jascha narveson
last updated: May 6, 2013
upcoming events
Monday, May 13th: NOW
Ensemble @ Music Mondays New York City's preëminent indie-classical group NOW Ensemble will be playing my short, punchy little piece "Nice Boots" on thier upcoming Music Mondays program. |
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Thursday,
May 16th: SIdeband @ Roulette Sideband, the laptop ensemble I'm part of, will be performing at Roulette in an evening split with high-tech singer and composer Amy X Neuburg, fresh from the bay area with suitcases full of STUFF, joining our stage full of STUFF, for an evening of bleeding-edge new music. |
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Tuesday, June 11th: Sideband
@ the UNPLAY festival Sideband will be performing at Conrad Tao's UNPLAY festival in DUMBO, which runs for two more days after our concert night. We'll be splitting the bill with Conrad's new band, and Todd Reynolds. |
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past events
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March 11-15 The incomparable, indefatigable DITHER electric guitar quartet go on tour this month, taking my 4-part "Ones" with them. Featuring guest member Nick Didkovsky! Details below and on the facebook event page: 11.MARCH.2013 Clazel Theater, Bowling Green, OH |
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Saturday, February
16th I'll be performing with Sideband in an evening of laptop-ensemble music at the West Windsor Arts Center. Music by most of our members! |
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Monday, February
25th Choreographer Naomi Goldberg Haas and her Dances For A Variable Population project present a premiere of "The Dress," for which I did composition and sound design. The audio features a story about a blue dress, recounted by dancer Linda Tarnay, who has an amazing voice and story-telling style. She'll also be making a rare appearance as a dancer in this production, which I'm very happy about. |
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Friday, December
21 Make Music New York and the High Line are re-presenting The Gaits, an public sound-walk for iPhones co-created by Lainie Fefferman, Cameron Britt, Daniel Iglesia, and me.The facebook event page has all the relevant details, and last year's review in the New York Times will give you a good flavor of what to expect. |
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Tuesday, Dec 11th Paradiso Dither perform parts of my four-movement work "Ones," which spins crazy textures out of idiomatic electric guitar sounds, at the Amsterdam Electric Guitar Haven lunchtime concert at the conservatorium and on "Southern Guitar Night" at the rock club Paradiso. |
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Saturday, November
17th My piece "Ones" will be part of Dither's set at this year's Dither Extravaganza, also featuring artists like Anthony Coleman, Mary Halverson, Jessica Pavone, and others. Fun times! |
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Saturday, November
17th Pianist Danny Holt is back with his piano/percussion project, presenting my piece Tint as well as pieces by David Johnson, Milen Kirov, Jonathan Russell, Oscar Bettison, and Sarah Seelig. |
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Friday, November
16th Dither perform parts of my four-movement work "Ones," which spins crazy textures out of idiomatic electric guitar sounds. |
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Friday, November 16th Pianist Danny Holt is back with his piano/percussion project, presenting my piece Tint as well as pieces by David Johnson, Milen Kirov, Jonathan Russell, Oscar Bettison, and Sarah Seelig. |
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Monday, October 15 I will be performing with Sideband, the full-time touring offshoot of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, as guests of new-music piano-heroine Kathleen Supove's faculty recital. Check out the details on the Mannes
School Of Music page. |
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Thursday, Sep 27 I'm part of an evening of computer-controlled
organ music at Wesleyan University. My piece is based
on hyper-fast stop changes, and should sound unlike any organ
music you've heard before. |
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Saturday, September
15 I will be performing with Sideband,
the full-time touring offshoot of the Princeton
Laptop Orchestra. We'll be performing pieces involving 3-D
video, ornate wooden electronic instruments, ritualistic movements,
dueling pianos, morse-code, historical narratives, and a host of
other things. We'll also be featuring our very special guest and
good friend Kathleen Supove on
piano. |
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Friday, May 25 The DITHER electric guitar quartet will play my new 4-part mini-epic, "Ones", featuring wah-wah madness, de-tuned crazyness, heavenly harmonics, and some catchy tune-age. Also on the bill: some other stuff by Josh Lopes, Lisa Coons, and more. |
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Wednesday, May 16 Sideband plays another round of new music at the Music With A View festival in Manhattan's Flea Theater. |
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Tuesday, April 17 Sideband, the commando version of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, will be playing a full set of new music at the Symposium on Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras at Louisiana State University. Crazy new music by myself and many other Sideband members! |
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Saturday, April 7 The Princeton Laptop Orchestra performs a year-end concert, with new work by me, Lainie Fefferman, Anne Hege, Michael Early, Dan Trueman, and Perry Cook. |
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Sunday, April 1 Danny Holt will be kicking off the Switchboard Music festival this year with his crazy one-man piano-percussion project. He'll be playing my newish piece Tint, as well some stuff by Johnathan Russell, Sarah Seelig, and Andrew Thol. |
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Friday, March 30 Sideband plays a new set of music at the Music, Mind, Invention conference at the College of New Jersey. |
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Saturday, March 24 Dither play me, Lisa Coons, and Paula Mattusen, Eve Beglarian, and Jay Belle at the Yale Guitar Extravanganza. See the link in the previous sentence for more info! |
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Tuesday, February
28 Dither perform my newly finished four-parter "Ones" at
Princeton, along with more electric guitar quartet action by
Elliot Cooper Cole, Matt Marble, Troy Herion, and Konrad Kaczmarek. |
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Thursday, January
26, 2012 DITHER will be playing a section from my new large-ish piece for them at Le Poisson Rouge, along with performances by Andrew McKenna Lee, Twi The Humble Feather, and Threefifty Duo. |
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Wednesday, December
21, 2011 Make Music New York and the High Line are co-producing a collaborative piece that I've been working on with fellow composers Lainie Fefferman, Cameron Britt, and Daniel Iglesia. It's a participatory piece - if you have an iPhone, come out and add to the sound! If you don't have an iPhone (like me!), come out and enjoy the massed sound. Details here |
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Thursday / Friday
/ Saturday, October 13 / 14 / 15 Choreographer Naomi Goldberg Haas' ongoing project Dances For A Variable population continues its exploration of demography-smashing art at the Joyce Soho over three nights this month. I did sound-design and editing on a long track made out of the RadioLab episode on the Ring Cycle. |
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Friday, October 14 New music accordion ninja Nathan Koci will be playing a short new piece of mine for accordion and bass, accompanied by new-music bass ninja Eleonore Oppenheim. "Trattoria" is a light homage to this duo's love of early Parisian cafe music (despite the fact that I gave it an Italian name...). Hear it at composer Wil Smith's excellently curated series Music At First series. |
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Sunday, October 16 The American Composers Orchestra's new festival of new music, SONiC, is a critical concentration of great concert around Manhattan in the middle of October. Sunday's concert is an all day, noon-till-midnight affair with lots of different ensembles. The inimitable Dither electric guitar quartet performs part of my new larger work "Ones," composer Lainie Fefferman's scorching Tongue Of Thorns, and several other works. |
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Tuesday, May 17 Danny Holt's amazing "piano percussion" one-man-ensemble
project come to Princeton to present some new works, including
my new piece for piano, glockenspiel, hi-hat, and kick-drum. |
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Friday, April 29 The larger, non-touring version of PLOrk will be playing a new piece of mine entitled "In Line." |
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Wednesday, April
27 - Sunday, May 1 This year I'm happy to be heavily involved in Kitchener's Open Ears Festival. On Wednesday, April 27th, I've got an arrangement of John Adams' "American Standard" for the wind and percussion players of the KW Sympony Orchestra. Wednesay also kicks off the sound-installation series in the main floor rotunda area of Kitchener City Hall, which I curated. Installations will be on from 3pm-6pm on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and from 1pm-6pm on Saturday. My 8-channel installation "Sine of the Times" will be playing on Thursday and Saturday. Thursday features a performance by a touring version of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, of which I am a part - we'll be playing my pieces "Beepsh" and "In Line." |
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(2010):
Monday, December
13 Tonight will include the New York premiere of my new set of pieces for Dither. These pieces range from highway-minimalism to crushing doom rock to sweet ambient lullabies - and they make it all sound great. |
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Thursday, November
18 The Dutch new-music group Ensemble Klang will be performing my piece Ticker at the STRP arts + technology festival in Eindhoven. |
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Tuesday, November
9 I'll have new work for Dither at
this Princeton event. Also on the bill will be Lainie
Fefferman's new piece for Kathy
Supové, and other good things. |
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Monday, September
27 The Now Ensemble are playing my piece Nice Boots in this installment of their east-coast tour. |
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Saturday, September
25 NEWSPEAK will be playing my re-working of the classic depression-era tune Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?at the second installment of the amazing New Music Bake Sale, which is a day-long event featuring all kinds of groups from the city playing music, hawking wares, selling food, and drinking beer. My version is an extended arrangement featuring interpolated sections, with shots of iron-pumpin' minimalist rock, jazzy vibes, sad strings, and even death metal added to the mix. |
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Saturday, August
28 The Machine Project is currently enjoying a residency at UCLA's Hammer Museum, where they've re-purposed a storage closet, dubbing it the Little William Theater, and using it to host a new music festival. They've commissioned 350+ short pieces by 97 composers, to be played by their four resident duos for audiences of two over a series of Saturdays from now until November in a series of over 400 five-minute concerts. This concert will feature a bunch of tuba duets, including my short piece For Bobby Previte. Here's a link to a schedule for the whole festival. |
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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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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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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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