slow/fast
My latest project -- long form, theatrical and often intense music for alto saxophone/bass clarinet with trumpet, guitar, bass, drums... trying to synthesize some of my more rigorously composed music with the influences of jazz and improvisation.
gutbucket
12 years of this punk/jazz 4-piece which I co-lead;
touring 33 US states and 19 countries across the USA and Europe, 5 records released on Cantaloupe/NRW, Cuneiform, Enja, and Knitting Factory Records.
asphalt orchestra
a project of Bang on a Can which I co-lead -- bringing new music to streets and theatres across the US and Europe. Think avant-marching band plays Bjork, Meshuggah, and Mingus, and commissions new music ....
signal
great new chamber orchestra conducted by Brad Lubman. Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Helmut Lachermann, and more, playing concert halls across the US.
bang on a can summer festival
i'm on faculty here, and i love it. it's the place to go for emerging composers and performers who are interested in a life of boundary-free music. i run a composers' improvisation class and also get to perform with a ton of great instrumentalists from around the world.
no net trio - with eyal maoz and lukas ligeti
3 bandleaders, composers, and incorrigible improvisors come together for in the No Net Trio. An all-improvised band in which shrieking woodwinds meet guitar fuzz and pounding drums; or, quiet melodies erupt amidst the soft clang of gongs; or, grooves insinuate themselves against complex pads.... no 2 performances are the same.
GEAR:
conn-selmer and selmer paris
I endorse Selmer clarinets; and play a Yanagisawa A9930 alto saxophone and SC901 soprano (dist Conn-Selmer) and a Selmer SA80 baritone.
sibelius software
i endorse these guys; it's actually hard to imagine my life without this program. i'm using sibelius 7.
AMT microphones
I use their LS clip-on for saxophone and also use it on the bell of the bass clarinet for double-miking.
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