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i can’t wait to see what else they have been up to. so beautiful.
new audio installation
just got word that i received funding to create ice field, an 8 channel audio installation that will use digital noise and audio detritus and south asian rhythmic theory. look for it in a flourescent-lit bare white room near you.
thanks are in order to the toronto arts council.
savac monitor 4
great news! my video piece skin (2007) has been selected to be screened as part of MONITOR 4, SAVAC’s international short film and video festival in toronto. the screening is at innis town hall, feb 20, 2008. more deets available on SAVAC’s website.
see you there.
too good only. mango juuuuuuuuuuuicE!
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video
i’ve started creating some video works, thanks to all the great video art i’ve been checking out from germany and canada lately. i’ll keep you posted on what is happening with that aspect of my life as things happen.
amnesty’s brilliant and disturbing. this is not fake.
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i can’t even speak. go to the website here.
uh oh.
i’ve made it on to youtube. thanks to mike whitla of rainbow songs for going through the work necessary to get me out into cyberworld.
feel free to let me know what you think. i guess that’s the whole point of youtube? for me its watching david bowie.
woas
photo by cathy irving
the world on a string concert presented by smallworld music and recorded by CBC Radio is now online. many thanks to alan davis, artistic director of smallworld. also of course all the musicians, especially rich brown for asking me to be a part of it.
hands
i am playing loads of dance classes these days, about 9 or more a week. first of all, i love playing dance classes. well, maybe love is a strong word but the demands placed on the accompanist for these classes are all things that the musician (or any artist for that matter) must have at their fingertips. improvisation, creativity, strong time sense, connection with sound, with other dancers, with the essence of the movement…..these are all things that as a drummer i need to have honed and ready.
playing dance class, particularly for peggy baker (whose accompanist i have had the good fortune to be for over 6 years or so now) is a great way for me to keep fit—physically, musically, mentally and spritually. listening to peggy speak about dance and the creative process is one of the biggest influences on me as a musician and on my approach to creating. i am very fond of saying that i would not be half the musician i am today without my many years of accompanying dance class.
but man my hands hurt. i’m not getting any younger.