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Tilted Axes 2015 - Peppergreen Media
TILTED AXES: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars Combining the energy of rock, the creative discipline of theater, and the experimental spirit of the downtown NYC arts scene, Tilted Axes is both a processional event, and an ensemble of mobile electric guitarists created by composer/performer Patrick Grant. Go to tiltedaxes.com to find out more. |
Make Music New York 2013: Broken Record! - Peppergreen Media
On June 21st, 2013, Make Music New York presented the world premiere of Jed Distler’s Broken Record, a piece composed for 175 battery-powered Yamaha keyboards and one Yamaha acoustic grand piano on Cornelia Street in the West Village. This performance set a new Guinness Book record for the world’s largest keyboard ensemble. Read more about the event HERE. |
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GRABBING SOME AIR WITH RADIO WONDERLAND
Joshua Fried is Radio Wonderland, a long-time solo project in which Joshua has designed devious and danceable ways to chew up, process and re-pattern the various sounds of live commercial radio into what he calls, “recombinant funk.” Nothing is pre-recorded, nothing is pre-sequenced, and the compositional results are different every single time. Read more about Joshua in this POST. |
Companion to WNYC radio story: Middle Collegiate Church Rocks the House of Worship Organist Cameron Carpenter demonstrates the Marshall & Ogletree virtual pipe organ at Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village, NY where he is an artist-in-residence. He designed this instrument with M&O. |
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During Make Music NY in 2009, John Margulies performed a DJ set outside Dubspot, the DJ and electronic music production school. This is a bit of pocket video that went along with this brief post about the school. |
Dustin O'Neill of FountainHead Design Group discusses his work as a set and video designer for theatrical events. This was a companion clip for the WNYC radio segment on the Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George. Read and listen to the story: Technology Amps Up a Musical Revival |
Dustin O'Neill from skwizzdemona on Vimeo. |
The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU is filled with computer labs, circuit workshops, and reactive sculptures lining the halls. This “engineering for artists” program was founded in 1979, and since then has become a tight community of technologists, programmers, designers, and theorists experimenting with mechanical and digital technology. The department describes itself as a “Center for the Recently Possible.”
More on a visit to the ITP Winter Show HERE. |
Clips from Patrick Grant's electronic realization of the Morton Feldman/Samuel Beckett opera “Neither". In 1976, Morton Feldman met Samuel Beckett in Berlin where they discussed their mutual disdain for traditional opera, and Beckett agreed to elaborate on some words he called "the theme of his life." The result was "Neither", Feldman's meditation on self awareness colored by pungent, unsettling sonorities wed to passages of ethereal beauty.
This version premiered at The Cell Theatre, produced by The Center for Contemporary Opera. |
"Neither" from skwizzdemona on Vimeo. |
Composer and performer Daniel Goode gave me a short demonstration and explanation about circular breathing.
As a clarinetist he is proficient in the technique of circular breathing, which he uses frequently in performances with the group, DownTown Ensemble, which he co-founded in New York City in 1983. Much more about Daniel's work at his website. |
A brief promotional video for composer Patrick Grant's performance at the 2012 Composers Concordance Festival at MC Gallery, New York City. |
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