Robert Honstein

Sleeping Giant @ LPR

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:36:33 +0000

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 [...]

4 Haiku

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:12:34 +0000

SATB Choir, unaccompanied

Haiku capture moments. One day I read this Haiku by Issa:

Napped half the day; no one punished me!

I nearly fell off the chair laughing. The poem was coy, witty, personal, and universal all at once. For a brief moment I was with Issa, sitting beside him in a state of totally amused understanding. After pouring [...]

Room Tone

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:11:16 +0000

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.

News, News, News!

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:40:19 +0000

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 [...]

Correction Line on The Signal

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:13:37 +0000

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 [...]

Present Continuous

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:00:31 +0000

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. [...]

Louis Vuitton

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:25:07 +0000

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 [...]

Correction Line Ensemble

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:00:34 +0000

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 [...]

My Heart Iz Open

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:24:32 +0000

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 [...]

New work for choir

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:58:45 +0000

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 [...]