Spring performances and recordings

Because I still have nightmares about scouring Queens for cheap TVs I have four smaller scale (and lighter) recording projects happening .

New York, March 31st: Piano for 17.6 Hands as performed by The New York Miniaturist Ensemble at The Players Theatre in Greenwich Village. All the minimalist details are here and it looks like I will be in attendance.

Late April: A web commission for Mercer Union, “Johnny” is a sequel of sorts to Voice Over. Here, a narrative has been created just using lines of dialog that contain the name “Johnny.” More details soon.

Toronto, May 21st: “Alvin Lucifer” at Mercer Union. In collaboration with Steven Kado, Alvin Lucifer is a 6 hour, 6 minute, 6 second “metal” version of Alvin Lucier’s “Music On a Long Thin Wire.”

Toronto, June 2nd: “Hardcore 89” at Somewhere There. 8pm, Cover TBA.

Performance for nine boomboxes and hardcore intro loops. Working with guitar and drum intros from Negative Approach, Discharge, Bad Brains, Rudimentary Peni and others—all looped to cassette—a 50-minute work is mixed live on genre specific playback devices: portable tape players.

This is a 20th anniversary recreation of my first sound experiment. At age 14 I utilized the questionable “pause-record” technique to loop dissonant parts of hardcore songs. I attempted to assemble friends with their tape players for a live orchestration of these cassettes. It never happened.

Talent and digital editing vastly improve this iteration of the idea. Expect aggressive washes of nostalgia for beginnings, and motorik-like movement/stasis.

Coming soon, info about the Joyland Fiction Fall Tour to New York, Chicago and Montreal