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4/26/24 - HOLY CRAP MY ALBUM "HERE I AM" IS RELEASED ON NEW FOCUS RECORDINGS! Um... I worked on this for fifteen years of my life. It has a dozen of my FAVORITE musicians on it (Andie Tanning, Ashley Bathgate, Caroline Shaw, Charlotte Mundy, David Friend, Joe Bergen, Martha Cluver, Meaghan Burke, Mellissa Hughes, Pete Wise, Taylor Levine, and Sara FRIKKIN Budde!) and was recorded by ANDREW MCKENNA freakin LEE and then edited/mixed/mastered by my favorite human, the man with the ears of velvet badassery, Jascha Narveson himself. I won't bore you by saying a ton about it here - I can bore with what I've already said about it on the HERE I AM Bandcamp page.
3/21/24-3/29/24 - EUROTOUR! Switch your clocks and batten your hatches... I swoop in to London to play the Eavesdropping Festival at Cafe OTO (I'm 2pm GMT on 3/23, but come to the whole thing!! Lineup is amazing and theme is "Failure!") and then chunnel-training it over to play a set on Infuse Series alonside the inimitably incomparable Jascha Narveson in PAAAAAARIS on 3/27! Then a quick pop over to chat with Jessica Feldman's digital stuff class at American University of Paris on 3/29. It's gonna be a HOOT! Trés COOOOOOL! Email me if you're BOTH reading this AND able and itching to come to these things and I'll see if I can get you some comps!
10/4/23 - Just in time for Simchat Torah the following weekend, I Care If You Listen is hosting the video premiere of Shepherdess playing my Yiddish folksong inspired "A Sweet And Righteous Soul Gets Drunk On Champagne" - Patrick Hamm and I co-directed the vid as pretty much my dream dinner party in my apartment and between his gorgeous cinematography, Kayleigh and Hajnal's gorgeous musicking, my wacky beautiful friends, and my tried-and-true challah skills... I think it friggin worked! Check it out mit der Simchat Torah party!
9/29/23 - My album "White Fire" is released on Gold Bolus Recordings! WOOOOO! My first whole Lainie album is OUT in the world! Find it on my bandcamp page to hear and read all about it!
9/1/23 - My new band The Beverage Station (me and Jascha singing and sampling and dancing and doing electronic things) releases its first single "One and One" – it's very groovy. Check it out on Bandcamp!
7/14/23 - I performed my networked audience phone piece "Moving Past" at Beaver Hall on Salt Spring Island. It was a set with the ever-delightful Jascha Narveson as a culmination of our heavenly 2 week residency with the Woodland Farm Artist Residency Program. This residency in such a gorgeous place was so hugely joyful and restful while supporting me through some of the most intense work days of my life. I loved every second. And the concert at Beaver Point Hall was a dream - I made 50 challah roles for this Shabbat concert and they were all gone before the last beep was booped. Full WIN.
6/28/23 - I performed my new electroacoustic piece "Moving Past" with networked audience phone audio at Good Shepherd Center/Chapel Performance Space Wallingford as part of the awesome Seattle Wayward Music Series. That audience was seriously cool - I met graphic designers and physicists and coders and musicians who all come to... hear something new and weird! Bless those people.
5/2/23 - I guest lectured about my beeps and boops to the NYU grad composition seminar. Thanks, Jaime Oliver – what a cool and varied bunch of composers around that table!
4/17/23 & 4/20/23 - I guest lectured about my beeps and boops to the Columbia Intro to Digital Music students! Thanks for the invite Anna Meadors and Camila Agosto - y'all are sailing a pretty cool ship over there!
3/27/23-4/2/23 – SIDEBAND "REQUIT" TOUR – Get ready, folks! The sidebandits are at it again, this time EAST COAST style! I'm working on a new piece called "Eshet Chayil" for audience phones + laptop ensemble, and we'll have a bunch of other new rep to share from all our members! We're doing workshops and concerts at Wesleyan, Yale, U Penn, DC, and Carnegie Mellon. Whew! Then we sleep... More info on the Sideband site!
2/4/23 – I DO SET FOR LIVE-TRIGGERED SPATIALIZED AUDIO FOR SHANTI GRUMBINE'S GALLERY SHOW "IN FORMATION" AT 575 MADISON SPACE – You can read a bit about Shanti's amazing show on her site here, but to hear what I'll be doing in there at 4pm on February 4th, you'll have come to find out for yourself...I've never done it before!
12/13/22 – SHREW BREW PREMIERE PERFORMANCE OF COMMISSION "UTERUS" AT THE NEW SCHOOL IN NYC – I was so thrilled to get this commission for a piece inspired by women's bodies and reproductive rights. I created an open score with track from interview answers I got from people when I asked "what do you think of when you think of the word 'uterus.'" Spoiler: people have hugely diverse thoughts and feelings about uteruses! Come join us and hear all about it.
AUG/22 – I WAS GUEST FACULTY AT VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS MFA PROGRAM IN COMPOSITION – There's just something so purely magical about this program. I'm so lucky to get to hang out with these students and faculty and staff.
11/1/22 – JENNIFER CHOI, JAMES MOORE, AND KATHY SUPOVÉ PLAY "IMPOSTOR SYNDROME" AT ROULETTE IN NYC
10/13/22 – AARON LARGET-CAPLAN PLAYS "CAROUSEL" IN BOSTON – Aaron has a killer lineup on this program, presented at the Uphams Corner Branch of the Boston Public Library.
9/24/22 – I PLAY "WHITE FIRE" SET FOR LIVE DISTRIBUTED AUDIO ON UNRULY SOUNDS FESTIVAL IN PRINCETON, NJ – This festival is run by the jaw-droppingly amazing Mika Godbole and this is my first year playing on the lineup, but hopefully not the last! what a sweet homecoming.
6/12/22 – I PLAY A SET FOR RECORD RELEASE OF "FLASH CRASH + REMIXES" AT PUBLIC RECORDS IN NYC – This album is so cool: "like a dinner party of friends," a bunch of us got to remix Jascha Narveson's piece "Flash Crash," written for cello and live electronics. I did some weird and wacky things with the audio and the MIDI info to create my offering: "Repairbot Q sent to Engine Room 3, working through the loneliness." I definitely pictured Wall-E when I was making this thing...not sure if that comes through, but I'm fond of this weirdo little track. Also, take a look at this lovely album review in I Care If You Listen.
5/28/22 – RECAP PREMIERES "HOLD" COMMISSION ON BOULANGIER INITIATIVE'S WOCO FEST IN DC – I'm working on a big theatrical piece for badass new percussion quartet RECAP and this is the first movement. Also, stick around for the composer panel that I'm hosting at 4:30 where I'll chat with Leila Adu, Alexandra Gardner, Jiji, and Caroline Shaw about where they find the satisfaction in their work, from earliest inception to fully realized event! I have cue cards and everything...
5/26/22 – PREMIERE OF COMMISSION "A SWEET AND RIGHTEOUS SOUL GETS DRUNK ON CHAMPAGNE" FOR YIVO'S YIDDISH FOLKSONG FESTIVAL – My modern redo of the classic "Rebbe Elimelech" for violin and vocalist comes to light on this fun program of new compositions based on Yiddish folksong texts. What a fun time!
5/15/22 – SNEAK PREVIEW OF "A SWEET AND RIGHTEOUS SOUL GETS DRUNK ON CHAMPAGNE" BY SHEPHERDESS DUO AT COFFEY ST STUDIOS IN NYC
9/30/21 – I TALK TO CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY COMPOSERS ON COMPOSER COLLOQUIUM SERIES – Online
AUG/21 – I WAS GUEST FACULTY AT VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS MFA PROGRAM IN COMPOSITION – There's just something so purely magical about this program. I'm so lucky to get to hang out with these students and faculty and staff.SUMMER/21 – AUDIOS AMIGOS: THE NARVEFEFFER LIVING ROOM TOUR! – Jascha Narveson and I rented a car and we're HEADED TO A CITY NEAR YOU to mask up and share our solo electronics sets either outdoors or in small, socially-distancing-possible venues around the country! Check our social media to track our evolving schedule, but for NOW it looks like we'll be doing: June 25 Middletown, CT / June 29 Pittsburgh, PA / July 5 Pennington, NJ / July 6 Baltimore, MD (Live at the Callbox)/ July 7 Charlottesville, VA *CANCELLED DUE TO HOST GETTING COVID OY* / Aug 1 Toronto, ON / Aug 7 Oberlin, OH (Cetus Art Festival)/ Aug 10 Twin Cities, MN / Aug 20 Milwaukee, WI. We won't be sharing the addresses of these small/private venues online, but EMAIL US FOR DETAILS ON THESE GIG DATES! We're ITCHING to be making puffs of air jiggle in a physical place with you!
5/10/21 – PEABODY LAPTOP ENSEMBLE PLAYS "OVERSHARE" ONLINE – You can stream the whole concert for free on YouTube here. And again, if you're in it for the goofy Zoom rehearsal photos, check out these adorable rectangles.
3/23-24/21 – I TALK ABOUT AND AARON LARGET-CAPLAN PLAYS "CAROUSEL" AT 21ST CENTURY GUITAR CONFERENCE ONLINE
3/17/21 – AARON LARGET-CAPLAN GIVES PREMIERE PERFORMANCE OF COMMISSION "CAROUSEL" FOR CLASSICAL GUITAR AND MAX PATCH ON SOUND ESCAPES SERIES AT UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, GREENSBORO – This piece makes use of Aaron's gorgeous guitar playing and a Max patch I made that basically takes recordings I made of me ranting off my anxieties and makes their clouds of altered playback react dynamically to Aaron's different volumes of playing. Thanks to Aaron for sticking with this commission even as pandemic uncertainty raged all around us. I'm grateful.
12/21/20 – NO GAITS THIS YEAR. IT'S PANDEMIC. I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING.
11/6/20 – ENSEMBLE DECIPHER PLAYS "OVERSHARE" ON NOWNET CONFERENCE ONLINE – Zoom rehearsals with this lovely group were actually really fun. Here are our shining faces in rectangles. And if you'd like to hear us chat, check out my conversation with the Decipherists on the first guest episode of their podcast "Decipher This"
11/5/20 – I GIVE TALK AND CONCERT OF "WHITE FIRE" AS PART OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY'S DIGITAL CULTURE SERIES – Come for the nerd-out about Jewish feminist art practice, stay for the weird vocoding on recordings of traffic drones! All on Zoom and YouTube Live. I'll be doing this from my parents' basement in New Jersey.
10-12/20 – PAULA MATTHUSEN AND I MAKE ONLINE INSTALLATION OF MY FILE SHARING/VOCODING PIECE "OVERSHARE" – I love Paula Matthusen so much. She had the idea to turn my laptop ensemble piece "Overshare" into an online installation that made use of the beautiful MIDI controllable organ at Wesleyan University. This installation version of the piece asks for contributions of audio recordings of people's worries, and then does quick FFT work to analyze that signal and then arrange it for the organ. The result is a primordial goo of worry, turned into beautiful tonal clusters. I'm so grateful to Paula for helping me and my community channel our worry in this way right now when most of us can't safely gather in physical spaces. I love you, Paula. [NOTE: THIS WEB INSTALLATION IS NOW ON HAITUS AS OF SUMMER 2021 – But we hope to run it again at some point!]
10/15/20 – I TALK TO GRADUATE SEMINAR IN 21ST CENTURY MUSIC THEORY AT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON – The world is now Zoom. I've come to embrace it. Where else can you get photos like this one?
9/3/20 – I TALK TO COMPOSERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO – We figured out Zoom for this one!
5/20 – I TALK TO CT:SWAM FOLKS FOR "BROADBAND ECHOS" SERIES ON RADIO CKWeb BOGOTA – Take a look and a listen at the cool folks who have been interviewed on this series! Lovely techy music folks chatting about what they do!
4/28/20 – I TALK ON STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY COMPOSER COLLOQUIM SERIES – NOTE: some things are happening in the world and this talk was moved online.
3/2/20 – TONEBURST LAPTOP ORCHESTRA AT WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PERFORMS MY VOCODING/FILE SHARING PIECE "OVERSHARE" IN MIDDLETOWN, CT – Toneburst is the greatest. Thanks for picking up this Sideband piece in the ensemble's rep, Paula Matthusen!
2/27-28/20 – I'M AN ARTIST IN MINI-RESIDENCE AT UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA – I'm so excited to be all of myself this February in Norman, Oklahoma! I'll be talking to composers about how I use technology in my work, talking to the general Norman audience about how I am inspired by my jewish identity in a lot of my music-making life, then giving a concert of the full "White Fire" set on my last evening. Swing on by if you're near Norman, Oklahoma!
2/21/20 – I PERFORM "WHITE FIRE" ON SPLICE FESTIVAL 3.0 IN OHIO
2/16/20 – CYNTHIA HIEBERT AND BEN BOLT-MARTIN PLAY "AWKWARD WALTZ" AND "MINI-TANGO" IN KITCHENER, ONTARIO
1/23/20 – ELEONORE OPPENHEIM AND JAMES MOORE PLAY MY PORTRAIT PIECES I WROTE FOR THEM ON SO PERCUSSION'S BROOKLYN BOUND SERIES IN NYC – Brooklyn Bound is... maybe the coziest series in the world? If you'd like to hear me talk to Jason Treuting about all manner of things musical as a lead up to this concert, scroll down on this So Percussion page to find "Interview 10" and listen to me make Jason giggle a lot!
12/21/19 – MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK PRESENTS "THE GAITS" SOUNDWALK ON THE HIGHLINE, NYC [YEAR NINE] – Nine years! Holy cow! If you'd like to read up on what this epic annual event was and is, check out this interview folks from Friends of the Highline did with me and fellow Gaits-creator Jascha Narveson about our inspiration and process in making this annual soundwalk. (The other creators, Cameron Britt and Daniel Iglesia, stellar human beings and collaborators, couldn't make it, but they were there in spirit!). If you'd like a preview of what it's like, here's a beautiful video Thomas Deneuville took of the first Gaits parade in 2011
11/19/19 – I PERFORM "WHITE FIRE" ON CT:SWAM SERIES AT FRIDMAN GALLERY, NYC
11/16/19 – TENTH INTERVENTION PERFORMS PREMIERE OF COMMISSION "THE PACK" FOR PROJECT "IF A WOLF COME OUT OF THE FOREST" AT THEATER 71 IN NYC – I loved working on this project. Tenth Intervention does amazing work and Kyra sims was the author/actor/french hornist who created the text I worked with and just getting to know her work was an amazing gift. Check her out and check out this concert!
11/15/19 – EXPERIENTIAL ORCHESTRA PERFORMS PREMIERE OF COMMISSIONED "TRITE PUTI" ON "BULGARIAN VIRTUOSITY" CONCERT AT ROULETTE IN NYC – Bulgarian music is so frickin cool. I'm not Bulgarian – I'm just a superfan. And EXO is pretty shnazzy, so it was fun to write for their massive forces!
9/20/19 – I TALK TO WORDS AND MUSIC SEMINAR AT THE NEW SCHOOL – I met Diane Moser when I visited VCFA and we both hit it off big time. I came and talked to her seminar about how I use text and narrative in my music in all sorts of ways. Here's yet another fantastically flattering photo of me with a group of fun humans.
9/17/19 – I TALK TO HARVARD CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE ABOUT COMPOSING AND COMMUNITY BUILDING – I had such a good time video conferencing in to this super cool class taught by that gorgeous magician of a person, flutist and general badass Claire Chase. Here's a fanastically flattering screenshot from this visit.
7/11/19 – I PERFORM "WHITE FIRE" AT VU SYMPOSIUM IN PARK CITY UTAH – I love VU. What a cool bunch of nerds!
6/7/19 – I GIVE PLENARY ADDRESS TO THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN MUSIC CONFERENCE AT BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC IN BOSTON – I was so incredibly honored to be ask to give the plenary address. I had to look up what "plenary" meant in this context. I decided to make it a conversation as much as a talk, asking the room to discuss how open we could be about accepting and celebrating a plurality of needs and desires in the women music maker community. Some of us want to wear our gender on our sleeve. Some of us want to be considered artists apart from our gender. There are probably as many different desires as there are women in music, and my talk hopefully inspired more people to accept and celebrate a greater variety of answers to a larger number of questions. Whew! If you'd like to see a little summary of what I talked about, turn to page 24 of this IAWM journal for fall of 2019.
5/11/19 – I PERFORM "WHITE FIRE" ON WOMEN BETWEEN ARTS SERIES AT THE STONE IN NYC – I love this series. Luisa Muhr curates it and I've never found more variety and more surprises than I do on these concerts. What powerhouses of inventive beautiful stuff! I'm honored to play with these people.
2/20/19 – I PLAY IN DARMSTADT'S PRESENTATION OF "IN C" AT LE POISSON ROUGE IN NYC – This yearly tradition is so much fun and brings together such warm community to share in the love of this iconic, gorgeous piece. Fun fact: I have a copy of "In C" laminated and up on my fridge at home! You never know when you'll need it fast...
2/15/19 – I TALK TO VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS GRADUATE STUDENT COMPOSERS AS GUEST PRESENTER AT THEIR MFA PROGRAM
1/26/19 – NEW GALLERY CONCERT SERIES PERFORMS "IMPOSTOR SYNDROME" IN BOSTON – Sarah Bob runs a gorgeous concert series I hope you all get to catch sometime. If you missed this concert, here's a video of this badass piano trio doing my piece.
12/21/18 – MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK PRESENTS "THE GAITS" SOUNDWALK ON THE HIGHLINE, NYC [YEAR EIGHT] – Here's a beautiful video Thomas Deneuville took of the first Gaits parade in 2011
12/9/18 – KAMILLA ARKU PERFORMS PREMIERE OF COMMISSION "GOLDEN APPLE CRIMSON NIGHT" ON CHEZ NOUS CONCERT SERIES IN PARIS – For details on private venue and concert time, email contact@productionscheznous.com
12/5/18 – I PERFORM NEW, EXTENDED VERSION OF WHITE FIRE ON SPLIT BILL WITH SETH CLUETT AT ISSUE PROJECT ROOM IN NYC – This performance was part of my residency with Nokia Bell Labs. I worked with really cool artists/technologists Danielle McPhatter, Madeline Wong, and Ethan Edwards on developing the multichannel distributed audio network of my dreams. You can find a vid of a bit of that live performance here.
11/10/18 – TRANSIENT CANVAS PERFORMS "HYGGELIG" ON THEIR "WIRED" ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT AT THE DIMENNA CENTER IN NYC – Huzzah for Transient Canvas! I'm so proud to have a piece on this album with these amazing composers. Check it out on bandcamp here!
11/1-4/18 – "WORDS ON THE STREET" OPERA PERFORMED AT BARUCH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER IN NYC – This opera was begun by my lovely hilarious friend, composer Matt Marks, who died this year. A collection of his friends were asked to finish this opera and I hope Matt would have liked the pieces I made to finish his puzzle. I was thinking of him and smiling as I worked. I miss you, Matt, you glorious dork.
10/27/18-11/1/18 – SIDEBAND PERFORMS MY NEW VOCODER/FILE SHARING PIECE "OVERSHARE" ON CALIFORNIA TOUR – We're hitting CNMAT at Berkeley, the famous Songlines Series at Mills College, and CCRMA at Stanford as part of Ge Wong's Artful Design Manifestival. Check the Sideband website for specific places and times and juicy details!
10/15/18 – JAMES MOORE AND ANDIE TANNING PERFORM "FIDDLY TUNE" AT WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY – Specific info on concert place and time can be found on James Moore's website.
8/4/18 – I PERFORM WHITE FIRE ON "VAULT ALLURE" FESTIVAL IN JERSEY CITY – This was a part of my residency with Nokia Bell Labs. It was pretty amazing to be out and about with a bunch of people who might never have come to a concert of mine if it weren't accompanied by a mini-street fair. I had a great time!
5/1/18 – I JOIN PANEL OF "INDUSTRY EXPERTS" TO TALK AT NEW SCHOOL – This event was hosted by Opus, a new app for working musicians. I'm still a little confused what the panel was there to discuss, but I met really cool students and the panelists were fascinating!
4/27/18 – I PLAY CONTACT MIC AND IMPROVISED DAW PATCH ON SETH CLUETT'S "DARBOVEN TRACINGS" AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
4/3/18 – I TALK TO COMPOSERS AT THE THORNTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC IN LA
3/31/18-4/7/18 – JAMES MOORE AND ANDIE TANNING PERFORM "FIDDLY TUNE" ON THEIR CALIFORNIA TOUR – Specific info on concert places and times can be found on James Moore's website.
3/18/18 – I PERFORM AND PRESENT ON "WHITE FIRE" AT INAUGURAL EAVESDROPPING SYMPOSIUM IN LONDON, UK – This is definitely a festival to watch! What a thoughtful, fascinating lineup! I was so inspired I came back with notes jotted on every piece of paper in my ownership.
3/2/18 – JAMES MOORE AND ANDIE SPRINGER PLAY "FIDDLY TUNE" ON ALL YOUNG CONCERT SERIES AT JALOPY THEATER IN NYC – I just love these two.
3/1/18 – I SING IN DARMSTADT'S PRESENTATION OF "IN C" AT LE POISSON ROUGE IN NYC – This yearly tradition is so much fun and brings together such warm community to share in the love of this iconic, gorgeous piece. Fun fact: I have a copy of "In C" laminated and up on my fridge at home! You never know when you'll need it fast...
2/24/18 – I COHOST THE FIRST INSTRUMENT-A-THON AT STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IN HOBOKEN, NJ – Folks from all around NJ (and a bit of NY) came out and built acoustic and electronic and weirdo hybrid instruments. It was a blast, hopefully to be repeated!
2/13-16/18 – TRANSIENT CANVAS PLAYS "HYGGELIG" ON WEST COAST TOUR – Check the Transient Canvas site for places and times! Mostly California...
2/10/18 – PREMIERE FOR ME ON VOICE AND ANDIE TANNING ON VIOLIN AT NECESSARY NOISE FESTIVAL IN RAHWAY NJ – I also join TRANSIT Ensmeble by singing my sweet guts out in Caroline Shaw's beautiful arrangement/recomposition of "I'll Fly Away."
2/6/18 – I TALK TO COOL ARTY FOLKS ABOUT MY USE OF EMBODIED TECH IN MUSIC ON MVR SERIES AT PIONEER WORKS
12/21/17 – MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK PRESENTS "THE GAITS" SOUNDWALK ON THE HIGHLINE, NYC [YEAR SEVEN] – For this seventh iteration of "The Gaits" folks from Friends of the Highline interviewed me and fellow Gaits-creator Jascha Narveson about our inspiration and process in making this annual soundwalk. (The other creators, Cameron Britt and Daniel Iglesia couldn't make it, but they were there in spirit!)
12/10/17 – TRANSIENT CANVAS PLAYS "HYGGELIG" AT MAKE SHIFT BOSTON
11/28/17 – I TALK TO WESLEYAN UNDERGRADS ABOUT HOW I USE TECHNOLOGY IN MY MUSIC – This was so much fun! They were so curious and had such fresh questions about what I make and why and how I make it! Then Paula Matthusen took me out for momos. A dream come true!
11/15-20/17 – TRANSIENT CANVAS PLAYS "HYGGELIG" ON MIDWESTERN TOUR – Check the Transient Canvas site for places and times! Mostly Ohio...
10/14/17 – I GIVE A TALK AT MONTHLY MUSIC HACKATHON AT SPOTIFY HQ IN NYC – I gave a talk about using simple tech and HCI to build idiosyncratic instruments that feel right in my body for playing my music. What a lovely bunch of folks this Hackathon thing is! Check it out!
10/6-7/17 – SO PERCUSSION PREMIERES "WHAT I SEE IN SERRA" ON PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN NJ – This was a soundwalk commissioned by Princeton as part of their celebration of the opeening of the Lewis Center, a huge and fabulous new arts building on the Princeton campus. I loved writing this site-specific piece for So Percussion to perform *within* the Richard Serra sculpture on campus! I love that thing.
3/3-4/17 – TRANSIENT CANVAS PREMIERES "HYGGELIG" COMMISSION IN PROVIDENCE, RI AND SOMERVILLE, MA – For more info, visit the site of the sweet and fabulous Transient Canvas!
12/21/16 – MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK PRESENTS "THE GAITS" SOUNDWALK ON THE HIGHLINE, NYC [YEAR SIX] – Here's a beautiful video Thomas Deneuville took of the first Gaits parade in 2011
12/15/16 – WHITE FIRE" COMMISSION FROM EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA PREMIERES AT MERKIN HALL IN NYC – I can't say enough loving things about Experiments in Opera. This was a real experiment that I've been running with ever since – I perform as a one-woman band, doing voice and electronics interpretations of stories of biblical heroines. Check out this video that was taken of the live performance and check out this interview I did with EiO to describe my inspiration and process.
11/2/16 – LEE DIONNE PLAYS "FÜNF KLEINE KLAVIERSTÜCKE" AT YIVO IN NYC – Here's a live recording from that very sweet concert at a lovely place. And if you'd like to hear my thoughts on jewish-musicking in general, you can read an interview I did for YIVO here.
10/1/16 – JENNIFER CHOI, JAMES MOORE, AND KATHY SUPOVÉ PLAY "IMPOSTOR SYNDROME" ON NEW MUSIC NEW COLLEGE SERIES IN SARASOTA, FLA – Here's a fun review in the Herald-Tribune where Richard Storm notes that in this piece I'm "focused more on the sound effects than musical texture and melodic development." Totally true!
9/23/16 – I TALK TO YALE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY AT LARGE AS A PART OF THE ST. ANTHONY HALL LECTURE SERIES – I talked about how I think of my composing these days as management of change and stasis in time. It was really fun and I loved being back where I was a baby composer!
6/2/16 – JACK QUARTET PLAYS "MARKET DAY" AS CULMINATION OF RESIDENCY IN LABA PROGRAM AT 14TH ST Y IN NYC – Here's a promo the Y put together for the whole concert, featuring an excerpt from the art (by James Sturm) and music (by me) of "Market Day." This piece is a beast, and this showing was just a fraction of the full piece-to-be that I hope to finish for JACK... in the next decade?
3/8-9/16 – PERFORMANCE OF "ELEMENTS" AT HERE ARTS CENTER– A performance I did with Joe Bergen of Mantra Percussion as a culmination of my residency at HERE Arts through the HARP Program.
1/21/16 – JAMES MOORE AND ANDIE TANNING PLAY "WINE PAIRINGS" COMMISSIONED BY LABA FOR THEIR EVENT "DRUNK" AT THE 14TH ST Y IN NYC
12/21/15 – MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK PRESENTS "THE GAITS" SOUNDWALK ON THE HIGHLINE, NYC [YEAR FIVE] – Here's a beautiful video Thomas Deneuville took of the first Gaits parade in 2011
11/21/15 – JAMES MOORE AND ANDIE SPRINGER PLAY "FIDDLY TUNE" FOR "GERTRUDES" ALBUM RELEASE AT 17 FROST SPACE IN NYC – Here's the album release on Bandcamp! Give it a listen, it's great!
11/12/15 – STONE MASON PROJECTS PERFORMS MOVEMENTS FROM "HERE I AM" AT NATIONAL OPERA CENTER IN NYC
11/4/15 – ETHEL PLAYS COMMISSIONED "THE PIRATE'S DAUGHTER" AT NATIONAL SAWDUST IN NYC – Here's a lovely review of the evening where Sam Reising calls my piece "astounding fun."
6/21/15 – DITHER PERFORMS "TONGUE OF THORNS" ON THE BANG ON A CAN MARATHON AT THE WINTER GARDEN IN NYC – Here's the New Yorker Listing that shows just a fraction of the other fabulous stuff on the BOAC 2015 Marathon. What a lineup! I'm so proud be in the mix with one of my fave ensembles EVER!
5/2/15 – KAMILLA ARKU PLAYS "BARNACLES" AT HOLY TRINITY CHURCH IN WARRINGTON, UK – Hosted by the Warrington Arts Council.
3/8/15 – HOTEL ELEFANT PREMIERES COMMISSION "IMPOSTOR SYNDROME" AT SUBCULTURE IN NYC – This piece, a piano trio, is so personal and I'm so grateful to have a group I really trust working on it with me. I took text directly from Dr. Clancy and Dr. Imes's early work on the Impostor Phenomenon and gave it to the players to speak as the play on stage. It's a hard ask, and they do it with so much style and love.
1/15/15 – SIDEBAND PERFORMS AT INAUGURAL NEW MUSIC GATHERING AT SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY
12/21/14 – MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK PRESENTS "THE GAITS" SOUNDWALK ON THE HIGHLINE, NYC [YEAR FOUR] – Here's a beautiful video Thomas Deneuville took of the first Gaits parade in 2011
11/2/14 – SIDEBAND RESIDENCY AT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS – We teamed up with their newly-minted laptop orchestra H-Clef which is under the direction of Dr. Chris Arrell.
10/15/14 – I AM GUEST SPEAKER AT NYU STEINHARDT SCHOOL COMPOSERS COLLOQUIUM – I mostly ended up talking about how I use reorded text fragments for both semantic content and sonic texture
10/2/14 – I AM GUEST SPEAKER IN 21ST CENTURY NOTATION CLASS AT THE NEW SCHOOL IN NYC – I love gigs like this. Chatting about my weird squiggles and comical performance instructions? yes, please.
5/1/14 – NEWSPEAK PLAYS "HERE I AM" AT ROULETTE – culminating performance of my Jerome Residency at Roulette for the 2013/2014 season
4/30/14 – SIDEBAND RESIDENCY AT YALE UNIVERSITY – Part Two: Concert at the Beineckie
3/28/14 – SIDEBAND AT CENTER FOR FICTION IN NYC – We play a big new piece our beloved Dan Iglesia made for us in response to the worlds of Phillip K Dick.
3/7/14 – JAMES MOORE PREMIERES PORTRAIT PIECE COMMISSION "THREE NECKS" AT SPECTRUM IN NYC – I've been friends with James forever, so it's only fitting he get a portrait piece that is basically a valentine to his weird and wacky guitar penchants with a healthy dose of sampled scrabble game noises mixed in :)
1/30/14 – SIDEBAND RESIDENCY AT YALE UNIVERSITY – Part One: Lecture/Demo for composers seminar
1/24-26/14 – GRACE AND SPIRITUS CHORALE PREMIERES COMMISSION "AND HOW WAS YOUR DAY TODAY"– This piece got weird and the lovely singers of Grace Chorale really dug in. I'm so grateful.
1/18/14 – SIDEBAND AND FLORENT GHYS OPEN FOR ENSEMBLE ET AL RECORD RELEASE AT SPECTRUM IN NYC
12/21/13 – MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK PRESENTS "THE GAITS" SOUNDWALK ON THE HIGHLINE, NYC [YEAR THREE] – we made the cover of Time Out NY as an adorable parade of penguins and people!
10/12/13 – JAMES MOORE AND ANDIE SPRINGER PLAY "FIDDLY TUNE" AT NATIONAL CONCERT HALL IN DUBLIN– James Moore and Andie Tanning took my little romp 'n' stomp of a guitar/violin/voice piece to Dublin. I guess I'm big in Dublin!
9/3/13 – ISABELLE O'CONNELL PLAYS "BARNACLES" AT NATIONAL CONCERT HALL IN DUBLIN – I love Izzy's playing and I'm so thrilled she included my work on this program!
6/27/13 – TILT BRASS PREMIERES "BIG BREATH" AT ROULETTE
6/11/13 – SIDEBAND AT UNPLAY FESTIVAL WITH CONRAD TAO AND TODD REYNOLDS – And we got a lovely review from Steve Smith in the NY Times.
6/5/13 – SIDEBAND DOES CONCERT/DEMO AT GOOGLE HQ IN NYC
5/16/13 – AMY X NEUBURG & SIDEBAND DOUBLE BILL AT ROULETTE – Sideband loves Amy X. We'll play a bunch from our rep, including my piece "WALO."
Thanks for taking the time to be curious about my goings on, thanks for visiting my site, and I hope you find joy and good tunes as you venture on with your day!
