2020-2021
- Private Ocean, for Jennifer Torrence, percussion, Oslo, Norway
- How It Sounds from There, Festival für Immaterielle Kunst, for Winnie Huang, violin & movement, Hamburg
- Southern v. Northern Lion (arr.) for Gloria Cheng, piano, Piano Spheres, Los Angeles, CA
- Absence of reliable ghosts, for loadbang, New York City
- CURB, assemblages for website for a book of poetry by Divya Victor
- Double Spaces, for Diagenesis Duo, Los Angeles/Suzhou
2020
12/12/20: loadbang premieres Absence of reliable ghosts with poetry by Divya Victor, Norwegian Seamen’s Church, New York City.
12/1/20: Gloria Cheng performs Northern v. Southern Lion for piano, Piano Spheres, Los Angeles.
12/4/20: Lena Vidulich performs My Loves Are in America with earspace, Raleigh, NC.
10/11/20: Conversation with andPlay (livestream).
10/5/20: andPlay performs My Loves Are in America at Tufts University, Medford, MA.
10/1/20: andPlay performs My Loves Are in America at Haverford College, Philadelphia, livestreamed from Mise-En_Place, Brooklyn, NY.
10/1/20: Interviewed on MATA@Home.
9/29/20: Winnie Huang premieres How It Sounds from There for speaking violinist on Festival für Immaterielle Kunst, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
9/26/20: Mark Menzies performs Regarding chickens, death, on ⟝4 : 7⟞ at Lilburn House, Wellington, New Zealand.
9/6/20: Ensemble Voix Nouvelles performs cut up sleep red stars round me at Fondation Royaumont, France.
7/29/20: Peridot Duo performs fly blue between light for Women of Color in the Arts on livestream.
7/12/20: Neil Beckman performs Mom and Dad Are Not at Home for guitar on Nief-Norf 10th Anniversary Virtual Marathon Concert (livestream).
Postponed 5/4/20: Tragedy, Stomachs of Ravens, Our Glass Bodies, How to Assemble a, and Signs of Struggle, performed by Jess Aszodi, Jessie Marino, Jennifer Torrence, Johnny Chang, Berglind Tomasdottir, Neo Huelcker, Carolyn Chen at silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin.
5/1/20: Introducing [mixing bowl] performed by Veronika Fuechtner and Carolyn Chen at the American Academy in Berlin, livestreamed on appreciationofmusic with music by Peter Zunmo and Kieran Daly.
Postponed 4/20/20: OSSIA New Music performs Oceans in Oceans for chamber orchestra at Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY
Postponed 4/18/20: How to Fight with Jennifer Torrence, Tragedy and Signs of Struggle with Jessie Marino and Jess Aszodi on Worst Behavior, KM28, Berlin.
4/16/20: Christopher Clarino performs What we swallow turns around and Tragedy with Jonathan Nussman on Springfest, Warren Music Center, La Jolla, CA.
3/12/20: Talk on recent music at American Academy in Berlin
3/11/20: Aurora Borealis performs The Mussels for voice and percussion at Fredonia University, NY.
3/4, 6, 7/20: Batya MacAdam-Somer performs Some Dragons, Leslie Leytham performs And with what body do they come? at WORKING TITLE, St James-by-the-sea Episcopal Church, La Jolla, CA.
3/2/20: Whether the fish for clarinet and percussion performed by Red Desert on The Future Music, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT. Reviewed by Connor Lockie in 15 bytes.
2/27/20: Whether the fish for clarinet and percussion premiered by Red Desert on Casper College Creative Music Series, Casper, WY.
2/22/20: Keir GoGwilt performs from Study on Westhoff on TIME BEING at The Momentary, Bentonville, AR.
2/21/20: Adagio performed by Andy Ingamells and Kathryn Williams at Kinetic Manchester, UK.
2/2/20: Aurora Borealis performs The Mussels for voice and percussion at Baird Recital Hall, SUNY Buffalo.
2/2/20: Aperture Duo performs My Loves Are in America at Bessie Bartlett Frankel Chamber Music Festival at Scripps College, Claremont, CA.
1/27/20: Ensemble Connect directed by Lisenka Heijboer performs Tragedy: Love Duet for two bodies and patterns of dark and light, Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York.
1/21/20: Bent Frequency performs Made in California, Made in China at Kopleff Hall, Georgia State University.
1/20-5/22/20: In residence at the American Academy in Berlin.
1/20/20: andPlay premieres My Loves Are in America at The Crypt of Church of the Intercession in NYC.
1/9/20: Aperture Duo premieres My Loves Are in America at Art Share LA, presented by Equal Sound.
2019
12/23/19: This Is a Scream published in Leonardo Music Journal, Volume 29 – December 2019, p.100-103.
12/20/19: I perform This Is a Scream at A winter wasteLAnd, Art Share, Los Angeles.
12/17/19: Christine Tavolacci and Koan Quartet perform breathe out clouds, How to assemble a, Other forests and Momentum (to a poem by Heather Gordon) on Tuesdays @ Monk Space, Los Angeles.
10/18/19: a per i o dic performs Declaration at Elastic Arts, Chicago.
10/17/19: Autoduplicity premieres Good Work for 2 people, presented by Synchromy at Boston Court, Pasadena, CA.
10/6/19: Keir GoGwilt performs Regarding chickens and Study on Westhoff in installation by Audrey Hope at UCSD Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater, La Jolla, CA.
10/5/19: Keir GoGwilt performs Regarding chickens and Study on Westhoff in installation by Audrey Hope at UCSD Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater, La Jolla, CA.
9/13/19: Michael Matsuno and Cameron O’Connor premiere Whether the Fish are Friendly at Art Share LA.
8/29/19: Michael Matsuno and Cameron O’Connor premiere Whether the Fish are Friendly at Unitarian Universalist Church of Hillcrest, San Diego.
7/27/19: Caitlin Cawley premieres Introducing (object) at Spectrum, Brooklyn, NY.
7/14/19: SWELL ensemble premieres Speaking of Water on SWELL at HERE Arts Center, New York.
7/13/19: SWELL ensemble premieres Speaking of Water on SWELL at HERE Arts Center, New York.
7/11/19: Michiko Ogawa performs Hand Catching Flour at KM28, Berlin.
6/21/19: Dog Star Ensemble premiers Non-stick Properties at Sweet Pan on the Mountain, Mt. Washington home on Dog Star Festival, Los Angeles.
6/19/19: Longy’s Divergent Studio performs fly blue between light at Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA.
6/15/19: A Cylinder on Infinite Curvilinear Surface, collaboration with Laura Steenberge and Argenta Walther, on “The Extended Circle,” Dog Star Festival, Southwest Museum Tunnel, Los Angeles.
5/25/19: Kathie Hsieh and ensemble perform Made in California, Made in China, University of Oregon.
5/19/19: Kathie Hsieh and ensemble perform Made in California, Made in China, University of Oregon.
5/19/19: C3LA performs Persimmons at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, Los Angeles.
5/18/19: C3LA performs Persimmons at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.
4/26/19: Peridot Duo performs fly blue between light, Gallery 263, Boston.
4/13/19: MATA Festival plays The movement of glass through a house, The Kitchen, New York City.
4/10/19: T.J. Borden performs rara avis at Mizzou New Music, Fine Arts Building, Columbia, MO.
3/28/19: William Raynovich performs rara avis at Impromptu Festival, Chicago.
3/17/19: Keir GoGwilt performs Study on Westhoff and Regarding chickens, death at Actual Size Gallery, Los Angeles.
3/10/19: Keir GoGwilt performs Study on Westhoff and Regarding chickens, death at Actual Size Gallery, Los Angeles.
3/9/19: Brianna Tagliaferro performs Clothing at Boston Conservatory.
2/15/19: Pianist Jared Redmond premieres tearing at Center for New Music, San Francisco.
2/11/19: Michiko Ogawa performs Hand Catching Flour to film by Lyndsay Bloom, Conrad Prebys Music Center, San Diego.
1/31/19: Screening of Golden by Annie Albagli, Cintia Santana, Minoosh Zomorodinia at Garage Door Gallery, Incline Village, Nevada.
1/28/19: Andrea Lodge performs glass umbrella at Arete Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
1/26/19: HEX Ensemble performs Persimmons at First Lutheran Church of Venice, CA.
1/19/19: Carolyn Chen performs This Is a Scream on Indexical‘s Language as Wilderness series at Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz.
1/17/19: Hillary Jean Young performs Persimmons for voice at Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
1/18/19: Continuum Ensemble performs ache bind blind break for septet at Mazzoleni Hall, The Royal Conservatory, Toronto.
2018
1/8/18: DieOrdnungDerDinge performs Adagio for faces on “If You Know What I Mean” at Festival Transparent Sounds (Átlátszó Hang) in Budapest.1/11/18: I/O Ensemble performs Relationships with Gravity at CenterStage on I/O Fest, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
1/13/18: Mélange premieres Cut white at the .
1/19/18: I perform This Is a Scream at Battery Books, Pasadena, CA.
1/19/18: Noise Bias performs Adagio for faces on Fewer Dahlias: Shuffle for Women at Ravenswood Fellowship United Methodist Church, Chicago.
1/20/18: Members of the Boston Conservatory’s Contemporary Classical Music program perform The Mussels at The Boston Conservatory – Ipswich Building.
2/8/18: DieOrdnungDerDinge performs Adagio for faces on “If You Know What I Mean” at Gare du Nord, Basel.
2/15/18: Guqin concert featuring Fine-feathered friends, Begin Again, and Circling – at the Chip Davis Technology Studio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute.
2/16/18: Tiffany Ng premieres Southern vs. Northern Lion for carillon on the Central Campus carillon, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2/26-2/27/18: Sound & Participation conference, Brussels
3/2/18: a.pe.ri.od.ic performs Declaration at Elastic Arts Foundation, Chicago.
3/11/18: Tiffany Ng performs Southern vs. Northern Lion and glass umbrella at National Carillon, Lake Burley Griffin, Australia.
3/23/18: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players premiere Cold mountains, one belt, heart break green.
3/27/18: Experimental Music in Practice, led by Alice Teyssier, perform Declaration with Alison Knowles and Pauline Oliveros at the Avery Fisher Center @ Bobst Library.
4/4/18: Miquel Vich Vila and ensemble perform Adagio on festival détours de babel at Salle Messiaen – Grenoble, France.
4/5/18: The woods are miles to sleep to sleep highly commended by Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2018.
4/10/18: Interview on site-specific composition with composer Hans Roel, Brussels.
4/12/18: Salisbury University Percussion Ensemble premieres Good work, Salisbury, MD.
4/16/18: Luis Tabuenca performs The Sport of Cooking at Cairo Opera House, Cairo Contemporary Music Days, Egypt.
4/27/18: Fine-feathered Friends with Berglind Tomasdottir, featuring Stomachs of Ravens and other music for guqin and flute, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik.
4/27/18: COWs Concert Series with Berglind Tomasdottir, featuring Declaration, In 1839…, Fine-feathered Friends, Stomachs of Ravens, and This is a Scream at Mengi, Reykjavik.
4/29/18: Tiffany Ng performs glass umbrella at Yale Memorial Carillon, New Haven, CT.
5/13/18: Unheard-of/Ensemble performs Sentence on Applause New Music Festival, Mansfield, TX.
5/18/18: NOISE BRIDGE and Bugallo-Williams Duo perform The Mussels for quartet at GEDOK-Galerie, Stuttgart.
5/18/18: C3LA performs Declaration at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.
5/19/18: C3LA performs Declaration at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, Los Angeles.
6/5/18: Body Music (featuring Good Work, In 1838…, and Signs of Struggle) on Dog Star Festival with Ian Power, Liam Mooney and Erika Bell, Automata, Los Angeles.
6/15-6/24/18: Teaching as a Guest Composer at nief-norf Summer Festival, Knoxville, TN.
6/16/18: I perform Fine-feathered Friends and The woods are miles and miles to sleep for guqin and media, Powell Recital Hall, Knoxville.
6/16/18: I perform This is a Scream for voice, Powell Recital Hall, Knoxville.
6/19/18: Gordon Fry, Kathie Hsieh, Riley Leitch, James Meade, Kevin O’Connor, and I perform Some of Us are Agreeable People for field recordings and people, Powell Recital Hall, Knoxville.
6/20/18: Jonathan Tang, Kathie Hsieh, Georgia Mills, and I perform Relationships with Gravity, for quartet and video, Powell Recital Hall, Knoxville.
6/24/18: Alexandria Porter performs Drown (for Allie), Powell Recital Hall, Knoxville.
7/3/18: Batya MacAdam-Somer premieres Some Dragons at Hastings Art Center, Hastings, MN.
7/6/18: I perform Some dragons and Confession at Battery Books, Pasadena, CA.
7/10/18: Batya MacAdam-Somer performs Some Dragons at United-Unitarian Church of Door County, Wisconsin.
9/29-9/30/18: Human windchimes at Y-E-S Fest, Agora, Berlin.
10/2/18: Tiffany Ng performs Southern v. Northern Lion for carillon at Burton Memorial Tower, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 58th Annual Organ Conference.
10/9/18: LA Phil New Music Group premieres The Sleeper and the Drinker, flute concerto for Denis Bouriakov, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles.
10/14/18: a.pe.ri.o.dic performs In 1839 it was considered elegant to take a tortoise out walking on Frequency Series, Constellation, Chicago, IL.
11/6/18: Mélange premieres cut white at Mars Hill University, NC.
11/9/18: Mélange performs cut white at Keene State College, NH.
11/14/18: Batya Macadam-Somer performs Some Dragons for violin at San Diego New Music, The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA.
11/9/18: Neil Beckmann premieres Mom and Dad Are Not at Home for guitar at Spectrum, New York City.
11/18/18: Neil Beckmann performs Mom and Dad Are Not at Home for guitar on Cincinnati Soundbox, 21c Museum Hotel, Cincinnati, OH.
11/29/18: Ghent Advanced Masters Ensemble premieres a new arrangement of Our Glass Bodies for sextet, PostX, Ghent.
12/14/18: HEX Ensemble performs Persimmons for vocal sextet, Monk Space, Los Angeles.
2017
1/20/17: Begin again (talk with parrots), for field recording and guqin, is included on Notes from Sub-Underground, a compilation in protest of Inauguration Day organized by Kara Feely and Travis Just – all proceeds go to the ACLU.
1/24-1/30/17: co-incidence residency at Washington Street Gallery, Somerville, MA
1/27/17: Once Far, Now Hear – solo sets by guest artists, including This is a scream.
1/29/17: From Sunrise until Completion – new works performed by co-incidence ensemble, including In 1839 it was considered elegant to take a tortoise out walking.
2/5/17: Christine Tavolacci premieres breathe out clouds for bass flute and singing at Automata, Los Angeles.
2/6/17: Mark Menzies performs Regarding chickens, death as part of 4:7 at REDCAT, Los Angeles.
2/10/17: Klangforum Wien, conducted by Enno Poppe, premieres We were dead and we could breathe at impuls festival in Graz, Austria.
2/14/17: Mocrep performs Human Windchimes at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Frequency Festival.
2/24/17: The Mussels for Wild Rumpus, inspired by Divya Victor’s The Mussels, at First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco.
3/21/17: Supermarket Music with Berglind Tómasdóttir at Bonus, Reykjavik.
3/23/17: Berglind Tómasdóttir performs Britney Whitney Clark Kent Is Not a Disguise at Brunel University, London.
4/6/17: Keir GoGwilt premieres Study on Westhoff Suite No.5 for violin, Conrad Prebys Music Center, San Diego.
4/7/17: Caleb Herron performs What We Swallow Turns Around at Midtown Players Club on SoundNOW Festival, Atlanta.
4/14/17: Hilary Young performs Persimmons on XX Concert @ Springfest, Conrad Prebys Music Center, San Diego.
4/15/17: Equilibrium Ensemble performs Made in China, Made in California at New School of Music, Cambridge, MA.
4/19/17: On Structure performs Tragedy at Experimental Theater, Conrad Prebys Music Center, San Diego.
4/29/17: Signs of Struggle with Happy Valley Band presented by Experimental Music Yearbook at Human Resources, Los Angeles, reviewed by Paul Muller.
5/28/17: The 24: Practicing Slow and In 1839 it was considered elegant to take a tortoise walking at Qubit’s Sound Space Simulation at The Dimenna Center for Classical Music, New York City.
6/3/17: Declaration for untrained singers, commissioned and premiered by the Dogstar Orchestra at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles.
6/7/17: NOISE BIAS performs This Is a Scream with works by Kelley Sheehan, Pamela Z, Emily Koh, Judy Jackson at Slate Arts, Chicago.
6/17/17: Andy Bliss, Stephen Downing, Alexandrea Richard, Kevin Zetina, Kays Ishaq, and Jon Clancy premiere Hamlet for 6 percussionists at Nief-Norf Festival in Knoxville, TN.
6/21/17: Sarah Compton, Erin Snedecor, David Floyd, and Daniel Schreiner perform Sentence for quartet at Nief-Norf Festival in Knoxville, TN.
6/24/17: DieOrdnungDerDinge performs Adagio on If You Know What I Mean, Kontraklang at Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin.
7/8/17: Tiffany Ng performs glass umbrella at Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten.
7/14/17: The Syndicate for New Arts performs a new quintet arrangement of Our Glass Bodies on It Looks Like It’s Open: The Syndicate at It Looks Like It’s Open with Shred van Winkle, Columbus, OH.
7/15/17: The Syndicate for New Arts performs Our Glass Bodies in Pittsburgh at The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination: NAT 28 + The Syndicate for the New Arts
7/16/17: The Syndicate for New Arts performs Our Glass Bodies in Cleveland at St. John’s Ohio City: The Syndicate at St. John’s Ohio City
7/16/17: Tiffany Ng performs glass umbrella at Collégiale St-Vincent, Soignies, Belgium.
7/18/17: The Syndicate for New Arts performs Our Glass Bodies in Cincinnati at Chase Public: The Syndicate for the New Arts & Brianna Matzke + Annie Gordon
7/19/17: The Syndicate for New Arts performs Our Glass Bodies in Chicago at Slate Arts and Performance: SMP: The Syndicate for the New Arts + Noise Bias
7/20/17: The Syndicate for New Arts performs Our Glass Bodies in Kalamazoo at First Congreagational Church: The Syndicate at First Congregational UCC Kalamazoo
7/20/17: This is a scream with Kyle Johnson’s I’m not really much of a talker on the wulf @ Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles.
7/22/17: The Syndicate for New Arts performs Our Glass Bodies in Buffalo at Daily Planet Coffee Co. Inc.: Sotte Voce Collective x The Syndicate for the New Arts
7/22/17: Tiffany Ng performs glass umbrella at De Lebuïnustoren, Deventer, the Netherlands.
7/28/17: Tiffany Ng performs glass umbrella at Sint-Quintinuskathedraal, Hasselt, Belgium.
7/31/17: Tiffany Ng performs glass umbrella at Sint-Niklaaskerk, Neerpelt, Belgium.
8/4/17: Guqin performance – From Ditan, Fine-feathered Friends, Puan zhou – on Underwolf at the Outhaus, Los Angeles.
8/5/17: Tiffany Ng performs glass umbrella at Centralia Carillon, Centralia, IL.
8/16/17: NOISE BIAS performs This Is a Scream at Slate Arts, Chicago.
9/14/17: Rachel Beetz plays pipe for solo flute at Palomar College Concert Hour, San Marcos, CA.
9/23/17: Guqin peformance with turntablist Ignaz Schick at Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA.
10/14/17: Symphony No.1 premieres Animalcules at the War Memorial, Baltimore.
10/15/17: Symphony No.1 premieres Animalcules at the War Memorial, Baltimore.
10/15/17: Body Music with Ian Power – including Signs of Struggle, This Is a Scream, In 1839 it was considered elegant to take a tortoise out walking, and The 24 – at EMP, Baltimore.
10/30/17: Curatorium (Copenhagen) presents As from the body if exhaled the sprite.
11/3/17: Salisbury Percussion Ensemble performs Hamlet, for percussion sextet.
11/12/17: Berglind Tómasdóttir performs Britney Whitney Clark Kent Is Not a Disguise at Tónlistarhúsið Laugarborg, Akureyri, Iceland.
2016
12/8/16: Jetpack Bellerive presents Adagio on Problems at harpe 45 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
12/3/16: Guqin performance at SASSAS Soundspark series, Children’s Theatre West Hollywood Library 625 North San Vicente Boulevard West Hollywood, CA 90069.
11/30/16: The woods are miles to sleep to sleep on Travelling Tunes // Travelling Sounds, New Music Conflagration, virtual concert.
11/29/16: “Recent music: glass and struggle,” Focus on Composition, UC San Diego.
11/29/16: Guqin guest lecture, Music of Asia and Oceania, UC San Diego.
11/28/16: Ensemble Maulwerker performs Adagio at LABOR SONOR SPEZIAL, curated by Joanna Bailie, presented by in cooperation with the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Kunsthaus KuLe, Auguststr. 10, 10117 Berlin.
11/20/16: Our Glass Bodies premiered by Curious Chamber Players, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik Festival, Austria.
11/17/16: DieOrdnungDerDinge performs Adagio on If You Know What I Mean, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain.
11/13/16: Experimental Music Yearbook performs Adagio at Whistle Stop Bar, San Diego.
11/12/16: Experimental Music Yearbook performs Adagio at Radius Gallery, Indexical series, Santa Cruz.
11/11/16: Experimental Music Yearbook performs Adagio, for faces listening to Bruckner, at Betalevel, Los Angeles, with music by Jessie Marino, Natacha Diels, Stephanie Smith, and Ulrich Krieger.
11/6/16: Mocrep performs Clothing at BOP STOP at the Music Settlement, Cleveland, with Pamplemousse.
11/5/16: Keir GoGwilt performs Regarding Chickens, death, for violinist and imaginary chickens, Experimental Theater, San Diego.
11/4/16: Hillary Jean Frank performs Persimmons for voice, and How to Assemble a, for 6-7 voices at Che Cafe, San Diego.
10/28/16: Relationships with Gravity, Confusion of Stars, Walk for 3n legs, and Fine-Feathered Friends, new video-flute-guqin collaboration with Berglind Tómasdottir on CYCLE Festival of Music and Art, Salurinn, Kopavogur 9 p.m.
10/28/16: CYCLE presents Supermarket Music, Bónus Nýbýlavegi, Kópavogur, 4 p.m.
10/25-10/26/16: Workshop on text pieces and music for social spaces at CYCLE Festival, Kópavogur, Iceland.
10/14/16: Alexa Renger performs Regarding chickens, death – the wulf at Betalevel, Los Angeles.
9/14-10/12/16: Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, California.
8/12/16: The 24: Practicing Slow, on Music in the Expanded Field, Bessunger Knabenschule, Darmstadt Summer Course, Germany.
8/12/16: Signs of Struggle on Call: Percussion music at Edith-Stein Schule, Darmstadt Summer Course, Germany.
8/5/16: Imaginary Chickens & Friends, including Tragedy, Adagio, Circling, and Regarding chickens, death – featuring Keir GoGwilt, Celeste Oram, Viola Yip, Natacha Diels, Zach Moore – and improvisations by Katie Young, Zach Goode, Jenna Lyle at Open Space 4, Lichtenberg Schule, Darmstadt Summer Course, Germany.
7/27/16: Tiffany Ng performs glass umbrella for carillon at Carillon Grote Kerk Hoorn, Netherlands.
7/23/16: Tiffany Ng performs glass umbrella for carillon at the George Cadbury Memorial Carillon, Bournville, England.
7/16/16: Tiffany Ng performs glass umbrella for carillon at St.-Pieterstoren te Mol – Centrum, Leuven, Belgium.
7/16/16: Alexa Renger performs Regarding chickens, death at FAT CAT, Studio 2 des Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
7/7/16: Tiffany Ng performs glass umbrella for carillon at St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic Church, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
7/6/16: Tiffany Ng performs glass umbrella for carillon at Michigan State University’s Beaumont Tower.
7/3/16: Premiere of How to fight, new work for moving, talking, singing in the light and dark, with Jen Torrence at Eyedrum, Atlanta. Review by Mark Gresham, ArtsATL.
6/21-7/3/16: Hambidge Center residency with percussionist Jen Torrence
6/26/16: Retro Disco, “If They Bite With All Their Might” at Kino Apollo Chur
6/25/16: Retro Disco, “If They Bite With All Their Might” at Alte Krone Biel
6/24/16: Retro Disco performs Adagio on “If They Bite With All Their Might” at Walcheturm Zurich, with music by Jannik Giger, Louis d’Heudieres, Michael Meierhofer, Katharina Rosenberger and David Sonton.
6/6-6/12/16: Sentence. for quartet at Copland House CULTIVATE workshop
5/26/16: DieOrdnungDerDinge performs Adagio on If You Know What I Mean, De Doelen, Rotterdam (as part of Classical:NEXT).
5/21/16: Minds in Translation, with Grace Leslie at the wulf., L.A., featuring Grace’s Vessels, our EEG collaboration Eyes Awake, Circling, From Ditan to Chaoyangmen, and a traditional guqin performance of Remembering an Old Friend.
5/20/16: Amy O’Dell performs glass umbrella on Ladyfest Atlanta, along with works by Olivia Kieffer and Monica Pearce, at The Mammal Gallery.
5/8/16: Retro Disco performs Adagio at Kompakt – Am Kompaktesten, Bundeshaus zu Wiedikon, Zurich.
4/30/16: Adagio presented at WEISSLICH 7, Nexus Arts Café, 2 Dale St., Manchester, M1 1JW.
4/23/16: Adagio presented at WEISSLICH 6, The Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson St., London, E2 8JD.
4/16/16: Leslie Leytham sings And with what body do they come? for mezzo with many cassette players, Springfest @ Bread & Salt, San Diego.
4/15/16: Other Forests for Southland Ensemble, with David Tudor’s Rainforest, at Springfest Experiments in Music, Experimental Theatre, San Diego.
4/7/16: Michael Baldwin writes on Adagio as dérive in Better Know a Weisslich: Carolyn Chen.
4/4-4/29/16: Innovator-in-residence, Innovation@CC, Colorado College, Colorado Springs
4/2/16: Other Forests for Southland Ensemble, with David Tudor’s Rainforest, at Neighborhood Church of Pasadena, presented by PIE. Reviewed by Paul Muller in Sequenza 21, Damjan Rakonjac in The Artificialist.
3/18/16: fly blue between light, by Accordant Commons at Automata, Los Angeles.
3/12, 3/13/16: DerOrdnungDerDinge performs Adagio on “If you know what I mean” at Schauspielhaus Zürich.
3/10/16: fly blue between light, microtonal voice duo, for Accordant Commons at San Diego New Music.
2015
11/24/15: Luis Tabuenca performs The Sport of Cooking at Festival Bernaola, Vitoria, Spain.
11/20/15: Leslie Leytham premieres And with what body do they come? for solo voice with 8 tape recorders at Mengi Gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland.
11/15/15: Oceans in oceans performed by Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra, Paine Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
11/13-11/14/15: Reader’s Chorus at Automata, Los Angeles, including a new version of How to assemble a.
11/13/15: Eric Derr performs Great Birnam Wood at New Music DePaul, Chicago.
10/29/15: Ian Power and Richard Craig perform Pears at The Red Room, Normal’s Books and Records, Baltimore.
10/25/15: Charles Curtis premieres rara avis for cello with works by Christian Wolff, Morton Feldman, Allison Knowles, and Tobias Hume, presented by SASSAS and MAK Center for Art and Architecture at Schindler House, Los Angeles.
10/23/15: Amy O’Dell performs glass umbrella on Bent Frequency’s “Music for a Captive Audience” on the Atlanta Streetcar.
10/6/15: glass umbrella by Tiffany Ng at Burton Memorial Tower – Charles Baird Carillon, U-M Organ Conference, Ann Arbor.
9/26/15: How to assemble a on Text/Grain, by Jessica Aszodi, Katherine Young, Nick Merryhew, Emily Beisel, Eli Namay and friends, at The Musical Offering, Chicago.
9/6/15: Pears and Tragedy, Love Duet, by Mocrep at Constellation, Chicago.
8/21/15: Eyes awake collaboration with Grace Leslie at Soundislands Festival, ADM Auditorium, Singapore.
7/31/15: glass umbrella for toy piano at Find Your Inner Child, by Amy O’Dell at Eyedrum, Atlanta.
7/19-8/3/15: inner lining for viola quintet, commissioned by Composers Conference and Chamber Music Workshops at Wellesley, Houghton Chapel, 7/25, 8/1.
7/5-7/8/15: Residency at at Institute for Provocation in Beijing for guqin, EEG, and electronics project with Amble Skuse and Grace Leslie. Conversations, installation, and concert with field recording, space travel, and meditation, 7/9.
Blog of our entire time in China here: http://rememberedfuturesbeijing.tumblr.com/ including posts on for composing for guqin, videos of us playing in public spaces in Beijing, and on a deserted segment of the Great Wall in Gubeikou.
Guqin on the sidewalk in Beijing.
7/4/15: Explorations of sound and space, improvising on guqin with Lei Luo, Zhe Lainv, Namu, Bamboo Word Room, Baiziwan Road, Shimencun No. 5, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
6/6/15: Tones bequeathed by octopus, with wenliang, thruoutin and three, at fruityshop, 17 Dongsi Toutiao Hutong, Dongcheng district, Beijing.
4/24/15: Grace Leslie performs Eyes Awake, a new collaboration for EEG and solo performer, in Daegu, South Korea.
4/11/15: Eric Derr performs Great Birnam Wood, for marbles/drumset at Begin Anywhere: Chapter 1 – Bowerbird, MAAS Building, Philadelphia.
4/9/15: On Structure performs Tragedy: Love Duet for Clint and Ian at Fresh Sound – Bread & Salt, San Diego.
4/9/15: Made in China, Made in California – Cica (Collaborations in Contemporary Art) presents a concert of Music & Film at W.W. Hootie Johnson Performance Hall, Columbia SC.
3/27/15: New work for Chamber Cartel and a presentation of skies, commissioned by Dr. Erin Wells Bonning, Emory Planetarium, Atlanta, 8 p.m.
3/27/15: Berglind María Tómasdóttir performs Britney Whitney Clark Kent Is Not a Disguise at Iceland International Flute Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland.
3/20/15: Eric Derr performs Great Birnam Wood, for marbles/drumset, at Fresh Sound in San Diego.
3/7/15: Now Hear Ensemble plays Made in China, Made in California at the Silverlake Lounge, 6pm, as part of the Classical Revolution LA Series.
2/24/15: My end is my beginning at Laser Tag Sound Track, an evening of curated experimental soundtracks in a functioning laser tag facility, broadcast live as an unfolding radio narrative at Ultrazone, Los Angeles.
2/18/15: Honored to contribute a postcard to Anke Becker‘s mail-art project, “Fernweh..the good life,” asking for personal definitions of “the good life.”
2/2-28/15: Residency at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City.
1/23/15: Supermarket Music at Econofoods, Northfield, with Trent Elmore, 7 p.m. Planning Meeting 6 p.m. at Weitz Cinema. (Scores: Supermarket Music. Updates on Facebook.)
1/22/15: Music for Supermarket and the Dark – a talk on social context as material, as part of re: composition, an interdisciplinary lecture series sponsored by Music in Weitz Cinema at Carleton College, hosted by Jeffrey Trevino, 8 p.m.
2014
12/17/14: Playing in Public, concert with Berglind Tomasdottir, featuring fictional documentaries about cowgirl caravan concerts in rural Iceland and philosophies of roundness in Hangzhou, China, and electroacoustic music for flute and guqin at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
12/6/14: Ian Power presents Very Long and Very Slow Music for Piano, including excerpts from My Young Life Has an End (variations on variations by Sweelinck), at An die Musik in Baltimore. Works by Mieko Shiomi, Ian Power, Carolyn Chen, Erik Satie, and Alison Knowles.
12/5/14: Great Birnam Wood, for marbles/drumset, for Eric Derr, premiered on the Discovery Series at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music in Montreal. Adagio, for faces listening to Bruckner, and Pears, for two people, performed by Eric Derr and Sandra Joseph.
12/3/14: The character for ant contains the character for justice, on Experimental Music, Theory and Practice at Arts at 29 Garden, with pieces by Nomi Epstein, Christian Wollf, Clara Iannotta, Max Murray, Adi Snir, Chris Swithinbank and Samuel Wolk, led by Michael Pisaro.
11/7/14: Chris Clarino performs Threads, for ASL interpreter strung to chimes at a distance, Experimental Theater, Conrad Prebys Music Center, San Diego.
10/7-10/14: My end is my beginning, Foley sound fantasia, played at Espacio Sonoro, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco, Mexico as part of Muestra Internacional de Música Electroacústica MUSLAB México, 2014.
9/6/14: Excerpts from Hoods, 90-minute opera mashup of Red Riding Hood and Hekabe, performed by Jessica Aszodi, Stephanie Aston, and Natalie Moran, sopranos; Michael Matsuno, flute/bass flute; Sam Dunscombe, clarinet; Nicolee Kuester, French horn; Ryan Nestor, percussion; Judith Hamann, cello; Kyle Motl, contrabass; Stephen Lewis, conductor; recorded by Colin Zyskowski, Studio A, UCSD, 2014.
7/23/14: Oceans in Oceans, for chamber orchestra, premiered at Composers Conference, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
6/21-9/14/14: The woods are miles to sleep to sleep, for guqin and field recording, exhibited as part of The Tortoise and His Raincoat: Music for a Very Long Walk by Nat Evans, in Summer Field Studies at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle.
6/19-22/14: Ensemble DieOrdnungDerDinge performs Adagio, for faces listening to Bruckner, at TAK in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
6/2/14: Just posted The woods are miles to sleep to sleep, for guqin and a recording of the Pacific Crest Trail by Nat Evans, for his The Tortoise and His Raincoat: Music for a Very Long Walk, a 2,600 mile journey and musical collaboration to be released on Quakebasket Records in 2015.
5/29/14: The movement of glass through a house at Conduit Arts in Victoria, Australia, curated by James Rushford.
5/24/14: Made in China, Made in California, for video and ensemble, performed by Chamber Cartel in Atlanta, Georgia.
5/18/14: Ensemble Pamplemousse performs Tragedy: Love Duet at Clemente Solo Velez Cultural Center in New York.
5/11-5/17/14: Hoods, a chamber opera, featuring Jessica Aszodi, Natalie Moran, Stephanie Aston & Stephen Lewis:
- Los Angeles – Sunday, May 11, 7 p.m. – the wulf.
- San Diego – Saturday, May 17, 7 p.m. – Experimental Theatre, Conrad Prebys Music Building, UCSD
5/6/14: Adagio, for faces and Bruckner, at the PODIUM Festival in Esslingen, curated and performed by Iñigo Giner Miranda and ensemble.
4/17/14: Relationships with Gravity, new work for violin, piano, guqin, video, and events commissioned by the MATA Festival at The Kitchen in New York.
4/15/14: A spatialized screening of The movement of glass through a house, at XX, Conrad Prebys Music Center in San Diego.
4/13/14: The 24 – taichi practitioners wearing motion-sensitive oscillators sonify warm-up exercises and the Yang style 24-form sequence – at Birch Aquarium in La Jolla.
3/17/14: Luis Tabuenca performs The Sport of Cooking, for marimba and objects, at University of Arkansas.
2/9/14: Guqin performance with Wooden Fish Ensemble, Old First Concerts, San Francisco.
2013
10/12- 11/2/13: Made in China, Made in California, for video and ensemble, premiered by Now Hear Ensemble as part of their Made in California tour: Mills College, Stanford University, REDCAT-L.A.
8/28/13: Luis Tabuenca premieres The Sport of Cooking, for marimba and objects, at Tempora Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria.
6/15/13: Mountains in Concrete, installation and performance with Anna-Maija Rissanen, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China.
6/12/13: Ensemble This / Ensemble That performs Adagio, for slow-moving faces, Flatterschafft Lokal, Basel, Switzerland.
6/6/13: Nicolee Kuester performs Overtures, a melody, San Diego, CA.
5/13/13: Chris Clarino premieres Threads, for ASL interpreter strung to chimes at a distance and a story on tape, in New York.
2/7/13: Brandon Bell performs What we swallow turns around, for timpano and objects, Houston, TX.
1/11-29/13: The movement of glass through a house, video installation, at Green Box, 天鸿美和院艺术展示中心, 杭州富阳银湖开发区320国道与九龙大道东口 (Hangzhou).
1/12/13: Pieces for Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, with Chen Meifang, Shi Ruizhang, and Shen Ruilan, as part of Elementals of Social Space, led by Bo Zheng.
1/7/13: How to assemble, flarfplay-cantata for 6 voices, was recorded by Nathaniel Flagg, Alex Gibbs, Hana Kucharovicova, Anna-Maija Rissanen, Daniel Rojas Santacruz, and myself, in Hangzhou. [score]
2012
12/14/12: A .giftranslation at Monaddigital.net WebExhibition, “A .gif for you,” curated by Hana Kucharovicova and Monaddigital, China Academy of Art.
12/7/12: At “The Party,” Chamber Cartel performs cut up sleep red stars round me, for ensemble, at Poem 88 in Atlanta, GA, 7-11 p.m.
12/10/12: How to assemble a, flarfplay-cantata for 6 voices, will be included in Psychiana’s upcoming issue on “Invisibility.”
11/10-17/12: Installation and performance: The movement of glass through a house – at Zhuantang Demolition District, Hangzhou, curated by Wang Ziyue.
10/31/12: Performance events: Crossing the bridge and Rocking the boat – at Xixi Wetlands Gardens, Hangzhou, curated by Liu Xiao.
9/15/12: Human Windchimes: The Menil Collection, performed by Brandon Bell, Andy Keller, and Lindsey Pietrek, Houston, TX.
8/26/12: ache bind blind break was premiered by Talea Ensemble at the Harvard Summer Composition Institute, Paine Hall, Cambridge, MA.
7/20/12: Transcription of guqin tuning for supermarket, for solo performer, was selected for Closet Music, a book of imaginary music edited by Janet Oates.
7/14/12: We rerecorded Momentum (a round on a poem by Heather Gordon) for the wulf., with Christine Tavolacci, Jess Basta, Adrian Tenney, and Laura Steenberge – for “rounds,” to be released on the wulf. records.
6/17/12: Persimmons, a round on poetry by Li-Young Lee, to Yvonne Wu, Karl Pilato, and the wulf. community.
3/18-4/13/12: Throw me light, for percussion trio in the dark, was premiered by NorthArc Percussion Group, Strike/ Illuminate tour – Griegakademiet, Bergen, Norway; Capitol, Stockholm, Sweden; Syddansk Musikkonservatorium, Odense, Denmark; Musikkonservatoriet i Tromsø, Norway; Bodø Kulturhus, Norway; Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
2/24/12: Britney Whitney Clark Kent Is Not A Disguise, dance dance concerto for flute and orchestra on tape – premiered by Berglind Thomasdottir, CPMC Experimental Theater, La Jolla, CA.
2011
11/4/11: New Music for Percussion – a video of percussionist Dustin Donahue and new works by Paul Hembree, Andrew Allen, and myself.
10/25/11: Human Windchimes: Staircases of Doom – Kelli Moore, Jasmine Wang, Brian Griffeath-Loeb, Grace Leslie, and myself – “y53K,” curated by Eliza Slavet, ARTifact Gallery, Sixth College, UCSD.
10/21/11: What we swallow turns around, for timpano – premiered by Dustin Donahue, CPMC Experimental Theater, La Jolla, CA
9/18/11: Just In Case, A Few Extra Sinkings of the Sun, an amoeba sunset play – premiered by Brian Griffeath-Loeb, Maggie Hasspacher, Christian Paiz, and myself, at sunset, on Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles Road Concerts.
8/30/11: Wilder Shores of Love performed again by Ostravska Banda and Prague Modern at Ostrava Days 2011, Czech Republic
8/6/11: We are small and wee and we eat the house down – commissioned and premiered by The Gliss Quintet, New York
4/11/11: Wilder Shores of Love, commissioned and premiered by Petr Kotik conducting The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble and Ostravska Banda at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, reviewed by Allan Kozinn in The New York Times and Harry Rolnick in ConcertoNet.
Carolyn Chen 