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.

Performance of Randy Gibson's "Apparitions of The Four Pillars with Their Lowest Additive Primes as limited to the 3rd, 7th, 9th, and 11th New Primes chosen Cyclically, The Toll of Premonition, The Memorial Connector over the Outlying Primal Abyss, and The Mid-Winter Ending"

February 11, 2011 - Avant Music Festival, New York City

Randy Gibson: Just Intonation Toy Organs
William Lang: Trombone
Drew Blumberg, Catherine McCurry: Violins
Mariel Roberts: Cello

Projection: Oscar Henriquez

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.

On October 4th, my tape, Analog Apparitions, will be released by The Tapeworm. I spent the summer recording a ton of cassette layers with Drew Blumberg and Laine Rettmer of music for Just Intonation Toy Organs, Voice, and Sine Waves. I'm really proud of how it turned out, it's some deep, droning music. Much more info to come on this very soon.

On October 12th Avant Media is hosting a special Fundraiser and performance for the 2011 Avant Music Festival. I'll be performing with Drew Blumberg a version of my piece The Third Pillar with its Lowest Primes and Memories of The Second Pillar from Apparitions of The Four Pillars with video by Oscar Henriquez which is available on the limited edition version of Voices + Sine Waves. Tickets are on sale now for as low as $20

In late October we'll be launching a Kickstarter campaign to release a special limited edition of my major Just Intonation piano piece, Aqua Madora.

On December 9th I'll be performing The Third Analog Pillar with video by Oscar Henriquez in London alongside Philip Jeck, Zerocrop, and Cathi Unsworth as a part of The Tapeworm's Unleashed in The East night at Cafe OTO. Tickets are on sale now for just £6

Then in January, we're scheduling the release of Aqua Madora as a digital download and limited edition CD.

And finally, on February 11th I will open the 2011 Avant Music Festival with a new, world premiere, Apparitions of The Four Pillars with Their Lowest Additive Primes as limited to the 3rd, 7th, 9th, and 11th New Primes chosen Cyclically, The Toll of Premonition, The Memorial Connector over the Outlying Primal Abyss, and The Mid-Winter Ending with video by Oscar Henriquez and performed by Will Lang on trombone, me on Just Intonation Toy Organs, and The Apparitions String Ensemble. There will be a second performance on February 19th, and on February 12th, Will Lang and I will play John Cage's marvelous Two⁵. A limited number of deeply discounted five night passes will be available at the October 12th Fundraiser.

So that's what's in store in my world for this year. I hope you'll join my email list, follow me on twitter, and come to the fundraiser on October 12th, there will be free beer and food.

R

However, I'm not sure what the tuning of this baroque organ is going to be. It's been described to me as "strangely tuned" - and this is by early music people. I'm actually sort of looking forward to the challenge of having only one day with a massive instrument that I don't really know how to play, in a tuning that could potentially be anything, and trying to create something beautiful from it. I tend to get caught up in the theory of my work, often at the loss of initial spontaneity, so this will be an interesting, and hopefully rewarding, prospect for me.

It will be recorded, so hopefully those of you who can't make it to Italy (and, i'm guessing, that's probably most/all of you) will be able to hear at least a bit of what I've done.