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LATEST RELEASE


Rational Basis for 8 electric guitars, performed by the Los Angeles Electric 8.
Angin Listrik for Balinese gamelan and 2 electric guitars, performed by Sean
Hayward, Nat Condit-Schultz, and Gamelan Swarasanti.

NOW AVAILABLE AT MICROFEST RECORDS, AMAZON, ITUNES, AND ELSEWHERE.


FEATURED VIDEOS




BOOKS

MY BOOK WITH BRETT CAMPBELL, LOU HARRISON: AMERICAN MUSICAL MAVERICK, IS
AVAILABLE HERE.

Brett and I also maintain a blog of Harrison topics.

I AM ALSO THE AUTHOR OF MUSIC OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, A SURVEY OF MUSICAL
CULTURES FROM AROUND THE WORLD. THE THIRD EDITION IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM
CENGAGE/SCHIRMER.






NEWS

 * April 23 2023: My American Gamelan group will be joined by the Smudges in a
   performance at 2220 Arts and Archives in Los Angeles. You can find tickets
   and more information here.

   

 * March 2023: My video Static Cling was screened at the South Bend (Indiana)
   Performing Media Festival.

   

 * December 2022: The Huygens-Fokker Foundation and Centre for Microtonal Music
   in Amsterdam commissioned my The Geometry of Bird Flight, which was performed
   on the Fokker microtonal organ by Ere Lievonen with Gregory Oakes on his
   unique quartertone clarinet. Also this month at the Huygens-Fokker
   Foundation, the Scala ensemble repeated their performance of my On the Motion
   of Pendulums.

   

 * December 2022: Nadia Shpachenko and the Cal Poly Pomona University Piano
   Ensemble premiered the five piano version of my Bad Attitude.

   

 * November 2022: The radio show 1A on National Public Radio released a
   wonderful documentary on Lou Harrison, in which I am extensively interviewed.
   The show was scripted by Joe Horowitz and features performances by the
   PostClassical Ensemble and the Leipzig Radio Symphony among others. You can
   listen to the show here. Joe Horowitz, has also produced a PostClassical
   Ensemble documentary film in which I appear, Lou Harrison and Cultural
   Fusion, distributed by Naxos.

   

 * November 2022: My animation Stellation was projected at the Buenos Aires
   Planetarium as part of Understanding Visual Music 2022.

   

 * Oct.-Nov. 2022: The Elysian Trombone Consort performed my Rumble Strip for
   four trombones on their tour of seven venues in five states.

   

 * October 2022: The HMC American gamelan performed my Elegy for Bill Colvig
   (with violinist Jeff Gauthier), Gending Chilao (with cellist Maggie Parkins),
   and Liminal Lanscape (with video).

   

 * June 2022: Thanks to the Percussion Ensemble of the University of Canturbury
   (New Zealand) for their performance of my Gandrung.

   

 * May 2022: My short animated opera Orfeo nel canale alimentare [Orfeo in the
   Alimentary Canal], a collaboration with filmmaker Rachel Mayeri was featured
   at Redcat Theater's film series at Disney Hall in Los Angeles.

   

 * May 2022: The Presence in the Time Between for violin, cello, and gamelan was
   premiered by the Los Angeles duo The Smudges. Also on the program was my
   Elegy for Bill Colvig.

   

 * April 2022: Thanks to the Chapman University Percussion Ensemble, who
   premiered Metallurgy for indeterminate metal instruments.

   

 * April 2022: The HearNow Festival and People Inside Electronics presented my
   Night Refuge performed by the Brightwork Ensemble with electronics and video.
   
   

 * April 2022: Members of the Brightwork Ensemble performed my Show Attachment
   at the University of Redlands.

   

 * February 2022: My Mystic Canyon for violin and gamelan was featured on John
   Schaefer's New Sounds on WNYC, New York.

   

 * January 2022: Thanks to Max Shea for including my The Question Mark's Black
   Ink (January) and Imbal-Imbalan (May) on his Martian Gardens radio show.

   

 * January 2022: Soprano Kirsten Ashley Wiest included my song A Sonatina with
   text by Gertrude Stein on her virtual recital at the University of California
   Riverside. You can see her performance with pianist Nic Gerpe here.

   

 * December 2021: The Scala Ensemble premiered my work On the Motion of
   Pendulums for microtonal guitar, microtonal piano, and microtonal organ,
   especially commissioned for this group and for the Huygens-Fokker Foundation
   in Amsterdam.

   

 * November 2021: My animation Stellation was projected at the Buenos Aires
   Planetarium.

   

 * November 2021: Rachel Mayeri's film Orfeo nel canale alimentare [Orfeo in the
   Alimentary Canal], for which I composed the score, was featured at the
   Chicago Underground Film Festival.

   

 * October 2021: San Francisco's Other Minds music festival featured my Mystic
   Canyon for violin and gamelan as part of their KALW broadcast about new music
   for gamelan.

   

 * October 2021: Cellist Maggie Parkins and pianist Aron Kallay premiered my
   work Show Attachment at Pomona College.

   

 * January 2021: Microtonal pianist Aron Kallay's new CD Beyond 12, Vol. 2 was
   released by MicroFest Records and included my work for Aron, Paths of the
   Wind. The release was featured on several radio and net broadcasts, including
   Xen Radio and Klara public radio (Belgium).
   
   
   

 * January 2021: An online short play that I contributed music to, Brett
   Campbell's Safe Distance premiered as a part of Portland's Fertile Ground
   Festival.

   

 * October 2020: The KC VITAs Chamber Choir of Kansas City premiered my Come
   Out, Cow with text by Gertrude Stein.

   

 * August 2020: The Claremont Colleges Cello Choir, directed by Maggie Parkins ,
   created a video performance of my California Mabommay for 16 cellos:
   

   

 * July 2020: Thanks to Jude Thomas and Xen Radio for featuring my works,
   including Tingklik Toccata and Imbal-Imbalan.

   

 * July 2020: New York cellist Philip Sheegog presented a virtual performance of
   my California Mabommay.

   

 * June 2020: Maggie Parkins created a video performance of my piece for cello
   and computer processing, Resonant Halls of Memory.

   

 * Feb. 2020: The Elysian Trombone Quartet premiered my piece Rumble Strip at
   the American Trombone Workshop in Fort Myers, Virginia.

   

 * Feb. 2020: Brightwork newmusic performed my Night Refuge for chamber ensemble
   with electronics and video at the Ussachevsky Festival of Electronic Music.

   

 * Nov. 2019: Rachel Mayeri's film Orfeo nel canale alimentare [Orfeo in the
   Alimentary Canal], for which I composed the score, was featured at the Rust
   Belt Microbiome conference in Pittsburgh.

   

 * July, 2019: Thanks to Piotr Grella-Mozejko and his show Avant-Garde and
   Beyond for featuring my CD Guitars and Gamelan on CJSR Edmonton.

   

 * Apr. 9, 2019: The HMC American Gamelan performed works at Tuesdays at Monk
   Space in Los Angeles as a part of MicroFest, including my Gending Sycamore
   Canyon, Breath of the Compassionate, and works by Lou Harrison. On April 21,
   we repeated the program in Claremont California with other works by Harrison
   and my Imbal-Imbalan.

   

 * Feb. 24, 2019: Brightwork newmusic premiered my Night Refuge for chamber
   ensemble with electronics and video at Harvey Mudd College. The suffering of
   refugees inspired this new work, which includes processed and edited sounds
   from refugees and video depicting their exile. Brightwork also performed it
   in March at Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State Northridge.

   

 * Feb. 10, 2019: Thanks to the Stephen F. Austin Percussion Ensemble for
   performing my Gandrung at the Texas Music Educator's Convention in San
   Antonio.

   

 * Feb. 7, 2019: Michael Dean (BipTunia) has remixed my On Optimism for a new
   microtonal album to benefit Lyn Ulbricht.

   

 * Feb. 1, 2019: Maggie Parkins performed resonant halls of memory for cello
   with live computer processing at Pomona College's Ussachevsky Festival of
   Electronic Music.

   

 * Jan. 23, 2019: I participated in the Postclassical Ensemble's event titled
   Cultural Fusion: The Gamelan Experience at the Washington National Cathedral
   in Washington DC. This remarkable concert included two gamelan from the
   Indonesian Embassy, orchestral works by Lou Harrison, and other works
   inspired by the Indonesian Gamelan. The program included my own Black Toccata
   for piano, four hands, performed by Benjamin Pasternack and Wan-Chi Su. I
   also gave a talk, via video with the assistance of the Indonesian Embassy
   Javanese Gamelan and Joseph Horowitz, about the relationship of Javanese
   gamelan and the Lou Harrison Concerto for Piano with Selected Orchestra.

   

 * Dec. 15, 2018: Thanks to Amy Barston and her students at the Juilliard School
   in New York City for this video of their great performance of my California
   Mabommay .

   

 * Dec. 10, 2018: Aron Kallay performed my Skala-Niskala, a concerto for retuned
   piano and Balinese gamelan with the Pomona College Gamelan Giri Kusuma.

   

 * Nov. 2018: Rachel Rudich performed my In-Yo for shakuhachi and electronics at
   Ryogoku Monten Hall in Tokyo.

   

 * Nov. 16 & 17, 2018: My abstract video with music Stellation was projected as
   part of the Concierto de Música Visual en Fulldome - UVM at the Galileo
   Galilei Planetarium, Buenos Aires.

   

 * Sep. 2018: The Varied Trio performed my Five Gamelettes for violin, piano,
   and percussion at Occidental College.

   

 * Sep. 2018: I gave a presentation on John Cage in Claremont, California for a
   symposium on Cage@Claremont hosted by the library of the Claremont Colleges.
   You can read a version of my presentation here.

   

 * June 2018: The City of Bremen Gamelan performed my Gending Vogel Flats for
   violin and Javanese gamelan at the Munich Stadtmuseum as part of the
   Internationales Gamelan Musikfestival München.

   

 * June 2018: Mary Chase Doll premiered her choreography to my Breath of the
   Compassionate at the Laban Institute in New York City.

   

 * June 2018: Jaclyn Wappel presented a paper on my Concerto for Harp and
   Gamelan (which she has also performed) at the American Harp Society National
   Conference in Redlands, California. At the same conference, I gave a
   presentation on "The Harp and Lou Harrison." You can read a version of the
   presentation here.

   

 * May 6, 2018: As part of MicroFest 2018 Mak Grgic and Brian Head premiered my
   Slim Pickings for two retuned National Steel guitars. These instruments were
   originally designed for Lou Harrison, who devised an 11-limit just intonation
   scale for them.

   

 * Apr. 2018: Rachel Mayeri's film Orfeo nel canale alimentare [Orfeo in the
   Alimentary Canal], for which I composed the score, was featured at Vienna's'
   Universität für angewandte Kunst and the Viral Culture Symposium in
   Claremont. It also appeared at Perth's' Art Gallery of Western Australia and
   Old Customs House in Fremantle, Washington.

   

 * Apr. 22, 2018: As part of MicroFest 2018 the HMC American Gamelan performed
   works by Lou Harrison, along with my At First Light and Liminal Lanscape for
   gamelan and video. The program also included David Doty's suite for retuned
   tack piano and Greg Schiemer's work for many microtonal iPhones.

   

 * Apr.-May, 2018: The Claremont Concert Choir performed "A Sonatina" from my
   Three Songs of Gertrude Stein with soprano soloist Tessie Prakas.

   

 * Mar. 2018: I spoke on a panel on Global Links in the Performing Arts at the
   South Asia Studies Association National Conference. Coincidentally, Aron
   Kallay performed my Paths of the Wind, which I spoke about, at the Soundwaves
   series at the Santa Monica Library.

   

 * Feb. 2018: The Varied Trio premiered my Five Gamelettes for violin, piano,
   and percussion at Harvey Mudd College.

   

 * Feb. 2018: On Optimism, my electronic score for a collaboration with
   choreographer Kevin Williamson, poet Warren Liu, and artist Kaspar Kovitz,
   premiered as a part of Artsmooch at Scripps College.

   

 * Dec. 2017: Maggie Parkins premiered my resonant halls of memory for cello
   with live computer processing at Harvey Mudd College.

   

 * Oct. 2017: Rachel Mayeri's film Orfeo nel canale alimentare [Orfeo in the
   Alimentary Canal], for which I composed the score, premiered at the Imagine
   Science Film Festival in New York City as a part of Chimera Experiments.

   

 * Sept. 2017: Kirsten Ashley Wiest performed my "A Sonatina" with text by
   Gertrude Stein with pianist Nic Gerpe at the unSUNg concert series in
   Pasadena. She has also performed it at recitals at Harvey Mudd College,
   Pasadena City College, Chapman University, and Tuesdays @ Monk Space in Los
   Angeles. You can see her performance with pianist Nic Gerpe here.

   

 * June 2017: I delivered the keynote address about composer Lou Harrison at the
   CeLOUbration at Portland State University.
   
   

 * May, 2017: Our book Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick received positive
   mentions on NPR, The New Yorker, the LA Times, 4Columns.org, Tempo and
   elsewhere. I spoke on the air on Bill McGlaughlin's syndicated radio show and
   KPFK's Global Village. Brett and I were guests and forum participants at the
   celebration of Harrison's music at New Music Works in Santa Cruz.
   
   

 * Apr. 23, 2017 My Angin Listrik for two electric guitars and Balinese gamelan
   was performed at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
   
   

 * Mar. 27, 2017: I was happy to be a guest of the Robb Composers' Symposium at
   the University of New Mexico, where my Sounds Ineffable was presented.
   
   

 * Feb. 12, 2017: Gamelan Dwara Udyani of Denison University, Ohio, premiered my
   Gending Swallowtail with violinist Andrew Strietelmeier as part of the Tutti
   Festival.
   
   

 * Feb. 3, 2017: BrightWork New Music ensemble performed my he watches the
   clouds pass the window at the Ussachevsky Memorial Electronic Music Festival.
   They will repeat the program in Pasadena on Feb. 25, sponsored by People
   Inside Electronics.
   
   


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