April 26, 2012

La Jolla, USA

Percussionist Bonnie Whiting-Smith performs the US premier of Being Pollen, a musical complement to three recordings of American poet Alice Notley reading her poems, co-commissioned jointly by Whiting-Smith and percussionist Johannes Ficher. 6 P.M. in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall.

February 13, 2012

Palo Alto, USA

Composer Chen-hui Jen and I will share our recent works in Stanford University's graduate composition seminar.

T. B. A.

San Francisco, USA

San Francisco's Wild Rumpus New Music Collective has just announced that they will collaborate with composers Julian Day, Ruben Naeff, Andrea La Rose, Elizabeth Lim, Nicole Murphy, Jonathan Russell, Nicolas Tzortzis and myself on a batch of new works for their 2012-13 concert season. Stay tuned: We'll be co-authoring a blog to share the collaborative process.

August 4, 2011

St. Andreas Kirche, Hundisburg

Johannes Ficher premieres Being Pollen, a musical complement to three recordings of American poet Alice Notley reading her poems, co-commissioned by Fischer and percussionist Bonnie Whiting-Smith.

November 17, 2011

Conrad Prebys Music Center, La Jolla

A one-act opera based on a short story by Anthony Ha, Orbiting, premieres as part of Susan Narucki's "Instant Operas" lab. Read the original story, as printed in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, here.

(Added 1/19/11) Watch the premiere here.

September 11 - October 15, 2010

Golden Parachutes, Berlin

Three new visual music études (looping, abstract animations), Blooms, are part of Total Vivid Presence, Golden Parachutes' new exhibition dedicated to ritual, magic, and ecstatic experience in art.

Watch them online here.

March 26, 2010

Franklin Pierce University, Rindge

Xenia Pestova performs Happy Birthday as part of a concert of contemporary solo piano works.

August 26 - 30, 2009

Videokills International Video Art Festival, Berlin

Algorithmically Drawn Trees, a video installation collaboration with Colombian video artist Juan Orozco, will be installed in Stadtbad Wedding as part of Berlin's first Videokills international festival of video art. The piece uses constrained randomness to draw and project abstract pictures of trees; the program periodically freezes and offers a tree to the audience. Audience members who respond to the program's offer by signing up on a sheet in the room will find a beautiful tree picture in their inbox after the show. (All of this is accompanied by randomly generated calculation sound and, upon freezing, samples of the music of Nancy Sinatra.)

June 17, 2009

Unitarian Church, Montreal

Xenia Pestova performs 30-second piano works by Juraj Kojs, Peter Bogaert, Aleah Morrisson, Jimmie LeBlanc, Christopher Burns, Stephen Mark Barchan, Damian Winiecki, Elliot Cole, Alexandra Fol, Ross Harris, Jose Luis Hurtado, Iain Matheson, Karlheinz Essl, Aaron Lindh, Nicholas M. Collins, Rossano Pinelli, Samuel Vriezen, Guilherme Ferreira, Robbie Ellis, John Young, Jeffrey Treviño, Sundar Subramanian, Matthew Wilcock, Chen-Hui Jen, Andrew Lewis, Félix Frédéric Baril and Philip Brownlee, with special guests Julia Den Boer, Sara Laimon, and Ruxandra Oancea, on the ridiculously ornate Alfred Laliberté Steinway, in celebration of her 30th birthday. Appropriately enough, this onset of old age coincides with the weekly Seniors' Luncheon at the Unitarian Church of Montreal. If you want lunch for $5, please reserve up to two days in advance with Elizabeth Anglin (elizang@sympatico.ca, 514 937-4095) and show up at 12:30. Vendome Metro.

May 28, 2009

Universität der Künste, Berlin

Discussion of the electronic techniques and acoustic illusions involved in the creation of the electronic sound in Wolkenwagen as part of Martin Supper's weekly Sound Studies seminar.

May 17, 2009

Hanns Eisler Akademie, Berlin

Pianist Yejin Gil performs Wolkenwagen (2008-2009, commissioned by Rei Nakamura) for piano and electronics in an exchange between Berlin's two conservatories, the Universität der Künste and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler.

May 10, 2009

E-Werk, Freiburg im Breisgau

Pianist Rei Nakamura premieres Wolkenwagen (2008-2009, commissioned by Nakamura) for piano and electronics.

January 28, 2009

Konzerthaus Musikclub, Berlin

Tuba performance with Peter Ablinger's Ensemble Zwischentöne, "Eine Audienz mit dem Publikum" ("An Audience with the Audience"); works by Peter Ablinger, Arturas Bumsteinas, Bill Dietz, Christopher DeLaurenti, Diego Armando Grossmann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Erik Satie.

January 27, 2009

Universität der Künste, Berlin

A discussion of 43 different recordings (generously supplied by Miriam Quick of Kings College, London) of Anton Webern's op. 27 Variationen, accompanied by my own interpretation of the work for Walter Zimmermann's weekly composition seminar.

January 14 - 17, 2009

Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University

A discussion of 43 different recordings (generously supplied by Miriam Quick of Kings College, London) of Anton Webern's op. 27 Variationen, accompanied by my own interpretation of the work; part of Reactions to the Record II: Early Recordings, Musical Style, and the Future of Performance.

November 24, 2008

Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Salamanca

Sisco Aparici Minguez performs Substitute Judgment, with Ross Karre's integrated video, Metal Catalogue, as part of the 2008 Festival SMASH de Música Contemporánea.

November 9, 2008

Seoul Arts Center's Jayu Theatre, Seoul

Korean premiere of Trailer for UBIK (Tone Collage after Philip K. Dick)as part of the 2008 Seoul International Festival of Computer Music.

November 7, 2008

Escondido Municipal Gallery, Escondido

Ross Karre performs the Synchronism Project (William Brent, Ross Karre, and Jeff Treviño)'s Popol Vuh for percussion and integrated video at "Vent Your Mind," the inaugural event of the Escondido Municipal Art Gallery's monthly experimental film/video screening night.

October 25, 2008

Cinema Goya, Valencia

Sisco Aparici Minguez performs Substitute Judgment, with Ross Karre's integrated video, Metal Catalogue, as part of a concert by the WAVE Percussion Group, also with pieces by composers Michael Gordon, José Minguillon, Enrique Sanz Burguete, Voro García, Joao Pedro Oliveira, and Brian Ferneyhough.

September 27, 2008

Carlsbad Library's Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium, Carlsbad

Red Fish Blue Fish, UCSD's resident percussion ensemble, performs a program that includes Steve Reich's Marimba Phase, John Cage's Third Construction in Metal, James Tenney's ...having never written a note for percussion..., John Luther Adams' dust into dust, David Lang's unchained melody, the Synchronism Project (William Brent, Ross Karre, and Jeffrey Treviño)'s Popol Vuh (world premiere), and Marianthi Papalexandri-alexandri's kein thema as part of the Carlsbad Music Festival.

September 19, 2008

Herbert Zipper Concert Hall, Los Angeles

Mini-marathon concert featuring the Calder Quartet, Red Fish Blue Fish, and Build performing music by young and emerging composers: NY-based Tristan Perich, 2007 Competition-winner Christine Southworth, Matt McBane, and UCSD-based Jeffrey Treviño and Marianthi Papalexandri-alexandri. Also featuring music by John Cage, Steve Reich, and David Lang. Detailed program to be announced at the Carlsbad Music Festival site.

Sept 7 to Oct 19, 2008

Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York City

Gallery Exhibition featuring looped slide projection and looped 16 mm film by Raha Raissnia with electronic sound by Charles Curtis and Jeffrey Treviño.

July 12, 2008

Conservotorio Regional, Vila Real

Percussionist Sisco Aparici Minguez performs Substitute Judgment for solo multi-percussion with Ross Karre's integrated video, Metal Catalogue as part of the conservatory's summer percussion festival.

July 5, 2008

Poto, Grass Valley

Performance of Trailer for Ubik (Sound Collage after Philip K. Dick) for television, spotlight, and five speakers.

June 13, 2008

Unnameable Books, Brooklyn

Performances of Trailer for Ubik (Sound Collage after Philip K. Dick) for loudspeaker and synchronized spotlight and Christian Wolff in Cambridge by Morton Feldman.

June 2, 2008

Baird Recital Hall, Buffalo

The U.S. Premiere of Trailer for Ubik (Sound Collage after Philip K. Dick) for loudspeaker and synchronized spotlight at the 2008 June in Buffalo Festival of Contemporary Music.

May 13, 2008

Freiburg Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg

Percussionsts Johannes Fischer and Domenico Melchiorre premiere Perfection Factory for two percussionists.

March 30, 2008

Yale School of Music, New Haven

Lecture presentation of work including UBIK (Sound Collage after Philip K. Dick) and Perfection Factory.

March 25, 2008

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

Celesta performance with UCSD's percussion ensemble, red fish blue fish, directed by Steve Schick, in Alberto Ginastera's Cantata para América Mágica (op. 27, 1960). Part of a concert also featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic Contemporary Music Ensemble and pianist Ursula Oppens in the LA Phil's Green Umbrella contemporary music series.

December 15, 2007

Chapman University, Chapman

Ross Karre performs Substitute Judgment + Metal Catalogue at the Chapman Conservatory Percussion Symposium.

December 14, 2007

Northwestern University, Chicago

James Ilgenfritz, III performs Mexican Apple Soda Paraphrase (Consumer Affect Simulation I.1) at the 2007 Conference of the International Society for Improvised Music.

November 26 - 28, 2007

The Mexican Center for Music and the Sonic Arts, Morelia

Lecture presentation, Smart Electronics for Stupid Music: Technological Complication and Aesthetic Simplicity in the Music of Jeffrey Treviño, as well as a performance of Trailer for UBIK (Sound Collage after Philip K. Dick) at the 2007 Visiones Sonoras international festival of electronic music.

November 21, 2007

Mandeville Recital Hall, La Jolla

Trailer for UBIK (Sound Collage after Philip K. Dick) premieres as part of the UCSD Graduate Students Forum.

November 10, 2007

Seoul Arts Center's Jayu Theatre, Seoul

Ross Karre performs Substitute Judgment + Metal Catalogue as part of the 2007 Seoul International Festival of Computer Music.

November 5, 2007

Hanyang University Department of Music, Seoul

Lecture presentation, Smart Electronics for Stupid Music: Technological Complication and Aesthetic Simplicity in the Music of Jeffrey Treviño, for Richard Dudas' History and Recent Trends of Computer Music class.

October 28, 2007

Carlsbad Library's Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium, Carlsbad

Ross Karre performs Substitute Judgment + Metal Catalogue in a recital of solo percussion music.

October 7, 2007

Roulette, New York City

James Ilgenfritz, III performs Mexican Apple Paraphrase (Consumer Affect Simulation I.1) and Binary Experiment for James Tenney in a concert of solo contrabass music, duos with trombonist Sarah Weaver, and soundpaintings with Sarah Weaver's soundpainting ensemble, Weave.

September 13, 2007

Towson University, Towson

James Ilgenfritz, III performs Mexican Apple Paraphrase (Consumer Affect Simulation I.1) and Binary Experiment for James Tenney in a recital of solo contrabass music.

September 12, 2007

Youngstown, Ohio

James Ilgenfritz, III performs Mexican Apple Paraphrase (Consumer Affect Simulation I.1) and Binary Experiment for James Tenney in a recital of solo contrabass music.

September 11, 2007

Cafe Bourbon, Columbus

James Ilgenfritz, III performs Mexican Apple Paraphrase (Consumer Affect Simulation I.1) and Binary Experiment for James Tenney in a recital of solo contrabass music.

September 8, 2007

Bohemian National Home, Detroit

James Ilgenfritz, III performs Mexican Apple Paraphrase (Consumer Affect Simulation I.1) and Binary Experiment for James Tenney in a recital of solo contrabass music.

September 7, 2007

Canterbury House, Ann Arbor

James Ilgenfritz, III performs Mexican Apple Paraphrase (Consumer Affect Simulation I.1) and Binary Experiment for James Tenney in a recital of solo contrabass music.

September 4, 2007

The Hilton Springfield, Illinois

James Ilgenfritz, III performs Mexican Apple Paraphrase (Consumer Affect Simulation I.1) and Binary Experiment for James Tenney in a recital of solo contrabass music.

September 1, 2007

Hotcakes Gallery, Milwaukee

James Ilgenfritz, III performs Mexican Apple Paraphrase (Consumer Affect Simulation I.1) and Binary Experiment for James Tenney in a recital of solo contrabass music.

August 30, 2007

Isabella's, Dubuque

James Ilgenfritz, III performs Mexican Apple Paraphrase (Consumer Affect Simulation I.1) and Binary Experiment for James Tenney in a recital of solo contrabass music.

August 18, 2007

Solitude Castle, Stuttgart

Members of the Ensemble SurPlus premiere Forty-Two Statcoulombs for string quartet.

August 5–9, 2007

Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, La Jolla

Ross Karre performs Substiute Judgment + Metal Catalogue as part of the 2007 International Conference of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH 2007).

June 8, 2007

New York University's Stern School of Business, New York City

Paper presentation with Michael Gurevich, Expression and Its Discontents: Towards an Ecology of Musical Creation, at the 2007 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression.

May 19, 2007

warren lecture hall recording studio a, la jolla

Performance of Christian Wolff's I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (1985, text by Susan Griffin) with Adrian Coburn (voice), Carolyn Chen (celesta), and James Ilgenfritz, III (contrabass) as part of Etcetera: A Festival of New Music by Graduate Students at the University of Califoria, San Diego.

May 12, 2007

warren lecture hall recording studio a, la jolla

Performance of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians with graduate students and faculty from the graduate program in music at the University of California, San Diego as part of Etcetera: A Festival of New Music by Graduate Students at the University of Califora, San Diego.

May 11, 2007

warren lecture hall recording studio a, la jolla

Performance of Cristyn Magnus's Combat Music vs. Cristyn Magnus as part of Etcetera: A Festival of New Music by Graduate Students at the University of Califora, San Diego.

May 10, 2007

the kava lounge, san diego

Performance of Derek Keller's Impositions and Consequences (2005-2006), Flight and Revelation (2006), and Attitudes...Self Reflection...Assumptions Shattered (2002-2003) in celebration of his new CD on John Zorn's record label, Tzadik.

April 19–21, 2007

stanford university's cambell recital hall, palo alto

Performance of an improvisation based on Henry Cowell's famous solo piano piece, The Banshee, and a paper presentation about ontologies of musical notation, Eliminating Performance Practice, as part of the Stanford Department of Music's Performance Practice Symposium, Reactions to the Record.