I just came from the Studio Z Tuesday Salon, a really cool little venue for composers and performers, and I highly recommend checking it out if you haven’t already. It’s a joint endeavor through the new music ensemble, Zeitgeist, and the American Composers Forum. Tonight listeners enjoyed the Laurie Anderson-esque imaginations of Jonathan Zorn, a dramatic kind of tango from a larger orchestral work by Julie Stenberg Zeidel, an experiment in extending the scope of sounds available to a single bass drum by Brian Heller, and a collage of a march featuring quotations from Stravinsky’s ballets by Bill Kempe.
The next salon is on 21 May, it’ll take place at the the usual location in downtown St. Paul, and it’s free and open to the public.
On another note, Sarah says she’s ready to send me my photos from the shoot we did. I can’t wait to see them and post them and incorporate them into the design of this site!
Lastly, I’m nearly finished with the second movement of the Duo for Percussion I’m writing for Sean Kleve and Jennifer Hedstrom. I hope to get that all engraved and sent to them soon so I can begin work on the third and final movement.
Actually, I thought of something else just now… so, this is my last point. (On a side note of side notes, the original title of this post was simply Studio Z Salon. It’s now what you see above because of a certain freneticism.)
Now, where was I?
Oh yes… last weekend I met with some old college friends from Winona State, and we discussed a little project we’ve had in mind for some time. (I’ve listed the music I’ll be writing for this project as Shorties in my works list.) It’s a really cool little idea where I’ll be writing four to five little movements for two violins, viola, and piano, and during the performance of each of the little works a bit of performance art will happen over some tiny food stuffs in a coffee shop located in some town. (Is that vague enough? I don’t want to give too much away too early.) Anyway, it’ll feature the machinations–so to speak–of artist Matt Semke, who is also quite a brewer of beer, too.