Recipient of 2022 Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf Fellowship
The Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf awards residency fellowships to artists and writers in Schloss Wiepersdorf
The Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf organizes an interdisciplinary and international fellowship program at Schloss Wiepersdorf for individuals and groups.
The call for proposals and awarding of the fellowships for individuals in the fields of literature, science, visual arts and composition are carried out by the Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf. Information can be found at Individual and Collaborative Fellowships.
https://www.schloss-wiepersdorf.de/en/grant-recipient-details/fellow/david-bird.html
Iron Orchid featured in TIME:SPANS 2022
Ning Yu performs works by David Bird, Michael Beil, and Stefan Prins on Sunday, August 14, 2022 at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Electronics by Levy Lorenzo.
Ning Yu performs works by David Bird, Michael Beil, and Stefan Prins on Sunday, August 14, 2022 at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Electronics by Levy Lorenzo.
https://timespans.org/concert/ning-yu/
"Field Anatomies" reviewed in The New York Times
"Laura Cocks recently released the album “Field Anatomies,” which begins with David Bird’s piccolo spectacular “Atolls.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/arts/things-to-do-this-weekend.html
“This set gets off to a vivacious start with the composer David Bird’s “Atolls,” for a solo live piccolo that often plays alongside 29 prerecorded parts. In its opening minutes, the composition wastes no time in showing off Cocks’s febrile instrumental prowess. But there’s also much to revel in as the background piccolo parts take on a greater presence in the mix.
On his website, Bird writes that he derived pitches for the background piccolos by analyzing “a crash cymbal and Janet Leigh’s infamous scream from Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho.’” Despite the clear sense of alarm carried by that source material, Cocks’s realization of the work evokes more contemplative moods. That satisfying, subtle array of approaches finds consistent expression across the balance of the album.”
SETH COLTER WALLS
Recipient of 2021 Fromm Commission
The Board of Directors of the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University is pleased to announce the names of fourteen composers selected to receive 2021 Fromm commissions.
The Board of Directors of the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University is pleased to announce the names of fourteen composers selected to receive 2021 Fromm commissions. These commissions represent one of the principal ways that the Fromm Music Foundation seeks to strengthen composition and to bring contemporary concert music closer to the public. In addition to the commissioning award, a subsidy is available for the ensemble performing the premiere of the commissioned work.
"Iron Orchid" reviewed in The Wire
Its paradoxical title, fusing intractable mass with delicacy, suits this music well. New Yorker David Bird hatched Iron Orchid in collaboration with Yarn/Wire pianist Ning Yu.
Its paradoxical title, fusing intractable mass with delicacy, suits this music well. New Yorker David Bird hatched Iron Orchid in collaboration with Yarn/Wire pianist Ning Yu. This intense yet finely detailed electroacoustic work was conceived initially as a component of Mark Reigelman's sound sculpture Echo Chamber, channeled through speakers concealed within a stack of metal tubes. Computer-generated sounds respond in kind to the piano's intrinsic articulateness, and despite the sustained density there are a multitude of subtleties to be discerned and discovered within its skeins of microtones and restless variations of texture and timbre.
Premiere of "Scatter" an Interactive Sound Map
Scatter is inspired by the elliptical orbit of Halley's Comet around the sun, Manhattan, and the orbits of transportation we regularly engage with in city life. Scatter maps these celestial and commonplace commutes into a singular experience.
Scatter is inspired by the elliptical orbit of Halley's Comet around the sun, Manhattan, and the orbits of transportation we regularly engage with in city life. Scatter maps these celestial and commonplace commutes into a singular experience. This project features recorded performances by Duo Axis, design by Myles Emmons, and development by Devin Frenze. Presented by Qubit.