weimann.
Loadbang is a New York City-based new music chamber group. Since their founding in 2008, they have been praised as ‘cultivated’ by The New Yorker, ‘an extra-cool new music group’ and ‘exhilarating’ by the Baltimore Sun, ‘inventive’ by the New York Times and called a 'formidable new-music force' by TimeOutNY. Loadbang will premiere my work "Dyson Poems" at The National Opera Center on May 2nd alongside works by Per Bloland, Christina Green, Angelica Negron, Gary Philom, and Beth Weimann.
"Fields" performed in Barcelona's "Festival Mixtur"
Fields will be performed by Mark Knoop and Serge Vuille. Mixtur is a collective that has been founded in Barcelona in 2012 with the aim of contributing to the process of creating, teaching and more extensively distributing contemporary music and sound art intertwined with the science of sound itself and the creative arts.
"Fields" takes place with two percussionists separated at a linear distance of 150 yards. There is a microphone placed at each performer. Four additional microphones partition the duo, whose distances are structured distinctly upon ratios of the harmonic series. These distances are sought after, as the piece is written specifically around these spacial arrangements, their spacial frequencies and their relationship to the speed of sound.
Performed by Mark Knoop and Serge Vuille, program and performer details here
"There's no one here to help you"
An immersive electronic score to the 1999 horror film “The Blair Witch Project”, featuring text and readings by Cole Hager.
David Bird prepares an immersive electronic score to the previously un-soundtracked 1999 horror film “The Blair Witch Project”, featuring contextual readings by Cole Hager, and a poignant percussive performance of Jessie Marino’s “Ritual I :: Commitment :: BiiM" by Ellery Trafford.
"Calling The Blair Witch Project a phenomenon is flirting with understatement. From the moment of its première at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival (where it screened as a midnight movie), Blair Witch was a full-steam word-of-mouth express, with people who’d just seen it grabbing those who hadn’t yet by their parkas and shaking them violently, insisting that they absolutely must. An innovative online marketing campaign—launched when the Internet was still a relatively new toy for the general public—followed, creating even more frantic wanna-see by making it appear as if the film were non-fiction. Found-footage horror, which had previously barely existed as a genre, became so popular that it’s still going strong 15 years later; there are movies in multiplexes right now that only exist because of The Blair Witch Project. Shot for an initial budget that’s been reported as less than $50,000, it grossed just shy of $250 million (closer to $350 million, adjusted for inflation), making it one of the most profitable films of all time."
"Fields" performed throughout London by the Riot Ensemble
The Riot Ensemble connects people to great contemporary music in concerts and events that are just as innovative, vibrant and rewarding as the music itself. They put on events in venues ranging from the concert hall, to London’s parks, to YouTube.
"Fields" takes place with two percussionists separated at a linear distance of 150 yards. There is a microphone placed at each performer. Four additional microphones partition the duo, whose distances are structured distinctly upon ratios of the harmonic series. These distances are sought after, as the piece is written specifically around these spacial arrangements, their spacial frequencies and their relationship to the speed of sound. learn more about the work here
"Atolls" - for Solo Piccolo and 29 Spatialized Piccolos
Laura Cocks and I spent January at CIRM in Nice putting together a beautiful multitrack recording of ATOLLS. Excited to share this incredible performance!