Improv tonight in L.A. at Home Room! I’m looking forward to playing a short set that doesn’t involve sheet music or 1,000 presets. Check out the venue listing here:

http://www.homeroom101.org/agenda/2012-01-14?view=day

I just arrived at the clubhouse in Rhinebeck NY to record Zeena and the Adorables. The studio is beautiful and has some incredible stuff in it including: a mellotron, a rhodes, a leslie, a jukebox that plays 45′s, and 1,000 other cool things yet unexplored. I can’t wait to record! Check out the studio here: http://www.clubhouseinc.com/main.html

Go get this fantastic mix that features Preshy and a bunch of pals. Here’s the link: http://droitdecites.org/2011/12/10/shayna-dunkelman-sur-websynradio-15-22-decembre/ and here’s the playlist:

1. Zeena Parkins – “Visible/Invisible 1: The Hand: Eclipse Quartet” (2005) from Necklace (2008) [5:44]
2. Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson – “Horpma II” (excerpt, 2008-10) from Horpma (2011) [4:06]
3. Kevin Shea Adams – “genLos” (2009) [5:54]
4. Ferrante and Teicher – “The Nearness of You” from Ferrante and Teicher with Percussion (1958) [2:44]
5. Toru Takemitsu – “music from Banished Orin” (film: 1977) from The Film Music of Toru Takemitsu (1997) [7:52]
6. James Tenney – “Collage #1 (Blue Suede)” (1961) from Selected Works 1961-1969 [3:27]
7. Maryclare Brzytwa – “Berlin” from MCB (2011) [5:01]
8. Matt Marks – “Kinda (Go To Sleep)” from The Little Death: Vol. 1 (2010) [4:18]
9. Preshish Moments – “El Chordo” from Touchable (2010) [3:26]
10. The Norman Conquest – “Myriad” (excerpt, 2007-2011) [5:01]
11. Peter B – “I am walking down the stairs” from a’ d’ lake (2000) [1:05]
12. Slow Children – “the first child” (2008) [3:41]
13. Wiener Kids – “Pea Brain” from What A Mess (2011) [2:36]
14. Ches Smith And These Arches – “Disgust for a pathetic chorale” from Finally out of my hands (2010) [3:44]
15. People Like Us and Wobbly – “Nmm Ne” from Live At ATA, 12 October 2002 [4:10]
16. Cornelius – “Scum” from Sensuous (2006) [0:41]
17. John Zorn – “Part 2” from Femina (2009) [10:11]
18. Caleb Burhans – “The Things Left Unsaid” for Tarab Cello Ensemble (2006) [8:38]
19. Theresa Wong – “Bury Them and Keep Quiet” from The Unlearning (2011) [4:43]
20. Ayako Kataoka – “I love you adroitly” (2008) [2:56]
21. Ikue Mori – “Tool Box ~ Loops” from Garden (1996) [7:47]
22. Prefuse 73 – “Pagina Cuatro” from Reads The Books E.P. (2005) [0:56]

Ne(x)tworks joins forces with JACK Quartet for these world premiere performances of composer, multi-instrumentalist, and electric harp pioneer Zeena Parkins’s latest work, Spellbeamed. Commissioned by Ne(x)tworks,Spellbeamed takes inspiration from literary critic Walter Benjamin’s Archive, a published trove of images, texts, and ephemera collected by the author. For Parkins’s new composition, quotidian materials collected by each musician are utilized to form an animated score developed in collaboration with visual artistCynthia Madansky. The resultant sound is further enhanced with live-processing by Preshish Moments and the composer, creating an ecology of inter-relationships developed between improvisers and readers, sound and score, objects and instruments. Both evenings begin with the premieres of three additional works by Ne(x)tworks composers Joan La Barbara, Miguel Frasconi, and Chris McIntyre.

We’ll be playing compositions rather than improvising and I love the music, so come hear at the Stone at 8pm this Saturday 11/12/11.

I was just alerted to this emotional review of Heather Kravas’s piece Kassidy Chism. Here is the excerpt that mentions the music I made for the piece:

“Kravas opens the piece adopting Chism’s poppy and ecstatic dance moves in a free-ranging, hip-hop performance filled with flare and jazz to the soundtrack from electronic musician Preshish Moments. The beats get turned up. Dogs bark.”

Here is the rest of the review:

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/11/dance/manipulative-tendencies

I’ll be on a panel tomorrow discussing M4L patches that I’ve made for other musicians and composers. Come check it out if you’re attending the AES convention and happen to be awake at 9am.

The New York Times reviewed Heather Kravas’s piece “Kassidy Chism”. Here’s what they said about the music I made for her piece:

“Sound effects by Preshish Moments emphasized a blurring of mechanical and animal qualities. Holding her breasts, Ms. Kravas bounced and kicked, oblivious to an avalanchelike sound. But puberty was on its way.”

Check out the full review at the NY Times.

Heather Kravas will be performing her solo piece, Kassidy Chism this thursday, friday and saturday at Danspace in St. Mark’s. I made all of the music with animal sounds and it is one of the most unique things I have ever been asked to do. Check out the link to the show:

http://www.danspaceproject.org/calendarandtickets/detail.php?id=106

I won’t go into details but I will say that at some point she will reenact the choreography of a ten-year old girl to a hyphy medley made with dog barks… nuff said.

David Virelles will be playing with his group Continuum this Wednesday at Jazz Gallery and he’ll be using a few M4L patches that I built for him. Take a peek at his M4L Patches, check out his listing in The NY Times, or check the Jazz Gallery for more info.