From jon_raskin at yahoo.com  Tue Jan  1 09:13:50 2008
From: jon_raskin at yahoo.com (Jon Raskin)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 09:13:50 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] Jazzgalerie
In-Reply-To: <20071231.100310.3720.17.weaselw@juno.com>
Message-ID: <999791.93446.qm@web55602.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

I agree and to me this relates to the a negative use
of the software that David  Cope is promoting
 
--- weasel walter <weaselw at juno.com> wrote:

> god, this is such an insane bummer. this guy is such
> a saint i can't
> believe they're coming down on him this hard. oh
> wait . . . actually i do
> believe it. bureaucratic bullshit knows no bounds.
> 
> ww
>                              
> > This was mentioned on the list a 
> > month or so ago but the Austrian court has made a
> ruling which went 
> > against Hans Falb.
> _______________________________________________
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> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
> 


Jon Raskin

From jon_raskin at yahoo.com  Tue Jan  1 09:32:58 2008
From: jon_raskin at yahoo.com (Jon Raskin)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 09:32:58 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] game soundtracks
In-Reply-To: <582933.1047.qm@web81415.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <549779.205.qm@web55602.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

Taking this in another direction. I watched a
documentary about Big Daddy Roth the other day and he
seems a good example of someone that used new
technologies to create objects that work as commercial
art and have influenced many "serious" visual artists.
 He was outsider, Rat Fink was an assault on Mickey
Mouse.  His work with fiberglass was innovative and
the design work on cars was an attack on conformity of
mass produced commodities.  He tapped into several sub
cultures. As the first person to sell white t shirts
with art work on created a global industry as well.


--- Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:

> Barry threw <bthrew at gmail.com> wrote:    
> > He studied at
> > Berkeley School of Music with Doc. Richard
> Boulanger(think OLPC), and
> 
> 
> Berklee.
> 
> b
> 
> PG:
> Yes, Berklee - or, where to go to be trained to
> become a craftsperson in the jazz idiom. It's an
> industry school, not a place where art is
> cultivated. These institutions have killed jazz -
> they have transformed it into something not far
> beyond the realm of painting by numbers. I'm
> sickened by the results. Out of all the people I
> know that have come out of that school, less than
> 10% actually have something to say on their
> instruments.
>    
>   As Looney said regarding game/sound/music
> composition - it's not art, it's craft.
>   An apt analogy could be made with an association
> to the Hollywood movie industry. There are a lot of
> fine craftspeople working in the industry, but the
> results: well, I don't even have to say it, do I?
>    
>   Thanks also to GC/Ted Brinkley for speaking my
> mind on the subject. I've never played a video game,
> so I can't really comment on this subject further.
>    
>   But the idea that art could be associated with
> something called "game" is curious. Art is "doing
> something". Games, for me anyway, are about wasting
> time while you're waiting to do something
> worthwhile.
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
> 


Jon Raskin

From weaselw at juno.com  Tue Jan  1 21:49:31 2008
From: weaselw at juno.com (weasel walter)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 21:49:31 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] game soundtracks
Message-ID: <20080101.214933.3720.39.weaselw@juno.com>

as my final statement before leaving the country for a month . . . 

ya just can't fight progress. if one becomes obsolete due to changes in
reality, that's the way it is. i don't believe that a computer program
like cope's is any real threat to serious music and it's makers. 

in terms of creating music, like henry rollins said, "you either do it or
you don't. the world doesn't care either way." i believe this statement.
perhaps a program like this will change the motivations and outcome of
music, but ultimately there will be some sort of equilibrium. perhaps a
lot of musicians will find musicmaking to be a superfluous task and take
up other pursuits . . . this could be a positive thing. we need more
doctors, not musicians. 

ww

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 09:32:58 -0800 (PST) Jon Raskin <jon_raskin at yahoo.com>
writes:
> Taking this in another direction. I watched a
> documentary about Big Daddy Roth the other day and he
> seems a good example of someone that used new
> technologies to create objects that work as commercial
> art and have influenced many "serious" visual artists.
>  He was outsider, Rat Fink was an assault on Mickey
> Mouse.  His work with fiberglass was innovative and
> the design work on cars was an attack on conformity of
> mass produced commodities.  He tapped into several sub
> cultures. As the first person to sell white t shirts
> with art work on created a global industry as well.

From Damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Tue Jan  1 09:55:13 2008
From: Damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 09:55:13 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] game soundtracks
In-Reply-To: <522031.5271.qm@web82815.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <522031.5271.qm@web82815.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <74CA585B-F7B3-4D25-A759-B2D4FBDCE577@balancepointacoustics.com>


On Dec 31, 2007, at 9:37 PM, ted brinkley wrote:

> On Dec 31, 2007, at 6:19 PM, barry threw wrote:
>>
>>> True. I hate aspects of current culture too. But
>> is it all bad?
>>
>
> Braxton coined a term, in his tri-axium writings:
>
> "....the Spectacle Diversion Syndrome...is what
> america has INSTEAD of culture."

- Sounds like a "restructured" version of Guy Debord:
http://www.ubu.com/film/debord_spectacle.html

Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo





From miltnerunit at gmail.com  Tue Jan  1 12:15:57 2008
From: miltnerunit at gmail.com (kristin miltner)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 12:15:57 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] game-lickers wake up
In-Reply-To: <29E3BD48-01D5-4617-9622-ECAA73E70538@gmail.com>
References: <97624.33054.qm@web82811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<29E3BD48-01D5-4617-9622-ECAA73E70538@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ef1ad92c0801011215x4034a017pb82b0bb71bbdc139@mail.gmail.com>

 Barry said:
> I know many people that make video games and video game
> music, that love to make it. That love the medium, the product, and
> their art, and that is the reason they are involved.

I love making video game music --  finding ways to push my aesthetic -
sometimes i win, but if i have to make some pieces in a genre other than my
own, i usually learn something about composing in that genre. and really
getting in there with programmers to make interactive game music and sfx is
very interesting.  i love discovering how to push the available technology.
I'm not saying every single game is peace, love, and banana bread, but when
everyone has great collaborative energy and all teams work hard to make
something great together, it's really fun.

I also love making my own music -- the important thing is that i find that
both inform the other.

k


On Dec 30, 2007 6:49 PM, barry threw <bthrew at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 30, 2007, at 3:40 PM, ted brinkley wrote:
>
> > Just follow the money, and More Important-- follow
> > where the money DOESN'T go.
> >
> > [SNIP]
> >
> > damn, with even just the freaking lunch money of a
> > game company exec...some true visionaries could blow
> > all our minds.
>
> You are right about all of this. If only more people would dump a
> bunch of money in the arts, we wouldn't have to worry about trying to
> make a living ourselves trying to make people actually want our work.
>
> One of the problems is that most haven't considered it as a worthy
> medium for artistic expression yet though. The tendency to turn game
> audio toward more mainstream and palatable kinds of music is certainly
> a problem, but thats because, REALITY CHECK, VERY FEW PEOPLE LIKE
> Stockhausen, Pauline Oliveros, Sun Ra, Braxton, Cage, Matt Goodheart,
> Tim Perkis, Splatter Trio, Kevin Blechdum or ME. This is not a problem
> with video games, its a "problem" with the kinds of music that we want
> to see made.
>
> There are people, mainly in universities, exploring games as an
> artistic medium with more experimental tastes, there is work out
> there...and with any new forms things will flourish.
>
> Another problem is that the shit we want to do is HARD TO DO. It takes
> extreme software development, time, story production, graphics
> integration, etc. There is always tool development, because this is a
> cutting edge field and we are still trying to figure out how to write
> good music for this medium. REALITY CHECK, you have to make money to
> live...and its not like the NEA is doing a whole fuck of a lot right
> now.  If you have a better way to get a whole team of the brightest
> technologist you can find, from programming, 3d modeling, story
> development, and audio production teams, and get them to build your
> art without GETTING PAID, the you tell me how to do it.
>
> Don't come in here screaming about reality when what you clearly want
> is something that is not reality.
>
> > Here is another REALITY CHECK for you: we all know
> > plenty of folks with composition degrees, bands, etc.,
> > who work for game companies. why do they work for game
> > companies? to try and make a living. and EVERY DANG
> > ONE OF THEM wishes they were at home working on their
> > own shit. you think they'd hang around and do "ART"
> > for EA if they didn't have to eat? they'd be outta
> > there in a fucking second, and back to doing all the
> > cool stuff that many of them do in their spare time.
>
> Complete steaming load of crap. While this is most likely true for
> some people, I know many people that make video games and video game
> music, that love to make it. That love the medium, the product, and
> their art, and that is the reason they are involved.
>
> > look at the incomprehensibly huge amount of resources
> > devoted to generating mediocre cultural crap and then
> > look around at all the good people and institutions
> > you know who have almost no resources.
> > it IS worth asking: is this right?
>
> No.  Its not right.  Either find a way to change it, or make the best
> product you know how with the resources available.
>
> b
>
> --
> Barry Threw
> Media Art and Technology
>
> San Francisco, CA
> Work: 857-544-3967
> Email: bthrew (at) gmail (dot) com
> IM: captogreadmore (AIM)
> http://www.barrythrew.com
>
> "The greatest of the changes that science has brought us is the acuity
> of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty."
>
> - J. Robert Oppenheimer
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>



-- 
kristin miltner
audio professional
www.myspace.com/miltnerunit

From polly.moller at gmail.com  Wed Jan  2 03:48:47 2008
From: polly.moller at gmail.com (Polly Moller)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 03:48:47 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] In memory of Paul Decker, 1959 - 2008
Message-ID: <2eb068d40801020348p730e190bx3a5ca2fd9285fdb@mail.gmail.com>

Dear folks,

Some of you knew my boyfriend of 10 years, Paul Decker.
While not a musician, Paul was a voracious listener and a fan of many
styles of music including ours.  He was also a talented photographer
who took some nice documentary photos of new music shows in years
past, inspiring me to begin documenting concerts myself.  He provided
sound engineering at many of my performances, most recently assisting
KFJC's Mark Laubach in creating his amazing quadraphonic recording of
the Flip Quartet at 21 Grand.

Paul lost his lifelong battle with bipolar disorder, taking his own life.
I found his body in his apartment on January 1st.
He leaves behind family and friends who will miss him terribly.

If you knew Paul, you can honor his memory by thinking deeply and
critically, laughing often, cherishing your loved ones, and really
*enjoying* music.

Thanks...
P.

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From grobair at emusician.com  Wed Jan  2 17:03:56 2008
From: grobair at emusician.com (grobair at emusician.com)
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:03:56 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] In rebuttal to Bernie Holland (for Paul)
Message-ID: <C3A1747C.BAED%grobair@emusician.com>

And in memory of Paul Decker....

A small rant from my former timpani teacher, composer William Kraft:
http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=5360


From grobair at emusician.com  Wed Jan  2 17:15:04 2008
From: grobair at emusician.com (grobair at emusician.com)
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:15:04 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] And Scott Johnson's reply
Message-ID: <C3A17718.BAF2%grobair@emusician.com>

As is:

http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=5382

[Scott's bio includes a gem about " playing an early role in the trend
towards incorporating rock influences into traditionally scored
compositions. " An early role in a trend! Historians, pay attention...]


From Damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Wed Jan  2 21:25:57 2008
From: Damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 21:25:57 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] And Scott Johnson's reply
In-Reply-To: <C3A17718.BAF2%grobair@emusician.com>
References: <C3A17718.BAF2%grobair@emusician.com>
Message-ID: <62528E57-4EF2-4E80-A272-5D16DFA3BE69@balancepointacoustics.com>

Dark.
On Jan 2, 2008, at 5:15 PM, grobair at emusician.com wrote:

> As is:
>
> http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=5382
>
> [Scott's bio includes a gem about " playing an early role in the trend
> towards incorporating rock influences into traditionally scored
> compositions. " An early role in a trend! Historians, pay  
> attention...]
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo





From ingalls at mills.edu  Wed Jan  2 21:40:24 2008
From: ingalls at mills.edu (Matt J. Ingalls)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 21:40:24 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] And Scott Johnson's reply
In-Reply-To: <C3A17718.BAF2%grobair@emusician.com>
References: <C3A17718.BAF2%grobair@emusician.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0801022134001.31294@myfiles.mills.edu>


yea, holland has had a number of embarassingly ignorant articles lately -- 
the 
review of that 
concert at the kitchen by jane rigler et al playing cardew, brown, and 
wolff comes to mind -- he even mentioned it again in his end-of-2007 
article:

"Here was a program of 1960s arrogance and self-absorption, with people 
like Cornelius Cardew, Christian Wolff and Earle Brown as the main 
offenders. Listening to a collection of composers sharing inside jokes and 
private messages in music that reeked of contempt for the public made me 
get down on my knees and give thanks that an era so damaging to music was 
over. It didn't drive an intelligent public away from classical music by 
itself, but it helped."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/arts/music/23holl.html



On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, grobair at emusician.com wrote:

> As is:
>
> http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=5382
>
> [Scott's bio includes a gem about " playing an early role in the trend
> towards incorporating rock influences into traditionally scored
> compositions. " An early role in a trend! Historians, pay attention...]
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>

From mhenry at crypticstudios.com  Wed Jan  2 23:56:10 2008
From: mhenry at crypticstudios.com (Michael Henry)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 23:56:10 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Bernie Holland
Message-ID: <C73CE12E0E2E6D4AA8C97475050023A608C542978E@proserpine.paragon.crypticstudios.com>

Like I said, someone needs to put baby Bernie to bed, it's past his bedtime.  And change his diaper too. And Scott Johnson's while you're at it.

Coincidentally, I was going through some stuff in my archives this very evening and came across an item which says a good deal about Bernie.

Back in '91, he reviewed a Carnegie Hall performance of the Cleveland Orchestra. On the program was Rimsky-Korsakov's "Russian Easter" Overture, about which Bernie quipped:

"With its reputation for denying glitz, the Cleveland can also make its sober style work well in big pieces like Rimsky-Korsakov's "Russian Easter" Overture. The size and grandeur -- without the Technicolor -- were there. Richard Solis's french horn solo was masterly."

Well, small problem Bernie.....there is no horn solo in "Russian Easter." But there is a long trombone solo.

A couple of days after, a correction appeared in the NYT. As follows:

"A music review on Monday about a concert by the Cleveland Orchestra misidentified the trombone soloist in Saturday's performance of Rinsky-Korsakov's "Russian Easter" Overture. He was Allen Kofsky, not Richard Solis."

Of course, the corrections editor couldn't bring himself to embarrass Bernie by pointing out that he had not only misidentified the soloist....he misidentified the instrument (!)

I have heard he is notorious for dozing off during concerts.

-MH



________________________________________

From matthew at matthewgoodheart.com  Thu Jan  3 12:18:56 2008
From: matthew at matthewgoodheart.com (Matthew Goodheart)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:18:56 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Talk o' the Nation
Message-ID: <3D94EE2E-CD7A-4EF7-B9B6-D6C90822FC72@matthewgoodheart.com>

Douglas Rushkoff, who wrote Media Virus a while ago, is on Talk of the  
Nation right now, discussing "trends" - relates to some of the  
conversations we've been having recently. The first 10 minutes was  
kinda interesting. . .


Matthew Goodheart
composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
http://matthewgoodheart.com




From matthew at matthewgoodheart.com  Thu Jan  3 13:05:08 2008
From: matthew at matthewgoodheart.com (Matthew Goodheart)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:05:08 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Talk o' the Nation
In-Reply-To: <3D94EE2E-CD7A-4EF7-B9B6-D6C90822FC72@matthewgoodheart.com>
References: <3D94EE2E-CD7A-4EF7-B9B6-D6C90822FC72@matthewgoodheart.com>
Message-ID: <29F8B91D-D688-406A-9BA9-592C3D43CFA2@matthewgoodheart.com>

Oops. That show sucked. A thousand pardons.

mg

On Jan 3, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Matthew Goodheart wrote:

> Douglas Rushkoff, who wrote Media Virus a while ago, is on Talk of the
> Nation right now, discussing "trends" - relates to some of the
> conversations we've been having recently. The first 10 minutes was
> kinda interesting. . .
>
>
> Matthew Goodheart
> composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
> matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
> http://matthewgoodheart.com
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

Matthew Goodheart
composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
http://matthewgoodheart.com




From grobair at emusician.com  Thu Jan  3 15:15:23 2008
From: grobair at emusician.com (grobair at emusician.com)
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:15:23 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Bassist Chuck Israels teaches free class online
Message-ID: <C3A2AC8B.BC1D%grobair@emusician.com>

....in jazz arrangement. Just an FYI.
http://emusician.com/tutorials/garritan_exploring_jazz_arranging_0103/


From polly.moller at gmail.com  Thu Jan  3 15:36:40 2008
From: polly.moller at gmail.com (Polly Moller)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:36:40 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] A memorial ritual for Paul Decker - Saturday, January 6th
Message-ID: <2eb068d40801031536s61a12ec1g7afa4aa1c38fccc7@mail.gmail.com>

The new music community is cordially invited to a memorial ritual in
honor of Paul Decker.

Saturday, January 6th, 2008
2:00 p.m.
Saratoga Oaks Clubhouse
14690 Springer Avenue
Saratoga, CA

Please bring finger foods to share with everyone afterwards.

The memorial will be a Wiccan ritual, in accordance with Paul's
practice, but designed for everyone of all persuasions to attend and
share.

Please dress as you would for any memorial service.

Directions to the Saratoga Oaks Clubhouse:

>From highway 85, take Saratoga Avenue toward the mountains and the
village of Saratoga.
When you cross Sunnyvale/Saratoga Road, the street becomes Big Basin Way.
Take Big Basin Way through the village and around the curve.
Just before Hakone Gardens, turn right on to Springer Avenue.
This is Saratoga Oaks.
Park near the pool and the clubhouse.

If you get lost, please call:
Kate and Jim - 408 741 7010, or Jim's cell - 408 828 5591

If you have questions, please contact me off list.
Thanks so much.
Polly Moller

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From polly.moller at gmail.com  Thu Jan  3 15:46:11 2008
From: polly.moller at gmail.com (Polly Moller)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:46:11 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Date correction: memorial on January 5th
Message-ID: <2eb068d40801031546w22d27e62x3c5bd20f1b706a36@mail.gmail.com>

My apologies.
P.

The new music community is cordially invited to a memorial ritual in
honor of Paul Decker.

Saturday, January 5th, 2008
2:00 p.m.
Saratoga Oaks Clubhouse
14690 Springer Avenue
Saratoga, CA

Please bring finger foods to share with everyone afterwards.

The memorial will be a Wiccan ritual, in accordance with Paul's
practice, but designed for everyone of all persuasions to attend and
share.

Please dress as you would for any memorial service.

Directions to the Saratoga Oaks Clubhouse:

>From highway 85, take Saratoga Avenue toward the mountains and the
village of Saratoga.
When you cross Sunnyvale/Saratoga Road, the street becomes Big Basin Way.
Take Big Basin Way through the village and around the curve.
Just before Hakone Gardens, turn right on to Springer Avenue.
This is Saratoga Oaks.
Park near the pool and the clubhouse.

If you get lost, please call:
Kate and Jim - 408 741 7010, or Jim's cell - 408 828 5591

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From grobair at emusician.com  Fri Jan  4 12:40:08 2008
From: grobair at emusician.com (grobair at emusician.com)
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:40:08 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Studio baffles, anyone?
Message-ID: <C3A3D9A8.BD26%grobair@emusician.com>

Hey gang,
My office is going through a redesign, and some of the cubicles are being
dismantled and tossed. That means we have quite a few of those baffle walls
here that, while not completely soundproof by any means, are great for
lowering reflections in a reverberant room. Or for isolation during
recording. 

Let me know off-list if you'd like to drop by and pick a couple up; they're
in Emeryville. I also have two long anvil cases here, perfect for drum
stands or lighting: $30 each.

Cheers,
g


From mattdavignon at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 20:03:17 2008
From: mattdavignon at gmail.com (Matt Davignon)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 20:03:17 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] music crap and other crap sale?
Message-ID: <c70e517b0801042003l43d6c809vaaddfc6662b64682@mail.gmail.com>

One of the (few) productive things I'm doing while vacation this week
is going through all my belongings, and cleaning out all the stuff
that I don't need.

Well, I have about 15 years of music-related detritus I never use,
ranging from toy instruments to real instruments to things like cd
jewel cases and a paper cutter (from my DIY cd art days). Some things,
like a printer and DSL modem, could be useful to non-artists too.

Most of this stuff would probably be valuable in the right hands, so I
don't want to throw it away. On the other hand, my attempts to sell
things online result in me agreeing to be home between x and x hours,
waiting for someone to flake on me. So... I'm thinking yard sale,
except about 1/2 the items would have a tag that says, "Free - just
take it".

...Except wouldn't it be cool if others wanted to do the same thing?
Would anyone else want to band together for such a thing? This would
be just like the events held at 21 Grand from time to time, except
it'd be ok to bring non-musical stuff to sell too.

Anyone interested?

Matt

From djcypod at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 21:44:22 2008
From: djcypod at gmail.com (beau)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:44:22 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] inRainbows
Message-ID: <fc5507fa0801042144w425fb42dp51d8cfaa8e9153df@mail.gmail.com>

In case you missed the album when it was online:

http://current.com/items/88803042_radiohead_s_scotch_mist#

From moestaiano1 at yahoo.com  Fri Jan  4 21:53:38 2008
From: moestaiano1 at yahoo.com (Moe! Staiano)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:53:38 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] music crap and other crap sale?
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1199509203.4851.newmusic@music.mills.edu>
Message-ID: <505883.40212.qm@web58715.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

I'd be open to joining in on a yard sale. I have a slew of things I'd want to sell as I do not have enough to a sale for myself. So I'd be happy to join in. Count me in. I'm sure Mr. Alan Anzalone would be into it as well. I'm in and I am sure there'll be others on the list who will do it.

-M!


newmusic-request at music.mills.edu wrote:One of the (few) productive things I'm doing while vacation this week
is going through all my belongings, and cleaning out all the stuff
that I don't need.

Well, I have about 15 years of music-related detritus I never use,
ranging from toy instruments to real instruments to things like cd
jewel cases and a paper cutter (from my DIY cd art days). Some things,
like a printer and DSL modem, could be useful to non-artists too.

Most of this stuff would probably be valuable in the right hands, so I
don't want to throw it away. On the other hand, my attempts to sell
things online result in me agreeing to be home between x and x hours,
waiting for someone to flake on me. So... I'm thinking yard sale,
except about 1/2 the items would have a tag that says, "Free - just
take it".

...Except wouldn't it be cool if others wanted to do the same thing?
Would anyone else want to band together for such a thing? This would
be just like the events held at 21 Grand from time to time, except
it'd be ok to bring non-musical stuff to sell too.

Anyone interested?

Matt


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From mattdavignon at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 22:23:43 2008
From: mattdavignon at gmail.com (Matt Davignon)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 22:23:43 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] inRainbows
In-Reply-To: <fc5507fa0801042144w425fb42dp51d8cfaa8e9153df@mail.gmail.com>
References: <fc5507fa0801042144w425fb42dp51d8cfaa8e9153df@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <c70e517b0801042223u3de27c17s570952a1efb66d78@mail.gmail.com>

I always find it cute when real rock stars dance like muppets when they sing.

On Jan 4, 2008 9:44 PM, beau <djcypod at gmail.com> wrote:
> In case you missed the album when it was online:
>
> http://current.com/items/88803042_radiohead_s_scotch_mist#
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>

From damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Sun Jan  6 08:49:07 2008
From: damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 08:49:07 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] New Youtube Videos
References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <11F6E91F-0559-44AA-A15C-75B2294A8896@balancepointacoustics.com>

Frank Gratkowski/Tim Perkis/Damon Smith/Jerome Bryerton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt675JMZPPs

Frank Gratkowski/Scott R. Looney/Kjell Nordeson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiEPw-ntL3s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBov_UsvOnI

Biggi VInkeloe/Tom Djll/Damon Smith/Jerome Bryerton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWATZduLQM4

William Winant Jerome Bryerton duo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ7NfUoxV2E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BkcVmP9Qo


Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo





From tim at perkis.com  Sun Jan  6 23:24:53 2008
From: tim at perkis.com (Tim Perkis)
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:24:53 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] New Youtube Videos
In-Reply-To: <11F6E91F-0559-44AA-A15C-75B2294A8896@balancepointacoustics.com>
References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<11F6E91F-0559-44AA-A15C-75B2294A8896@balancepointacoustics.com>
Message-ID: <4781D3C5.6080506@perkis.com>

cool damon

I know it's a bit more work, but those concerts were all recorded, 
right? Be a lot nicer with the good audio on them instead of the camera 
audio!

you use iMovie, right? Maybe you can't do that in iMovie, I don't know.

T



Damon Smith wrote:
> Frank Gratkowski/Tim Perkis/Damon Smith/Jerome Bryerton:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt675JMZPPs
>
> Frank Gratkowski/Scott R. Looney/Kjell Nordeson:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiEPw-ntL3s
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBov_UsvOnI
>
> Biggi VInkeloe/Tom Djll/Damon Smith/Jerome Bryerton:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWATZduLQM4
>
> William Winant Jerome Bryerton duo:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ7NfUoxV2E
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BkcVmP9Qo
>
>
> Damon Smith
>
> http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
> http://myspace.com/smithdamon
> New solo project:
> http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>
>   

From Damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Mon Jan  7 09:03:32 2008
From: Damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:03:32 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] New Youtube Videos
In-Reply-To: <4781D3C5.6080506@perkis.com>
References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<11F6E91F-0559-44AA-A15C-75B2294A8896@balancepointacoustics.com>
	<4781D3C5.6080506@perkis.com>
Message-ID: <5CD19220-A258-47F0-8BBA-A52F39714F59@balancepointacoustics.com>

I use imove and it is possible, I don't know how much "hi-fi" youtube  
retains. I'll see what happens when I get the recordings.

On Jan 6, 2008, at 11:24 PM, Tim Perkis wrote:

> cool damon
>
> I know it's a bit more work, but those concerts were all recorded,
> right? Be a lot nicer with the good audio on them instead of the  
> camera
> audio!
>
> you use iMovie, right? Maybe you can't do that in iMovie, I don't  
> know.
>
> T
>
>
>
> Damon Smith wrote:
>> Frank Gratkowski/Tim Perkis/Damon Smith/Jerome Bryerton:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt675JMZPPs
>>
>> Frank Gratkowski/Scott R. Looney/Kjell Nordeson:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiEPw-ntL3s
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBov_UsvOnI
>>
>> Biggi VInkeloe/Tom Djll/Damon Smith/Jerome Bryerton:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWATZduLQM4
>>
>> William Winant Jerome Bryerton duo:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ7NfUoxV2E
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BkcVmP9Qo
>>
>>
>> Damon Smith
>>
>> http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
>> http://myspace.com/smithdamon
>> New solo project:
>> http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
>> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
>> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo





From slusser at pixar.com  Mon Jan  7 13:22:16 2008
From: slusser at pixar.com (David Slusser)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:22:16 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] New Youtube Videos
In-Reply-To: <5CD19220-A258-47F0-8BBA-A52F39714F59@balancepointacoustics.com>
References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<11F6E91F-0559-44AA-A15C-75B2294A8896@balancepointacoustics.com>
	<4781D3C5.6080506@perkis.com>
	<5CD19220-A258-47F0-8BBA-A52F39714F59@balancepointacoustics.com>
Message-ID: <0977DC5A-69B3-40C1-8FDD-E3F62E7AFEF5@pixar.com>

On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Damon Smith wrote:

> I use imove and it is possible, I don't know how much "hi-fi" youtube
> retains. I'll see what happens when I get the recordings.

If you get your settings right, you can have really good audio even with
dismally compressed picture.  Marc Weinstein played me one of my
videos last night that he accessed with his iPhone, and it even sounded
hi-fi on the phone's little speaker.

From jfheule at gmail.com  Mon Jan  7 13:24:29 2008
From: jfheule at gmail.com (jacob felix heule)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:24:29 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] New Youtube Videos
In-Reply-To: <0977DC5A-69B3-40C1-8FDD-E3F62E7AFEF5@pixar.com>
References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<11F6E91F-0559-44AA-A15C-75B2294A8896@balancepointacoustics.com>
	<4781D3C5.6080506@perkis.com>
	<5CD19220-A258-47F0-8BBA-A52F39714F59@balancepointacoustics.com>
	<0977DC5A-69B3-40C1-8FDD-E3F62E7AFEF5@pixar.com>
Message-ID: <9c5cfa860801071324w6c0c431cxf4b153dd0838c28d@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0

On Jan 7, 2008 1:22 PM, David Slusser <slusser at pixar.com> wrote:
> If you get your settings right, you can have really good audio even with
> dismally compressed picture.  Marc Weinstein played me one of my
> videos last night that he accessed with his iPhone, and it even sounded
> hi-fi on the phone's little speaker.

-- 
http://heule.us & http://myspace.com/jacobfelix
http://ettrick.org & http://myspace.com/ettrick

From slusser at pixar.com  Mon Jan  7 14:03:42 2008
From: slusser at pixar.com (David Slusser)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 14:03:42 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] New Youtube Videos
In-Reply-To: <9c5cfa860801071324w6c0c431cxf4b153dd0838c28d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<11F6E91F-0559-44AA-A15C-75B2294A8896@balancepointacoustics.com>
	<4781D3C5.6080506@perkis.com>
	<5CD19220-A258-47F0-8BBA-A52F39714F59@balancepointacoustics.com>
	<0977DC5A-69B3-40C1-8FDD-E3F62E7AFEF5@pixar.com>
	<9c5cfa860801071324w6c0c431cxf4b153dd0838c28d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <76136C1D-08A2-4825-8E68-CE9DA77089DB@pixar.com>

On Jan 7, 2008, at 1:24 PM, jacob felix heule wrote:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0

I love it...but strangely enough, this had pretty nice (less  
compressed due to shortness
of clip) picture, but audibly warbled sound - probably a low bit rate  
or something that
could've easily been better.  Love the message.

From Damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Mon Jan  7 14:12:25 2008
From: Damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 14:12:25 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] New Youtube Videos
In-Reply-To: <76136C1D-08A2-4825-8E68-CE9DA77089DB@pixar.com>
References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<11F6E91F-0559-44AA-A15C-75B2294A8896@balancepointacoustics.com>
	<4781D3C5.6080506@perkis.com>
	<5CD19220-A258-47F0-8BBA-A52F39714F59@balancepointacoustics.com>
	<0977DC5A-69B3-40C1-8FDD-E3F62E7AFEF5@pixar.com>
	<9c5cfa860801071324w6c0c431cxf4b153dd0838c28d@mail.gmail.com>
	<76136C1D-08A2-4825-8E68-CE9DA77089DB@pixar.com>
Message-ID: <B7A93270-FE0B-4417-9E74-8BA4E06616E0@balancepointacoustics.com>

I like to watch movies on my ipod, mainly favorite movies I really  
know well, but also art films form Ubu.org you are just not going to  
see otherwise.

On Jan 7, 2008, at 2:03 PM, David Slusser wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2008, at 1:24 PM, jacob felix heule wrote:
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0
>
> I love it...but strangely enough, this had pretty nice (less
> compressed due to shortness
> of clip) picture, but audibly warbled sound - probably a low bit rate
> or something that
> could've easily been better.  Love the message.
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo





From djcypod at gmail.com  Mon Jan  7 22:10:18 2008
From: djcypod at gmail.com (beau)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:10:18 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] New Youtube Videos
In-Reply-To: <B7A93270-FE0B-4417-9E74-8BA4E06616E0@balancepointacoustics.com>
References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<11F6E91F-0559-44AA-A15C-75B2294A8896@balancepointacoustics.com>
	<4781D3C5.6080506@perkis.com>
	<5CD19220-A258-47F0-8BBA-A52F39714F59@balancepointacoustics.com>
	<0977DC5A-69B3-40C1-8FDD-E3F62E7AFEF5@pixar.com>
	<9c5cfa860801071324w6c0c431cxf4b153dd0838c28d@mail.gmail.com>
	<76136C1D-08A2-4825-8E68-CE9DA77089DB@pixar.com>
	<B7A93270-FE0B-4417-9E74-8BA4E06616E0@balancepointacoustics.com>
Message-ID: <fc5507fa0801072210u414b1ed3lb3ea00c8b1b505a9@mail.gmail.com>

archive.org lets you roll your own files, so you can increase the
resolution without the provider converting them. They also let you
deeplink from other pages. The new interface makes it a lot easier to
upload things.

They don't have as much foot-traffic as youtube, and people can
download the videos.

http://www.archive.org/details/Hubris




On Jan 7, 2008 2:12 PM, Damon Smith <Damon at balancepointacoustics.com> wrote:
> I like to watch movies on my ipod, mainly favorite movies I really
> know well, but also art films form Ubu.org you are just not going to
> see otherwise.
>
>
> On Jan 7, 2008, at 2:03 PM, David Slusser wrote:
>
> > On Jan 7, 2008, at 1:24 PM, jacob felix heule wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0
> >
> > I love it...but strangely enough, this had pretty nice (less
> > compressed due to shortness
> > of clip) picture, but audibly warbled sound - probably a low bit rate
> > or something that
> > could've easily been better.  Love the message.
> > _______________________________________________
> > Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> > NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> > http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>
> Damon Smith
>
> http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
> http://myspace.com/smithdamon
> New solo project:
> http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>

From pgsaxo at pacbell.net  Tue Jan  8 12:00:10 2008
From: pgsaxo at pacbell.net (Phillip Greenlief)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:00:10 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] Andy Gilbert asked to leave Contra Costa Times
In-Reply-To: <B7A93270-FE0B-4417-9E74-8BA4E06616E0@balancepointacoustics.com>
Message-ID: <417102.64382.qm@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hey Folks,
   
  Andrew Gilbert is losing his job as jazz writer at Contra Costa Times. Many of you may know him, he's been a firm supporter of this music and more mainstream jazz (and other genres) for many years here in the bay area.
   
  While the majority of the shows he writes about are "jazz", he has also featured a lot of performances that come out of our community. He's written about my recordings and concerts a lot, and did preview articles on local performances by Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Pauline Oliveros, etc. etc. etc.
   
  Please consider dropping a line to his editor and telling her they're making a mistake by not keeping their readers informed on what's going on in the bay area music scene.
   
  Thanks,
  PG
   
   
  From: Andrew Gilbert

I'm sad to report that my long-running relationship with the Contra 
Costa Times has come to an end. After more than a decade, the Times has
killed my JazzTalk column as part of a larger purge of the paper's 
freelance budget. I'm still contributing to the San Jose Mercury News
and San Francisco Chronicle, but it seems likely that I'll have many 
fewer opportunities to write about Bay Area artists in the coming 
months.

I'm grateful for the opportunity that the Times gave me to cover 
several hundred Bay Area artists, though there are many musicians who I
wished I had written about (or written about more). In the final graph 
of my last column (Dec. 27), I wrote it has been a pleasure and 
privilege covering the Bay Area jazz scene for the Times, writing about
the region's fabulously rich array of artists. Many thanks to the 
players for their time and music, my editors for their support, and the
 readers for their interest and tips.

I doubt the decision is reversible, but if you feel like dropping a 
line to features editor Lisa Wrenn at lwrenn at bayareanewsgroup.com, let 
her know you'll miss jazz coverage in the Times (and feel free to
 pass this note on to anyone who might be interested).

All the best,

Andy Gilbert

From matt at sfsound.org  Tue Jan  8 13:55:29 2008
From: matt at sfsound.org (matt)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:55:29 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] sfSound wins CMA/ASCAP adventurous programming award
Message-ID: <5561C66D-F427-473B-84FE-60CA2F30E16C@sfsound.org>

(2nd place for New Music Ensemble)


Bay Area groups DelSol String Quartet and Earplay also won awards

http://www.chamber-music.org/pdf/FY08%20CMA%20ASCAP%20press%20release.pdf

m@



From pgsaxo at pacbell.net  Tue Jan  8 14:11:55 2008
From: pgsaxo at pacbell.net (Phillip Greenlief)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:11:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] sfSound wins CMA/ASCAP adventurous programming award
In-Reply-To: <5561C66D-F427-473B-84FE-60CA2F30E16C@sfsound.org>
Message-ID: <831425.43463.qm@web81415.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Congratulations to ma++ and everyone at sfSound on the award!
   
  Interesting to see the series at LACMA receiving the award. It was a great series - but I hear they're discontinuing it...
   
  Here's to a first place award in 2008!

PG

matt <matt at sfsound.org> wrote:
  (2nd place for New Music Ensemble)


Bay Area groups DelSol String Quartet and Earplay also won awards

http://www.chamber-music.org/pdf/FY08%20CMA%20ASCAP%20press%20release.pdf

m@


_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic


From letucepry at yahoo.com  Tue Jan  8 14:41:07 2008
From: letucepry at yahoo.com (Ron Lettuce)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:41:07 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] DoubleTake(sfSound wins CMA/ASCAP adventurous
	programming award)
Message-ID: <484538.96772.qm@web50309.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

http://www.cmaworld.com/

????


lettuce


----- Original Message ----
From: Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 2:11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] sfSound wins CMA/ASCAP adventurous programming award

Congratulations to ma++ and everyone at sfSound on the award!
  
  Interesting to see the series at LACMA receiving the award. It was a great series - but I hear they're discontinuing it...
  
  Here's to a first place award in 2008!

PG

matt <matt at sfsound.org> wrote:
  (2nd place for New Music Ensemble)


Bay Area groups DelSol String Quartet and Earplay also won awards

http://www.chamber-music.org/pdf/FY08%20CMA%20ASCAP%20press%20release.pdf

m@


_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

From adam at otherminds.org  Tue Jan  8 14:58:03 2008
From: adam at otherminds.org (Adam Fong)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:58:03 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] sfSound wins CMA/ASCAP adventurous programming award
In-Reply-To: <831425.43463.qm@web81415.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <831425.43463.qm@web81415.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <5C1B701F-90CA-4BF4-871F-E6629349CB81@otherminds.org>

The Monday Evening Concerts at LACMA are continuing, but not at  
LACMA: www.mondayeveningconcerts.org
Last year they did one at REDCAT, but Zipper Hall at Colburn School  
seems to be their new home.

adam


On Jan 8, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Phillip Greenlief wrote:

> Congratulations to ma++ and everyone at sfSound on the award!
>
>   Interesting to see the series at LACMA receiving the award. It  
> was a great series - but I hear they're discontinuing it...
>
>   Here's to a first place award in 2008!
>
> PG
>
> matt <matt at sfsound.org> wrote:
>   (2nd place for New Music Ensemble)
>
>
> Bay Area groups DelSol String Quartet and Earplay also won awards
>
> http://www.chamber-music.org/pdf/FY08%20CMA%20ASCAP%20press% 
> 20release.pdf
>
> m@
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic


From pgsaxo at pacbell.net  Tue Jan  8 15:54:47 2008
From: pgsaxo at pacbell.net (Phillip Greenlief)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:54:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] sfSound wins CMA/ASCAP adventurous programming award
In-Reply-To: <5C1B701F-90CA-4BF4-871F-E6629349CB81@otherminds.org>
Message-ID: <265443.35125.qm@web81414.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

thanks for the update, adam!
   
  pg

Adam Fong <adam at otherminds.org> wrote:
  The Monday Evening Concerts at LACMA are continuing, but not at 
LACMA: www.mondayeveningconcerts.org
Last year they did one at REDCAT, but Zipper Hall at Colburn School 
seems to be their new home.

adam


On Jan 8, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Phillip Greenlief wrote:

> Congratulations to ma++ and everyone at sfSound on the award!
>
> Interesting to see the series at LACMA receiving the award. It 
> was a great series - but I hear they're discontinuing it...
>
> Here's to a first place award in 2008!
>
> PG
>
> matt wrote:
> (2nd place for New Music Ensemble)
>
>
> Bay Area groups DelSol String Quartet and Earplay also won awards
>
> http://www.chamber-music.org/pdf/FY08%20CMA%20ASCAP%20press% 
> 20release.pdf
>
> m@
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic


From ingalls at mills.edu  Tue Jan  8 16:45:14 2008
From: ingalls at mills.edu (Matt J. Ingalls)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:45:14 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] DoubleTake(sfSound wins CMA/ASCAP adventurous
 programming award)
In-Reply-To: <484538.96772.qm@web50309.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References: <484538.96772.qm@web50309.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0801081644490.28990@myfiles.mills.edu>


no, chambermusicamerica

http://www.chamber-music.org/


On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Ron Lettuce wrote:

> http://www.cmaworld.com/
>
> ????
>
>
> lettuce
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>
> To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 2:11:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [NewMusic] sfSound wins CMA/ASCAP adventurous programming award
>
> Congratulations to ma++ and everyone at sfSound on the award!
>
>  Interesting to see the series at LACMA receiving the award. It was a great series - but I hear they're discontinuing it...
>
>  Here's to a first place award in 2008!
>
> PG
>
> matt <matt at sfsound.org> wrote:
>  (2nd place for New Music Ensemble)
>
>
> Bay Area groups DelSol String Quartet and Earplay also won awards
>
> http://www.chamber-music.org/pdf/FY08%20CMA%20ASCAP%20press%20release.pdf
>
> m@
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>

From ingalls at mills.edu  Tue Jan  8 16:48:09 2008
From: ingalls at mills.edu (Matt J. Ingalls)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:48:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] sfSound wins CMA/ASCAP adventurous programming award
In-Reply-To: <5C1B701F-90CA-4BF4-871F-E6629349CB81@otherminds.org>
References: <831425.43463.qm@web81415.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<5C1B701F-90CA-4BF4-871F-E6629349CB81@otherminds.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0801081645250.28990@myfiles.mills.edu>



they are doing lachenmann's "mouvement" in april!


On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Adam Fong wrote:

> The Monday Evening Concerts at LACMA are continuing, but not at
> LACMA: www.mondayeveningconcerts.org
> Last year they did one at REDCAT, but Zipper Hall at Colburn School
> seems to be their new home.
>
> adam
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Phillip Greenlief wrote:
>
>> Congratulations to ma++ and everyone at sfSound on the award!
>>
>>   Interesting to see the series at LACMA receiving the award. It
>> was a great series - but I hear they're discontinuing it...
>>
>>   Here's to a first place award in 2008!
>>
>> PG
>>
>> matt <matt at sfsound.org> wrote:
>>   (2nd place for New Music Ensemble)
>>
>>
>> Bay Area groups DelSol String Quartet and Earplay also won awards
>>
>> http://www.chamber-music.org/pdf/FY08%20CMA%20ASCAP%20press%
>> 20release.pdf
>>
>> m@
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
>> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
>> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
>> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
>> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>

From pgsaxo at pacbell.net  Tue Jan  8 17:46:25 2008
From: pgsaxo at pacbell.net (Phillip Greenlief)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:46:25 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] sfSound wins CMA/ASCAP adventurous programming award
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0801081645250.28990@myfiles.mills.edu>
Message-ID: <595167.44834.qm@web81412.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I worked stage crew on that series for a few years back in the late 80's. They always presented great shows.
   
  PG
  

"Matt J. Ingalls" <ingalls at mills.edu> wrote:
  

they are doing lachenmann's "mouvement" in april!


On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Adam Fong wrote:

> The Monday Evening Concerts at LACMA are continuing, but not at
> LACMA: www.mondayeveningconcerts.org
> Last year they did one at REDCAT, but Zipper Hall at Colburn School
> seems to be their new home.
>
> adam
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Phillip Greenlief wrote:
>
>> Congratulations to ma++ and everyone at sfSound on the award!
>>
>> Interesting to see the series at LACMA receiving the award. It
>> was a great series - but I hear they're discontinuing it...
>>
>> Here's to a first place award in 2008!
>>
>> PG
>>
>> matt wrote:
>> (2nd place for New Music Ensemble)
>>
>>
>> Bay Area groups DelSol String Quartet and Earplay also won awards
>>
>> http://www.chamber-music.org/pdf/FY08%20CMA%20ASCAP%20press%
>> 20release.pdf
>>
>> m@
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
>> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
>> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
>> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
>> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>
_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic


From Damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Tue Jan  8 18:03:28 2008
From: Damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:03:28 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] sfSound wins CMA/ASCAP adventurous programming award
In-Reply-To: <595167.44834.qm@web81412.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <595167.44834.qm@web81412.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <B614C32C-097F-45C9-8FC4-62159C4EFFB8@balancepointacoustics.com>

Doing Lachenmann and all that is fine and dandy, the important news  
about LACMA is they are opening a contemporary wing this year with an  
amazing collection that will include EVERY SINGLE Joseph Beuys  
mulitple! That is going to be awesome.

Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo





From relijun at hotmail.com  Tue Jan  8 20:02:19 2008
From: relijun at hotmail.com (arrington de dionyso)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:02:19 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] RIP Michael Griffin
In-Reply-To: <B614C32C-097F-45C9-8FC4-62159C4EFFB8@balancepointacoustics.com>
References: <595167.44834.qm@web81412.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<B614C32C-097F-45C9-8FC4-62159C4EFFB8@balancepointacoustics.com>
Message-ID: <BAY101-W260F1C93AD8571F7113FCDAC490@phx.gbl>


This is a letter from Aral, Michael Griffin's daughter.  I'm not sure if many on this list knew Michael, he was based in Bellingham, WA for decades and played the electric violin in free jazz, free folk, noise, and death metal projects with intensity and abandon. He was and is a lovely, lovely man. 
 
 
Hi folks, I'm sorry to be telling you all this in such a relatively impersonal group email. Dad died early yesterday morning. It was very peaceful, and I think it happened as close to the way he wanted it to happen as Adam, Mom, and I could make it.  He decided last Wednesday that he wanted to come home from the hospital, so we worked with the hospital and the home health care agency to make that happen, and he came home on Thursday evening. Friday was a rough day, but he made it through. Sunday was rough again, and by Sunday night, we all knew which direction things were moving in. Our very dear friends Jordan and Corey were visiting that day, and at one point Sunday night, Dad asked us to take him out to the kitchen. So he sat around the kitchen table with us for a bit, and he had a few sips of coffee. It felt *so* good to be able to do that. Later that night, it became really clear that he was nearing the end, and we all just stayed with him in his room. Corey decided to stay, which was an amazing and wonderful thing for all of us, and we all sat around Dad's bed and held his hands and touched him, and we spent the night talking with each other and telling stories and laughing. When Dad had moments of lucidity, we told him what was happening and what we were doing: that he was at home in his bed, that we were there, that we were just being with him and hanging out.  At one point, he told us he was ready and asked us to take out the oxygen and the feeding tube, and we did, and we stayed with him until the end. It was so peaceful. He told us in the hospital that when he was ready, he wanted to be home, and he wanted to just get *really* comfortable and drift away. He talked about the Dylan Thomas poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" and how alien it seemed to him to "rage" against dying. We made it the way he wanted as much as we could could, and he was surrounded by people who love him and that he loved. I want to thank you for the emails and the letters and cds in the mail. I read them to Dad, and he appreciated hearing from all of you.  We're not doing any kind of service or memorial right away. Adam had the *awesome* idea to turn his bedroom into a kind of memorial gallery for a while. So he's working on making it feel really comfortable, hanging art, making it a place that people can spend time with Michael. When we have that ready, I'll let people know, and folks can get in touch with us if they want to come and hang out for a while, in a low-key, have whatever kind of experience you want to have, kind of way.  Later, we're probably going to put together some kind of big memorial celebration party. I'd like to spread the word about that as widely as possible when we do, and I might ask for help with that. Also, if anyone has ideas about things to do for that, we're totally into having input from everyone. I can't imagine we'd be ready to do that for several months at least, so we're not feeling in a rush. Our energy for phone conversation is still pretty limited at this point, but I'll keep in touch with everyone by email as plans develop for this stuff. I'll probably be ready for some phone calls within a couple weeks, but for now there's a lot of adjusting to do. Also, feel free to forward this email to anyone you think might want to know. Anyone is welcome to email me if they want to be added to the email list for info about visiting and about the memorial stuff.  Again, I'm really sorry to have to communicate this so impersonally, but please know that your connections with Dad, and with me, are giving me a lot of comfort right now, and I send a lot of love out to all of you. Aral
_________________________________________________________________
Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live.
http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008

From mattdavignon at gmail.com  Wed Jan  9 02:52:30 2008
From: mattdavignon at gmail.com (Matt Davignon)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 02:52:30 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] on the radio today (Wednesday)
Message-ID: <c70e517b0801090252r22354e04r4285e92034df8376@mail.gmail.com>

if anyone's insterested, I'll be on KUSF today at 2:00 pm. Not a live
performance, instead I'm being interviewed by Chris Cook and we'll be
playing some cd's.

Matt Davignon
www.ribosomemusic.com

From jfheule at gmail.com  Wed Jan  9 23:26:20 2008
From: jfheule at gmail.com (jacob felix heule)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:26:20 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] instant gratification
Message-ID: <9c5cfa860801092326vf28ec3dq43aae2404c780ce0@mail.gmail.com>

no need to go to shows anymore! they're on the internet!

moe staiano @ meridian gallery, 2 hours ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceP3_Xa1Wqs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74578389 at N00/sets/72157600278274486/

jacob

-- 
http://heule.us & http://myspace.com/jacobfelix
http://ettrick.org & http://myspace.com/ettrick

From grobair at emusician.com  Thu Jan 10 10:31:49 2008
From: grobair at emusician.com (grobair at emusician.com)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:31:49 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] DVD playback question for the group
Message-ID: <C3ABA495.C233%grobair@emusician.com>

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. It's been very helpful. It's a bit of a
gamble to release it on DVD, rather than a box of CDs, not only with
purchaser/listeners but also with, say, college radio (traditionally our
biggest media supporters). But to those of us involved, it makes the most
sense aesthetically, just as it did for Mode to do the Feldman works on DVD.

We've tried this project a number of ways t o make this work in this format,
and we'll keep it up till we're satisfied that it works.
. 
To answer Andrew's question, I think it has to with the fact that this is a
dual-layer DVD that we're having problems on laptops. It is working fine on
the tower computers I've used, such as a Mac G4 "mirror door". The problem
is that the tracks on the second layer don't always play on the laptops
we've tried. Some do, and some don't. So, at least we know that the DVD is
in this form on most systems. I'm just trying to figure out the
compatibility issue. The disc itself passes all the diagnostic tests for a
replicated disc (that is, it's within tolerances).

I realize some of you will rip this to iTunes to listen to it in the car or
in the woods and that's fine with me. I just want to make sure that
"friendly experiencers" get a full-resolution copy that works on the
majority of playback devices, just in case they want to sit in one place for
6.5 hours! :-)

Again, any and all comments are welcome. Feel free to contact me offlist.
Best,
ginorobair

PS: in the meantime, I still have handful of copies of the CD reissue of
"Duets 1987", which was remastered with extra tracks. Let me know if you're
interested. 

* * * * * * *

Posted by: "Andrew Grathwohl" agrathwohl at gmail.com ? theoutletserver
Wed Jan?9,?2008 6:59?am (PST)
In my particular situation, I will not be buying the DVD unless I can be
assured compatibility on a computer DVD-ROM drive. The reason is because, as
a college student, I use my laptop to watch and read DVDs, so I have no use
to buy a standalone DVD player. I have a dedicated CD player, as an audio
major, but again, no use for a standalone DVD player.

I attend the Jacobs School of Music's Recording Arts department, and I may
be able to ask one of my professors (one of whom essentially championed the
release of music on the DVD format) about your particular question. I'll get
back to you later on what my professors say about this...

I should specify: What exactly has been wrong with the DVD's compatibility
on the DVD-ROM drives? Have some drives been successful in reading the DVD,
and others not? Or is this an issue of software mostly?

If the DVD can at least be read by the computer, then one should be able to
view (or "explore", for OSX users) the disc and copy off the relevant audio
files. There are plenty of free, open source applications that can play PCM
audio files. If you can't even get as far as copying the files to the
computer from the DVD, then I'm sure my professors can tell you whether or
not full compatibility is even possible...


-Andrew Grathwohl


From grobair at emusician.com  Thu Jan 10 12:18:56 2008
From: grobair at emusician.com (grobair at emusician.com)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:18:56 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Sarah from 21G on Kalx right now
Message-ID: <C3ABBDB0.C271%grobair@emusician.com>

Tune in!!!


From grobair at emusician.com  Thu Jan 10 12:19:25 2008
From: grobair at emusician.com (grobair at emusician.com)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:19:25 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Sorry about DVD post
Message-ID: <C3ABBDCD.C272%grobair@emusician.com>

It went to the wrong list. Apologies for the bandwidth wasting....


From grobair at emusician.com  Thu Jan 10 14:36:43 2008
From: grobair at emusician.com (grobair at emusician.com)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:36:43 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Nels Cline contact
Message-ID: <C3ABDDFB.C2CB%grobair@emusician.com>

Hey y'all, 
Can someone share Nels's email or phone number with me offlist? Thanks.
g


From grobair at emusician.com  Fri Jan 11 16:19:55 2008
From: grobair at emusician.com (grobair at emusician.com)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:19:55 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Office furniture: free!
Message-ID: <C3AD47AB.C41C%grobair@emusician.com>

Hey,
You read it here. If anyone needs a big desk, or some file cabinets,
stackable drawers, cubicle baffles for sound deadening, maybe even some
software, etc, let me know off list. It's all here in Emeryville, and all
you have to do is back up the truck at the back door. It's all going away in
a few days, so don't delay: we all have home studios that needs a desk,
right? Right?
ginorobair


From grobair at emusician.com  Fri Jan 11 16:51:45 2008
From: grobair at emusician.com (grobair at emusician.com)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:51:45 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Do you have a PC laptop with DVD drive?
Message-ID: <C3AD4F21.C42A%grobair@emusician.com>

If so, let's talk offlist. I'm doing some compatibility research and would
like your feedback. Thanks!
ginorobair


From matthew at matthewgoodheart.com  Sun Jan 13 13:59:03 2008
From: matthew at matthewgoodheart.com (Matthew Goodheart)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:59:03 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Music and Architecture
Message-ID: <A3D93BC9-B0F3-400B-9FBF-68D2C9676C88@matthewgoodheart.com>

I bumped into this lecture from Jonathan Cole at Gresham Univ.,  
thought some folks might find it interesting. Some nice bit of  
history, and then goes on the talk about Stockhausen and Xenakis . . .

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=108&EventId=609


I've been plowing through places to find these type of lectures, there  
seems to be a lot online. If anyone has copies of the Schoenberg and  
Modernism lectures at Columbia Interactive (you need to be a student,  
faculty, or alum to log in. . .) I'd love to hear it. Also if anyone  
knows other places to find these kind of lectures on any musical  
subject, let me know. . . I've recently been plowing through the links  
on this site: http://helpychalk.blogspot.com/2006/04/downloadable-lectures.html


Matthew Goodheart
composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
http://matthewgoodheart.com




From bthrew at gmail.com  Sun Jan 13 18:14:49 2008
From: bthrew at gmail.com (barry threw)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:14:49 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Music and Architecture
In-Reply-To: <A3D93BC9-B0F3-400B-9FBF-68D2C9676C88@matthewgoodheart.com>
References: <A3D93BC9-B0F3-400B-9FBF-68D2C9676C88@matthewgoodheart.com>
Message-ID: <AC3BBD91-84A7-4A5A-99CC-7773910C3670@gmail.com>

I see your lectures, and raise you old out of print electronic music  
recordings:

http://orpheusrecords.blogspot.com/

b


On Jan 13, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Matthew Goodheart wrote:

> I bumped into this lecture from Jonathan Cole at Gresham Univ.,
> thought some folks might find it interesting. Some nice bit of
> history, and then goes on the talk about Stockhausen and Xenakis . . .
>
> http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=108&EventId=609
>
>
> I've been plowing through places to find these type of lectures, there
> seems to be a lot online. If anyone has copies of the Schoenberg and
> Modernism lectures at Columbia Interactive (you need to be a student,
> faculty, or alum to log in. . .) I'd love to hear it. Also if anyone
> knows other places to find these kind of lectures on any musical
> subject, let me know. . . I've recently been plowing through the links
> on this site: http://helpychalk.blogspot.com/2006/04/downloadable-lectures.html
>
>
> Matthew Goodheart
> composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
> matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
> http://matthewgoodheart.com
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

--
Barry Threw
Media Art and Technology

San Francisco, CA
Work: 857-544-3967
Email: bthrew (at) gmail (dot) com
IM: captogreadmore (AIM)
http://www.barrythrew.com

"The greatest of the changes that science has brought us is the acuity  
of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty."
- J. Robert Oppenheimer


From mhenry at crypticstudios.com  Sun Jan 13 22:51:46 2008
From: mhenry at crypticstudios.com (Michael Henry)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:51:46 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Music and Architecture
Message-ID: <C73CE12E0E2E6D4AA8C97475050023A608C6BB89D6@proserpine.paragon.crypticstudios.com>

Why not go to the source if you want to know more about Schoenberg?

http://www.schoenberg.at/6_archiv/voice/voice_e.htm

The Schoenberg center is a great place to start.
----------------------------------------------------------------------


>I've been plowing through places to find these type of lectures, there
>seems to be a lot online. If anyone has copies of the Schoenberg and
>Modernism lectures at Columbia Interactive (you need to be a student,
>faculty, or alum to log in. . .) I'd love to hear it. Also if anyone
>knows other places to find these kind of lectures on any musical
>subject, let me know. . . I've recently been plowing through the links
>on this site: http://helpychalk.blogspot.com/2006/04/downloadable-lectures.html
>
>
>Matthew Goodheart
>composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
>matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
>http://matthewgoodheart.com



From adam at otherminds.org  Mon Jan 14 09:50:12 2008
From: adam at otherminds.org (Adam Fong)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:50:12 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Music and Architecture
In-Reply-To: <C73CE12E0E2E6D4AA8C97475050023A608C6BB89D6@proserpine.paragon.crypticstudios.com>
References: <C73CE12E0E2E6D4AA8C97475050023A608C6BB89D6@proserpine.paragon.crypticstudios.com>
Message-ID: <B6868A73-80E6-4E46-A394-27F92D2D060F@otherminds.org>

Shameless plug, hopefully many of you have already visit radiOM....

http://radiom.org/

On the left panel there's a category "Lectures & Panel Discussions".  
The first program by Ben Johnston is great, if you haven't seen it  
already or surfed into it at the Internet Archive. We're working on  
posting more of the panel discussions from Other Minds festivals as  
well. Also, the Improv21 talks can be found by searching or if you  
browse under "Interview & Music".

Recently I was trolling the Stanford section in iTunes, and must say  
what I've listened to so far has been pretty disappointing (not  
musical subjects, just other arts/humanities subjects). Has anyone  
tried the lectures from other Universities and found anything  
interesting, or is searching through iTunes a dead-end in itself?


--
Adam Fong
Associate Director
Other Minds
333 Valencia Street, Suite 303
San Francisco, CA  94103
(415) 934-8134
(415) 934-8136 fax
adam at otherminds.org
http://www.otherminds.org
http://www.radiom.org



On Jan 13, 2008, at 10:51 PM, Michael Henry wrote:

> Why not go to the source if you want to know more about Schoenberg?
>
> http://www.schoenberg.at/6_archiv/voice/voice_e.htm
>
> The Schoenberg center is a great place to start.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>> I've been plowing through places to find these type of lectures,  
>> there
>> seems to be a lot online. If anyone has copies of the Schoenberg and
>> Modernism lectures at Columbia Interactive (you need to be a student,
>> faculty, or alum to log in. . .) I'd love to hear it. Also if anyone
>> knows other places to find these kind of lectures on any musical
>> subject, let me know. . . I've recently been plowing through the  
>> links
>> on this site: http://helpychalk.blogspot.com/2006/04/downloadable- 
>> lectures.html
>>
>>
>> Matthew Goodheart
>> composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
>> matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
>> http://matthewgoodheart.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic


From letucepry at yahoo.com  Mon Jan 14 10:54:57 2008
From: letucepry at yahoo.com (Ron Lettuce)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:54:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] Save the Sausage
Message-ID: <428337.5558.qm@web50311.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

A news story of particular relevance to this group:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080114/ap_on_fe_st/switzerland_endangered_sausage;_ylt=AkQXbwgJojuedfvcNhcxBsguQE4F


lettuce

From dv at double-vision.biz  Mon Jan 14 13:06:11 2008
From: dv at double-vision.biz (DOUBLE VISION)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:06:11 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] WOW - This Friday @ 8pm
Message-ID: <c23dd8410801141306h761609f5l4c227a1b6c32a124@mail.gmail.com>

What: *WOW Festival - Special Intermedia Performance Night*
Where: The Garage, 975 Howard Street (btw 5th and 6th), San Francisco
When: Jan. 18, 2008 [8pm] (Entire festival runs throughout January)
Cost: $15-20
Info/Tix: *http://www.double-vision.biz/wow.html*

Now in its eighth year, the annual Women on the Way Festival is produced by
Artistic Director, Mary Alice Fry. The festival runs throughout the month of
January at Shotwell Studio and The Garage. This year the festival will host
a ONE NIGHT ONLY, special intermedia event featuring internationally renown
experimental artists *Laetitia Sonami* and *Les Stuck* on January 18.  This
event will also feature intermedia performance group *DOUBLE VISION*.

*LAETITIA SONAMI *is an electronic composer, performer and sound
installation artist. Her performance work combines text, music and found
sound in compositions that have been called "performance novels". Her
interactive installations focus on embedding every day objects with kinetic
and sonic personalities. She is best known for her lady's glove, an evening
black lycra glove studded with a myriad of sensors, which allows to track
her body's motion and turn movement into sound.

Sonami creates a truly original, intimate, spontaneous art form,
transcending the technology with which it's made. The recipient of numerous
awards among which the Herb Alperts Awards for the Arts, Sonami has been
performing internationally and lives in the Bay Area. "...Experimental music
is rarely this visceral and engaging" Los Angeles Times

*LES STUCK* has composed music for William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, Alonzo
King, Alex Ketley, David Parsons, Charlie Moulton and Hiroshi Koike; with
commissions by the Nederlands Dans Theater, the New York City Ballet, the
Paris Opera Ballet, the Tokyo Ballet, the Tokyo National Opera, and the
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. He has created numerous works with
dancer-movement-controlled computer music, notably for the Kanagawa Arts
Festival and Tokyo's ICC museum. His video "bars + tone" has been shown at
six film festivals and received the "Best of Show--Experimental" award at
the Berkeley Film Festival.

Intermedia performance group, *DOUBLE VISION*, creates contemporary
performances for dance, music, video and interactive technology. At the
heart of our work is a need to experiment and seek meaning in the
ever-changing landscape of contemporary culture. The result, is a body of
work that is complex, humorous, quirky and continuously evolving.

From Damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Mon Jan 14 13:09:51 2008
From: Damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:09:51 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] WOW - This Friday @ 8pm
In-Reply-To: <c23dd8410801141306h761609f5l4c227a1b6c32a124@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c23dd8410801141306h761609f5l4c227a1b6c32a124@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <67C8BC64-56D6-4425-805D-BA47F45268B2@balancepointacoustics.com>

Not to dig up old grudges but I had to physically stop Mary Alice Fry  
from stealing money from artists as well as mediate between artists  
she promised guarantees to and refused to pay.
It was bad enough that I would still encourage boycotting any  
production she has any role in.

On Jan 14, 2008, at 1:06 PM, DOUBLE VISION wrote:

> What: *WOW Festival - Special Intermedia Performance Night*
> Where: The Garage, 975 Howard Street (btw 5th and 6th), San Francisco
> When: Jan. 18, 2008 [8pm] (Entire festival runs throughout January)
> Cost: $15-20
> Info/Tix: *http://www.double-vision.biz/wow.html*
>
> Now in its eighth year, the annual Women on the Way Festival is  
> produced by
> Artistic Director, Mary Alice Fry. The festival runs throughout the  
> month of
> January at Shotwell Studio and The Garage. This year the festival  
> will host
> a ONE NIGHT ONLY, special intermedia event featuring  
> internationally renown
> experimental artists *Laetitia Sonami* and *Les Stuck* on January  
> 18.  This
> event will also feature intermedia performance group *DOUBLE VISION*.
>
> *LAETITIA SONAMI *is an electronic composer, performer and sound
> installation artist. Her performance work combines text, music and  
> found
> sound in compositions that have been called "performance novels". Her
> interactive installations focus on embedding every day objects with  
> kinetic
> and sonic personalities. She is best known for her lady's glove, an  
> evening
> black lycra glove studded with a myriad of sensors, which allows to  
> track
> her body's motion and turn movement into sound.
>
> Sonami creates a truly original, intimate, spontaneous art form,
> transcending the technology with which it's made. The recipient of  
> numerous
> awards among which the Herb Alperts Awards for the Arts, Sonami has  
> been
> performing internationally and lives in the Bay Area.  
> "...Experimental music
> is rarely this visceral and engaging" Los Angeles Times
>
> *LES STUCK* has composed music for William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian,  
> Alonzo
> King, Alex Ketley, David Parsons, Charlie Moulton and Hiroshi  
> Koike; with
> commissions by the Nederlands Dans Theater, the New York City  
> Ballet, the
> Paris Opera Ballet, the Tokyo Ballet, the Tokyo National Opera, and  
> the
> Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. He has created numerous works with
> dancer-movement-controlled computer music, notably for the Kanagawa  
> Arts
> Festival and Tokyo's ICC museum. His video "bars + tone" has been  
> shown at
> six film festivals and received the "Best of Show--Experimental"  
> award at
> the Berkeley Film Festival.
>
> Intermedia performance group, *DOUBLE VISION*, creates contemporary
> performances for dance, music, video and interactive technology. At  
> the
> heart of our work is a need to experiment and seek meaning in the
> ever-changing landscape of contemporary culture. The result, is a  
> body of
> work that is complex, humorous, quirky and continuously evolving.
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo





From 21grand at 21grand.org  Mon Jan 14 13:23:15 2008
From: 21grand at 21grand.org (Sarah - 21 Grand)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:23:15 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic]  WOW - This Friday @ 8pm
Message-ID: <C3B112C3.252CE%21grand@21grand.org>

Not to dig up any other old grudges, but why does this person keep posting
events to the discussion list?

sl


From dv at double-vision.biz  Mon Jan 14 14:27:15 2008
From: dv at double-vision.biz (DOUBLE VISION)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:27:15 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] WOW - This Friday @ 8pm
In-Reply-To: <67C8BC64-56D6-4425-805D-BA47F45268B2@balancepointacoustics.com>
References: <c23dd8410801141306h761609f5l4c227a1b6c32a124@mail.gmail.com>
	<67C8BC64-56D6-4425-805D-BA47F45268B2@balancepointacoustics.com>
Message-ID: <c23dd8410801141427i71656e5bta982e171b776f62@mail.gmail.com>

Damon,
Sorry to hear you had some problems in the past with Mary Alice.  I
certainly had no knowledge of this before sending to the list.  I just
thought it was a show worth mentioning because of the excellent performers
in the line-up; so that they could be supported as well as innovative sound
& performance in the bay area.

Thanks,
pauline

p.s. my apologies for sending this to the list - i didn't realize events had
to be posted on a separate list.


On Jan 14, 2008 1:09 PM, Damon Smith <Damon at balancepointacoustics.com>
wrote:

> Not to dig up old grudges but I had to physically stop Mary Alice Fry
> from stealing money from artists as well as mediate between artists
> she promised guarantees to and refused to pay.
> It was bad enough that I would still encourage boycotting any
> production she has any role in.
>
> On Jan 14, 2008, at 1:06 PM, DOUBLE VISION wrote:
>
> > What: *WOW Festival - Special Intermedia Performance Night*
> > Where: The Garage, 975 Howard Street (btw 5th and 6th), San Francisco
> > When: Jan. 18, 2008 [8pm] (Entire festival runs throughout January)
> > Cost: $15-20
> > Info/Tix: *http://www.double-vision.biz/wow.html*
> >
> > Now in its eighth year, the annual Women on the Way Festival is
> > produced by
> > Artistic Director, Mary Alice Fry. The festival runs throughout the
> > month of
> > January at Shotwell Studio and The Garage. This year the festival
> > will host
> > a ONE NIGHT ONLY, special intermedia event featuring
> > internationally renown
> > experimental artists *Laetitia Sonami* and *Les Stuck* on January
> > 18.  This
> > event will also feature intermedia performance group *DOUBLE VISION*.
> >
> > *LAETITIA SONAMI *is an electronic composer, performer and sound
> > installation artist. Her performance work combines text, music and
> > found
> > sound in compositions that have been called "performance novels". Her
> > interactive installations focus on embedding every day objects with
> > kinetic
> > and sonic personalities. She is best known for her lady's glove, an
> > evening
> > black lycra glove studded with a myriad of sensors, which allows to
> > track
> > her body's motion and turn movement into sound.
> >
> > Sonami creates a truly original, intimate, spontaneous art form,
> > transcending the technology with which it's made. The recipient of
> > numerous
> > awards among which the Herb Alperts Awards for the Arts, Sonami has
> > been
> > performing internationally and lives in the Bay Area.
> > "...Experimental music
> > is rarely this visceral and engaging" Los Angeles Times
> >
> > *LES STUCK* has composed music for William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian,
> > Alonzo
> > King, Alex Ketley, David Parsons, Charlie Moulton and Hiroshi
> > Koike; with
> > commissions by the Nederlands Dans Theater, the New York City
> > Ballet, the
> > Paris Opera Ballet, the Tokyo Ballet, the Tokyo National Opera, and
> > the
> > Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. He has created numerous works with
> > dancer-movement-controlled computer music, notably for the Kanagawa
> > Arts
> > Festival and Tokyo's ICC museum. His video "bars + tone" has been
> > shown at
> > six film festivals and received the "Best of Show--Experimental"
> > award at
> > the Berkeley Film Festival.
> >
> > Intermedia performance group, *DOUBLE VISION*, creates contemporary
> > performances for dance, music, video and interactive technology. At
> > the
> > heart of our work is a need to experiment and seek meaning in the
> > ever-changing landscape of contemporary culture. The result, is a
> > body of
> > work that is complex, humorous, quirky and continuously evolving.
> > _______________________________________________
> > Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> > NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> > http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>
> Damon Smith
>
> http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
> http://myspace.com/smithdamon
> New solo project:
> http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>

From mattdavignon at gmail.com  Mon Jan 14 18:06:29 2008
From: mattdavignon at gmail.com (Matt Davignon)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:06:29 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] does anyone (personally) know The Books?
Message-ID: <c70e517b0801141806w54025e74lb581bc707bac31e5@mail.gmail.com>

If so, please contact me off list. I'm trying to invite them to play
at a festival. We think we might be going into their junk mail. We
tried the two email addresses on their website.

Matt Davignon
www.ribosomemusic.com

From matthew at matthewgoodheart.com  Mon Jan 14 22:50:32 2008
From: matthew at matthewgoodheart.com (Matthew Goodheart)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:50:32 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Music and Architecture
In-Reply-To: <C73CE12E0E2E6D4AA8C97475050023A608C6BB89D6@proserpine.paragon.crypticstudios.com>
References: <C73CE12E0E2E6D4AA8C97475050023A608C6BB89D6@proserpine.paragon.crypticstudios.com>
Message-ID: <2EA7F43B-AD78-4217-8ABD-815B200BDCC2@matthewgoodheart.com>


On Jan 13, 2008, at 10:51 PM, Michael Henry wrote:

> Why not go to the source if you want to know more about Schoenberg?

Actually, since I've read a lot of Schoenberg (Style & Idea, ZKIF,  
Structural Functions of Harmony, etc.)  I'm interested in going to  
something other than the source: sometimes its nice to get  a  
different context or perspective; hence the interest in the Columbia  
lectures.

> The Schoenberg center is a great place to start.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------


Cool site, thanks. The Boulez lecture on composition and creativity  
looks interesting, too. Unfortunately, a lot of the other lectures are  
in German, and I'm an ignoramus. . .

mg

Matthew Goodheart
composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
http://matthewgoodheart.com




From mattdavignon at gmail.com  Tue Jan 15 15:56:44 2008
From: mattdavignon at gmail.com (Matt Davignon)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:56:44 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Hosting game night this sunday
Message-ID: <c70e517b0801151556m16451d9bn1dfe3dd17cdcdc0a@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all, I'm hosting another weirdmusic game night this sunday, in
which we play board/card games, listen to weird music and have dinner
and social good times.  The games largely depend on how many people
come, what they bring and what they feel like, ranging from
traditional fare like Scrabble to unusual stuff like Settlers of
Catan, Apples to Apples, or Fluxx.

I don't have many games for more than 6 people, so if you have a good
one, please bring it. Once again, we'll probably get some food
delivered. Pizza is easy. Bringing a couple bucks to chip in on food
order is good but not required. I have diet soda, tea, juice,
vegetable oil, water, but BYO regular soda or beer. Also please feel
free to invite people.

I have cats, so if you're allergic, plz can you haz ur antihistiminz?

6:00 pm till 11ish

Matt Davignon
265 Vernon St., door code #09.
Oakland. 510-268-8213 (home) 510-459-1507 (cell)

From suki at zoka.com  Tue Jan 15 18:38:32 2008
From: suki at zoka.com (Suki O'Kane)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:38:32 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Top Ten Transbay Now!
In-Reply-To: <c70e517b0801151556m16451d9bn1dfe3dd17cdcdc0a@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c70e517b0801151556m16451d9bn1dfe3dd17cdcdc0a@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <a06240801c3b31cf89ec7@[192.168.0.3]>

people!

I have some, but not all, of people's top ten [transbaynian] moments 
of 2007, which, speaking of, seems, like, I dunno, so LAST YEAR, but 
I'm hoping you find the prospect of counting to ten for 2007 just 
difficult enough to be internally rewarding. Or. Whatever. Etc.

Send top ten now please. Or top nine. Or three. For some of us it was 
an embarrassment of riches, right? Others have their psychic arms 
folded over their psychic chests, shaking their psychic heads very 
slowly and somberly. To those I say: substitute worst moments, inane 
moments, moments laden with mucous, maybe, you never know, or moments 
in love, or distinctly not.

Otherwise, the Transbay Calendar will run a fake conversation with 
Keith Rowe in February. Don't make me.

Don't make me!

xxoo,
s
-- 

suki o'kane
mailto:suki at zoka.com
http://www.myspace.com/sukiokane


From matt at sfsound.org  Tue Jan 15 22:21:36 2008
From: matt at sfsound.org (matt)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:21:36 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] top ten link
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1200459601.11275.newmusic@music.mills.edu>
References: <mailman.1.1200459601.11275.newmusic@music.mills.edu>
Message-ID: <A24881DC-6D17-4C15-A9A1-B7BA1CF5DF92@sfsound.org>

if you need a memory refresh - you can access old 2007 calendar with  
this
link:

http://bayimproviser.com/transbay_calendar.asp?summary=true&start_date=1/1/2007



From mattdavignon at gmail.com  Wed Jan 16 10:26:49 2008
From: mattdavignon at gmail.com (Matt Davignon)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:26:49 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Call for works: NWEAMO Festival 2008
Message-ID: <c70e517b0801161026x50a3c168r6b4fc3ea81e70f20@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone, I've been asked to forward this call for works (below)
for the NWEAMO Festival 2008. I played in the festival in 2003, had a
great time, and met lots of other musicians. That's when it was only a
west-coast festival. Now they're global. Since they're grassroots,
completely volunteer-run and without funding, there's a $15 submission
fee. To submit, please follow the 'call for works' link.

Some may not like the submission fee. Personally, I feel that it's
good to have a festival that is open to both 'established' artists,
and those doing great work who haven't built a reputation yet. The
submission fee not only helps to cover some of the expenses, but also
ensures that the submitting artists have a certain level of commitment
about their work.

I'll also mention that the festival organizers prefer to program music
with a visual element (live musicians, video, dancers or etc) over
audio recordings presented in a darkened room.

In addition, the NWEAMO is looking for someone who might help bring
the festival to the Bay Area. If you're interested, drop me a line and
I'll forward your information to them.

Matt Davignon

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Call-For-Works:

  http://www.nweamo.org/Call_For_Works.html

  Submission Deadline: April 1, 2008

  Festival dates: NWEAMO takes place throughout October. Precise dates
  soon!

  Festival Cites (confirmed): San Diego, New York City, Stony Brook,
  Venice (Italy)
  (several other cites pending)

  NWEAMO 2008: Can Art Be About Sex?

  SEX SELLS!?is the cliche that is muttered sarcastically by
  "serious" artists, and is the time-honored sacred weapon
  of commercial marketeers. But can art be about sex, or the emotional
  swirl that surrounds it? Apparently Richard Strauss thought so,
  (Salome), and Wagner certainly steeped in it (Trisan & Isolde). So
  more recently did Robert Maplethorpe and Karen Finley. Susan McLary
  has written extensively about it, and in the vernacular world
  underground artists often tread there.

  Sex is used to market everything (EXCEPT avant-garde classical music
  these days) so it is hard to say that it is overused ? that
  would be a magnificent understatement! But the point is that it is
  used so often because we seem to be a species that is perpetually
  intrigued (fascinated, embarrassed, outraged, attracted etc.) by that
  subject.

  For the 2008 Festival NWEAMO aims to wrestle (innuendo intended!) with
  the aesthetics, gender issues, politics, norms, history, rituals,
  taboos, propaganda, stereotypes, spirituality and physiology of this
  emotional and physical dance that preoccupies most of us for so much
  of our lives.

  We want to offer a forum that covers the spectrum. We do not want to
  be preachy or didactic (though some works might take those angles).
  Instead we want to pose questions and stimulate (sorry) debate!

  Is sex too private to be the subject of public spectacle? Can there be
  an avant-garde music festival that is steamy in 2008? We hope so!

From ava.mendoza at gmail.com  Wed Jan 16 20:02:23 2008
From: ava.mendoza at gmail.com (Ava Mendoza)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:02:23 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] anyone going to stanford Kazue Sawai show on the 19th?
Message-ID: <317505170801162002q4bd38de7r54b153eec32ee9d2@mail.gmail.com>

wondering if anyone will be going to this concert.. she is a pretty
amazing performer. i am in need of a ride as public transportation to
stanford gets kind of hectic.. will pay half gas, sing!

see events list posting for concert info.. no sausage here..

From ava.mendoza at gmail.com  Thu Jan 17 00:03:21 2008
From: ava.mendoza at gmail.com (Ava Mendoza)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:03:21 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] contact info for The Smell in LA?
Message-ID: <317505170801170003p4d505510q61da5ab11225aeee@mail.gmail.com>

anyone know jim smith's contact info? or anyone who books stuff there?
email me offlist please.. thanks..

From pgsaxo at pacbell.net  Thu Jan 17 08:20:28 2008
From: pgsaxo at pacbell.net (Phillip Greenlief)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:20:28 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] contact info for The Smell in LA?
In-Reply-To: <317505170801170003p4d505510q61da5ab11225aeee@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <771618.5083.qm@web81401.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I've booked stuff through their MySpace page - they use it to do booking. Just do a MySpace search for The Smell LA and you'll find them.
   
  PG

Ava Mendoza <ava.mendoza at gmail.com> wrote:
  anyone know jim smith's contact info? or anyone who books stuff there?
email me offlist please.. thanks..
_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic


From moestaiano1 at yahoo.com  Thu Jan 17 09:31:54 2008
From: moestaiano1 at yahoo.com (Moe! Staiano)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:31:54 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] Dave Day/The Monks - RIP
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3.1200546004.12764.newmusic@music.mills.edu>
Message-ID: <27451.97775.qm@web58712.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned as I found this out this morning, almost a week after the fact: Dave Day of the Monks passed away....
   
  http://www.harpmagazine.com/news/detail.cfm?article=12135

       
---------------------------------
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From coreyfogel at gmail.com  Thu Jan 17 14:08:40 2008
From: coreyfogel at gmail.com (corey fogel)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:08:40 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] carpool to Vijay Iyer's Still Life With Commentator
Message-ID: <7a259c0801171408k3b180bb7pbfb6c6fc9a8984db@mail.gmail.com>

anyone driving to Stanford for
this<http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/event.php?code=VIJA>tonight ?
a ride would be greatly appreciated.....
?
corey

-- 
corey fogel
http://myspace.com/knitdrums
http://tangram7s.info/cmf
???????????

From Damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Thu Jan 17 18:17:50 2008
From: Damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:17:50 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] carpool to Vijay Iyer's Still Life With Commentator
In-Reply-To: <7a259c0801171408k3b180bb7pbfb6c6fc9a8984db@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7a259c0801171408k3b180bb7pbfb6c6fc9a8984db@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <692AF3EF-2044-4631-86DB-A8A22CC9E688@balancepointacoustics.com>

What I heard was not worth bothering with.
On Jan 17, 2008, at 2:08 PM, corey fogel wrote:

> anyone driving to Stanford for
> this<http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/event.php?code=VIJA>tonight ?
> a ride would be greatly appreciated.....
> ?
> r??--
> corey fogel
> http://myspace.com/knitdrums
> http://tangram7s.info/cmf
> ?????????????????????????????????
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo





From matthew at matthewgoodheart.com  Thu Jan 17 21:15:30 2008
From: matthew at matthewgoodheart.com (Matthew Goodheart)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:15:30 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] carpool to Vijay Iyer's Still Life With Commentator
In-Reply-To: <692AF3EF-2044-4631-86DB-A8A22CC9E688@balancepointacoustics.com>
References: <7a259c0801171408k3b180bb7pbfb6c6fc9a8984db@mail.gmail.com>
	<692AF3EF-2044-4631-86DB-A8A22CC9E688@balancepointacoustics.com>
Message-ID: <78E461AA-2542-4CB0-8B40-07C93B8CF096@matthewgoodheart.com>


On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Damon Smith wrote:

> What I heard was not worth bothering with.

Really? This seems right up your alley:

 > ranging from hip-hop to bebop to ambient synth-pop



>
> On Jan 17, 2008, at 2:08 PM, corey fogel wrote:
>
>> anyone driving to Stanford for
>> this<http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/event.php?code=VIJA>tonight ?
>> a ride would be greatly appreciated.....
>> ?
>> r??--
>> corey fogel
>> http://myspace.com/knitdrums
>> http://tangram7s.info/cmf
>> ?????????????????????????????????
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
>> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
>> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>
> Damon Smith
>
> http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
> http://myspace.com/smithdamon
> New solo project:
> http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

Matthew Goodheart
composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
http://matthewgoodheart.com




From matthew at matthewgoodheart.com  Sat Jan 19 13:16:20 2008
From: matthew at matthewgoodheart.com (Matthew Goodheart)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:16:20 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] What is Art?
Message-ID: <52CFF8EF-C583-4957-8D57-79CFB9B0D659@matthewgoodheart.com>


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDo_vs3Aip4


Matthew Goodheart
composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
http://matthewgoodheart.com




From ava.mendoza at gmail.com  Sat Jan 19 17:33:38 2008
From: ava.mendoza at gmail.com (Ava Mendoza)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:33:38 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] What is Art?
In-Reply-To: <52CFF8EF-C583-4957-8D57-79CFB9B0D659@matthewgoodheart.com>
References: <52CFF8EF-C583-4957-8D57-79CFB9B0D659@matthewgoodheart.com>
Message-ID: <317505170801191733q7317ff6l56647bc15ea93604@mail.gmail.com>

wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!

On 1/19/08, Matthew Goodheart <matthew at matthewgoodheart.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDo_vs3Aip4
>
>
> Matthew Goodheart
> composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
> matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
> http://matthewgoodheart.com
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>


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From mhenry at crypticstudios.com  Mon Jan 21 01:45:43 2008
From: mhenry at crypticstudios.com (Michael Henry)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:45:43 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] A lesson on how to play the violin
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1200718802.15422.newmusic@music.mills.edu>
Message-ID: <C73CE12E0E2E6D4AA8C97475050023A608C6BCD55B@proserpine.paragon.crypticstudios.com>


...and a few other things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u6OFTZCRAY&feature=related


From 21grand at 21grand.org  Tue Jan 22 21:02:35 2008
From: 21grand at 21grand.org (Sarah - 21 Grand)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:02:35 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] youtuberiffic - for Ava
Message-ID: <C3BC0A6B.256BD%21grand@21grand.org>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMatDdptprs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6JtnAT6jU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlEBqu92ig&feature=related


From ava.mendoza at gmail.com  Tue Jan 22 21:20:53 2008
From: ava.mendoza at gmail.com (Ava Mendoza)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:20:53 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] youtuberiffic - for Ava
In-Reply-To: <C3BC0A6B.256BD%21grand@21grand.org>
References: <C3BC0A6B.256BD%21grand@21grand.org>
Message-ID: <317505170801222120j4ac1d2c5ka5b0211b99647070@mail.gmail.com>

oh thank you thank you thank you!

On 1/22/08, Sarah - 21 Grand <21grand at 21grand.org> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMatDdptprs
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6JtnAT6jU&feature=related
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlEBqu92ig&feature=related
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>


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From bradysharp at gmail.com  Tue Jan 22 22:10:05 2008
From: bradysharp at gmail.com (Brady Sharp)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:10:05 -0600
Subject: [NewMusic] youtuberiffic - for Ava
In-Reply-To: <C3BC0A6B.256BD%21grand@21grand.org>
References: <C3BC0A6B.256BD%21grand@21grand.org>
Message-ID: <a7177e350801222210u7867522cj38c034b3e2c6c6bd@mail.gmail.com>

These are ripe to be StSanders'd!


Brady

On Jan 22, 2008 11:02 PM, Sarah - 21 Grand <21grand at 21grand.org> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMatDdptprs
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6JtnAT6jU&feature=related
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlEBqu92ig&feature=related
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>

From letucepry at yahoo.com  Tue Jan 22 22:42:54 2008
From: letucepry at yahoo.com (Ron Lettuce)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:42:54 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] youtuberiffic - for Ava
Message-ID: <101568.85471.qm@web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Hmmm...isn't that the "Mike Patton" in Faith no More version of War Pigs??? How "Experimental"
Roflmao...

lettuce


----- Original Message ----
From: Sarah - 21 Grand <21grand at 21grand.org>
To: Banewmus List <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:02:35 PM
Subject: [NewMusic] youtuberiffic - for Ava

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMatDdptprs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6JtnAT6jU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlEBqu92ig&feature=related

_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

From 21grand at 21grand.org  Tue Jan 22 23:37:17 2008
From: 21grand at 21grand.org (Sarah - 21 Grand)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:37:17 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic]  youtuberiffic - for Ava
Message-ID: <C3BC2EAD.256C5%21grand@21grand.org>

- here's a more experimental Patton "cover" then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW7xpBs3YQM&feature=related

sl

Mr. Lettuce wrote:
Hmmm...isn't that the "Mike Patton" in Faith no More version of War Pigs???
How "Experimental"
Roflmao...

lettuce


From mattdavignon at gmail.com  Wed Jan 23 10:56:22 2008
From: mattdavignon at gmail.com (Matt Davignon)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:56:22 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Fwd: i am in dust 2008
In-Reply-To: <BAY129-W1796285378F3C4E7953669C33F0@phx.gbl>
References: <eb421792af5d07715fe20bcff3fa2272@aol.com>
	<790D81C6-FC43-4983-8F09-91DA78504878@mac.com>
	<BAY129-W1796285378F3C4E7953669C33F0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <c70e517b0801231056r6c43d8adl31884f3c5a7cebd4@mail.gmail.com>

Does anybody know about this new "Ambient Industrial Music" festival,
starting up this year? I'm very happy to see folks organizing new
festivals in these parts.

>From the myspace page, it looks like it will be at Orbis Nex in East
Oakland in early October, and admission will be $35 per night. Yes,
I'm scratching my head over that one too - anyone know how that came
to be the case?

Matt

From: martin <martmmc at aol.com>
Date: January 22, 2008 10:56:15 PM HST
To: Patrick DonEgan <electricvehicles at mac.com>
Subject: i am in dust 2008


[this just in]

http://www.myspace.com/iamindust2008

About IAMINDUST 2008

The 1st Annual International Ambient Industrial Music Festival was
conceived in October of 2007 by Ure Thrall (recording artist and
operator of Diskorporeality Recordings) and Mr. Hate (Host of KPFA
94.1 Berkeley's long running experimental music program NO OTHER
RADIO). I The idea was to collect a roster of artists that are
currently making some of the very best and most unique sounds to have
reached our ears thus far. The roster is both local and international
in origin. Thus far we have commitments from the following: TROUM from
Germany, 6COMM from the U.K. who is also known as the former member of
DEATH IN JUNE Patrick "O'Kill" Leagas, ETHOS of Austin,Texas, FORMS OF
THINGS UNKNOWN of San Francisco, JAMES GOODE of San Francisco, and
your hostess with the mostest URE THRALL also of San Francisco WITH
MANY MORE AMAZING ARTISTS ON THE VERGE OF CONFIRMATION THE ARRAY OF
GUESTS WILL TRULY BE SPECTACULAR! Watch this space as the list of
amazing artists we will host for this one-of-a-kind event GROWS and
GROWS! II AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF, THERE'S THE Octophonic aspect OF THE
FESTIVAL! Yes this will be the first festival ever held using an
OCTOPHONIC SOUND SYSTEM we are creating especially for this event with
the kind help of local artist JAMES GOODE. All the attending artists
will be invited to create an octophonic landscape for this performance
to be utilized in tandem with the sets they will perform. IN ADDITION,
the 8 channel system will allow for an amazing array of possibilities
when it comes time for all the groups involved to COLLABORATE on an
improvisational basis at the end of each nights bill of performances!
You may be asking yourseld at this point, why are we doing all this?
In order to truly make the IAMINDUST FESTIVAL a sonic experiment on
such a new an interesting level that it not only presents new vistas
of experimentation in live performance, it not only broadens the scope
of interest in our obscure little international music community, it
ULTIMATELY will garner the attention and admiration of the GODS
themselves! IIIA THE IAMINDUST Artist Interview Series (for RADIO): In
addition we will be previewing and promoting the artists appearing at
the shows in several ways: Firstly, interviews will be conducted and
recorded with each artist, then the relevant portions of the recorded
interview will be edited down and then mixed into a 30 minute
compilation of some of the artists own music. This can either be music
chosen by the group themselves, or we can pick our own favorites for
this purpose. The finished product will be roughly a 30 minute radio
program, to be combined with a program of similar length by another of
the featured artists from the IAMINDUST festival, then edited finally
into a one hour program called the "IAMINDUST Experimental Artist
Interview Series" produced by NO OTHER RADIO and to be distributed for
free to PACIFICA RADIO stations as well as other stations around the
World. Our goal is to produce and release at least 1 hour program
(thus featuring TWO artists) every month from now until we have
completed covering ALL the artists we have confirmed as appearing at
the festival. IIIB Secondly, Diskorporeality Recordings will be
releasing the 3rd Audio Odditions Compilation CD featuring tracks from
many IAMINDUST artists and releasing it PRIOR to the festival as a
limited edition with a limited amount of printed magazines for the 1st
100 ticket purchasers. And finally, those artists who are in the area
early enough have the option of helping us bring the music to the
people with a few very special urban guerilla performances, as well as
some private, secluded performances in natural surroundings. The
organizers will be setting up a seperate website for ADVANCE TICKET
SALES as soon as we have solidified the roster! The 1st WEEKEND OF
OCTOBER WILL COME SOONER THAN YOU EXPECT! So WATCH THIS SPACE for MORE
INFO!

  **
[also be watching this space for evidence of proofreads]




------------------------------------
Thank you, very much.

Patrick DonEgan
electricvehicles at mac.com




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From polly.moller at gmail.com  Wed Jan 23 11:02:30 2008
From: polly.moller at gmail.com (Polly Moller)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:02:30 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Forwarding a job posting
Message-ID: <2eb068d40801231102u263f6316hf87dcd5466ab43b1@mail.gmail.com>

In case any of us would like to teach school music on the Peninsula.

P.

January 16, 2008



*EMPLOYMENT VACANCY NOTICE*

* *

*Millbrae** School District** is now accepting applications for the
following position:*

* *

* *



*POSITION:              .5 FTE MUSIC TEACHER*

*                             *

* *

*SALARY:                *$40,661 - $66,274 (prorated to FTE) per District's
salary schedule and applicant's experience/units.

*                             *

*LOCATION:             *District wide



*APPLICATION:*        ?Letter of intent     ?Copy of transcripts

                             ?Resum?                ?3 ltrs of
recommendation

                             ?Copy of Credential

                             ?Application form can be accessed at:


www.smcoe.k12.ca.us/msd/do/do.htm

* *

*DEADLINE:*             *Open until filled*.



*REQUIREMENTS:*    California credential with music authorization/emphasis.




*FURTHER *

*INFORMATION:       *Laura Halvorsen, Personnel Technician

(650) 697-5693 ext. 17.


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From mattdavignon at gmail.com  Wed Jan 23 11:08:31 2008
From: mattdavignon at gmail.com (Matt Davignon)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:08:31 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Forwarding a job posting
In-Reply-To: <2eb068d40801231102u263f6316hf87dcd5466ab43b1@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2eb068d40801231102u263f6316hf87dcd5466ab43b1@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <c70e517b0801231108w2351906bha3ec4c9ffea3049b@mail.gmail.com>

So, what's the compensation for this position of "polar bear in a snowstorm"?

On Jan 23, 2008 11:02 AM, Polly Moller <polly.moller at gmail.com> wrote:
>

From polly.moller at gmail.com  Wed Jan 23 12:11:32 2008
From: polly.moller at gmail.com (Polly Moller)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:11:32 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Some folks we know got awarded some dough...
Message-ID: <2eb068d40801231211j6203cb12s47338afc8329acaf@mail.gmail.com>

See below.
P.

*THE WALLACE ALEXANDER GERBODE FOUNDATION**

THE WILLIAM AND FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION*

Contact: Thomas C. Layton, President

Moy Eng, Director

Gerbode Foundation

Performing Arts Program, Hewlett Foundation

415-391-0911, infoatgerbode.org <info at gerbode.org>

650-234-4500, artsathewlett.org <arts at hewlett.org>


*For Immediate Release:*
January 14, 2008

*$50,000 Commissions for Six Emerging California Composers **
Selected by The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation*

*SAN FRANCISCO** and MENLO PARK, Calif.* ? The Wallace Alexander Gerbode
Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation are pleased to
announce six $50,000 grants for the creation and world premiere of six major
musical compositions by leading young California composers.

Half of each award will be given as a commission fee to a California
composer, aged 35 or younger at the time of application, for a new piece or
suite of new works.   The remaining $25,000 will go to the nonprofit
performing arts organization that nominated the composer, for expenses
related to the costs of presenting the world premiere of the composition in
the Bay Area.  All of the six commissioned works will premiere in the Bay
Area, sometime between September 2008 and June 2010.

These grants are part of a three-year $900,000 initiative by the Gerbode and
Hewlett foundations to support Bay Area performing artists and arts
organizations at a time when funding has been increasingly difficult to come
by.  In 2005 the initiative funded six $50,000 commissions for emerging
choreographers and in 2006 funded six $50,000 commissions for emerging
playwrights.

The six recipients of the 2007 Emerging Composer Awards are (in alphabetical
order by organization):

*The Crucible/Dan Cantrell:*  The Crucible, producer of the annual Fire Arts
Festival in Oakland, will commission Oakland composer-musician Dan
Cantrell's "The Rootabaga Opera," a narrative work with American, Chinese
and Eastern European musical influences, inspired by the children's stories
of the great American poet and folk musician Carl Sandburg.

*Musical Traditions (Paul Dresher Ensemble)/Ryan Brown:*   Berkeley's
contemporary creative music organization, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, will
underwrite the San Francisco?based composer and jazz-rock instrumentalist
Ryan Brown's new chamber work for Dresher's six-piece Electro-Acoustic Band.

*Other Minds/Catherine Lamb:*  The San Francisco new-music presenter Other
Minds will commission Catherine Lamb, of Los Angeles, to create "Dilations,"
a work in four movements for vocals, clarinets and cellos, which will
explore elements of pitch, harmony and timbre.

*ROVA Arts/Carla Kihlstedt:*  San Francisco?based ROVA Saxophone Quartet
will commission Oakland composer Carla Kihlstedt to create a half-hour work
based on texts about the impact of the Industrial Revolution.  The work will
be collaboratively developed for saxophones and such industrial
"instruments" as zippers, sheet metal and broken glass.

*San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc./Mason Bates:*  The world-famous men's
choral group Chanticleer will commission Oakland-based composer Mason Bates
to create a multipart, a cappella choral piece for twelve singers, based on
sacred themes drawn from biblical imagery.

*San Francisco Jazz Organization (SF Jazz)/Adam Theis:*  SF Jazz, the
producer of the annual SF Jazz Festival, will commission San Francisco
composer-performer Adam Theis to create an hour-long suite,  merging modern
jazz and symphonic instrumentation with hip-hop and electronic music.

The quantity, range and quality of applications for the Emerging Composer
Award program illustrate the vitality of the Bay Area's contemporary music
scene and the need to support and encourage it, according to Gerbode
Foundation President Thomas Layton.  "It is clear that there is a gifted new
generation of composers coming up, eager to explore and develop their
musical visions," says Layton.  "In the past we have offered major
assistance to such leading Bay Area composers as Pablo Ortiz, John Adams,
Lou Harrison and Miya Masaoka.  This program is a great opportunity to
invest in the next wave of Bay Area musical creators and the producing
organizations that are nurturing and presenting their work."

"We are pleased and excited to have the opportunity to support commissions
for young artists.  This program is helping to make the future of the arts
happen in the Bay Area," says Moy Eng, director of the Performing Arts
Program at the Hewlett Foundation.

The Gerbode and Hewlett foundations were assisted in making these grants by
an advisory panel composed of the following nationally respected music
professionals:

   - *Claire Chase*, a New York flutist who runs the respected
   International Contemporary Ensemble
   - *Paul Chihara*, an admired composer for films and dance companies
   (including the SF Ballet) and a professor of music at the University of
   California, Los Angeles
   - *Chuck Helm*, director of performing arts at the Wexner Center for
   the Arts, in Columbus, Ohio
   - *John Kennedy*, composer and conductor, and the artistic director of
   Santa Fe New Music and artistic associate of the Spoleto Festival USA
   - *Tania Leon*, a Cuban-American composer, conductor and educator and
   distinguished professor at City University of New York


*About The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation*
The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation is interested in programs and
projects offering potential for significant impact. The primary geographical
focus is on the San Francisco Bay Area and Hawaii. The Foundation's
interests generally fall under the categories of arts and culture,
environment, reproductive rights and health, citizen participation, building
communities, inclusiveness, strength of the philanthropic process and the
nonprofit sector, and Foundation-initiated special projects.

*About the Special Awards Program*
For nearly twenty years, the Gerbode Foundation has made innovative grants
through its Special Awards Program to San Francisco Bay Area arts
institutions to commission new works from gifted individual artists:
playwrights (including Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize?winning "Angels in
America"), choreographers (such as Alonzo King and Margaret Jenkins),
composers (John Adams, Paul Dresher and Tony Williams among them), as well
as visual artists, poets and multimedia artists.

In a time of cultural shifts and fiscal insecurity in the arts, these
coveted, nationally respected awards have helped underwrite culturally and
aesthetically diverse, acclaimed new works by prominent artists and emerging
ones. The grants have supported artists at critical junctures in their
careers; enabled nonprofit local arts groups to develop and debut
substantial, original works; and enriched Bay Area audiences, readers and
viewers by giving them first access to ambitious new creations.


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From letucepry at yahoo.com  Wed Jan 23 14:14:37 2008
From: letucepry at yahoo.com (Ron Lettuce)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:14:37 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] Some folks we know got awarded some dough...
Message-ID: <648591.57860.qm@web50312.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

For 25K, you think she could afford to use something besides sheetmetal and broken glass...

----- Original Message ----
From: Polly Moller <polly.moller at gmail.com>
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:11:32 PM
Subject: [NewMusic] Some folks we know got awarded some dough...

See below.
P.

*THE WALLACE ALEXANDER GERBODE FOUNDATION**

THE WILLIAM AND FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION*

Contact: Thomas C. Layton, President

Moy Eng, Director

Gerbode Foundation

Performing Arts Program, Hewlett Foundation

415-391-0911, infoatgerbode.org <info at gerbode.org>

650-234-4500, artsathewlett.org <arts at hewlett.org>


*For Immediate Release:*
January 14, 2008

*$50,000 Commissions for Six Emerging California Composers **
Selected by The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation*

*SAN FRANCISCO** and MENLO PARK, Calif.* ? The Wallace Alexander Gerbode
Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation are pleased to
announce six $50,000 grants for the creation and world premiere of six major
musical compositions by leading young California composers.

Half of each award will be given as a commission fee to a California
composer, aged 35 or younger at the time of application, for a new piece or
suite of new works.  The remaining $25,000 will go to the nonprofit
performing arts organization that nominated the composer, for expenses
related to the costs of presenting the world premiere of the composition in
the Bay Area.  All of the six commissioned works will premiere in the Bay
Area, sometime between September 2008 and June 2010.

These grants are part of a three-year $900,000 initiative by the Gerbode and
Hewlett foundations to support Bay Area performing artists and arts
organizations at a time when funding has been increasingly difficult to come
by.  In 2005 the initiative funded six $50,000 commissions for emerging
choreographers and in 2006 funded six $50,000 commissions for emerging
playwrights.

The six recipients of the 2007 Emerging Composer Awards are (in alphabetical
order by organization):

*The Crucible/Dan Cantrell:*  The Crucible, producer of the annual Fire Arts
Festival in Oakland, will commission Oakland composer-musician Dan
Cantrell's "The Rootabaga Opera," a narrative work with American, Chinese
and Eastern European musical influences, inspired by the children's stories
of the great American poet and folk musician Carl Sandburg.

*Musical Traditions (Paul Dresher Ensemble)/Ryan Brown:*  Berkeley's
contemporary creative music organization, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, will
underwrite the San Francisco?based composer and jazz-rock instrumentalist
Ryan Brown's new chamber work for Dresher's six-piece Electro-Acoustic Band.

*Other Minds/Catherine Lamb:*  The San Francisco new-music presenter Other
Minds will commission Catherine Lamb, of Los Angeles, to create "Dilations,"
a work in four movements for vocals, clarinets and cellos, which will
explore elements of pitch, harmony and timbre.

*ROVA Arts/Carla Kihlstedt:*  San Francisco?based ROVA Saxophone Quartet
will commission Oakland composer Carla Kihlstedt to create a half-hour work
based on texts about the impact of the Industrial Revolution.  The work will
be collaboratively developed for saxophones and such industrial
"instruments" as zippers, sheet metal and broken glass.

*San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc./Mason Bates:*  The world-famous men's
choral group Chanticleer will commission Oakland-based composer Mason Bates
to create a multipart, a cappella choral piece for twelve singers, based on
sacred themes drawn from biblical imagery.

*San Francisco Jazz Organization (SF Jazz)/Adam Theis:*  SF Jazz, the
producer of the annual SF Jazz Festival, will commission San Francisco
composer-performer Adam Theis to create an hour-long suite,  merging modern
jazz and symphonic instrumentation with hip-hop and electronic music.

The quantity, range and quality of applications for the Emerging Composer
Award program illustrate the vitality of the Bay Area's contemporary music
scene and the need to support and encourage it, according to Gerbode
Foundation President Thomas Layton.  "It is clear that there is a gifted new
generation of composers coming up, eager to explore and develop their
musical visions," says Layton.  "In the past we have offered major
assistance to such leading Bay Area composers as Pablo Ortiz, John Adams,
Lou Harrison and Miya Masaoka.  This program is a great opportunity to
invest in the next wave of Bay Area musical creators and the producing
organizations that are nurturing and presenting their work."

"We are pleased and excited to have the opportunity to support commissions
for young artists.  This program is helping to make the future of the arts
happen in the Bay Area," says Moy Eng, director of the Performing Arts
Program at the Hewlett Foundation.

The Gerbode and Hewlett foundations were assisted in making these grants by
an advisory panel composed of the following nationally respected music
professionals:

  - *Claire Chase*, a New York flutist who runs the respected
  International Contemporary Ensemble
  - *Paul Chihara*, an admired composer for films and dance companies
  (including the SF Ballet) and a professor of music at the University of
  California, Los Angeles
  - *Chuck Helm*, director of performing arts at the Wexner Center for
  the Arts, in Columbus, Ohio
  - *John Kennedy*, composer and conductor, and the artistic director of
  Santa Fe New Music and artistic associate of the Spoleto Festival USA
  - *Tania Leon*, a Cuban-American composer, conductor and educator and
  distinguished professor at City University of New York


*About The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation*
The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation is interested in programs and
projects offering potential for significant impact. The primary geographical
focus is on the San Francisco Bay Area and Hawaii. The Foundation's
interests generally fall under the categories of arts and culture,
environment, reproductive rights and health, citizen participation, building
communities, inclusiveness, strength of the philanthropic process and the
nonprofit sector, and Foundation-initiated special projects.

*About the Special Awards Program*
For nearly twenty years, the Gerbode Foundation has made innovative grants
through its Special Awards Program to San Francisco Bay Area arts
institutions to commission new works from gifted individual artists:
playwrights (including Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize?winning "Angels in
America"), choreographers (such as Alonzo King and Margaret Jenkins),
composers (John Adams, Paul Dresher and Tony Williams among them), as well
as visual artists, poets and multimedia artists.

In a time of cultural shifts and fiscal insecurity in the arts, these
coveted, nationally respected awards have helped underwrite culturally and
aesthetically diverse, acclaimed new works by prominent artists and emerging
ones. The grants have supported artists at critical junctures in their
careers; enabled nonprofit local arts groups to develop and debut
substantial, original works; and enriched Bay Area audiences, readers and
viewers by giving them first access to ambitious new creations.


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From mattdavignon at gmail.com  Wed Jan 23 14:47:31 2008
From: mattdavignon at gmail.com (Matt Davignon)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:47:31 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Fwd: This cute cat needs a new warm home!
In-Reply-To: <p06230903c3b4abe8a8b2@192.168.0.101>
References: <p06230903c3b4abe8a8b2@192.168.0.101>
Message-ID: <c70e517b0801231447t36ae0e07x59c747f8faf66fe@mail.gmail.com>

Some of you know Sarah Styles. She's looking for a new home for her
cat. Please see below.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sarah Rose Stiles <fire at sarahstiles.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2008 2:24 PM
Subject: This cute cat needs a new warm home!
To: List Suppressed <Recipient>

Dear friends,

Help! Due to my current circumstances, and those to come in the next
couple years, I am not able to keep my cat. This is very difficult for
me to have to give her away, but I think it's for the better that she
have a stable home. She is currently in a temporary home until we can
find a new permanent home for her. But time is running out at this
location, so she needs a home ASAP! And it's especially challenging to
find a person or people who are willing to take on an older cat. So,
if there's anything you can do, please let me know! I know some of you
don;t live in the area, but maybe you know some people who do. Please
forward this email to as many people as you can think of. I'd
appreciate it soooo much!

Here's a description of Wren:

Wren the cat was spayed as a kitten and recently had a vaccine
renewal. She is 11 going on 12 years old. She is still rather playful
for a mature female cat. She wears a tuxedo outfit, and looks like an
otter with her big round eyes and long whiskers. Her fur is the
softest fur I've ever felt. One of her parents was Siamese, and Wren
certainly exhibits some Siamese personality traits, such as being
rather vocal. Wren is initially timid, but very friendly once she gets
to know a person. She seems to especially like quiet calm people like
herself. Wren is sweet and cuddly, very much a lounge cat, a bit of a
hermit, and sometimes has a sassy sense of humor. Wren has had
experience as an indoor and outdoor cat. Regardless of whether she's
in or outdoors, she dislikes cold temperatures and adores the heat.
An adoption fee will apply.

For more information, send an email.Thank you.

-S

From philipeverett at yahoo.com  Wed Jan 23 21:44:55 2008
From: philipeverett at yahoo.com (Philip Everett)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:44:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] Forwarding a job posting
Message-ID: <731932.77144.qm@web63706.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

Now that's my kind of job!!
                                                         Philip Everett-----:}


----- Original Message ----
From: Polly Moller <polly.moller at gmail.com>
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:02:30 AM
Subject: [NewMusic] Forwarding a job posting

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From letucepry at yahoo.com  Thu Jan 24 10:23:27 2008
From: letucepry at yahoo.com (Ron Lettuce)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:23:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NewMusic] Forwarding a job posting
Message-ID: <175946.72399.qm@web50305.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Wow, too bad I don't speak Klingon...


----- Original Message ----
From: Philip Everett <philipeverett at yahoo.com>
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:44:55 PM
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Forwarding a job posting

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From matt at sfsound.org  Mon Jan 28 18:02:28 2008
From: matt at sfsound.org (matt)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:02:28 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Matthew Goodheart receives A. H. Miller Award
Message-ID: <14B296CC-90B7-4100-B87D-464919C45F13@sfsound.org>

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