Sound artist, media artist and composer for both humans and computers. So much banjo, too
Here’s this week’s video from the field recordings of mind in morning project with poet Hank Lazer. “who will tell me” is dedicated to the amazing improvising guitarist Davey Williams.
“So you made strange music. Is that such a crime?”
The slide banjo creates a rural, bluesy tone, but it barely scratches the surface of what Davey could do!
Here’s this week’s video from the field recordings of mind in morning project with poet Hank Lazer. For this elegaic improvisation I put the banjo into an arbitrary tuning and played up the neck so I couldn’t be sure which pitches would result.
This week’s video from the field recordings of mind in morning project with poet Hank Lazer. This one features the banjo played with an e-bow to create sustaining sounds.
This week’s video from the field recordings of mind in morning project with poet Hank Lazer. I love the mellow tone of the fretless banjo with nylon strings: “the singing of earthworms”
Violin duo Miolina (Lynn Bechtold and Mioi Takeda) will premiere my piece A Long Line of Clouds Just Above the Trees in a concert Monday March 28 at the Moody Recital Hall in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
The work is for violin duo with live electronics. It was created with the support of the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative (CARI) at the University of Alabama. We workshopped the piece during a Summer 2021 residency at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute in New Hampshire.
Also on the program are compositions by Lynn Bechtold Cecilia Franke, Mark Lackey, Jessica Meyer, Alvin Singleton and Geni Skendo.
March 28 7:30pm
Miolina
Moody Recital Hall
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa AL