Renewed Focus, California Summer
Tue Apr 21 23:30:37 -0600 2009
With the Eric Honour concerts successfully complete, I feel newly free and focused. I'm performing with earWorm in Indiana at the end of May and will be ramping up work on Ritual #1 (the dissertation). Also, some new ideas for electronic works have been percolating. Now that I'm an ASCAP and BMI licensed presenter, I plan to hold concerts as often as I can manage, especially performing my own music.
Also, on a personal side note, Solange and I will be in the San Francisco Bay Area during much of June and July. Let me know about any excellent performances we should attend!
New sound doodle: cuchara23
Mon Apr 13 17:51:47 -0600 2009
Gearing up for Eric Honour this week. Hope to see lots of you at Intermedia Arts and St Olaf CC. In addition, I've posted a new little sound doodle called cuchara23. It's at the top of the audio page.
Eric Honour April 16, 17
Mon Apr 06 11:32:52 -0600 2009
Eric Honour will be playing Fight to Flow Between at two shows in Minneapolis, and while it's in stereo, many of the other works will be in 4-channel surround. Don't miss it!
The Minneapolis tour stops have been added to my public Google calendar. Use these links to add the Intermedia Arts show 
or the Saint Olaf Catholic Church show . Hope to see you there!
Spring News: earWorm, Eric Honour, Renegade
Wed Mar 18 13:05:20 -0600 2009
The vernal equinox occurs this Friday, March 20, around sunrise in the U.S., and I feel it: things are in balance. Order and chaos are cordially intermingling.
I just returned home from a trip to Norman, Oklahoma, where earWorm played a couple shows and had a very satisfying recording session. Next up for earWorm: late May gigs in Indiana.
Eric Honour has begun his saxophone and electronics tour of Europe and the U.S. He's playing my work Fight to Flow Between. The Minneapolis dates are April 16th at Intermedia Arts and April 17th at Saint Olaf Catholic Church. I am getting an ASCAP Blanket License in order to present these two shows and earn royalties for myself and all the other composers. The license fee as well as the venue rental fees have been sponsored in part by the American Composers Forum through a subito grant. I sincerely thank the ACF for their support.
Also, I join RenegadeEnsemble in a performance of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians on March 28, 8pm, in Ultan Recital Hall at the University of Minnesota. I'm playing the xylophone 1 part and having an absolute blast.
Google Friend Connect
Tue Jan 27 16:32:16 -0700 2009
Have you heard of Google Friend Connect? The social web is breaking out of the islands of myspace and facebook. Check out my new connect page, join this site, and invite your friends!
Solstice
Sat Dec 20 13:16:27 -0700 2008
It is the darkest time here in the Northern hemisphere, the time to rock shut as a seashell... but all we friends call and call each other... to create meaning, alone and together. The newest year begins now to grow.
Earworm played a gorgeously chill set at ISIM; parts of it will probably end up on an upcoming CD. Our next performance is at the CMS South Central conference on March 14. Also the Renegade Ensemble will be playing the final version of Dance #1 on March 28. I invite one and all to attend.
Latest high-pressure gig: the Spark Festival has commissioned me to write a work for tenor John De Haan and electronics tout de suite (the festival is Feb 17-22). Also, though the back invoices make life a bit harrowing, the coding business is humming along with a couple Rails and PHP projects plus some Cocoa work. Oddly, too, a ColdFusion maintenance job has dropped in my lap lately, which gives me the rewrite-it-all-from-scratch-in-rails heebie jeebies.
While shoveling snow from the sidewalk this morning, it occurred to me. I haven't donned ice skates yet this season. I think it's about time.
Renegade and Earworm
Fri Oct 31 06:44:48 -0600 2008
This Saturday, November 1st, I'll be playing with the Renegade Ensemble at Ultan Recital Hall on works by Frederic Rzewski, Pauline Oliveros, and Radiohead. Works by several other composers including my good friend Abbie Betinis will also be performed. Add the event to your Google Calendar.
Also, Earworm has been accepted to ISIM and the University of Minnesota awarded us a travel grant to attend the conference in Denver in December. Rock the worm!
Dance #1 Video Posted
Tue Oct 28 16:51:55 -0600 2008
Finally posted a video of the May 3 performance of Dance #1. Check it out on the new video page. I'm working pretty hard to revise this piece right now since the ensemble plans to perform it multiple times on the 2008-2009 season.
Calling All Video Artists and VJs
Mon Oct 06 22:47:07 -0600 2008
Please remix this video of Sarah Palin at the Vice Presidential debate saying about John McCain, "he is the man that we need to leave, um, lead."
Late August News Flood
Mon Aug 25 12:09:44 -0600 2008
There's a whole lot of shakin' goin' on.
Music-wise, I'll be performing Terry Riley's In C with The Renegade Ensemeble at the Minnesota State Fair August 31. Then, on October 11, that group will perform my new and improved Dance #1. I'm in mad revising mode right now.
Job-wise, I have concluded my time as an IT Fellow at the University of Minnesota and will be pretty much starting my dream job in September. More info soon.
