5/10, 5/14, and 5/17: The Metropolitan Opera is bringing back Tan Dun’s The First Emperor for a run of 3 performances only. I’ll be in the stone drum band once again, dressed as a chinese soldier. Check out my previous post, including a super-awesome picture of Tan Dun (and me?!) here, and get all the specifics for these three shows here.
On a totally unrelated side note: I finally got recordings from the DIA Center Fall Benefit performance of John Cage’s Imaginary Landscape No. 3, which I wrote about here back in November. The performance was not open to the public but through the magic of digital audio recording robots, it can be experienced by clicking below:
Imaginary Landscape No. 3 for six percussionists, by John Cage.
Michael Caterizano, David Mancuso, Eric Poland, Chris Thompson, Joe Tompkins, Yuri Yamashita. Recorded live on November 12, 2007.
5/8: Composer Nico Muhly shares a bill with Phillip Bimstein on Merkin Hall’s New Sounds Live series. I play percussion and also close-mic breakfast…
Nico’s beautiful new album Mothertounge is about to be released on May 6th. Like his first album, it features collaborations with friends, most of whom he wrote for specifically. Although my involvement in the percussive sense is still unclear, one thing is for sure: I’ll be spending some time trying to figure out how to reproduce on-stage the sound of my shower, a fried egg, mr. coffee, and toast-buttering, which got me a sound design credit on the album. My dirty secret happens to be that, while I did record them all (with fancy bit rate, no less!), the real magic happened when Valgeir Sigurðsson got a hold of those files and used them in the title track “Mothertounge.” I’m super excited to be working with these great artists and looking forward to putting on this show… hope to see everyone there!
New Sounds Live: Nico Muhly & Phillip Bimstein
Thursday May 8, 2008 @ 8:00PM
Merkin Concert Hall
New York, NY
5/10, 5/14, and 5/17: The Metropolitan Opera is bringing back Tan Dun’s The First Emperor for a run of 3 performances only. I’ll be in the stone drum band once again, dressed as a chinese soldier. Check out my previous post, including a super-awesome picture of Tan Dun (and me?!) here, and get all the specifics for these three shows here.
