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 will be premiered at the Pacific Rim Music Festival in Santa Cruz, where I have been 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: Brad Meyer 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.
