News

• The full version of Triptych premiered at the MATA Festival. Was delighted to be on a concert with such a variety of inspiring music. Check out the Times reviews #1 and #2, the review by Pitchfork, and Olivia Giovetti's in-depth discussion of the first video on the WQXR blog.
  

• I'll be presenting Unspun--a new song with text by Dora Malech--and Silver Threads at Music With a View in May.

• The Deviant Septet will be performing the full version of Sleeping Giant's Histories at the Stone in New York and at the Atlas Theater in D.C.
  

• The best-name-ever opera company Carmen Elektra performed Timberbrit in London at the end of March, in a multi-stor(e)y factory.
  

• Ensemble ACJW premiered the first incarnation of Histories (a Sleeping Giant collboration) at Skidmore College and at Carnegie Hall. The Times reviewed the latter and had some good things to say about the work and our collective.
  

• Monster cellist Jacques Lee Wood premiered my latest solo-plus-laptop piece at the Windsor Arts Center on Jan 22. 

• The Calder Quartet tore through bad black bottom kind at The Loft on Jan 27. Have yet to hear if they put anyone's head in a jet turbine while the turbine was fed through a saw mill, as they apparently did when they premiered it in Carlsbad.

• Stabat Mater Dolorosa was presented a few times in Slovenia in January (photo on left), including at Choregie -- a radical (in all senses of the word) annual festival directed by Karmina Silec. Sabina Cvilak sang.      
  

• Nathan Koci bellowed Alter ad Alterum on a Music at First concert in Brooklyn on October 14th.
  

       

• "Save My Death," one of the more listener-friendly songs in Timberbrit, appears on a CD in Believer magazine's annual Music Issue. The CD is only available with the print copy, but I'm nonetheless delighted to have my music alongside interviews with Trey Anastasio (my childhood hero) and David Byrne (my young-adulthood hero). At the Believer celebration at Public Assembly in August, Mellissa Hughes performed Silver Threads.

• Timo Andres premiered my Clifton Gates at Bargemusic on June 9. By no effort of our own, the piece was accompanied by a fireworks display in the East River.