chatterbird’s music video for Down Down Baby (quartet version)
Performed by chatterbird: Maya Stone, Jesse Strauss, Celine Thackston, Aaron Walters. Recorded in Cumberland Park, Nashville, October 2019.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Percussionist perform ‘Cross Fit’ here:
The CSO’s Cynthia Yeh on the vibraphone in ‘Cross Fit’
With her cat Nacho making a special appearance, Cynthia Yeh, principal percussion of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, performs a segment of Cross Fit, the fourth movement of Robert Honstein's "An Economy of Means" (2015), written for prepared vibraphone.
Evan Chapman’s Caustics
Released April 10th, this album features Everything Now Right Now for drum set and pre-recorded electronics. This solo project by percussionist Evan Chapman also includes works by Ted Babcock, Alicia Walter, Ian Chang, Anna Meadors, Alexis C. Lamb, and Molly Joyce. Take a listen!! It is available on Bandcamp and other major platforms.
Score and electronics are available for purchase HERE.
Everything Now Right Now
First off, the video of Everything Now Right Now, performed by the amazing Evan Chapman, was published by Vic Firth this past Friday.
Second, this work will be included on his solo album “Caustics”, due to be released on April 10th, 2020! The album also includes works by Ian Chang of Son Lux, Molly Joyce, Alexis C. Lamb, Anna Meadors, Alicia Walter, and Ted Babcock. Stay tuned for more album release updates.
ABOUT THE PIECE:
Everything Now Right Now is a piece for drum set and track featuring high-energy, driving rhythms and a free-wheeling, synth-soaked track. Moving in lock-step with the drums, the track becomes a kind of super-drum, highlighting every sound in the kit as if the kit itself triggers the track’s bombastic frenzy. After a careening opening section, full of jump-cuts and jagged rhythms the track abruptly shifts to an ominous drone while the drummer adds a layer of improvised cymbal sounds. As we are lulled into an ambient haze of cymbals and shifting synth-pads, the music suddenly turns back to material reminiscent of the opening. The quick change leads to few brief missteps, but the drummer soon locks in with a series of increasingly disjunct grooves, driving the music to a bombastic finish.
Video Premiere: Hub New Music performs "Landing” from Soul House in album promo.
Hub New Music is set to release their debut album, featuring the complete Soul House. This promo video is one of nine movements, which will feature choreography from Urbanity dance and my attic as the set.
Produced by Four/Ten Media (Kevin Eikenberg & Evan Chapman)
Audio by Immersive Music Project (Jesse Lewis)
Video Premiere: Cellist Ashley Bathgate Reimagines a Cello Suite Inspired by Bach
Produced by Four/Ten Media and presented by New Amsterdam Records, featured on Ashley’s album “ASH”
Released September 27th, ASH features Sleeping Giant collaborator Ashley Bathgate performing works for solo cello, including Orison for cello and electronics.
The full press release is available on New Amsterdam Records and you can click on the album cover below for the album bandcamp page.
Lost and Found was premiered on September 22 by Michael Compitello in the Tribeca New Music Festival at the Cell Theater, New York, NY.
Drawing on years of close collaboration with percussionist Michael Compitello, the resulting piece is a multi-movement new work for solo marimba with distinctive approach to the instrument that seamlessly integrates traditional playing with unconventional sounds and objects. Lost and Found, builds a narrative of nostalgia and memory from the idiosyncratic union of marimba and junk objects.
Commissioned by Michael Compitello, this work owes it’s creation to the consortium of thirty-three percussionists, including: Megan Arns, Mark Boseman, Michael Burritt, Matthew Carey, Benjamin Charles, Gabriel Costache, Gwen Dease, Corey Denham, Matthew Ernster, Thomas Faulkner, Maria Finkelmeier, Ben Fraley, Adam Groh, Piero Guimares, Sean Harvey, Ji Hye Jung, Ayano Kataoka, Tony Kirk, Terry Longshore, Colin Malloy, Dan Morphy, Chris Jackson, Yun Ju Pan, Robert Rocheteau, Matt Sharrock, Chris Sies, Neil Sisauyhoat, John Smigielski, Jeff Stern, Jen Torrence, Mike Truesdell, Eric Willie and Andrew Wright.
Please visit the work page HERE for the recording, perusal score, and full program notes.