http://www.chrispthompson.com The personal website of NYC-based percussionist Chris Thompson Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:30:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/08/04/acme-with-craig-wedren-music-of-jefferson-friedman/ http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/07/22/alarm-will-sound-performs-aphex-twin/ http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/07/19/vermont-mozart-festival-2/ http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/06/14/alarm-will-sound-the-music-of-derek-bermel-at-lpr/ http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/05/17/west-village-chorale-chichester-psalms-and-carmina-burana-2/ 5/8 - 5/10: ACME and the Wordless Orchestra with MONO at Ethical Culture and (le) Poisson Rouge.  It was a super fun week meeting and playing 2 shows with the Japanese band MONO, who demonstrate the perfect balance between an ultra-rockstar performance style on stage and a musically curious and completely down ... http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/05/15/rockstar-debrief/ http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/05/15/west-village-chorale-chichester-psalms-and-carmina-burana/ http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/05/09/mono-with-wordless-music-orchestra-ny-premier-of-arvo-part-symphony-4/ http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/05/08/wordless-music-orchestra-with-mono-at-ny-society-for-ethical-culture/ Cans: Joe Tompkins and Chris Thompson Percussion and Electronics: Michael Caterisano, David Mancuso, Eric Poland, Yuri Yamashita http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/04/28/one-quick-moment-of-zen/ http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/04/25/alarm-will-sound-music-by-bermel-adams-birtwistle-lang-chuck-aphex-twin/ http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/04/19/premiere-of-caleb-burhans-super-flumina-babylonis/ Yesaroun' Duo releases "HeavyUpHeavyDown", I program a synth and sing mating calls to prehistoric space aliens. From the program note for "Ryoanji" by the Yesaroun' Duo: Ryoanji is a rock garden in Kyoto, Japan, in which large beautiful boulders are surrounded by carefully raked fields of sand. The sparse, persistent pulsing of the percussion ... http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/04/09/eat-your-abstract-vegetables/ http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/04/02/bartok-sonata-for-two-pianos-and-percussion/ http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/03/21/alarm-will-sound-1969-at-cleveland-museum-of-natural-history/ http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/03/20/alarm-will-sound-1969/ 3/3: Alarm Will Sound with Bang on a Can All Stars and Steve Reich and Musicians for the reopening of Alice Tully Hall. http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/03/03/alarm-will-sound/ 2/18: Jazz at Lincoln Center's "American Songbook" presents Nico Muhly's Elements of Style among many other lovely things. I'm doing the really bad thing again, which is to say Posting After the Fact, but I promise that soon I will be caught up and the great Matt Hensrud will have fixed ... http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/02/18/illustrated-music/ Squeaks now being tweeted... follow "chrispthompson" http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/02/15/gulp/ 2/13: ACME, Craig Wedren, yesaroun' duo, and Shudder to Think do a Wordless Music Show at (le) Poisson Rouge. The combination of a venue like (le) Poisson Rouge, a concert series like Wordless Music, and an advocate (not only for good contemporary music but for all good music) like Ronen ... http://www.chrispthompson.com/2009/02/13/acme-at-le-poisson-rouge/