Both Time & Motion Study and Mass will be performed at Mass MoCA this September 27 as part of a two-week residency... come see these large works in the fabulous Hunter Center... For more info click here.
My new piece Border Towns is in development at the HERE Arts Center in New York over the next year, as part of their fabulous HARP residency program. A work-in-progress showing will be given this January 14-15, 2009 as part of HERE's Culturemart Series... click here for more info.
Border Towns explores how recordings have reengineered the psychological landscape of the U.S. Even in the earliest days of the phonograph, regional musical styles flourished on records, bucking the notion that mass marketing centralized taste and erased local difference. Border Towns is assembled from field recordings of radio, television, stereos, and ambient sounds in 12 towns located on the literal fringes of the U.S. These samples are reconstructed into pieces reflecting on location, recording, and culture. Border Towns will be premiered some time in 2009. Here's HERE's website.
Time and Motion Study was given 4 bang-up performances at Bennington College this March 14 and 15, with a great cast of student performers and designers Sue Rees and Mike Giannitti, alongside codirector Jenny Rohn.
PAST (2007):
Ellen Fisher (Meredith Monk Ensemble) performs Time's Up, a 3-hour dance installation at Roulette on Saturday, November 10 from 3-6 PM. My piece Pemangku, mixing live and recorded gamelan, foley, and other sound sources will appear ca. 3-4 PM as part of Ellen's marathon piece.
MATA, a terrific organization that supports emerging composers, is having a benefit on Tuesday September 25th at the Paula Cooper Gallery. It's their 10th anniversary, and in celebration of Philip Glass's 70th brithday. I have a piece alongside some great composer-alums--Gordon Beeferman, Derek Bermel, Lisa Bielawa, Theo Bleckmann, Annie Gosfield, Carla Kihlstedt, Phil Kline, Lukas Ligeti, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Eleanor Sandresky, and Julia Wolfe.
Check out www.matafestival.org for more info.
Speculum Musicae premieres my piece Pathetan on Monday, March 26 @ 8 PM at Merkin Concert Hall. The piece mixes the elastic, meterless textures of Javanese pathetan, (tone-setting preludes for gamelan), with the retuned and rebuilt instruments of the fab group Speculum Musicae. The concert also features works by Davidovsky & Martino.
And on Thursday, March 29 @ 8PM, Continuum New Music will premiere a new version of my piece Double as part of a concert called "Glitch" at Toronto's Music Gallery. Double features the ensemble Continuum playing alongside old organs, music boxes, and phonographs, and accompanying the animations of Sue Rees, who has reworked ancient magic lantern slides into a kind of 19th-century psychedelia. The show also features works by Nicole Lizée and Emily Hall.
Past announcements:
This November 16 Corey Dargel and Kamala Sankaram sing excerpts from Tone Test, along with their own unique songs. It's at the Tank in NYC; for more info, click here.
This September 24 @ 10 PM I'll perform in the X Avant Festival at Sneaky Dee's in Toronto. Singers Corey Dargel, Kamala Sankaram, and Carla Hutahnen will sing parts of Tone Test and Mass; the program will include works by John Oswald, and will open for the Dirty Projectors.
On July 2 , I will play a whole concert of my work for gamelan in the Stone's Avant-Gong Festival. On the bill are new works for Javanese genders, spike fiddle, and siter, as well as radical reworkings of traditional gamelan pieces for voice and samplers. Guests Chris Miller, Genevieve Belleveau, Adam Ward, Jake Meginsky, and Laura Woodward will perform.
Nick's multimedia Mass was performed on April 28-29 at Bennington College in Margot Tenney Theater. This is a collaboration with drama faculty Jen Rohn and Bennington students Emma Givens, Genevieve Belleveau, Brian Schultis, and Caleb Rupp, with assistance from Mary Montgomery, Mike Rugnetta and design by Sue Rees.