Amy X Neuburg (vocal and live electronics) and William Winant’s percussion ensemble premiere this new work, commissioned by the Other Minds Festival. America’s only international festival of avant-garde music returns with composers from the Faroe Islands, India, Spain, Canada, Sweden…
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Work Around The World Première at Other Minds 18
Tagged with: amy neuburg, live electronics, other minds, percussion, voice, william winant, work around the world
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Disney Princess Disasters
Disney Princess Distasters is a humorous take on three traditional fairy tales about princesses. In the same way Disney changed these fairy tales to suit their own needs, I modified the stories from their original versions in order to create…
Halo Ballet (Bipolar Disorder NOS)
Credit for the idea of a Halo ballet goes to Gregory Oh, who commissioned the piece and arranged for me to work with choreographer Julia Aplin. To complement the unusual dance environment of the piece, I chose an unusual musical…
Tagged with: chamber, dance, drums, electric bass, electric guitar, halo, harp, keyboards, percussion, piano, video
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Halo Ballet on the X AVANT Festival’s Dance Dance Revolution
Gregory Oh and Toca Loca première my new piece, Halo Ballet (Bipolar Disorder NOS) on the X AVANT Festival’s all-dance programme. Halo Ballet is a piece for live performers (piano, keyboard, percussion, harp or guitar) and electronic dancers, performed in…
Tagged with: dance dance revolution, festival, Georges Aperghis, greg oh, halo ballet, harp, John Oswald, music gallery, nord, percussion, piano, première, toca loca, toronto, x avant
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Love in the Time of Connectivity
Love in the Time of Connectivity is a collage. In fact, even the title is a collage: I took the title of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, and combined it with a reference to the…
Tagged with: bass, clarinet, flute, guitar, horn, large ensemble, love in the time of connectivity, orkest de ereprijs, percussion, piano, saxophone, soprano, trombone, trumpet, tuba, vocal
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Culture no.2 (or, Shoot Like a Film Star)
This is the middle piece in my Culture series, which is an exploration of the effects that today’s cultural context has on making our music what it is. The text for the piece is taken from a junk e-mail message—certainly…
Recycled 80s Live
Recycled 80s Live is a collage of small fragments of ‘80s pop songs, recomposed and recontextualized into a new, larger work. I chose this approach because artists have always borrowed material from one another, but copyright is increasingly being abused…
Community-Normed
Only a small part of music is actually about sound. The majority of music-making has to do with social interactions more than anything else. Music fulfills certain functions (usually pre-determined) within certain social situations, or serves as a replacement for…
Tagged with: cello, chamber, clarinet, community-normed, continuum ensemble, flute, percussion, piano, violin
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Jackhammer Lullaby
Jackhammer Lullaby is an arrangement of Community-Normed, which was commissioned by the Continuum Ensemble in Toronto in 2008. I’ve become increasingly interested in presenting pieces in multiple versions and combinations. Jackhammer Lullaby, with a few changes, is also the middle…
Tagged with: cello, chamber, clarinet, community-normed, continuum ensemble, flute, jackhammer lullaby, percussion, piano, violin
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- @elcush Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
- My response to @elcush's The Bacon-Wrapped Economy http://t.co/PFKEL7p9eH
- My latest blog post, looking at the difference between crowdfunding and traditional philanthropy:http://t.co/PFKEL7p9eH
- My latest article: Working for Free: Helpful or Harmful? http://t.co/TvNqXlxT54 a composer's response to @tanehisi Atlantic piece
- Composition Lessons: The Dirty Projector’s “Police Story” and on how to write for voice http://t.co/1ze2kTuBF0
- A friendly review of my premiere at Other Minds last weekend: http://t.co/d1EspIr1Q9
- The @OtherMindsSF Festival was pretty great this year, thanks to all involved.
- Soundcheck for @OtherMindsSF complete, come check out the show tonight, premiere of my piece.
- Apparently my "Machiavellian Guide" now ranks for the search term "iconoclast composer". ;-) http://t.co/tRwTLccA7R
- I will be interviewed by Sarah Cahill on @kalw_radio tonight for the @OtherMindsSF Festival, 8:00pm PST, check it out.
