I’m splitting the bill with one of my favorite musicians in Chicago on Feb 25. Cory Smythe and I close out the always-amazing Frequency Festival, which brings me back for my first solo performance in Chicago since I moved to NYC in 2016.
I played Steve Reich’s “Violin Phase” at the first concert held at Constellation, so it’s pretty fitting and very exciting that I’m bringing my own loops to Chicago for this gig.
Alec Goldfarb joins me for a performance of my Down Pat for MIDI-triggering electric guitar…inspired in part by Electric Counterpoint by Reich, Pat Matheny’s “The Way Up”, Eddie Van Halen, as well as intonational conspiracy theories and number games based on 50 and 60 hz electrical current and Romitelli’s “Trash TV Trance”
I’ll present new solo adaptations of some material from my record “The News From Utopia” and some late-breaking, hot-off-the press polyrhythmic pyramid-building.
And I’m very excited to add the World Premiere of Isolation by Yaz Lancaster to the set list. Yaz wrote the piece for me to record and produce the Tape Part and then improvise using their score instructions. It’s a beautiful and haunting vibe.
Full set list:
SYSTEM NOTES for solo vln and electronics (world premiere)
BLINK for vln/guitar with tape plus video by Ivan Decoud
Down Pat for MIDI triggering Electric Guitar (Alec Goldfarb, guitar)
Isolation by Yaz Lancaster for solo vln and electronics (world premiere)
News for Chicago for solo vln and electronics (world premiere)