Archive for the 'performance' Category

Aug 07 2008

Hair, Heat, Radio Music

Published by Alex under music, performance, process, recording, update

There really aren’t enough good things to say about a hairdresser who truly understands one’s cowlick situation. Mine also happens to be an up-and-coming DJ and producer!
August! To be honest, I’m not really a fan. Hot, sticky, even thoughts seem a bit stuck in the air… I find myself just waiting for September to roll [...]

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May 19 2008

Crows in Barcelona

Published by Alex under music, performance, spain, update

Tomorrow night the group Barcelona Modern Project will play my piece Crows at Auditorio SGAE (Sociedad General De Autores Y Editores is the Spanish equivalent of ASCAP), in a program of otherwise all-Catalan composers. I’ve never met the BMP folks in person - they started up around the time I returned to the US at [...]

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Apr 29 2008

Dynamic Duos

Published by Alex under inspiration, music, performance

There are so many guitar and saxophone duos in the world! Who even knew?! I think that most (if not all) of them were in North Carolina for the festival at UNC Wilmington, and it was a huge treat to hear them play. They have wonderful elegant names too, like Ryoanji, Sygyzy, Degre 21, [...]

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Apr 03 2008

Mythimna Twilight

Published by Alex under music, performance, update

Rather than photograph the usual pile of loose, scribbly manuscript paper, here is a page of finished score, which the musicians will actually use in performance. The music changed so much inside the computer that my pencil and paper musings don’t even seem relevant anymore.
Mythimna Twilight is for my wonderful friends, guitarist Enrique Lop [...]

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Feb 01 2008

Icebreaker: Tales of the Northwest

Published by Alex under music, performance, reviews, update

If the Seattle Icebreaker Fest hadn’t gone so well, I might have been more put off by the surreal morning of departure, which included Bill and I driving madly around the airport on a quest for the unmarked car rental place, and then my plane being several hours delayed because the “glue had to dry” [...]

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Jan 04 2008

Performance at The Stone

Published by Alex under music, performance, update

This photo is from a performance last month at The Stone, in New York City, taken by flickr pal and new music enthusiast litherland. I really enjoyed performing with Kathleen Supové and Jennifer Choi! Each played one of my compositions for solo instrument with electronics - Kathleen did (Re)acciones (that is Kathleen and I in [...]

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Jun 19 2007

Saturday In Valencia

Published by Alex under music, performance, update

Should you find yourself in Valencia, Spain over the weekend, you must go check out Carlos Gil Ferrer play Snapdragon at the summer Chamber Music Festival. A huge band culture makes Valencia famous for turning out stellar wind and brass players, and it really is the place to be for an evening of trombone and [...]

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Jun 02 2007

Spring/Summer Catch Up

Published by Alex under music, performance, update

Well then. The past few months have been quite something. First of all, the big NYC concert went swimmingly. Huge enormous Thank-Yous to the Performance and Commissioning Club members (I couldn’t possibly have done it without you!!!), and to all of the stupendous musicians who pulled out all the stops for this performance. Just… wow.
A [...]

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