about 2 months ago - 2 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 [...]
about 3 months ago - No comments
The Austin Chronicle has published an interview with Aaron Mace, Church of the Friendly Ghost founder. I’m glad to read that CotFG is still going strong. I have great memories of attending and playing shows there.
I was there most often as part of the Austin Cobra Players, and I don’t think the group would [...]
about 11 months ago - No comments
I’ll be playing in a show presented by the Albany Sonic Arts Collective featuring Area C and Mudboy from Providence RI.
Thursday April 16 @ 8pm
at the Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
Albany, NY
More info after the jump…
Area C is Erik Carlson, a composer, media artist and architect based in Providence, RI. His work examines sound as [...]
about 11 months ago - 1 comment
The Austin American-Statesman is running a month-long series on Austin’s other live music scene: classical music. The first installment mentions the usual establishment players (who, I should point out, do a better-than-usual job with adventurous programming than their national counterparts…). Also mentioned are some of my much-missed colleagues who are busy
“pushing the boundaries of what [...]
about 11 months ago - No comments
Here’s Soundwalkers by Raquel Castro: a wonderful film on sound, listening, acoustic ecology.
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about 1 year ago - Comments Off
I’ll be playing soprano sax in another telematic performance on Thursday August 28 @ 2:00pm. This one is part of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It’s an improvisation called Tele-Morphosis directed by Pauline Oliveros that features performers from Stanford, CA; Troy, NY; and Belfast, Northern Ireland all connected together in [...]
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I’ve just added a new album on amiestreet.com. One 4 One is a live recording of interactive electronic music from a performance at the Impulse/Response series in Troy, NY. The title of the album is a play on the direct, one-to-one relationships between performer and computer that I was deliberately avoiding. Plus, the performance took [...]
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It may be old news now, but Seed Magazine has published a piece called The Shape of Music that describes two mathematicians’ attempt to represent the multi-dimensionality of harmony and melody using “the geometry and topology of what mathematicians call ‘quotient spaces’ or ‘orbifolds.’” The author does a commendable job of making these and other [...]
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Amie Street is running a special today: 50% off all music when you add money to your account. That means my already cheap tunes are twice as cheap. Or is that half as dear?
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Here are some videos from the Austin New Music Co-op’s recent Universal Instrument concert. The Behind the Scenes segment is especially nice.
Austin New Music Co-op: Six Bagatelles
Austin New Music Co-op: Behind the Scenes
Austin New Music Co-op: The Becoming Machine IV
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