I just got an email from Rob Voisey of Vox Novus about recent updates to the 60×60 site. The most exciting part is an integrated grid of video pieces by Zlatko Cosic mixed especially for the 60×60 Midwest Minutes. My piece between is #40 in the grid. You can work your way through the videos by clicking on them or follow this link to the video for my piece.
In my recovery I’ve been reading a lot: online and books. I am trying to keep up with my “professional” reading as well as some reading for enjoyment. However, being a multidisicplinary artist my professional reading includes reading about music, writing, theatre, movement, and performance art. That makes for a lot of reading.
An issue that keeps coming up with much of this reading is the idea of specialization. Being a multidisciplinary artist I have mixed feelings about specialization in a creative practice. Read the rest of this post…
My acousmatic piece between has been chosen as part of the 2007 60×60 Midwest Minutes. There are two performances next week. If you’re anywhere nearby, please have a listen! Read the rest of this post…
I have finally bought myself a keyboard! It is, as the title says, a Yamaha DGX 620 and it is a lovely thing. A picture and specs can be found here. Though it is considerably heavier than my last keyboard I am willing to put up with the excess weight for the touch-sensitive weighted keys and built-in 350+ sounds. Read the rest of this post…
My acousmatic music & text 60-second piece, “between” is available for request on Tuesday, June 26th, through Afternoon New Music on WKCR 89.9 radio in Manhattan, NY or on the web. Info on the show and how to request (via phone OR email) is below. Read the rest of this post…
Ed and I are collaborating on a chapbook with Jackpine Press. The launch date is June 2008 and yes, there will be another reminder leading up to the launch. Read the rest of this post…
A couple of weeks ago I received a package from Istanbul. It took me a minute to recall who might be sending me a package from such an exotic place and then I remembered the wonderfully intense Nick Hobbs from Pantheatre. The package contained a CD of photos from the two Pantheatre workshops I attended in 2006. Read the rest of this post…
I’ll be reading at McNally Robinson Bookstore in Saskatoon on Monday, March 12, 2007 at 7pm in the Art Alcove. This reading is part of the Her-icane GoDiva Festival of Women’s Art. Read the rest of this post…
I have promised numerous times since I started writing here post-MA to talk more about my degree. However, the time that has passed since my degree has been odd and quite trying. Upon completion of my MA I had all the best intentions of continuing to work on my show splanchnologies as well as revisiting my dissertation in the hopes of doing more research on liminality and performance and perhaps sending in some article proposals to various magazines. Read the rest of this post…
Last Thursday I listened to the CBC broadcast of Frobisher, the new opera by composer John Estacio and librettist John Murrell. The opera is a co-production between Calgary Opera and the Banff Centre and is being used as the piece for the Banff Centre’s summer opera training program. I wonder a bit about that last fact, as Murrell has been working at the Banff Centre in various capabilities for a number of years. Mind you, there are not a lot of new Canadian operas out there, or at least not many that I, who goes looking for that sort of stuff, manage to hear about! Read the rest of this post…
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