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SOME RECENT AND FUTURE EVENTS:
- Saturday, December 10th (8 PM):
Performance of The Quiet Play of the City's Busy Lights on my Grandmother's Bedroom Ceiling,
featuring Augustus Arnone, piano, Tema Watstein, violin, and Mimi Morris-Kim, 'cello.
Part of
Collide-o-Scope's 3rd season. With early and exciting music by
Boulez, Stockhausen and Cage. Watch for later shows by Collide-o-Scope, TBA shortly!
This concert takes place at Tenri cultural Center in New York City: 43A West 13th Street, New York, NY, 10011.
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My recent album
Immolation Ritual
on the Innova Records label.
The album features 8 tracks with stunning performances of pieces new and old. (Click
on the titles that follow to hear excerpts.) (The album can be purchased from the Innova site.
Wider availability, including iTunes, NAXOS,
Amazon,
etc., as of October 26, 2010.)
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Mergurs Ehd Ffleweh Bq Nsolst
- Ecstatic death chants from the planet Mercury. Performed by
Sukato.
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Aftermath
- vague, dark, ambient, questions with no answers . . . . .
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Abstraction 1 - a meditation for solo violin and drones, performed by Gabriela Diaz
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Abstraction 6
- solo saxophone, Just Intonation electronics, and hyperactive, malfunctioning laser guns, performed by
Eliot Gattegno
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Out Of
- solo piano and dark ambient electronics, an attempt to rise from the deep, performed by
Marilyn Nonken
- NanoSymph - 4 movement sympony in one minute
-
Walking Down the Hillside
at Cortona, and Seeing its Towers Rise Before Me
- shards of sonic stained glass for 2 microtonal pianos, performed by
Jacob Barton
and Ju Ri Seo
- Abstraction 2 - a meditation for piano and violin, performed by
Shiau-Uen Ding
and
Maja Cerar
I try to mostly write pieces for specific performers who will play them. But occasionally I stray
from the practical into a land of visionary possibility, and write things without
knowing who will play them. Here are some recent pieces that I'm looking for
performers for:
- Dream Mornings.
This
is a
vibrant orchestra piece, not too hard, though for a
big ensemble (I think it's arrangeable for a smaller
one if that would interest you).
- Mask of Mandragora for 3 percussion.
Lots o' textures and colors.
Setup and
score.
- Castrovalva
(notes and
score) for string orchestra.
And, although it's crappy as would be expected, even the
MIDI demo
sounds pretty awesome. Imagine it with real instruments!
- Movement for string orchestra.
(score and
MIDI demo).
(this MIDI demo is slightly better than Castrovalva, but oh, how one
longs for the real thing.)
This is kind of an homage
to the high chromatic tonality of late Mahler,
early Schoenberg, Webern, Berg.
- Leo's Music for toy piano. It's cute, short and sweet.
In 2007, I released an album of piano music, featuring my works
Balladei and Sonata,
fantastically performed by
Shiau-Uen Ding,
and
Jacob Rhodebeck.
You can purchase it
here.
I was part of a
competition in
Korea,
and was asked to talk about my
work
Timelash, (an old recording--the piece has been revised since);
that talk is now
online.
The Electric Music
Collective released two albums,
Incandescence, which features my works Ow, My Head and Duude,
(purchase
it here), and
Defiant, which features my works Ooogaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship, and
Conceptual Study, and is also available for
purchase from Amazon.com.
If you'd like to chat, drop an e-mail to chris @@a@t@ music.columbia_ddott_edu.
(Ye who are not spam-bots, translate that appropriately. . .)
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