News

• I recently finished a couple new pieces: the first for Ensemble ACJW, which will perform it (along with other works by my Sleeping Giant buddies) at Skidmore College and at Carnegie Hall; and the second for monster cellist Jacques Lee Wood, who premiered it at the Windsor Arts Center on Jan 22.
  

• Timberbrit returns! The best-name-ever opera company Carmen Elektra will be presenting it in London this spring.

• 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 performed 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.      
  

• My video work is going to be shown at the 2012 MATA Festival in April. I'll be presenting Commencer une Autre Mort and a couple new works.
  

• 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.

• Commencer Une Autre Mort showed at the NewTown Arts "Pop-up Films" festival in Pasadena, CA in early June. I must say, my piece suits the consortium's motto well: "A Persistent Weed in the Garden of Art."
  

• My SG buddies and I will be writing new works for an Ensemble ACJW concert at Carnegie (Feb 2012) that also includes Stravinsky's L'Histoire.
  

• Mellissa Hughes performed Silver Threads at her Music at First concert on March 25th and turned some heads. I'll be posting a recording soon.
  

• The radical electric guitar quartet Dither premiered my Axes on February 18th at Issue Project Room. It's a tough work but they busted through it.
  

• Commencer Une Autre Mort showed at the New Music Miami ISCM Festival on February 19.

• I was in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts for two weeks in February. The high was 1 degree F the day I arrived, and it rose 12 degrees each day until it reached 73. That's what I call progress.
  

• Timberbrit's November run at the Incubator Arts Project was a smashing success. We were a Critic's Pick in Time Out NY, and a Voice Choice in the Village Voice. Thanks to all who made it out to the shows!

• My Cello Octet premiered at Le Poisson Rouge on October 11, as part of a "Sleeping Giant" concert with amigos Timo Andres, Chris Cerrone, Ted Hearne, and Rob Honstein. Check out the listings in the New Yorker and New York magazine.

• Commencer Une Autre Mort--my video which revisits Carmen's death--has been shortlisted for YouTube Play (the collaboration with the Guggenheim). Down from 23,000 entries to 125!