Nov. 27, 2016: My String Fields for violin and live electronics was presented as part of the Csound 30 Conference at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Oct. 23, 2016: BrightWork New Music ensemble premiered my he watches the clouds pass the window for violin, retuned cello, keyboard, percussion, and electronics.
Mar. 4, 2016: The HMC American Gamelan performed at Boston Court in Pasadena in a program that included works by Lou Harrison and my own Gending Sunset Ridge for violin and gamelan and Breath of the Compassionate for gamelan, electronics, and video. They repeated much of the program in April at the Claremont Colleges.
Nov. 1, 2015: The Claremont Chamber Choir premiered my setting of Warren Liu'sLi Po Declines.
Oct. 2015: The Ethos Percussion Group performed my Gandrung in a tour that included Penn State (October), Auburn University (November), and Missouri Southern University (April 2016).
Oct. 25, 2015: The fabulous Stephanie Aston, soprano, and Gayle Blankenberg, piano, performed my A Sonatina with texts by Gertrude Stein. The same program included my Black Toccata.
June 26, 2015: The National Cello Institute commissioned a new work for their 40th anniversary, my new Pipes and Bridges for cello orchestra. Over 80 cellists (and one organist) performed the work at their finale concert. Earlier in the week, faculty performed my California Mabommay for 8 cellos, written for NCI's 20th anniversary.
April 26, 2015: MicroFest presented the HMC American Gamelan in works by Lou Harrison and me, including the premiere of Gending Sunset Ridge for violin and gamelan and Elegy for Lou Harrison for cello and gamelan.
April 2015: Aron Kallay performed my Paths of the Wind for retuned piano in a tour of seven concerts in Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina.
February 2015: Harpist Jaclyn Wappel performed my Concerto for Harp and Gamelan at Ball State University in Indiana. In April, she repeated the performance at Earlam College.
November 11, 2014: The Inoo-Kallay duo released a new recording of my The Question Mark's Black Ink on their CD Five Conversations About Two Things (Populist Records) along with works by Thomas Osborne, Karl Kohn, Caroline Louise Miller, and Tom Flaherty. You can read reviews here and here.
March 2014: As a part of the tribute for my dear friend Katherine Hagedorn, the Pomona College Balinese Gamelan ensemble performed my Cempaka Petak, a composition I wrote in her honor with the help of I Nyoman Wenten and soloists Tyler Yamin and Marissa Dorn. The performance was repeated in May.
October 29, 2013: Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay premiered my All Sense of Proportion for microtonal piano, four hands at Monkspace in Los Angeles. They have also performed it at Pierce College, CNMAT (Berkeley), the SF Center for New Music, Chapman University, and Cal State Fullerton.
November 16, 2012: The HMC American Gamelan and the Visual Music Ensemble will perform at Platt Campus Center, Harvey Mudd College at 7:00 pm. The program will include a set of works for gamelan and electronic instruments with abstract video, including the premiere of Bad Attitude, Liminal Landscape, Stellation, and Breath of the Compassionate. The program will also feature works by John Cage and Lou Harrison.
April 13 & 14, 2012: The Claremont Colleges Chamber Choir will be premiering my The Cracked Kettle with choreography by Ronnie Brosterman in Garrison Hall, Scripps College. The choir will also give a concert performance of the piece on May 4 at 12:15 pm in Balch Auditorium, Scripps College. Thanks to conductor Chuck Kamm for the commission.
April 1, 2012: I contributed a tuning for Aron Kallay's Vexations project, in which a team of 15 pianists takes on Erik Satie's notorious work, each performing in a different tuning.
November 19, 2011: The Harvey Mudd College American Gamelan and Electronic Music Ensemble performed works of mine, including premieres of Liminal Landscape and Circular Reasoning for electric guitars, electric bass, keyboards, and gamelan instruments.
October 10-11, 2011: I was the guest artist at the Lipa Festival at Iowa State University. They presented a program of my video works alongside other contemporary works of visual music.
December 4 and 7, 2011: My computer generated composition The Geometry of Time was presented at the
sound art studio ohrenhoch der Geräuschladen in Neukölln, Berlin.
July 6, 2011: A new video of Rachel Rudich's performance of my In-Yo for shakuhachi and electronics from last winter's Ussachevsky Festival has been posted to a new youtube channel of works from that festival:
March 4-5, 2011: It was my pleasure to deliver a keynote talk for a symposium on the music of Lou Harrison as a part of the Post-Classical Ensemble's festival "Sublime Confluence: The Music of Lou Harrison" at the Indonesian Embassy in Washington D.C. The following night I also spoke at the Post-Classical Ensemble's concert of Harrison's music at Lisner Hall. Angel Gil-Ordóñez conducted a fabulous program that included Harrison's Piano Concerto and Strict Songs.
May 23, 2010: Two new works of mine commissioned by UC Santa Cruz (see below) were repeated at their Spring Gamelan Concert.
April 25, 2010: Two new works of mine were premiered at the Pacific Rim Music Festival in Santa Cruz, where I was the Porter College Distinguished Artist and Lecturer this spring. (See a preview story here. The UCSC Balinese Gamelan will perform my Angin Listrik for two electric guitars and gamelan, and Linda Burman-Hall and Henry Spiller will perform my Toccata and Ground for harpsichord and kacapi (West Javanese zither). Click here for more information.
The MicroFest 2010 Festival lineup has been announced and will include ground-breaking microtonal concerts throughout Southern California. For more information, see www.MicroFest.org.
March 8, 2010: I am the featured artist of this week's iotaWeekly, the online newsletter of the iota Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to visual music and related arts.
February 6, 2010: Rachel Rudich performed my In-Yo for shakuhachi and electronics at the "Ussachevsky Electronic Music Festival at Pomona College, Claremont. I also played stones (!) for Rachel's performance of John Cage's Ryoanji.
November 18, 2009: Thanks to Ed Lonergan, who performed my Mass Destruction for electric viola and CD as part of the New Century Ensemble performance at the University of Oklahoma.
October 17, 2009: The Euphoria Quartet performed my
Stellation for string quartet and video at the inaugural concert of PIE: People Inside Electronics in South Pasadena.
September 2009: Rachel Rudich performed In-yo for shakuhachi and electronics at CalArts.
August 2009: I have just returned from five weeks studying classical Indian music in Varanasi, India.
May 2009: Kyle Forsthoff posted a video of his excellent performance of Gandrung:
May 10, 2009: MicroFest a Pomona College featured performances by the HMC American Gamelan, playing new works of mine including the premiere of Breath of the Compassionate for gamelan, electronics, and video. Quartet Euphoria reprised its performance of Stellation, also with video, and pianist Aron Kallay performed works of Kyle Gann. The gamelan also performed works by David Doty and Lou Harrison. This concert is only one of a terrific line-up of MicroFest events, which are detailed on the MicroFest website.
March 3, 2009: The UCI Percussion Ensemble played Gandrung, and on April 26 the UCI Cello Ensemble played California Mabommay.
January 2009: WNYC's SoundCheck selected my new CD Imbal-Imbalan as a "pick of the week." You can read John Schaefer's review here.
December 2008: The second edition of my Music of the Peoples of the World has now been released by Cengage/Schirmer. This edition includes new chapters on Western Europe and North America, new sections on popular music, and new listening guides.
November 20, 2008: I was interviewed on KPFK's Global Village program and played excerpts from my new CD Imbal-imbalan.
November 2008: Gandrung was performed at Stetson University, and Static Cling was shown at TechArt 2008, DeKalb IL.
March 2008: Mode Records has released Por Gitaro, a CD of guitar works by Lou Harrison, performed by John Schneider. The disc includes Harrison's In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel performed by Schneider and the HMC American Gamelan, which I direct. I also wrote the program notes for the disc.
