"I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication."
Gertrude Stein What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936)
"I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication."
Gertrude Stein What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936)
I met some great people at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this past week!
"The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded $25,000 fellowships to three local composers. The fellowships, considered among the largest no-strings-attached awards in the country, can be used for professional development, creating new work or exploring new techniques and directions."
great news! could not be happier to be able to share this honor with Bevin and Shawn.
fun to see ndial alongside so many great sounding things on the Creator's Project... These 20 Unorthodox Instruments Are Making the Music of the Future
Conceptual focus rather than material limits define the system. Thus any situation, either in or outside the context of art, may be designed and judged as a system. Inasmuch as a system may contain people, ideas, messages, atmospheric conditions, power sources, and so on, a system is a “complex of components in interaction,” comprised of material, energy, and information in various degrees of organization. In evaluating systems the artist is a perspectivist considering goals, boundaries, structure, input, output, and related activity inside and outside the system. Where the object almost always has a fixed shape and boundaries, the consistency of a system may be altered in time and space, its behavior determined both by external conditions and its mechanisms of control.
Jack Burnham Systems Aesthetics (1968)
ndial is a semi-finalist in the 2015 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition!
Performing David Tudor's Rainforest at Granoff this Wednesday and Thursday from 3-9pm.
Thurs/Fri/Sat, Dec 4-6, with performances at 6:00pm and 8:00pm. Studio 1, Granoff Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
Excited to perform on Z Park's Construction Dec 4th, 5th, 6th in Providence RI
If you're in NYC, Court/Garden is running at Danspace. October 9-11. I play trumpet and euphonium on the score by Stephan.
Made some sound for this groundbreaking book/film/game PRY.
Performing with Ed Osborn at Lyndhurst Mansion on Sunday, October 5th at 2pm as part of the Garden of Sonic Delights Festival.
Bumpr @ Spectrum | September 13th, 9pm
Performing with Hotel Elefant at Poisson Rouge in NYC, 9/14
I'm teaching a new course this fall at Brown - Future Lives!
Done! now 23 more.
bumpr playing at the new museum - read about it here
new instrument in the works