I had a great time playing in the Badstar production last week at the Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology (iCAT) at Virginia Institute of Technology in Blacksburg, Virginia.
L to R: Zach Duer, Brandon Hale, Andre Foisy, Denver Nuckolls, Charles Nichols, Holland Hopson. Not pictured: Jon Rugh
And here are a few photos from rehearsals.
More documentation to come.
I’m playing at Barking Legs in Chattanooga tonight in an event co-hosted by the Shaking Ray Levi Society. I haven’t been there since 2001 with James Keepnews, so it’ll be great to return.
Sunday October 7 7:30pm
Barking Legs Theater
1307 Dodds Avenue
Chattanooga TN
Along with playing some solo music for banjo and electronics, I’ll be collaborating with dancers and improvisers on a piece with video similar to the image above. I created the video my modeling the behavior of particles interacting with gravity using Processing. After the concert will be a short demo of my sensor-augmented banjo.
Previews articles:
Times Free Press
Chattanoogan
I’m excited to present about my software-based visual work this week at Digitorium, the University of Alabama Digital Humanities Conference.
Learn more about the work here or follow the project on Twitter @imaginaryflags
Friday July 27 7pm
Fresh Dirt Surrealist Sympatica Closing
ART TOWN at East Lake Station
7611 1st Ave N
Birmingham AL 35206
Followed by Eugene Chadbourne!
Gonna invoke the spirit of R. Buckminster Fuller tonight at Trim Tab Brewery. Expect sounds that pair well with big words like: dymaxion and geodesic and synergistic.
Friday May 25 7pm
Matt Bryant, Holland Hopson, and John Scalici
Trim Tab Brewery
2721 5th Ave S
Birmingham AL 35233
I’m participating in a panel discussion on unusual sound sources at Southern Sonic today. The panel is moderated by Dan Sharp and includes Andrew Raffo Dewar, Tim Feeney, Taylor Lee Shepherd and Rick Snow.
Saturday 5/12 2pm
Sonifying the Unlikely as a Practice in Contemporary Music and Sound Art
Southern Sonic
Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans LA
Looking forward to a lively discussion!
Aron Kallay will perform my piece A History of Elevators in Film today at Soundwaves in Santa Monica CA. The concert features selections from Beyond 12, Aron’s project for retuned and remapped keyboards.
Wednesday March 21
Beyond 12
Aron Kallay
Soundwaves
Santa Monica Public Library
Martin Luther King Auditorium
601 Santa Monica Blvd
Santa Monica CA 90401
Aron will perform my piece A History of Elevators in Film
A History of Elevators in Film is for piano and electronics with the keys remapped to different pitches in real time as Kallay plays. Here’s video from a 2015 performance at LaGrange College
Cleaning and organizing for the new year; a place for everything and everything in its place. I’m loving these neoprene cable wranglers. I’ve added one for all my input devices (instruments, pedalboard, sensors) and one for the bundle of USB cables that runs to the laptop. A little dab of hot glue on all the power connectors for the finishing touch.
I’m a little disappointed that the city fixed the potholes on the street by my house. It means people in cars will feel ok driving faster. I was fine slowing down, plus the potholes were easy enough to dodge on my bike.