I’m working on a new approach to music called: microdecibel. music at a very low volume, exploring silence, but also density while preserving dynamics (no snareshots!). This is by necessity as I have been having troubles with tinitus/hypersensitivity and seriously need a change in approach to music. In fact, the idea of giving up music [...]
Played a cool duo guitar interpretation of Sonic Demons with John Shiurba on thursday in SF. As is often the case, Michael Zelner captured it nicely.
Tonight is a special show. My first conducted composition for large ensemble. It’s big. It’s beautiful. Piece to Celebrate the Proximity of Pearl Harbor Day and the Death of John Lennon on the only date it can happen – Mon Dec 7 @ The Makeout Room in San Francisco. Rehearsal last night was very productive. [...]
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Posted 07 December 2009
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The 8th annual Starry Plough Murder Ballads Bash this past Halloween eve was really great. I was there with the Bodice Rippers performing, Tigerero our tale of death in the jungle and Options, a klezmer inspired song that muses upon all of one’s post mortem options. Great sets by Dylan Champagne, Penelope Houston, John Shiurba, [...]
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Posted 04 November 2009
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…played a cool gig last night at the Temescal Arts Center in Oakland. The trio of myself, Morgan Guberman and Pat Spurgeon (spawn of the Ivy Room Hootenany late night jam) have now officially played two gigs. For this second one we actually had a name, Impish Lizard – quickly pointed out as already taken [...]
Albany CA is a sleepy little city that is part of the East Bay just north of Berkeley. A mostly ‘middle class’ (for the SF Bay Area) kinda place where people raise kids without the fears of many modern urban dwellers. It has a conservative 1950s feel to it, and from what I hear the [...]
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Posted 21 July 2008
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