Those of us who interpreted Didier Guigue’s composition Quatre fois for the Endtitles album were asked to video performances of the piece. This is mine, a revised interpretation that differs from the interpretation on the album. Video by Nico Barbiero.
Thanks to the Maryland Literary Review and reviewer Charles Rammelkamp for a thougtful take on As Within, So Without. Read the whole thing here.
New in Arteidolia, “The Meontology of the Left-Handed Painter,” an essay on how the possibility of Being has its ground in the non-Being of the imagination.
Out today on the Entitles netlabel is Quatre fois, a collection of eight different realizations of Franco-Brazilian composer Didier Guigue’s verbal score Quatre fois. My interpretation for solo double bass, which is of a piece with the performances of open-form scores on In/Completion, is included among them.
New in Perfect Sound Forever, a meditation on what it means to fail–or to succeed–in Tom Johnson’s Failing for double bass and spoken word.
Just discovered, this nice review of …for double bass & prerecorded electronics by Warmth Highest, which ran back in March.
Thanks to Chris Videll for this image of the NVS Trio, from our set this past Saturday evening. And thanks too to everyone who came out to the Zero Cohesion Festival.
This Saturday night the NVS Trio plays the Zero Cohesion Festival at Rhizome in Takoma Park, DC. That’s 6950 Maple Street NW, at 7 PM.
Endtitles asked me a few questions about …for double bass & prerecorded electronics. The interview is now up on their blog here.
Thanks to everyone who came out for this past Sunday’s Reston Readings, and to hosts Nathan Leslie and the Reston Used Bookshop. It was a fine evening of poetry, prose and good company. Image by Nathan Leslie.
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