Next month, Mobtown Modern will present Home Grown, a retrospective of recent works by super-cool Washington D.C.-based composer Alexandra Gardner. As a way of helping the audience get to know some of the musicians who’ll be performing on that show, Alex has begun posting a series of interviews with them over on her blog. The first one, hot off the presses, is with yours truly. Warning: I admit something quite shameful.
The Contemporary Museum‘s Mobtown Modern Music Series was recently awarded a grant from the Baltimore Community Foundation. Mobtown was among fifteen arts organizations recognized by the BCF for making “significant contributions to Baltimore’s vibrant arts and cultural scene in 2009.” Needless to say, we’re humbled and thrilled to have received this recognition.
I must admit that I’m getting too much enjoyment out of making up fun sounds.
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One of the challenges of the Zodiacrobatic project is to find ways to make the melodies more interesting than simply repeating them over and over and over again. I spent some time on Virgo today and came up with this little opening bit. Erik will actually begin Virgo by playing the doumbek, then I’ll add the background ostinato, and finally the framework of the accompaniment.
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