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Four Songs recording

A recording of Four Songs from The Caucasian Chalk Circle has been posted on UMKC Conservatory’s InstantEncore page as part of the Best of Spring 2010 Performances playlist. The performance is by Katherine Crawford, from the February 2010 Composers Guild concert.

LISTEN HERE

The songs themselves are also available on my profile page, and the complete playlist is here (the pieces by my friends Chris Biggs, Caroline Miller, and Brad Baumgardner are all top notch).

“Reliquary”

RELIQUARY

intermedia installation

constructed spring 2010
Displayed in the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, May-August 2010

Reliquary was a sound art installation collaboration undertaken with my mentor Paul Rudy for the UMKC Friends of the Library annual celebration. Using reclaimed library shelving, interactive audio processing and visuals projections, and an Arduino-driven system of light- and sound-event triggers, the structure created an immersive tactile intermedia environment that invited participation through specially-placed gold-covered books on a matte black shelving background.

Here are a few links to photos and such:

The May 23 edition of KCUR’s KC Currents, featuring an interview with Sharon Bostick, Paul Rudy, and myself about the UMKC library robot and “Reliquary” (around time 17:35-29:00 in the broadcast). Also with a short writeup and edited audio here.
The UMKC Libraries’ Flickr gallery of the May 12 event.
Progressive stages of construction (on my Facebook page)

February/March 2010 performances

Tango-Passacaglia
@ Ball State University Festival of New Music
Saturday, February 13, 11:00 AM, Sursa Hall
Elizabeth Robinson, flute; David Blakely, violin; Curtis Green, cello; Jim Rhinehart, piano

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Four Songs from the Caucasian Chalk Circle
@ UMKC Composers Guild Concert III
Tuesday, February 16, 7:30pm, Grant Hall

@ University of Iowa Festival of Contemporary Music
Saturday, March 27, 7:30pm
Katherine Crawford, mezzo-soprano; fixed-media electronics

November/December performances

Sustinui Te will receive two performances in November, with soprano Katie Woolf singing and me at the computer. The first will be Thursday, November 5, at the Electronic Music Midwest festival hosted by Kansas City Kansas Community College. The concert is free, and will begin at 7:30pm. The second will be at a KcEMA fundraising event on November 9.

Four songs from The Caucasian Chalk Circle are scheduled for their concert premiere by mezzo-soprano Katherine Crawford on KcEMA‘s December 5 program, at La Esquina in Kansas City.

Rondo alla Smirk will be premiered December 14 by violinist Piotr Szewczyk as part of his second Violin Futura program. More details when I have them.