This just in, on October 11th my piece Why are you not answering? will be performed at LPR. The show will also feature pieces by Jacob Cooper, Timo Andres, Ted Hearne and Chris Cerrone. For anyone in New Haven you can catch a preview of my piece at New Music New Haven on thursday October 7h.
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check out the text and the music here: Premiered 6.5.10 at St. Peters Church, 619 Lexington, New York, NY honors 2010 Young New Yorkers Chorus, Nathan A. Davis prize
Room Tone is a site-specific sound installation. Using Google voice to translate crowd noise into text, a computer speech-to-voice program converts the text back to audio. The audio is then diffused throughout the room using small speakers discreetly placed throughout the space. Premiered 3.4.10 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. Some news to report. More details to follow. The summer is shaping up to be jam-packed with action and excitement. On June 5th my new choral work, a collection of a capella settings of Japanese Haiku for SATB choir, will be premiered by the Young New Yorker’s Chorus at St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington, in New York City. On June 20th my arrangement of a Hildegard sequence, for Soprano, Cello, Organ and Wine glasses, will be performed by Lenore Alford and Leanne Zacharias at St. John’s Episcopal Church in San Francisco, CA. In July I’m heading up to MASS Moca for three weeks of banging on cans, where I’ll also have a new piece for clarinet, guitar, percussion, piano, cello and double-bass premiered. And then in August it’s out to Santa Cruz, CA where a new arrangement of my orchestral piece 200 OK will be performed at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Also, for anyone who wasn’t able to catch last month’s CBC stream of Correction Line’s West End show, there is now a nifty page with photos, info and a streaming audio archive on Radio 2’s ‘concerts-on-demand’ site. Check it out. Hey folks, this is last minute, but tonight at 10PM EST the CBC Radio 2 program ‘The Signal’ will broadcast Correction Line’s January, 22 show at the West End in Winnipeg. Check it out. The Radio 2 site is a bit confusing, but the stream can be found in the ‘Listen Now’ box on the upper right hand corner of the screen. Different shows are played at different times in Canada’s various time zones, but what you’re looking for is ‘The Signal’ and it will be the eastern time zone stream starting at 10PM (I think they rebroadcast it later in the evening for the other time zones…). I’ll be interested to hear what it sounds like. I’m not sure if they took the feed from the board or from their own mics. You can hear my trio for marimba, violin and cello towards the end of the first set (probably at around 10:40Pm). It was a fun show. I hope you’ll be able to sense that from the broadcast. So I’m very excited for this thursday evening. The amazing Laura Grey with the help of Caspar Lam, has put together a fantastic event called Present Continuous. Basically, Laura and Caspar reached out to creative people throughout the Yale community to fashion an evening of collaborations between designers, composers, sculptors, architects, photographers, painters and others. I’ve been around this place for a while and it’s pretty rare to have an event that brings together so many different members of the community. Anyway, I’m very excited. The show will be at the University Art Gallery from 530-730 on Thursday March, 4th and will feature installation, performance, sculpture and other types of work. And, of course, there will be a fabulous reception afterwards (courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery…thank you). My contribution is a collaboration with designer Brendan Griffiths. It’s a site-specific sound installation called ‘Room Tone’. Basically we’re using google voice to translate crowd noise into text and then diffusing the text via eight earbud sized speakers discreetly placed throughout the space. Hopefully I’ll get some photo and audio documentation to post later. fun. come see! So my good friend and filmmaker Jeff Miller recently entered a short film into the Louis Vuitton Journey Awards contest. The contest required each filmmaker to respond to a given text however they saw fit. I’m not so sure about the text, it’s a little hokey. Actually, it’s kind of awful. But, Jeff did an amazing job creating something beautiful within the contest’s heavy constraints. Shooting in Hong Kong where Jeff has been living this past year, the film features beautiful shots of Hong Kong and its surroundings. I contributed music to the project. Actually, I wrote the piece for another short film of Jeff’s, but Jeff and I both agreed it worked perfectly for the Journey short as well. Anyway, we got to the finals, but sadly the esteemed Jury (and the public) picked another entry to win. Oh well…I still think Jeff’s video looks awesome and for my part, I’m pleased with the music. Check it out: Journey Video from robert honstein on Vimeo.
This past January I joined forces with cellist Leanne Zacharias, violinist Cristina Zacharias, percussionist Ed Reifel, and singer/songwriters Christine Fellows and John K. Samson to form the Correction Line Ensemble. We represent a wide range of musical backgrounds–composer, classically trained instrumentalist, rock star, songwriter, baroque specialist, freelance percussionist–and together we try to make music that synthesizes these backgrounds into something greater than the sum of our parts. Our first attempt, a series of shows in the Winnipeg area, was a whole lot of fun and by the reactions of the folks who came out to the shows some kind of a success as well. The show included Bartok string duos, re-harmonizations of a Bach Chorale, group arrangements of John and Christine’s songs, and one of my own compositions. It’s a pretty exciting group, with each member bringing considerable experience and accomplishment to the table. But more than being incredibly talented musicians, these guys are awesome, wonderful people. If I weren’t making music with them I’d probably trek up north anyway just to have a beer. Plans are in play for a more extended tour of eastern Canada in Fall 2010. Coming soon, CBC Radio 2 The Signal broadcast of our show at the West End in Winnipeg. About a year ago my good friend and talented filmmaker, Jeffrey K. Miller, decided to check an old gmail account he had left dormant for years. Before deleting his entire spam box, Jeff decided to scan through it for anything important that might have accidentally ended up as spam. To his great surprise he found about a hundred emails from a popular online dating site addressed to himself, Jeffrey K. Miller. This was curious. Jeff had never registered for this particular site, or any other online dating service. Yet, here they were, 100 emails documenting every single correspondence of Jeffrey K. Miller within the dating site: every email sent and received, every poke, wink, blink, chat, and even all the spamy legal messages containing privacy policies, updates, warnings and alerts. Puzzled and intrigued Jeffrey and myself poured through the correspondence. What we discovered was astounding. In the pages and pages of electronic communications a story unfolded of love, betrayal, lying, cheating, and unfulfilled longing. Through some miracle of the internet this other Jeffrey K. Miller had left us a meticulous record of his tragic amorous affairs. We knew instantly this was a gift, a rare case of creative gold falling from the sky. We set out to write an opera. Of course, it takes a while to write an opera. Last spring I workshoped a scene, just to try things out and experiment with the material. It went well. Now we’ve stepped back and we are crafting a full libretto from the collection of emails. By Fall 2010 I should have a handful of piano/vocal scenes, perhaps with some scenes fully scored (and…perhaps…a few of those will turn up on a very exciting concert that might happen in October 2010, but more on that later). Anyway, below is the scene I wrote last spring. I’m excited by a lot of the material. Dramatically, the scene doesn’t really have a context. Most likely it wont exist in it’s entirety in the final version, but bits and pieces will likely turn up. I’ve also reconsidered my use of speaking. I’m quite liberal with the speech in this scene; however, ideally I want the speaking to be far less frequent, and to fulfill some kind of specific dramatic function when it does happen. 0:00 / 0:00
I’m very excited to have a commission from a great group of singers in New York, the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus. The piece will be featured on a concert with two other new works inspired by or loosely related to the pleasure principle (I have to admit…I’m not quite sure what the pleasure principal means…but I think it’s suppose to feel good). As of now I’m leaning towards setting some Haiku’s by the 17th and 18th century Japanese poets Basho and Issa. Normally I’m quite nervous about setting poetry, because when it’s good poetry I usually feel like there’s nothing I can add to it (poetry itself is already a kind of perfect spoken music, right?). But, with these Haiku’s I feel like there is such a wonderful humor and charm about them that music mighty actually complement the text in a satisfying way. Plus, the haiku form is so terse that there is a lot of room for different text-setting strategies. Like, I can either set it literally with no changes or repetitions or do some renaissance, mass-style, super repetition stuff, or maybe some more adventurous chop-up, weird sequencing stuff. I don’t know. I think it will be a suite so I get to try it a bunch of different ways! Anyway, I’d love to see you at the premiere. St.Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave 6.5.2010, 8:00 PM |
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