…life under hylaster

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Keith Rowe is this year’s David Tudor Composer-in-Residence at Mills College and he is collaborating with a student ensemble (including yours truly) in presenting Cornelius Cardew’s piece The Tiger’s Mind. The concert is this Sunday at 8PM - Lisser Hall on Mills campus.

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Brett Ingram’s film Rocaterrania is finished and about to make the rounds on the festival circuit. The documentary portrays the inimitable Renaldo Kuhler of Raleigh, NC and Rocaterrania - the imaginary country that has sprung from Kuhler’s inner life and imagination via countless illustrations, invented languages, and personal mythology. I am honored to have participated in the creation of the film’s original soundtrack, along with the other members of Shark Quest.

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Here is my set at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco last week. I am considering using archive.org for hosting audio from now on rather than burdening poor little cirrusoxide.com. The Internet Archive provides the handy embedded player you see above, supports Creative Commons licenses and, well, it was created for this sort of thing. Other streaming and download options are available here.

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My friend and former Mills colleague Philip White has just released a slew of works recorded during his last few weeks at Mills in the spring of 2008. I am lucky enough to be on one of the releases, as one half of the project we call with chuck johnson with philip white. Philip and I share a fondness for sounds created by chaotic analog systems. Here is Philip’s description:

with chuck johnson with philip white is the collaborative effort of two
electronic musicians performing on homemade or otherwise hacked
electronics. After co-founding Charleston’s New Music Collective, White
met Johnson, a fellow native southerner, in Oakland, California. The two
soon developed a common interest in building and performing on erratic
electronic equipment. With a sound owing as much to John Cage as it does
Merzbow, with chuck johnson with philip white straddle experimental and
noise musics with forceful and visceral performances.

There are several options for buying the music here.

Philip’s solo work and recordings with the duo project he has with Suzanne Thorpe called thenumber46 are also highly recommended and can be purchased here.

Speaking of Suzanne…. She and I have an electroacoustic drone duo we call D2 Affinity and we are opening for My Bloody Valentine (!!) at the Concourse in San Francisco on Sept 30. Spectrum is on the bill as well. I think there are still tickets available via Ticketmaster or some such godawful thing.

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