First of all, hats off to Clocks in Motion for a fabulous concert last Friday. All around excellent performances of John Jeffrey Gibbens’s Allhallows, Iannis Xenakis’s Persephassa, and my own Percussion Duo. The Well-Tempered Ear described the duo’s second movement in particular as “hauntingly beautiful” and admired the “kaleidoscopic shift[s] in color” throughout.
Monday night Sean Kleve, Jennifer Hedstrom, and I recorded the duo at Audio for the Arts with Steve Gotcher as our engineer. We still need to work through the edits, but once that’s completed, I can’t wait to share with you the recording on SoundCloud.
I had a chance to re-visit with some old friends. I spent time meeting with Brian Grimm, and we had rather composerly talk about process and practice and craft. I also had a chance to meet up with old school chums Chris Walczak and Jerry Hui.
I availed myself the use of the always wonderful Mills Music Library, doing some initial research for a project (a blog? a book?) about the music of Doctor Who. Most of my time was spent reading about Delia Derbyshire, Tristram Cary, and Norman Kay, composers who worked on some of the very earliest episodes of the now 50-year-old television show.
Lots of new work also came out of my visit: a song for Jerry Hui and sonata for piano and clarinet for Rosemary Jones. These, in addition to my commission from Pittsburgh’s Incidental Music Players means I’ve got my work cut out for me indeed.
Lastly, I’ve added a new page called simply “Gallery,” which I’m going to use to chronologize my goings-on in a picture format. Nothing special in the way of photography, just iPhone stills, but hopefully a neat new addition to the site nonetheless.