April 25, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
April 20, 2012 MATA 2012 Festival of New Music Roulette in Brooklyn The final night of the Festival was an even more glorious one. Jacob Cooper presented his third and final interesting video. “Triptych III . . . alla stagion …
April 25, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
April 19, 2012 MATA 2012 Festival of New Music Roulette in Brooklyn My first night in New York on this two weekSpring venture was at the MATA Festival which features composers under 40. They selected 20 from the 500 applicants. …
April 18, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
April 13th UCSD Brendan Nguyen, recital As I have mentioned before, thank god for UCSD’s Music Department. This was another amazing night of music, video, and creativity. The concert was entitled The Seven Tragedies of Space Travel: three imagined transits …
April 18, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
April 12th UCSD Student Honors recital Tyler Eaton,contrabassist, and Ayaka Ozaki, percussionist I was pleased to be able attend Tyler’s concert and also to learn about Ayaka. The first two pieces were for solo bass, “Scruples” composed/improvised by Tyler and …
April 18, 2012 | Posted in Fresh Sound, So Forth
April 9th, Fresh Sound @ Space 4 Art, James Moore, solo guitar James is a member of the Dither Electric Guitar Quartet and is here for the second time as I love what he does -- always different and elegant. …
April 18, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
April 4th UCSD’s The Loft First set: Jeff Kaiser’s Quintet Great group: Jeff, trumpet; David Borgo, sax; Tyler Eaton, bass; Jared Mattson, guitar; Jonathan Mattson, percussion. This was a fun, impressive and intense. Funk with great grooves and improvised music, …
April 18, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
April 1st Torrey Pines Christian Church Sacra/Profana David Lang’s “The Little Match Girl Passion” I am so pleased to learn about Sacra/Profana and their Artistic Director, Krishan Oberi. The choral group consists of 21 performers: 11 men and 10 women, …
April 18, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
March 31st 98 Bottles First set: Ellen Burr and Michael Unruh Second set: Vinny Golia, Rick Heltzer Ellen Burr, Michael Unruh Jeanette Kangas I wanted to go to this concert especially to hear Vinny as it’s been a long time …
April 18, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
March 30th Athenaeum - La Jolla Tristan Shone What to say about this. I am always fascinated by what Tristan creates. His stage-name is Author and Punisher which might give you a clue. He creates intense metal instruments some of …
April 7, 2012 | Posted in Fresh Sound
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