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Of and Between, the piece fivebyfive commissioned me to write via a New Music USA grant, will be broadcast on Performance Today, which airs today at 10am EDT. 1.2 million listeners, they say... I am thrilled and look forward to listening with the other 1,199,999 of you.
...in downtown northfield on Friday night now has a video promo! made by arya misra. it's really beautiful and you should come and meet her and listen to some new songs and old songs.
...called make a wish then build a ladder. we call ourselves am-jt. you can listen below.
 I will come back here and tell you how to buy it when I set that up...but of course you can always contact me if you are reeeeally motivated.
UPDATE: records here. digital here. ... that fivebyfive won a New Music USA Project Grant to commission new works by Jun Sun Kang, Edie Hill, Jonathan Russell, and me, all in response to the stained glass artwork of Judith Schaechter. Premieres on February 16, 2020 at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester.
I'll be presenting new work at my noon talk at SōSI, tomorrow. Solos for Josh (steel drums) and for Jason (drum set), most of which were written in a furiously productive first week here. And Sō will play Babybot, a little quartet of mine, on Saturday afternoon. FYI.
... and we will celebrate the release of both, in Brooklyn on 1.29.
One More Revolution (the book) and Wake / Rise (the record) PLUS a performance of Home Body by David Degge Monday, January 29 @ 7PM Happylucky no. 1 734 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn, NY 11216 brought to you by The Operating System. IF you are a Facebooker, it would be so helpful for you to respond to this event, in the affirmative: https://www.facebook.com/events/526027157758889/ ... is available for pre-order. <--click there. A = home body = a solo for voice, hammered dulcimer, kick drum, hi hat. played simultaneously in miraculous fashion by david degge. B = symmetry and sharing = here. limited run of 100 12" records, hand-stamped and -numbered, blood sweat and tears, see below.  With deep gratitude and in intense disbelief I announce that I won a McKnight Composer Fellowship.
One More Revolution Records 001-003 funded, among other things. Oh also: I started a record label, as suggested above. More on that soon. Things are afoot, something is coming.
I've been working on something new. I entered a demo version into the Tiny Desk Concert contest:
And then, after we acquired a real piano (!), playing this next tune ("fireball") reminded me that I actually recorded it years ago. So I'll share that, too:
It's a song about my brother being at war in Iraq. Here's hoping that this whole war song genre gets to lie dormant for the next many years.
 I remastered an old piece of mine, "Music for Strings and Interference," for the Degrees of Fidelity compilation. Available soon, everywhere.
between news updates. It's going to be 50 weeks or so.
What then? Headquarters has moved to Northfield, MN. It is glorious here. This website is so not the new slick kind that maybe it is coming around to a kind of retro chic. Ok, see you next June? I'm grateful to Richard Sanford at The Agit Reader for this wonderful review of Dreamfall. My piece, "Trust Fall," is called out in a generous way. I was so happy to read it! I mostly try pretend that these things don't affect me and I am just art-ing without regard for critical response. And yet...
Jason Treuting, drum set virtuoso (though I always call it "drum kit" and get stressed out about why), performs my solo piece "Monobot" tonight, which he premiered last year and has since coached and generally given the love. Here's a nice Boston Globe write-up of the concert series.
2 things:
1. I have been adopting a casual updates policy here 2. Tala Rasa is playing It Comes in Waves tonight at Cypress College in Cypress, CA. And they played it yesterday in Orange. And maybe they're playing it tomorrow, too? CALIFORNIA. Resolving to update this site with more discipline. On Friday, Nov 7 from 6pm-8pm The Exchange will screen on a program of short films at Tribeca Cinemas, as part of the Big Apple Film Festival.
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