With a pre-performance with Alexander Gedeon, Allen Cordell, and myself.
Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage @ Social Convention, Feb. 26, 2021
Summits premiere at Soundwaves, March 20, 2019!
| I hope you can join me for the world premiere of Summits on March 20! |
Summits is a new song cycle using texts I have collected over the last decade while hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains. Each song is based on entries I have documented in various summit registers (notebooks often found at the top of mountain trails). These personal chronicles from regional pinnacles portray the wisdom, humility, and humor that can only be found on a mountain peak.
Summits is written for voice, string quartet, and guitar/accordion, and I am happy to be joined by singer Joanna Wallfisch and the Koan Quartet in bringing it to life.
We will premiere Summits at the Soundwaves Concert Series on March 20 in celebration of their 50th event!
7:30pm
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Martin Luther King Auditorium
Santa Monica Public Library
601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
New Documentation Online
Happy 2019!
I have new performances videos online. Here is a live performance of Polytope from last October, a performance of Refractions from May, 2017, and a performance of Diamond Pulses from September, 2015.
Polytope coming in March
Excerpt from Polytope:
I’m very excited to announce the premiere of Polytope this coming March! Polytope is a multimedia microtonal performance for MIDI quartet.
To perform Polytope, I’ll be joined by Erin Barnes, Cory Beers, and Andrew Lessoman.
Performed entirely in darkness, it’s a mesmerizing dance of silhouettes of fingers over colorful glowing MIDI buttons, captured on live feed video and projected large and bright as a moving, visual score. Polytope is rhythmically charged in the vein of musical minimalists such as Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, or Arnold Dreyblatt, but harmonically inspired by the microtonal explorations of James Tenney, Erv Wilson, or Harry Partch. The multimedia style of presentation is somewhere between a string quartet, Kraftwerk, James Turrell, and an Indonesian dhalang (master shadow puppeteer).
Three performances of Polytope are scheduled in March:
- Automata, Los Angeles, March 18
- Wayward Music Series, Good Shepherd Chapel in Seattle, March 23
- Center for New Music in San Francisco, March 25.
MORE INFO SOON!
Trios for Two Kickstarter
Danny Holt and Molly Gebrian have recorded my Ultramarine, and it will be included in their upcoming Trios for Two album on Innova Recordings! Check out their Kickstarter campaign and consider supporting the album.
New album Diamond Pulses!
I am excited to announce my new album, Diamond Pulses! Diamond Pulses will be released by Orenda Records on September 12. There will be a release show that day at Automata.
Stream the audio from Bandcamp, then pre-order your copy from Orenda Records!
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More info soon!
June info soon
I’ll have a few chamber music performances in June to announce soon!
In the meantime, here’s an electronic piece I made recently. It fades in slowly, so have a bit of patience at the beginning.
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New concert recordings online
I’ve finally had a chance to upload two concert recordings of premieres from 2014!
PROGRESS (2014)
Violin and Viola. Premiered November 21, 2014 at MorYork by Story Water
“Progress” by Daniel Corral
PRAYER FOR THE WORLD – 10:00 (2013)
SATB choir and organ. Premiered June 1, 2014 by the All Saints Coventry and Canterbury choirs
“Prayer for the World” by Daniel Corral
Also, check out this electroacoustic piece for music box movement and electronics:
