ok, so here it is ... claudia la rocco and i have been collaborating for several years under the banner of animals and giraffes; i'm sure some of you out there have come out to see and hear us. but here is a rare opportunity (for me) to have been commissioned by la rocco to compose some of my map scores based on AND WHAT'S MORE - the final novel in claudia's OLIVIA TRILOGY - a science fiction romp that is difficult to classify and even harder to describe. there's nothing like it in my experience, and i'm a guy who loves to dive into literature. it's been a joy to read and re-read the book and coax these map scores out of that experience (you are looking at an image of PART THREE - there are five parts and a prelude in all). the work is scored for a dream ensemble of voices, movement and live electronics (i'll be conducting and playing some saxophone). if you come to one show of mine this year - PLEASE LET THIS BE THE ONE.
eleanor hullihan, jesse hewit, alex escalante - movement
Aurora Josephson,
Danishta Rivero-castro, alexandra buschman, madalyn merkey,
Kyle Bruckmann - voice
danishta, alexandra, madalyn, kyle, with
Wobbly and
Thomas Dimuzio - live electronics.
Funding for Claudia La Rocco: And What’s More generously provided by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.
Cost: $10 - $15 sliding scale
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
The premiere, at the 2013 Outsound New Music Summit, of Wrack ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (made possible by the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commissioning program).