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.
