Solo performance for visual artist Alan Lau's show Beauty in the Decay at ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle. I played some rocks, inspired by three small pieces called The Secret of Stones. Haruko Crow Nishimura and Stan Shikuma also performed.
Feb. 21, 2016: Canções Profundas residency at Jack Straw /
Artist Support Program residency at Jack Straw Cultural Center to record Canções Profundas (Deep Songs).
Dec. 19, 2015: A Gathering, assembly + performance at the Chapel /
An evening of music, art and words I curated around assembling a box full of sound and images, with Renko Dempster, Jessika Kenney, Alan Lau, Mariko Marrs, Cristin Miller, myself, and Matt Shoemaker at the Chapel. DETAILS
Dec. 18, 2015: Seattle Phonographers Union at the Chapel /
Seattle Phonographers Union at the Chapel. DETAILS
Nov. 15, 2015: Canções Profundas at Luso Foods /
Canções Profundas (Deep Songs) at Luso Food & Wine in White Center. Full traditional Portuguese dinner buffet before the concert. Presented by the Portuguese Club of Seattle.
Sep. 25 & 26, 2015: Canções Profundas premier at the Chapel /
Premier of Canções Profundas (Deep Songs), a big project based on my family history in the Azores Islands, at Good Shepherd Center Chapel, Seattle. DETAILS
Jul. 30, 2015: Chamber Music for Noise Yoga at the Frye Art Museum /
Live version of Chamber Music for Noise Yoga at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, using a recording of the museum's empty Salon as source material.
Jun. 5 - Jul. 25, 2015: The Very Rich Hours in Tampa, FL /
Excerpt of The Very Rich Hours in With Hidden Noise, curated by Stephen Vitiello, Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL
May 30 - June 9, 2015: Oultopia residency in France /
Oultopia residency in Oulchy-le-Château, France. I made a series of small improvised drawings using only flower petals on paper + recorded material for a sound piece, Chaud/Froid.
Mar. 20, 2015: Steven M. Miller box set released /
Between Noise & Silence, box set (7xCD + 1 DVD) I produced in tribute to the late composer and good friend Steven M. Miller. It collects much of his life's work, solo and in collaboration with others, plus a CD of new works composed in Steven's memory by myself, Annea Lockwood, David Dunn, JA Deane, Gregory Taylor, Chris Brown, Pauline Oliveros, David Mahler, and Maggi Payne. Available from Innova records (see link above), and as digital download on iTunes and Amazon.
Feb. 24 - May 3, 2015: The Very Rich Hours in Pasadena /
Excerpt of The Very Rich Hours in With Hidden Noise, curated by Stephen Vitiello, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at the Art Center in Pasadena, CA
Jan. 10, 2015: Music for Butoh dance by Shoko Zama /
not a leaf remains as it was, butoh dance choreographed by Shoko Zama to music from the CD of the same name by me and Steve Roden at Taoist Studies Institute, Seattle.
Nov. 15, 2014: Music for Butoh dance by Shoko Zama /
not a leaf remains as it was, butoh dance choreographed by Shoko Zama to music from the CD of the same name by me and Steve Roden at Studio 36 in Port Townsend, WA.
Oct. 6, 2014: The Very Rich Hours in Asheville, NC /
The Very Rich Hours at the Ecomusicologies conference, UNC Asheville.
Oct. 4, 2014 - Jan. 4, 2015: Mt. Waddington Reliquary at MoNA /
Mt. Waddington Reliquary by Anna McKee, for which I made an 8-channel sound installation, in Accreted Terrane, curated by David Francis at Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, WA.
Sep. 21, 2014: Stray Dog premiers at SIFF Cinema, Seattle /
Stray Dog, new documentary by Winter's Bone director Debra Granik at the Women in Cinema Festival at SIFF Uptown, Seattle. I was Music Consultant on this compassionate portrait of a Vietnam veteran in rural Missouri.
Sep. 1 - 30, 2014: Index Filicum installation in Chicago /
Index Filicum in the Fern Room at Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago.
Jul. 19 - Sep. 7, 2014: The Very Rich Hours at the Henry /
Excerpt of The Very Rich Hours in With Hidden Noise, curated by Stephen Vitiello, Henry Art Gallery at UW, Seattle; Related events: 7/24, live performance by Seattle Phonographers Union; 9/6, listening party/talk with Stephen Vitiello and myself.
Jul. 1 - 22, 2014: researsh trip to the Azores islands /
Field work in the Azores for Deep Songs/Cancões Profundas. Funded by an Individual Arts Projects grant from 4Culture.
Jan. 28, 2014: performance with Instead Of at the Chapel /
Live performance with Instead Of (Torben Ulrich, Lori Goldston, Angelina Baldoz, Jaison Scott) + guests Stuart Dempster, Susie Kozawa, and dancer Beth Graczyk at Chapel Performance Space, Seattle.