jascha narveson
last updated: June 20, 2010
upcoming events
Thursday, July
29 I'll be sharing a bill with Lainie Fefferman and Lee Patterson for this performance on Issue Project Room's "Floating Points" festival of music designed to take advantage of the overhead 15-channel speaker array. My piece will consist of a 15-channel recording from inside a home-made coffin while it gets buried. Heavy. |
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past events
(2010):
Saturday, June
12 NYC guitar quartet heros DITHER launch their CD in grand style with a crazy evening of new music including performances by Dither, Kathleen Supové, Nick Didkovsky, Elliott Sharp, Matthew Welch, Loud Objects, Mantra Percussion, Redhooker, Love Like Deloreans, The Deprivation Orchestra of NYC, and (!!) music by James Tenney, Eve Beglarian, Fred Frith, Lainie Fefferman, Josh Lopes, Lisa Coons, Eric km Clark, and me. Cheap Brooklyn Lager beer and reduced-price copies of the new CD on Henceforth Records round out the evening. Come out!
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Wednesday, May
19 New-music pianist Danny Holt kicks off his ambitious piano-percussion project with a concert at the California Institute for the Arts' new outdoor pavilion, The Wild Beast. Featuring a dizzying array of works for piano and percussion (for Danny to play solo!) by Oscar Bettison, Art Jarvinen, Casey Thomas Anderson, Miyuki Akimoto, Lukas Thomas Taylor, Andrew Tholl, Sarah Seelig, and me. |
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Tuesday, May
11 New-music flautist Lauren Zavlunov and I have been collaborating on a piece for flute and electronics. Come out and hear what we'e been up to. |
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Sunday, March
14 If you think you can attend, please RSVP to DITHER with the number of people in your party. |
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Tuesday, March
9 My piece "Wire," for two custom-made clarinets and newly-invented percussion instrument, will be played by the tranSpectra experimental music ensemble from Ontario, who specialize in music written using the Bohlen-Pierce scale. This concert is part of the Bohlen-Pierce Symposium, which is presented by the Boston Microtonal Society. |
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Tuesday, March
2 New York politically-agitated new-music ensemble NEWSPEAK come to Princeton to play works by me and several other composers. My piece is an extensive re-arrangement and enlargement of the depression-era classic "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" |
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(2009):
Tuesday, December
8 New York's own "indie-classical" group the NOW Ensemble play new pieces by me and several other Princeton composers. |
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Tuesday, October
22 Neo-minimalist vocal trio Celestial Mechanics performs "Planet Van," a sequel to my batá-influenced rhythmic piece "Star Car." |
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Friday, October
9 PLOrk takes part in the second night of the MMiX Festival of Interactive Music Technology, again playing my piece Beesh. |
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Saturday, May
16 PLOrk (The Princeton Laptop Orchestra) joins Matmos and SO Percussion for an expanded repeat performance at Princeton University. |
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Tuesday, April
28 Well, now I've made it - two premiers in two different countries on the same night! This is actually a bit inconvenient for obvious reasons, but if Kitchener is closer than Princeton, by all means catch a premier of my new work "Wire," for the interesting TranSpectra ensemble, who specialize in music written for instruments tuned to the Bohlen-Pierce scale - presented as part of the ever-exciting Open Ears Festival. My piece is for two custom-made Bohlen-Pierce clarinets and super-custom-made percussion, accompanying a video of the same name by video-artist Reinhard Reitzenstein. |
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Tuesday, April
28 Come and hear the fruits of a curious project in which composers Cameron Britt, Lainie Fefferman, Sean Friar, and I decided to write music for medieval dance trio. Featuring Christa Patton, a former member of the New York Ensemble for Early Music, on various wind instrument and harp; Tina Chancey, member of Hesperus, on vielle, rebec, and other stringed instruments; and internationally acclaimed percussionist Glen Velez. |
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Friday, April
17 Dither will perform my piece Vectors at the New Music Bake Sale, which will also feature lots of other cool music by lots of other cool people. Check it out! |
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Friday, April
10 | Saturday, April 11 PLOrk (The Princeton Laptop Orchestra) joins Matmos and SO Percussion for two evenings of crazy at The Kitchen. I'll be one of the laptop operators, and my free-for-all old-skool electro wireless-network piece 'Beepsh' will make its debut. Thursday, April 16 PLOrk will be playing the same piece in a different concert as
part of the McArthur Foundation's first
annual Digital Media and
Learning Competition. |
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Friday, April
3 The MATA festival is going to be an exciting few days packed with new music, and I'm happy to say that New York's consumately professional "indie-classical" group the NOW Ensemble will be playing my piece Nice Boots on third night of shows. |
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Monday, March
9 Tiple bill: The Celestial Mechanics have booked themselves in to Monkeytown, and are kindly taking composer Alex Temple and I along for the ride. They'll be singing Star Car again, and I'll be presenting some laptop/electronic music in frightening surround sound. |
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Tuesday, March
3 The Celestial Mechanics are an exciting new vocal trio who like to sing music you wouldn't normally think of when you hear the phrase "vocal trio." They'll be doing my piece Star Car as well as other new works written just for them on the Composers Ensemble concert series. |
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Monday, March
2 The Flea
Theatre's "Music With A View" series puts the
focus on artists presenting experimental and/or in-progress
works. The mighty Dither electric
guitar quartet will be playing my piece Vectors, which
is no longer in-progress, and therefore must be experimental. |
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Wednesday,
January 7 Friday, January 9 Saturday, January 10 The Celestial Mechanics are an exciting new vocal trio who like to sing music you wouldn't normally think of when you hear the phrase "vocal trio." They'll be doing my piece Star Car on their mini tour of California, along with new pieces by members Anne Hege, Lainie Fefferman, and Sarah Paden, as well as Alex Temple and György Ligeti. |
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(2008):
Thursday, December
9 New York's (and, partially, Princeton's) NOW Ensemble come to play works by a bunch of people, including me. My piece for them, Nice Boots, is short, but very fun. |
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Tuesday, November
18 Holland's mighty Ensemble Klang come to Princeton to play
works by Oscar Bettison, Anne Hege, Lainie Fefferman, Sean Friar,
Cameron Britt, and myself. Ticker, the piece I wrote
for this concert, is crazy, and these guys are good enough to
actually pull it off. It should be good! |
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Tuesday, June
10 I'll be a laptopist with some of the other PLOrk people in a show of works for multiple laptops and crazy multichannel somethingsomething. More details when I get them! |
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Thursday,
May 8 Columbia University's "fün night" and Princeton's "ffmup" series combine to form "ffüp night," featuring pen plotters, laptops, analog gear, violins and clarinets, 3-D visuals, circuit bending, vocals, smarts, and stupidity! For more info click here. |
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Sunday,
May 4 The mighty Brooklyn guitar heroes Dither play my electric guitar quartet "Vectors" along with a bunch of other cool music. |
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Sunday,
April 19 Another playing of my 8-channel electroacoustic piece "Doors.", along with pieces by other Princeton composers. |
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Tuesday,
April 15 I'll be doing a short set with laptop and some "etc" at the FFMUP, opening for Michael Early and The Polish Club (David Jensenius and Tom Crean). |
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Tuesday,
March 25 The Brooklyn-based electric guitar quartet Dither will be playing my new piece "Vectors" as part of the Composers Ensemble concert series. |
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Wednesday,
March 19 Another playing of my 8-channel work "Doors." as part of the New Music Concerts series at Wilfrid Laurier University. |
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Friday,
February 22 - Friday, March 29 The installation "EMPIRE" is a collaboration between myself and visual artist Grace Kary, featuring new poloroid photographic work and a motion-sensitive sound installation. |
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(2007):
Tuesday,
November 27 "Doors" is a new 8-channel electroacoustic work which will be played at this installment of the Composer's Ensemble series at Princeton University. |
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Tuesday,
April 24 - Sunday, April 29 The installation "STATES" is a collaboration between
visual artist Grace Kary and myself. STATES attempts to mimic
some of the psychological processes we associate with Freud's
theory of 'transference,' in which unconcsious traumas are projected
into the present as a means of freeing one's self of them. Video
and sound will work together to try and capture something of
the feelings we imagine this process evokes... |
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Friday,
February 23, 2007 "New York's sensational Bang on a Can composer Michael Gordon has his ecstatic Weather for strings and electronics performed along with new video design by Stefan Rose. Jascha Narveson, a local Gen Y post-minimalist, premieres a new work featuring harp, accordion, strings and electronics. Finishing things off is KW's new international DJ prodigy Jesse Somfay, critically renowned for creating experimental and emotionally epic layered tracks." Co-presented with NUMUS and the KW Symphony. |
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(2006):
Tuesday,
October 10, 2006 RED presents: Paradise Lost - and Ekphrastic Collision |
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Friday,
April 28th, 7:00pm Queen Street Yoga's "Yoga Jam" |
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(2005):
Wednesday, December
14th, 8:00 PM "Transmissions" (presented by Transonic Arts) |
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| Monday, August 15th,
8:00 PM Zero To One Studios, Kitchener, Ontario $5 •jascha narveson - live computer music •úna ní fhlannagáin - "two lies," for harp and electronics •david newman & jascha narveson - (untitled), video •colin fisher (guitar, sax), nick storring (cello, computer) - improv |
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| Thursday, June
23rd, 9:00 PM |
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Saturday, May 7, 2:00pm ...a concert of Batá music from the Cuban Santeria tradition. I wrote none of it, but i love all of it. For this cocnert, the Wesleyan Batá group is: Elizabeth Sayre and guests: Michele "Buffy" Drysdale (dance) |
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April 23 - May
1 - Zero To One Galleries, Kitchener, Ontario |
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Tuesday,
April 19th, 8:00 |
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new-music pianist Danny Holt will be performing my solo piano piece ripple on tour, along with memory pieces by David Lang and other new music which Danny commissioned especially for him. Detailed info (prices, venue, program notes, etc...) can be found on his own site (linked to his name in the previous sentence).
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