... 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. |
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August 2020
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