Just released: Songs from the River Project Volume 2 is now downloadable and streaming on Bandcamp! Check it out here:
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Songs from the River Project #1
The first EP of Songs from the River Project is now available for download on Bandcamp! The original limited edition EP sold out a while ago, so this is the first time it’s been available for general release!
Snag your copy below and stay tuned for more, including previously unreleased material!
EinHorn released on Lydia Van Dreel’s new CD
Here’s the premiere recording of my Rilke-inspired piece about unicorns, Einhorn, commissioned and performed by the wonderful Lydia Van Dreel. You can find it in all the usual places, or click the CD cover below to go directly to CD Baby:
september 13
a fresh mix of Play Like a Girl for A Book of Days:Â september 13.
september 12
new piece in A Book of Days:Â september 12. It’s called Before a Little Sand, text by Henri Michaux.
Pump Music
Pump Music is inspired by a series of hand pumps I encountered in campsites while traveling down the Mississippi River in 2009. I recorded this pump at a campsite called Wanagan’s Landing, which was the place we stayed after the very first day of paddling, on 1 August 2009. It’s maybe ten miles down from the headwaters of the Mississippi River, in northern Minnesota.
I was struck not only by the raucous noise of the pump, but also by the unearthly melody of the afterglow as the water recedes back into the earth when you stop pumping. The melody is not a simple overtone series as you might expect, but some curious phenomenon emerging from the length and diameter of the pipe that I don’t have enough physics to understand.
Pump Music was commissioned for the Guidonian Hand and Mary Rowell by Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music USA, and is dedicated to them with vast affection.
Pump Music is part of my ongoing project, A Book of Days. To hear the premiere performance (at Roulette on 1 June 2012), please visit August 1st.
Here is a score of the complete piece in pdf format.
After you click the donation button below, you’ll get all the necessary materials to perform the piece.
You can also read this blog post about 1 August 2009 of The River Project.
new River Project CD!
An all-new CD of River Project music is now exclusively available for purchase here! The second signed limited edition EP includes four pieces from The River Project in wonderful premiere recordings by BRIM, the Guidonian Hand, and members of Portland’s Third Angle Ensemble. A perfect gift, buy one today!
Dollhouse DVD available
this is the DVD we made last year of Mabou Mines’ Dollhouse for French television. you can purchase your own copy here.
Hildegurls’ Ordo Virtutum released on Innova!
The long-awaited CD of the collaboration between composers Lisa Bielawa, Kitty Brazelton, Elaine Kaplinsky, and me (which we performed at the Lincoln Center Festival in 1998 in a production directed by Grethe Barrett Holby) is out on Innova. Check it out!!!
