"I am an artist, but what is an artist? I believe artist means dream-maker." -Takashi Murakami. news
2008 july -My field recording of a spring evening (midnight, actually) is running on jourparjour.net, for the Radio Village Nomade
project, sponsored by Laboratoire Village Nomade, located in La
Corbiere, Switzerland. It's running today, July 3, and here's the
link.
It will remain for the duration of the project, until November.
If you miss it, just click the link for "yesterday" until you
reach the entry for "03.07.08." "The aim of this project is to cultivate works out of
sounds which were designed without the intent to distinguish themselves
from others, sounds that highlight the ever changing moments that make
up our collective realities. Each day's piece will be a 'window' into a life and sound world different than our own. The Radio Village Nomade website will feature a
daily sound piece contributed by sound manipulators from around the
world, starting on May 1st and running through November 30, 2008.
Submissions will be posted in their entirety and incorporated into
future broadcasts on European public radio and our local FM broadcast
from La Corbiere."
june -I have a new sound art piece, KAKUZITZU, being exhibited this month at the Upstate Artists Guild gallery on Lark Street in Albany, NY.
-There is an interesting review of WHY NOT TAKE A DAYDREAM AND WEAR IT
on the White_Line review site promoting minamalism, which begins, "A strange one, this...at first I thought it was some kind of hoax..." Read it here.
may -ENJOY VICTORIA BAY was #4 on free103point9's top 40 this month. "Le Jardin Clos," from SHADOW OF THE DOLLS was played on Ben Owen's online radio show, tuesday night prayer meeting, also on free103point9.
april -I'll be performing this month, on Sunday the 20th, at 106BLDG30,
Bruce Tovsky's performance space in the Brooklyn Navy yard. A
group of us will be playing music derived from short wave radio
recordings.
march
-The second volume of my Ossicles
phonography series has been released. Shadow of the Dolls,
processed field recordings + a remix, is available for download or as a
disc from the Releases page.
february -"Signs from China," a collage
of field recordings made in China, was played at the evening concert
during the Sound Cafe 2008 this month, in Jedburgh UK, which hosted a one day event focusing on phonographic forms which deal with documentary and archive, and which
broadly address the disciplines of anthropology and ethnography through
the medium of sound.
january -Join me, Axe Iron Suns, and Twisted Pair on Friday, the 25th at the: RPI Chapel and Cultural Center,
2125 Burdett Avenue,
Troy, NY
(518) 274-7793
Free admission
december -itsnicethat.com, a favorite blog that "locates, collects and shares nice things within the creative world,"
is displaying AMUSANT! on their page along with some other "nice"
things they received in the mail recently. It gets added to
daily, so you may have to dig for it. It's in both the Graphics
and Music sections.
november -ENJOY VICTORIA BAY: Ossicles #1: unedited field recordings, is now available for purchase from the Releases page.
october
-New release, ENJOY VICTORIA BAY, is available
to listen to and download (128 kps) on Last.FM. It consists of
unedited field recordings from Beijing, Salem, Cape Cod, NYC, and
Albany. It is the first of a projected phonography series called
OSSICLES. For more information please visit the Releases page.
-Don't forget the upcoming performance at the Albany Public
Library on October 24, at 7pm, when Jim Sande and I will be providing a
live soundtrack to the silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
september
-I will be collaborating with Jim Sande on performing an original
soundtrack to the 1919 German Expressionist film, The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari, at the Albany Public Library on Wednesday, October 24, at 7pm.
august
-My two new CDs, AMUSANT!, and WHY NOT TAKE A DAYDREAM AND WEAR
IT, are available to listen to in their entirety on Last.fm, or
for purchase from stores I have set up on CafePress.com. Visit the Releases
page for those links. If you visit one of the stores, you will
find that I have become something of a fashion designer (watching all
those episodes of Project Runway must have had some effect on me).
I'm making t -shirts that display designs used in the CD artwork.
I put photos of this summer's tune((outside))) on my flickr page. july
Jon Nelson, host of the nationally syndicated radio show, Some Assembly Required, has written a nice feature about me on his blog this month.
june
There are three performances coming up this month and next. Here's the complete info on each:
-On Thursday, June 21, New York joins 340 other cities around the world
to host a day of free, outdoor music-making. From Metropolitan Opera
singers to high school rock bands, church choirs to underground MCs,
Tuvan throat singers to Salsa bands, punk rockers to string quartets,
there's something for everyone.
Solar One hosts a stage for Make Music NY with solar-powered,
site-specific and field recording sound performance from Nonhorse vsX,
Andrea Williams of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, Ben
Owen and The Beige Channel
at 7:30, at the Stuyvesant Cove Park, off 23rd Street near the East River. Make Music NY is a day in which the city's
public space—usually reserved for traffic noise and jostling
pedestrians—becomes impromptu musical stages, dance floors, and
social meeting points. For more info, visit makemusicny.org and nyacousticecology.org.
-Saturday, July 7 2007 3-9pm at tune ((outside))) wave farm NY
Acra, New York
$5
5662 Route 23
Acra, NY 12405
(518) 622-2598
Performers include Elliot Sharp, Marina Rosenfeld, Ben Owen, Gill Arno,
Andy Graydon, Andy Hayleck, Richard Garet, Scott Allison, and Michael Farley.
Sound artists will play directly into five FM transmitters.
Attendees tune in with provided radio headphones as they explore 30
acres of meadows, forests and ponds. Presented by free103point9.
-I
will be
performing on guitar with the Jim Sande Ensemble, Sunday afternoon,
4:30pm, July 29, at the Muddy Cup, on Madison Avenue, Albany NY.
Special guest guitarist Kevin McNeal, and more surprises are
promised.
may
-My new cd, AMUSANT! is finished but not
yet available, unless you are in Stockholm, Sweden, for the next few
weeks. It is getting its debut at an exhibit of sound art at the Ersta Konsthall,
called "Art Is Not Mute." The work of international sound artists
is available to listen to at the exhibit, and the physical cds are on
display. On opening night a number of DJs, including Andreas
Bertling, were invited to use the exhibited works as the source of an
evening's performance.
-All of the tracks on AUTUMN RAIN IN THE YARD are available to listen to at Last.fm. My page is here. AMUSANT! will soon be added to my page.
-I will be writing the music for a short film by Rebecca Maxwell Angel, titled Rachel's Ward, for the Ed Wood Film Festival. The film series will premier in September of this year at the Spectrum Theatre in Albany, NY.
-Finally, I started a blog, WHITE CHOCOLATE BUNNY EARS,
at blogspot.com. I'll be reviewing live and recorded music that
has some significance for me. I started with my first rock
concert, The Doors in 1968, and fast forwarded to the present,
Electrelane this month. Now I'm going to fill in the 39 years in
between. Wish me luck, and a good memory.
april
The Wire has a nice review of AUTUMN RAIN IN THE YARD this month, read it here.
march -I
contributed a
one-minute recording of myself pulling staples out of our bedroom floor
for a composition by French composer, Maki. The composition,
which he titled, R(H)umeur
collective - part. 1,
was broadcast on March 9 on Radio Grenouille, in Marseille, and
featured the work of over 25 composers in one continuous piece.
february -I
will be
performing on guitar with the Jim Sande Ensemble, Saturday night, 9pm,
February 24, at the Muddy Cup, on Madison Avenue, Albany NY.
january
-I
will be performing at moso on Saturday night, 8pm, January 27.
2006
december
-My track, IT WILL SHINE (from my upcoming cd, AMUSANT!),
was broadcast on the New Year's Eve edition of the "It's Too Damn Early"
radio show on WDBX 9.1fm, Carbondale, IL.
november
-My composition, ACORN
FALL, will be among those presented on a
multichannel diffusion system at Unsafe: Festival of Improvised and
Experimental Music, this month at the lighthouse, in Poole, Dorset, UK.
The festival will culminate in a concert by Evan Parker.
-I've added DINING ON SHORT WAVES to the mp3
page. This won the 4X4 prize awarded by the Glasgow Centre
for
Contemporary Arts in 2001 (scroll to the bottom of the page).
october -My
composition, SAM'S
CLUB,
has been included in the compilation cd, "Bend It Like Beckett,"
curated by Danny McCarthy for Sound Works in Cork, Ireland, to
commemorate the 100th birthday of Samuel Beckett. It includes
tracks by notable sound artists such as Scanner, Stephen Vietillo, and
David Toop, and is available for purchase from Aphasia.
-Three
new mp3s
have been added from projects I worked on this year, along with a link
to 4 tracks created in 2004 for Ben Owen's ADDENDA audio archive of
mp3s.
september -My
one-minute radio piece, GRAVITY
PROBLEM NO. 3, was selected by Time Labs
for inclusion with 40 others and broadcast in a program
simultaneously across 9 European countries on the 15th of Sept.
- My recording of a cloisonne factory in Beijing was played on a
program called Ghost In The Machine
during the Giant
Ear))) show on free103point9
Online Radio.
august
-
I will be appearing with the New York Phonographers Union at the Issue Project Room
in Brooklyn, on Wed., September 13.
- I will be appearing at the Perfect
Blend cafe, Delmar, NY, on Sun., Sept. 24 from 2-4
pm.
- My recording of wind blowing through a door
in a hotel in Beijing was played on a program called Wind Powered Works
during the Giant
Ear))) show on free103point9
Online Radio.
july
- I will be performing as guitarist with the Jim Sande Ensemble
at the Muddy
Cup (on Madison Avenue in Albany, NY, next to the Madison
Theater) on Sunday, July 16, at 4pm.
- The German Web site de:bug has reviewed AUTUMN RAIN
IN THE YARD, I suspect somewhat unfavorably. If
anyone can translate German, please let me know.
- My composition, ENVELOPE OF LEVELS, was accepted for the »Short
Cuts: Beauty«
electroacoustic competition sponsored by the Center for Art and Media
(ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, for the World New Music Festival taking
place in
Stuttgart, Germany, from July 14 till 30.
june
- Two new mp3's
have been added, WHAT HAPPENED HIM, from AUTUMN RAIN IN THE
YARD, and I GUESS from PLAIN VANILLA.
- PLAIN VANILLA is now available from iTunes.
- AUTUMN RAIN IN THE YARD received a nice review in Paris
Transatlantic Magazine, and has also gotten airplay on
Jacques Soddell's Possible
Musics show in Bendigo, Australia.
april / may
- Many thanks to KGNU
in Boulder,
CO for playing tracks from my new CD, AUTUMN RAIN IN THE YARD,
during April and May on the Sleepless Nights show.
march
-My 2004 CD, PLAIN VANILLA, is now
available for download on emusic.com
and soon on iTunes worldwide.
-New Web site launched.
-Latest CD, AUTUMN RAIN IN THE YARD, "it's
an excellent work of careful micro-sounding crackles, static hiss and
all sorts of granular synthesis...delicate, thoughtful,"
VITAL Weekly #520.
Available from the "Releases"
page.
Read description.
Buy it at Borders Books & Music,
Wolf Road, Albany NY.
Read review in the first issue
of VEINZINE
Tracks played on Radio Home Listening
, March 14.
Reviewed by Greg Haymes on "Northeast
Report," WAMC
90.3 fm, March 17.
