Exhibition featuring "Thresholds" in New York City
(this is not a) music video celebrates the diligent and difficult work that artists accomplished throughout the pandemic. Projects often years in the making were abruptly put on hold, canceled, and at best, re-imagined for a virtual universe.
Performance of "Thresholds" by Ensemble Dal Niente included in New York exhibition "(this is not a) music video".
"Thresholds" uses Jan de Bont's 1994 action film "Speed" to explore themes of late-capitalism and climate catastrophe. Today, we are held hostage by the pursuit of economic security, increasingly working more grueling hours for fewer wages, with this process perpetuating the inevitability of climate catastrophe. Perhaps a comparison could be made with the process outlined above and the plot of "Speed," in which a domestic terrorist arms a city bus with an explosive programmed to detonate if the speed of the bus drops below 50 miles per hour. The explosive device forces the bus to drive faster and faster, holding on to the shallow hope of survival despite the inevitability of the vehicle running out of fuel.
(this is not a) music video celebrates the diligent and difficult work that artists accomplished throughout the pandemic. Projects often years in the making were abruptly put on hold, canceled, and at best, re-imagined for a virtual universe.
Premiere of "Tether" on Governors Island
From Out/With/In, a day-long experience where the psychological disorientation of the pandemic is applied to instrumental and environmental sound, deliriously blurring the lines between audience and performer, concert and installation, sound and space.
Premiere of "Tether" on Governors Island, 10/31/20. Performed by Ellery Trafford, Caitlin Cawley, Alex Alfaro, and David Bird.
“Tether” is written for four spatialized percussionists and was performed as part of Out/With/In, a day-long experience where the psychological disorientation of the pandemic is applied to instrumental and environmental sound, deliriously blurring the lines between audience and performer, concert and installation, sound and space.
Exposé Online Reviews Solo Album "Mirrors"
"Bird has created a most unusual synergism of creative ideas, well beyond comparison."
“Bird is a composer and producer originally from Southern California, now based in New York City. His debut album, Mirrors, reflects a highly explorative aesthetic, utilizing loops, samples, drones, noise, saturation, and microtonal harmonies, using acoustic instruments, electronics, voice, and more. The result, on its face, seems highly experimental, though it is by no means ‘difficult’ listening — in fact each of the ten pieces is nothing short of fascinating and curious, perhaps even meditative.”
Read more at, http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/david-bird-mirrors-3
“Mirrors” is available for download and stream 10/23/20
More information at davidbird.tv/mirrors
"Mirrors" Solo Album Release (10/23/20)
The album will be self-released digitally on 10/23/20 and available on major streaming services, Apple Music, Spotify, etc, as well as Bandcamp: https://david-bird.bandcamp.com/album/mirrors
Cover Art by Erika Kari McCarthy
Tracklist:
Nothing In The Road
Misophonia
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Ghost
Yellow Dead Centre
Chet Holifield Federal Building
Modulus Of Rupture
City
Migratory Patterns Of Warblers And Seasonal Travelers
Other Ratios
Composed and Produced by David Bird
Mastered by Christopher Botta
Cover Art by Erika Kari McCarthy
The album will be self-released digitally on 10/23/20 and available on major streaming services, Apple Music, Spotify, etc, as well as Bandcamp: https://david-bird.bandcamp.com/album/mirrors
Premieres in Private Places with Collective lovemusic
New Audio/Visual Work for Collective lovemusic, Covered by Francemusique.fr
"Malgré la reprise de l'activité publique dans de nombreux secteurs, les arts restent dans un état d'immobilité et d'incertitude, malgré un terrain numérique foisonnant. Cela ne remplace évidemment en rien une vie musicale de chair, d’os et de vrais concerts, mais de beaux pis-aller sont quand même proposés presque chaque jour, aux internautes mélomanes, en attendant des jours meilleurs.
Lovemusic apporte sa pierre à l’édifice des initiatives musicales en ligne avec « Premieres in Private Places » (des premières dans des lieux privés). C’est le nom d’une série de cinq nouvelles pièces audiovisuelles créées en collaboration avec cinq compositeurs et compositrices : l’américain David Bird, le français Raphaël Languillat, le britannique Cameron Graham, l’américaine Kelley Sheehan et la norvégienne Tine Surel Lange. Cinq compositeurs et des esthétiques, des univers sonores très variés : l’un est versé dans les musiques électroacoustiques, un autre construit ses propres instruments, un autre encore s’intéresse au lien avec les couleurs, une autre à l’improvisation.
Si leurs noms ne vous disent pas grand-chose, c’est parce qu’ils appartiennent tous à la nouvelle génération de compositeurs : le plus vieux d’entre eux ayant 32 ans.
Ces nouvelles œuvres vidéos de trois ou quatre minutes, vont être mises en ligne sur la chaîne Youtube de l’ensemble tout l’été ou presque, entre juillet et septembre. Rendez-vous le 17 juillet pour découvrir, avec vos oreilles et avec vos yeux, la première création et encourager un jeune collectif fait de jeunes créateurs. Egalement, chaque première sera précédée d’un facebook live avec le compositeur !"
https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/musique-connectee/les-premieres-du-collectif-lovemusic
Premiere of "Dark Ethnography" for 4 Modified MIDI Flashlights, Cello, and Electronics
On 3/12 Ensemble Vortex premiered "Dark Ethnography" for 4 Modified MIDI Flashlights, Cello, and Electronics in Geneva, Switzerland
On 3/12, Ensemble Vortex premiered "Dark Ethnography" for 4 Modified MIDI Flashlights, Cello, and Electronics in Geneva, Switzerland. In the piece, battery controlled flashlights double as MIDI controllers, processing and triggering sounds, as well as creating a bond between light, sound, and physical gesture.
