Columbia University, Chicago
Paper Panel
Journal Article written for On Culture’s spring issue: Ambiguity
https://www.on-culture.org/
Performing works by Rachel Mangold, Lester St. Louis, Teodora Stepancic, and others.
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Presenting a paper on Eastman’s important appearance at New Music America 1980 and the role the Walker Art Center plays in his re-emergence
Shedding significant light on Julius Eastman's (1940-1990) work and performance practice is his appearance at New Music America 1980 held at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Eastman's appearance at the festival is heavily documented through written correspondence, audio and video recordings, and photographs held in the Center's archives. Highlights of the collection are Eastman's performance abstract, rehearsal schedule, contract negotiations and the only visually recorded performances of his works for three pianos. In this paper, I provide an overview of the festival and the collection and demonstrate that its contents contain the most exhaustive examination of Eastman's performance practice available.
Will be performing with tENT at his CD Release Show. Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh.
Co-Curated with Doug Farrand a special live performance of Madison Brookshire’s work at the Three Rivers Film Festival
LA-based artist Madison Brookshire creates moving images by applying paint or other materials directly to the film strip, relying on pure color, light flares, or the flickering of the projector light alone – and collaborates with musicians and composers, such as Tashi Wada, Mark So, and Laura Steenberge. In a special presentation for the Three Rivers Film Festival, Brookshire will present four hand-crafted, celluloid-based abstract films, with a live soundtrack provided by the musical ensemble LCollective.
The Films:
Five Lines - digital projection w sound, with live ensemble
Over 30 Minutes - 16mm projection w sound
Two Suns - 16mm projection (silent), with live ensemble
Veils (Part 1) - 16mm projection (silent, 16fps preferred, 18fps ok), with live ensemble
Writing a new piece for Peter Tscherkassky´s short film L´Arrivée to be premiered by Ensemble Nikel at IMPULS 2019
New work for percussion and slide projector.
For Elliott Harrison: https://vimeo.com/elliottharrison
Andrew Hutchens performs THREE ACTIVITIES (2018) for soprano saxophone and video. Glitterbox Theater. Pittsburgh, PA.
Works by Ruby Fulton and J.S. Bach will be presented, too.
Klangforum Wien will give the premiere of Houses as part of the Musikprotokoll Festival. The piece will be streamed live from Graz, Austria.
The mason-dixon handbook (a handbound book and online response with audio) for issue 7 of the peer-reviewed art journal Contemporaneity
Deeply humbled to have been awarded the 2017 Ernst Krenek Commission Prize to write a new work for Klangforum Wien. Selected by Klangforum Wien, IMPULS Festival Graz, and the Ernst Krenek Institut.
three activities (or, the layman's guide to taxonomy) for Andrew Hutchens
soprano saxophone, field recordings, and video
Looking forward to presenting my paper "The Limitation of Memory and the Re-Emergence of Julius Eastman" at the Society for American Music National Conference in Kansas City, MO.
The structured retreat features daily quiet time, personal and group composition, informal performances with voice and hand percussion, personal meetings, and preparing and sharing meals together. Led by Tony Geballe, Dev Ray, Erin Rogers, Frank Sheldon, and Craig Shepard.
Selected as a Teaching Artist for the Mattress Factory's 2017 Community Art Lab. I will be working with students ages 10-13 in composing with graphic and events scores and exploring sonic environments in/around Pittsburgh.
selected fellow for the 2017 MISE-EN Music Festival
The daylong workshop led by Craig Shepard includes silence, vocal meditations, and basic exercises to create music together. Over the course of the day, the group will create and rehearse new music and present it at a public concert in the evening.
Performing James Tenney's BEAST (1971) for the faculty recital at the PYCO School of Music.
Making tunes up on-the-spot alongside Eric Weidenhof and Jason Belcher (TRIO). Majid Araim and Maxwell Boecker will do stuff, too.
Yin Tak Au and Lena Cuglietta will perform Filth for two baritone saxophones in a concert that includes additional works by Jacob TV, Philippe Geiss, Ryan Brown, Frank C.S. Nawrot, and Bob Pritchard.
$150 in advance or Fringe Member / $200 on day / One Free Drink Included
8pm Fringe Club, Hong Kong
the thin man . the narrow house for Ensemble Kamraton (Pittsburgh)
Returning as a selected composer at the 2017 IMPULS International Composition and Performance Festival. Working with Klaus Lang in the program "Translucent Spaces"
Amsterdam, 1973-1975 for small courtyard, flashlights, field recordings of geese, recorded whistling, feathers, and quiet instruments
I'm thrilled to have been invited to write a text on Eastman's notation alongside articles by Jan Williams and Joe Kubera. The article appears as part of SUNY Buffalo and SUNY Buffalo State's exhibit/concert The Scores Of A Man: The Revival of Julius Eastman and can be found here.
Selected teaching artist as part of the Mattress Factory Museum's Summer Artist Cooperative. I'll be teaching little tykes about composition and performance through graphic notation. Hoorah!
In our far from post-racial world, museums are not immune to the pressures of demographic change and urgent new campaigns for racial justice. Famous European museums are altering the titles of art works to eliminate demeaning terms; Confederate monuments are being dismantled in public space and sent to history museums for storage; museums across the U.S. are scrambling to shed their image as bastions of privilege and to diversify their audiences and supporters. Exploring Julius Eastman's racially provocative and vague life, especially the remaining fragmented and nebulous scores scattered throughout personal and private archives, my participation in the museum will investigate the role of the score as an object that has influenced the racial narrative of this composer.
How have museums, as collections and as institutions, created, supported, or challenged constructions of race and racial identity? How are museums and their objects implicated in the history of slavery, indigenous peoples, and race relations? How have museums represented and interpreted these issues? How can and should their collections tell different stories? What can museums do to combat white privilege, and become more diverse in their institutional structures and in their audiences? The workshop will work to confront these and many other pertinent questions through discussion with Carnegie Museum of Art, Natural History, and Science curators.
Studio recording and filming RULER PIECE NO. 2 with Michiko Saiki at Bowling Green State University (USA). Looking forward to working more with Michiko.
