Appparitions of The 2012 Avant Music Festival
We're gearing up for the 2012 Avant Music Festival in a big way. We've recently released a little preview video as a part of our Kickstarter campaign:
This whole campaign culminates in a one-night-only preview performance and thank-you party on Monday December 19th. I'll be performing a new solo vocal work: The First Pillar Appearing in Palindrome with The Harbinger of The Second Pillar under the 27/28 Triple Primal Region from Apparitions Of The Four Pillars that acts as an introduction into this year's realizations of Apparitions Of The Four Pillars. Please consider making a pledge on kickstarter and coming to hear this special performance. Plus there will be free food and drink and performances from The Pierrot Project and Eve Beglarian. Plus, if you donate $25 or more, you get a copy of the 2012 Avant Music Festival EP featuring my own Third Pillar recording from Voices + Sine Waves (previously only available on the CD version) as well as works by Eve Beglarian and Jenny Johnson.
In February, the festival will open (February 10th) with Circular Trance Surrounding The Second Pillar with The Highest Seventh Primal Cirrus, The Utmost Fundamental, and The Ekmeles Ending from Apparitions of The Four Pillars performed and commissioned by Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble.
Here is a clip from the November 2011 World Premiere at Music At First:
The festival will close (February 18th) with a new work written for trombonist William Lang: The Third Pillar in Primal Imperfect Palindrome with The Souvenir of The Second Pillar, The Floating Cirrus over the Pumping Slush, and The Highest Moving Chordal Motif from Apparitions Of The Four Pillars - This work takes the same basic idea as what I'll be performing on December 19th and transforms it into a one-man symphony of dense droning pure textures.
Full information on the 2012 Avant Music Festival, including ticketing, can be found here.
The Final Copies of Analog Apparitions
Analog Apparitions, my cassette for The Tapeworm featuring two 30 minute droning cassette explorations, has been officially sold out for some time now. However, the glorious cover image for Analog Apparitions created by Oscar Henriquez is available as part of The Bookwoorm's first publication The Art Of Worms.
I've just made the final seven copies of Analog Apparitions available as a special limited edition. Each has been signed and numbered, and they include a download card of 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) previously only available on the limited edition CD Voices + Sine Waves.
These final copies are selling for $20, and four of them are only available through the MELA foundation webstore. The other three copies will be available at my upcoming shows on November 18th and December 19th.
Aqua Madora
I'm very happy to announce that, Thanks to Kickstarter and the wonderful people that donated there, my next limited edition object CD release, Aqua Madora will be out officially on February 22nd through Avant Media
Limited copies will be available during the 2011 Avant Music Festival: Feb. 11-19, in New York City.
Below, check out the lovely cover artwork created by Oscar Henriquez
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.
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:
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.


