Old Alabama
Here’s a video from my recent performance at LEMUR. It’s the first outing for this brand new piece, complete with all the hesitations, misfires, fuzziness and fun of a premiere.
I’ll be playing with the LEMURbots again in early April–details to be announced.Thanks to Nicole Peyrafitte for grabbing this video on-the-fly. Check out Nicole’s new blog, Collectages. (Yum…spätzle.)
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Weeping Willow Street Improvisations
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Last November I spent a memorable, rainy afternoon at Travis Weller’s place performing a house concert as part of his Willow Street Concert Series. Nick Hennies wowed us with music for solo percussion including an entrancing performance of Alvin Lucier’s Silver Streetcar. I played music for fretless banjo, bent electronics and computer. Then Travis and [...]
One-Man Band – Pat Metheny Upgrades a 19th-Century Concept – NYTimes.com
about 1 week ago - No comments
The New York Times has a preview of Pat Metheny’s project with musical robots from LEMUR (and others): One-Man Band – Pat Metheny Upgrades a 19th-Century Concept – NYTimes.com.
I loved my short time working with the LEMURbots (residency, video, photos, Issue Project Room). Someday I hope to get (and share) the footage from my performance [...]
Jill Sigman/thinkdance improvisation
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This time last week I had the pleasure of working with choreographer Jill Sigman/thinkdance and videographer Peter Shapiro who were artists-in-residence at EMPAC. I recorded some sounds of the objects and materials Jill was working with and then improvised with the samples, my fretless banjo, and vocalist/composer Kristin Norderval (remotely via Skype). Peter has posted [...]
Metroland Mentions Faust in Best Live Shows of 2009
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Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/invisible-city/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Metroland critic Mike Hotter has chosen last September’s Faust show at Proctors as one of his top live events for 2009:
2. Faust, Holland Hopson, Century Plants
GE Theatre at Proctors, Sept. 30
Seminal German art-rockers Faust showed why they have been championed by avant-garde musicians for more than 30 years, while hometown [...]
“Listen” Film Featuring R. Murray Schafer
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Here’s an evocative short film by David New honoring R. Murray Schafer
Favorites from 2009
about 1 month ago - No comments
Here are few favorite picks of recorded media, live shows and print from 2009. As usual, I’m not much of an up-to-the-minute consumer so some of this may be old news. The exception here are the live shows, of course, so let’s start there…
Live Music
My two favorite shows were at EMPAC. The pummeling dished out [...]
Salad Bowl Hemi Speaker #2
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I recently completed my second salad bowl hemi speaker. (See info on the first one here, including links to the Princeton and Stanford laptop orchestras which provided excellent guides to construction.) My second speaker followed the design and construction of the first very closely, with the substitution of Polk Audio DB401 speakers. The Polk speakers [...]
More Wichita Mind Control
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Jason Cosco was kind enough to post a video of me performing Wichita Mind Control for bent electronics with MaxMSP at the Upstate Artist’s Guild Gallery last April. This was the premiere performance of the piece. Though my pieces often changes incrementally (or sometimes substantially) as I continue to perform them, this first shot at [...]
Holland Hopson at Signatures – Art Night at Proctors
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I’ve been remiss posting about this event, but below is a last-minute blurb. If all goes well, this will be the premiere of my new 6-channel hemispherical speaker. I’ll post more on that project soon.
Holland Hopson plays music for banjo and electronics at Signatures Wine Bar, Proctors in Schenectady on Friday December 18th, 5:30pm – [...]
Making Tracks for the TrackBox
about 2 months ago - No comments
I saw this “cyber” Monday special from audioMIDI.com: Nomad Factory’s Blue Tubes Trackbox for $15 (expires Sunday 12/6). I downloaded it to see if it might replace the TubeMP 12AX7 tube preamp I use between my banjos and audio interface. I use the preamp to soften the tone of the admittedly harsh piezo contact mics [...]
about 1 year ago
Awesome. Sorry I couldn’t be there, I had a performance on Long Island that night.
about 1 year ago
I hope you can make the next one. Would love to hear more about the show on Long Island–drop me a line.