hi from the Swimming Pool, aka Sundlaugin Studios in Reykjavik, Iceland. I’m here working on a new record with Lullabies For Falling Empires but I’ll be back this week to participate in something interesting and secretive at Storefront for Art and Architecture, and to play a solo show at the Living Room on Sunday the 20th… and to finish a film score I’m very excited about… more info on that in due time…

The video for my song “Bright, So To Blind Me”, directed by Jessica Pernikoff, is up now! Take a look–

Really excited to be invited to work with old friends & collaborators the Degenerate Art Ensemble and Mr. Robert Wilson himself, re-imagining a chunk of Einstein on the Beach, for performance in early April. Apparently 5 different ensembles are each tackling a section, under Wilson’s gaze. Very curious to see where this leads.

http://watermillcenter.org/events/onthebeach

Las Vegas with Nettle and a West Coast tour with Filastine… heading up the coast over the next two weeks!  Details here.

it’s only june but summer is here with a vengeance in NYC.  and summer brings summer things:  heat, yes, humidity, yes, and that peculiar summer sense of timelessness… watch out, 4am comes up so quickly and easily in the bathwater-warm air…

And Summer Projects:  there’s a lot. working on the score for indie film Vacationland with director Jamie Hook, the Linzy/Franco record with @djrupture, helping @djnron with sound for a Mexican horror film, a couple remixes, a collaboration with @filastine, and oh yeah my next long-neglected record.  Then Fall=France, for a composer residency in la Côte d’Or, and some European touring.

ok now back into the soup.

Had a great show last week with Nettle and a group of fantastic Korean musicians (more on them below).  In addition to great music and an interesting setting among the art at Vaudeville Park, we made it into a ceremony, with tea and dates and homemade cookies served as formally as we could manage.  It elevated things.

These days, I’m really interested in making performances into something special, not a run-of-the-mill “band night” but something memorable and unique.  God knows we aren’t doing these shows for the money, so if we aren’t challenging ourselves and taking chances, then we’re really wasting our time… no?

Coming up is a show I’m really excited about, I’ll be playing solo and with Lindsay Cuff on violin and voice (she’s magic) and with Baby Copperhead (far out) and we will be honored with performances by Seungmin Cha, Eunsun Jun, and Woonjung Sim, who play the Korean shamanic music called Sinawi, as well as brilliant improvisations grounded in the bone-chilling intensity of that ancient form.  More info on the shows page.

Ahh Europe, you are so… not America.  Please don’t change that.  Having a lovely time, first in Amsterdam, now in Paris.  A really fun concert here with Maggie Kim and I’ve got one more show, with the fantastic Saelors from Amsterdam, before I head back to NYC and a bunch of Nettle activity…

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