The Season Ahead
It's shaping up to be a pretty big season this year. A bunch of performances, some recordings, and the second annual Avant Music Festival.
Plus, I've started a mailing list, which you should join, I'll only email for new and exciting things.
So here's what's coming up.
The Third Pillar and Voices + Sine Waves
Just over a week ago Will Lang, Drew Blumberg, and I got together to record a short version of Apparitions of The Four Pillars to be included on a limited edition physical version of Voices + Sine Waves. This new piece is called: The Third Pillar with its Lowest Primes and Memories of The Second Pillar from Apparitions of The Four Pillars III-iii-2010 20:02:56" - 20:20:17" (Brooklyn) and I'm really happy with how it turned out.
It's 17 minutes of droning raga-inflicted melodies all drawn from The Third Pillar. The physical version of Voices + Sine Waves is going to be limited to an edition of 100 signed and numbered units, and this will be the only place this piece will be available.
There's no release date yet for the album, but it should only be a couple of weeks.
Apparitions – Avant Premiere
Thank you to everyone who came out to the World Premiere of Apparitions of The Four Pillars. It was an amazing and meditative night.
I've uploaded a bunch of the photos to Flickr here and this is one of my favorites:
Drew Blumberg and Tom Chiu - Photo by Travis Dubreuil
The projection created by Oscar Henriquez is a true psychedelic pleasure to perform in.
The avant-premiere, with Will Lang on trombone, will take place on February 27th at 8PM at Wild Project, 195 East third street - as a part of the Avant Music Festival,
I hope you can join me for another immersive meditative experience.
Process and Apparitions of The Four Pillars
In a week, we will be presenting the world premiere of my latest piece, Apparitions of The Four Pillars, as part of the Avant Music Festival - I wanted to share a bit about my process on what has turned into the most radical work I've written in a long time.
Ever since I got my first toy organ in early 2009 I've been brewing a piece that would involve a number of organs, sine waves, and performers. Something modular, and maybe a little tiny bit more portable than the behemoth that is Doleo Æternus.