This 60-second piece in the style of a 1960’s crime drama theme song was just chosen for the 2008 International Mix of Vox Novus’s 60×60 project. It was also included in the Evolution Mix, which was presented in concert in New York with choreography (see events listing).
60×60 is a project containing 60 compositions from 60 different composers, where each composition is 60 seconds (or less) in duration.
My RUhere x60 is included in the 2006-07 edition and has already received many performances. Read the rest of this entry »
Emergent forms and themes in performance and culture in the first decade of C21 Edited By Peter Eckersall And Helena Grehan Online Now www.performanceparadigm.net PERFORMANCE PARADIGM No 4, 2008. Featuring reviews of recent books by Rustom Bharucha, Mike Pearson, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris and the enormous Performance Cosmology from CPR in Wales. We also have Meg Mumford’s detailed analysis of recent publications on contemporary theatre in Europe by and Maggie Philiips’ discussion of new work by Ramsay Burt . The articles section features new essays from a number of established and emerging scholars in the field. The topic of new forms and paradigms in performance emerges in essays such as Kate Rossmanith’s account of Bio Art, Jeffrey Morris’s discussion of digital music performance and Diana Smith’s account of Sydney based visual artists ‘The Kingpins’. We are especially excited to be publishing Meiling Cheng’s recent exploration of recent performance work in China.
Mexico City-based collective Laboratorio 060 performs Ancient Chinese Secret for three sudoku and percussion players. It was chosen as the winner in their competition called “Radio Killed the Video Star” and will be broadcast live on the Neighborhood Public Radio station.
Vests frottoir synesthetiques is an exhibit of digital sound art objects consisting of two wearable chalkboards that prolong the sounds of drawing through a digital delay, allowing the act of drawing to build up sonic textures over time. This project was completed with the help of Texas A&M University students Chris Harper, Njekwa Beasnael, and Brian Davidson. It is now scheduled for inclusion in a soundOBJECTS exhibit within the Digital Media international showcase of digital art at La Nau in Valencia Spain. It was originally exhibited at Vizagogo, the annual showcase of digital art and commercial work in May 2007 at Texas A&M University. Photos you will see show TAMU VizLab student Doug Bell is seen modeling the vests at Vizagogo.
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I’ve heard many stories about the surprisingly large and huge amount of failures that many ultimately successful people have faced in time (Abraham Lincoln comes to mind), and comparing these anecdotes to my own experience, it appears that I am on the right track. It has been difficult to make time for creative and scholarly work amidst my other more “squeaky” job requirements, but somehow (I still don’t know how, really), I managed to complete and submit an extraordinary (for me, at least) amount of creative and scholarly work in and around the month of December, 2007. The speedy onset of new projects hasn’t died down and given me a real chance to breathe yet, but I did take a moment to reflect on the results of that “mensis mirabilis” and see how it turned out. (more…)
Guitarist and composer Lily Maase and her band The Suite Unraveling release their album, Unbind. today. It includes a fascinating blind collaborative project of Lily’s called Vanishingpoint. I contributed some sounds to this project by improvising some short musical passages using samples of things recorded by other contributors.
Check out the album at CD Baby.
My RUhere has been included in a web-based exhibit presented by SoundLAB with the theme “soundSTORY.” The exhibit is presented as part of NewMediaFest 2007.
See the exhibit here (you might need to disable pop-up window blockers).
I was presented the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition with a specialization in Electroacoustic Music today at the University of North Texas.
Read the dissertation here.