World Music Days – Oct 2009, Sweden
My saxophone quartet, Mix-Deep Breaths-Remix will be performed at the World Music Days festival in Sweden.
Flexible Music – Fall, 2009, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn Flexible Music will be premiering a an arrangement of ATD IV for piano, percussion, sax, and guitar.
Wet Ink Ensemble – May 1, 2009, 8pm, St Peter's Church in Chelsea, Manhattan Wet Ink will be premiering a new work for sax, accordion, flute, clarinet, guitar, percussion, and electronics along with works by Mathias Spahlinger, Alvin Lucier, Jeff Snyder, and Chiyoko Szlavnics.
Sparks + – Apr 23, 2009, 8pm, Zebulon, Brooklyn, New York
I will be playing laptop with the incredible duo Sparks (Peter Evans and Tom Blancarte), at Zebulon in Brooklyn.
Columbia Composers presents So Percussion – Apr 18, 2009, 8pm, Roulette, New York
Columbia Composers presents So Percussion, who will be premiering my percussion quartet, Signal Flow.
Teresa McCollough – Apr 9, 2009, 8pm, Roulette, New York
After a March 8 performance in California, Teresa McCollough brings her piano/percussion/electronics concert to New York. She will be playing 'noise + mobile,' my work for piano and electronics that she commissioned in 2005.
SuperCollider Show at The Tank – Apr 8, 2009, The Tank, New York Glissando Bin Laden will be playing with various SuperCollider freaks at Manhattan's best experimental spot - The Tank.
Musica Nova – Feb 8, 2009, Finland
ATD IV was performed at the largest new music festival in Finland.
So what do I do anyway?
Well...I do a lot of a couple of things. I compose music for people to play, I improvise with my laptop (like right above where you are reading), write electronic music that just plays itself, and I make installations that lots of people can play with. I really like to combine these things, writing music for people to play while I improvise on my laptop, or writing something nobody plays to go along with people improvising, etc, etc... I've worked with dancers, video artists, theater companies, and have even done some film soundtracks.
Recently, I have become Technical Director for Wet Ink Ensemble, an amazing New York group dedicated to playing new music by young composers. Wet Ink just released our first album, with music by Eric Wubbels, Kate Soper, Jeff Snyder, Alex Mincek, and myself. Its available from Carrier Records, a label that Jeff Snyder and I have just started up.
Of course, I continue improvising with the great quintet Glissando Bin Laden and His Musichideen, who are based in New York City, and my duo with Jeff Synder, exclusiveOr, who make music on vintage 1960's and 70's synths, including one of the original Buchla 100/200's. We finally released our album on quiet design records in Austin, TX. Also on that label is the language of, a killer compilation including works by Alex Mincek, Alex Ness, Clara Latham, Jeff Snyder, Kate Soper, Eric Wubbels, Jim Altieri, and myself.
I've studied music in a lot of great places. I am currently a DMA student at Columbia University. I got my Masters degree at the University of Texas at Austin and then got another at BEAST in the UK. I did my undergrad work at Santa Clara University in California. Probably the best education of all, though, has been teaching for the last nine years at The Walden School, which is my favorite place in the world. I also recently became Computer Music Coodinator there, which is very exciting.
If you like my stuff and want to contact me, please email me at spluta at gmail dot com.