I have a few new albums recently released. All three were actually recorded a while ago, one in 2016 and two in 2017, but have only finally made their way into the public.
The first Istanbul Woodwind Festival was held this year 2016 from 29 June – 3 July, and Shadanga Duo had the pleasure of performing.
I’ve just gotten done playing a couple dates in Amsterdam and Antwerp with the multiple-award-winning actress and singer Idina Menzel on her World Tour.
In 2012, flutist Katalin Szanyi and I were brought together to perform the duo Oshun Olodí by Louis Aguirre, a Cuban composer living in Denmark.
megalodon/na is a project that’s been developing over the past year with Austrian vocal artist Magdalena Hahnkamper (Pfefferminz Anymalia). It’s hard to classify exactly, but it’s an avant-garde combination of elements of jazz, Viennese lieder, free improvisation, spoken-word, poetry, German cabaret, theater, performance art, and multimedia. In February we won the Lyrik Live audience competition from the Austrian Ö1 radio with our piece, a video called “friedrich/das erdrückende”.
In the beginning of the summer I recorded for the soundtrack of a short animation, “Beren op de Weg”, the graduation project of Nadia Meezen from the Willem de Kooning Academie in Delft. The music is by Bas Bouma, one of the organizers of the Pale Blue Dot project I worked on in 2014 and have since done other work with. The music features the clarinet quite prominently as the solo melody instrument.
Six months after 20 musicians/composers/sound artists met in Nida, Lithuania for the New Music Incubator, we reconvened in Oslo for the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, which was also hosting the Nordic Music Days.
I’ve spent the beginning of April in Lithuania for a project called the New Music Incubator (NMI). The idea of the project is to bring together 20 professional musicians for an intensive collaboration period every day, each day working with a different group of people and with a different theme to produce a piece to perform for the others that evening.
Raaskalbomfukkerz is a Dutch band incorporating electronic music, avant-gardism, hip-hop, politics, spoken word, and theater into a great live performance.
“Wake Up Call” is a piece for bass clarinet and tape by Dr. Robert Ratcliffe. In addition to the fixed tape part, there are other compositional elements available to the performer, such as the ability to structurally rearrange the order of the sections of the piece, add live processing to the bass clarinet, and replace some of the written material with improvisations. Rob approached me at the beginning of 2013 to help him realize these other elements of the composition and make recordings.
megalodon/na is a new performance project with Austrian jazz vocalist/spoken word artist Magdalena Hahnkamper (Pfefferminz Anymalia).