New video for CooksNotes
Brock Scott just finished a promo video for my performance art cooking show, CooksNotes. I think it really captures the essence of the show. I'm working on some new material (and recipes) for the show now. Hoping to do a another series of performances sometime next...
Duet water bowls debut tonite for Elevate ATL
Tonite, October, 16th at 7PM on the Atlanta streetcar, I'll be experimenting with Stuart Gerber, Jan Berry Baker, and Tania Maxwell Clements using these connected pairs of bowls filled with water. As you raise one bowl its pitch goes up. The other bowl gets more water...
Live music for Sunday afternoon life drawing class
On Sunday, October 18th from 2-5PM, I'll be playing live improvised music to accompany a life drawing class on the Beltline. I'm going to play theremin, flutes and lots of percussion. The event is at Angier Springs @ the Beltline entrance. This event is sponsored by...
A Bicycle Built for 111-Art on the Beltine
This Sunday (Oct, 11, 2015) at 5:30PM, Bent Frequency will present "A Bicycle Built for 111" at Old 4th Ward Park during Art on the Beltline. Contemporary music ensemble Bent Frequency presents a bicycle centric concert, featuring Mauricio Kagel’s Eine Brise for 111...
improv on instruments made from guns
As part of this year's Flux night, I've been tasked with making improvised music on the sculptures made by Pedro Reyes as part of his Piece Disarm, a set of musical instruments fabricated from destroyed weapons - revolvers, shot-guns, machine-guns, etc. The...
Anatomy of a new instrument – Jaltarang for Ocean of Milk
First gathering up the raw materials. Here I am in one of my fave music stores, an oriental grocery, trying out bowls for pitch. I'll take my choices home & file them down to raise the pitch or add water to them to lower it....
Metal percussion for Ocean of Milk
I'm setting up some instruments for a Neo-gamelan piece.Ocean of Milk is a puppet show performed by Michael Haverty and the Object Group.I'll be writing & performing a live score. Here's the first instrument set- a pair of foot pedal circular sawblades.
Recording an Avant Garde Escalator
When on vacation in Bethesda, I came across an escalator that made the sounds of an experimental sax solo. So, of course I had to record it. It will be part of a piece of original music someday...
Art in Odd Places- Orlando
I have been accepted as a performer in the AIOP Orlando festival. I will be performing solo improvisations & composed pieces for theremin & percussion while riding on my theremin bike. So if you're in Orlando Magnolia Avenue between Sept 17th and Sept 20th...
live performance of Speaking NonSynths
Here's a video of my performance at the Asheville Electro-Music Festival in May 2015. The video is by Steve Mokris.