“Downwind,” an audio piece combining ensemble music with pre-recorded texts, including the autobiography of Baroque trumpet virtuoso Gottfried Reiche, and interviews with female residents of and environmentally abused midwestern town. To be premiered at the Frankfurt Opera in September 1992, followed by a Europe and U.S. tour. Also to be included on the next Ear-Rational Records release.
Production of a tape as part of a musical composition for small ensemble composed of “basic cell structures” of mockingbird melodies arranged in four parts.
Associated project:
A Flashlight, an Orange, and a Tennis Ball
An “event for a sleeping audience” based on the artist’s research in sound recognition in dream sleep. The premiere performance is at New Music America, April 1986.
A sound collage for multi-media performance work described by the artist as “the interpolation of the Bluebeard soiree/opera (Bartok inspired) into a contemporary rendering as a tragic-comedy”.
Associated project:
Bluebeard’s Hassle, or, Hello, I Must Be Going
A performance work in three parts exploring the similarities between the English spoken by Black Americans in the past and present to traditional African languages.
Residency will process time-coded stereo-location sync recordings of the double bass for a music/video work for bass, processed video, and electronic sounds.
Associated project:
The Thundering Scream of the Seraphim’s Delight