Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
I’m sitting in the Denver airport on my way home from performing Doleo Æternus on Friday evening. It was a really interesting experience. Mike Rugnetta and Amali Premawardhana were fantastic. They played beautifully and I can’t wait to hear the recordings. Even though the performance is over, I still haven’t seen Ana’s video. I know we ended together and I’ve heard there were some fantastic moments of synchronicity.
I’ll be posting clips and sound samples soon.
I want to say a big Thank You to Mike and Amali, to Ana, to the Playground Ensemble, and to Kate and Conrad and everyone at DU and the ISIM. It was a great experience and I’m sure I’ll look back on this as the catalyst in the next phase of this piece.
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
I’m sitting in my hotel room in South Denver after a very long day of Rehearsals and general driving insanity. I arrived in Colorado last night and it was snowing, quite intensely.
My rehearsals today with the Playground Ensemble went very well. I always run into the same problem though which is that my work has very subtle cues, and it just takes time. They’re a great ensemble, and it was a pleasure rehearsing with them. I just wish we had one more day. Although I suppose one always wishes one had one more day (wow, that was quite a oneful sentence)
Anyway. I’ve posted a bit of a photojournal after the jump. Images of the rehearsals were taken from a video on my iSight – of course it’s the first time I’m using it, and the sound didn’t record. Oh well,
Enjoy the pictures of snow, horrible donuts, and blurry rehearsals to the gallery »
Tags: 2008, Denver, Doleo Aeternus, Doleo Eternus, Doleo Æternus, Flickr, Photojournal, Playground, Randy Gibson, Rehearsals, Room, Snow, Video
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
I am sitting in the Dream House in lower manhattan. A perfect activity for the day after what turned out to be an epic Thanksgiving dinner I cooked last night (11 courses, but more on that later…).
In one week we will be performing the latest version of Anger now called Doleo Æternus written by moi and with a new video shot by Ana Baer-Carrillo and edited by Caren McCaleb at the ISIM Conference in Denver, Colorado. This is extremely exciting for me, but also nerve-racking.
Here is the only link for today.
ISIM The Third Annual International Society of Improvised Music Conference will be held next weekend – December 5-7 at the University of Denver. Doleo Æternus will be performed by Randy Gibson, Mike Rugnetta, Amali Premawardhana, and the Playground Ensemble on Friday December 5th at 5PM.
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
In just over two weeks we will be premiering the new version of Anger at the third annual ISIM Festival in Denver Colorado. This is a major new version of the work, now being called Doleo Æternus. We’re very excited to be going back to our home-town (of sorts) and peforming this piece there. The staff of the ISIM has been extremely helpful, and the soloist: Mike Rugnetta, Amali Premawardhana and Myself; will be joined by members of the University of Denver Playground Ensemble.
The program at ISIM is very large, and as such has only a small space for program notes. My full description of the piece is after the jump. Jump »
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