New Performances and New Lessons

Hello all,

I've got a few performances coming up I thought I'd mention here.
This Sunday, January 27th 7pm, I'm playing with an improv quintet (Violin, Sax, Bass, Drums and laptop) at Dangerous Curve in LA. We'll be playing alongside Ulrich Krieger and Daren Burns. Should be a good show.

On February 11th at 8pm is a concert of student compositions performed by the New Century Players. I'll be premiering my new piece "Fractal Plane" for Flute, Viola, Cello, and Piano. It will take place in Roy O. Disney Concert Hall of CalArts.

On March 8th I'll be playing a new piece for electronics at the Pescadrome in Santa Barbara (101 S. Quarantina) alongside Christopher Jette, Mark Trayle and Sam Fischmann.

Mid-March will hopefully see the premiere of my new Violin + Electronics duo here on campus as well. I'll post when that becomes more final.

As to my recent activity in life:
I've recently been heavily involved with SuperCollider which I've been dying to get into for a few years and I'm loving it. There's something very liberating about working directly in code without the issues inherent in working in a graphical synthesis environment. Although I'll still be using Max/MSP quite heavily. They make a good pair, especially since I'm on Windows.

For the past week school has been in session with something called Interim. Basically two weeks of workshops before the semester starts. I've been taking a SuperCollider class, and attended masterclasses with Roger Reynolds (who was fantastic). I've also been taking an interesting class on New Media with Morton Subotnick and have been enjoying that. A class on field recording aesthetics was really interesting as well. This week I'm gonna go over the music of Lachenmann and learn to play the accordion (a lifelong dream) as well as continue with my current classes.

Next semester is equally exciting. Looks like lots of programming, performing and reading cool things.

Anyway, not too much else. Just busy working on a couple new pieces for the coming months.