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Oct 31.2010
I’m back from a 3 week trip to Spain as of last night. The first part of the trip was creative work. I spent a week getting to know the town and region of Spain called Huesca and made a new video. At the end of the week my good friend, the extremely talented Violist Liuh-Wen Ting, arrived and we did a live show in a very old and very beautiful space. The show went really great, and I will be filling you folks in throughout the next week with pictures and videos from the show.
But not now. I’m bushed!!! Just wanted to say a warm hello to any folks visiting the site and offer a little Halloween treat. It’s a spooky little voice improvisation I did recently. It’s totally live and constructed using Logic Pro. I find it quite funny, but most of the people I play it to say it’s scary. I think it’s ideal Halloween driving music.
Guy Garvey! Thank you so much, sir!!!Oct 05.2010
Guy Garvey from Elbow played The Sad Song during his show on Sunday. Got a kind email from a listener in England alerting me to the play.
You can hear it here if you’re interested:
BBC iPlayer, Guy Garvey’s Finest Hour: 03/10/2010
It’s a really good show! Started off with Pyramid Song, which as usual gave me the chills.
make sure to have a hangover, please…Sep 29.2010
boooo, not only did I not make it into the 5 finalists for the Vimeo awards, but they have put me in the “hangover” screening. No joke. Well, I have to consider myself fortunate anyway, despite my screening taking place in the morning time ! Seriously, boo!
Autumn Equinox…Sep 22.2010
It’s the night of the Autumn Equinox, and I’m home alone with my buddy kitties Max and Calibomosh. Apparently tonight there will be a “super harvest moon”, which should be stunning. Full effect (and I’m not sure what that will be, I’m hoping to be stunned!) occurs at 11:09 PM precisely!
Anyway, first an apology - I know I haven’t written in this blog for ages. It’s been quite a summer. I took 2 trips - one to France for two amazing, and amazingly different shows (one in a quarry in which I sang acappella with the wonderful singer Scalde, and the other one in a country festival where me and the members of I Am Your Autopilot gave the best performance we ever have!!!) PHEW! That’s a runon! Then I did a performance in Venice as a peripheral part of the Venice Film Festival. It was a small but warm audience, and the Venice… well, it’s really amazing. But I won’t get into that now because I’m just trying to apologize!!!!
I have secondly some news - there’s a new track of mine released in a comp culled for Marc Weidenbaum and his newborn child. Marc is the man behind the Disquiet blog on ambient music. I was asked to do this by my good pal Erik Schoster for his netlabel Luvsound. The tune I chose to submit is a short movement from an improvisation I created called The Garden. I invite you to check out Lullaby, but The Garden hasn’t been released yet. It’s very different from my pop.
More good news - I got shortlisted for the vimeo festival and awards with my Wood Smoke video! This meant that David Lynch and a very small panel of judges watched my video. It didn’t make finalist (!!!) but that’s ok. I’m just happy to have creeped into David Lynch’s eyes.
OK, promise to be more connected during the autumn! Enjoy the Equinox, folks!
who’s that knocking…Jun 29.2010
Strange experience I had at bedtime last night and early this morning… I was sitting in the upstairs of my house. My kitties were downstairs and down the hall, the doorway that leads to the stairway was closed, so no chance they could have been up… So I’m lying there making ready for sleep when I hear quite clearly “knock knock.” Two confident taps on my bedroom door. I got a little weirded out - there’s nothing in the hall that could have done that. It wasn’t a windy night. I got up and opened the door… nothing. Nobody there. I figured, ok, maybe two acorns fell on the skylight close to the door and promptly went to sleep.
The really odd part was at 3:30 AM I was awoken from sleep by some troubled feelings… I wasn’t quite wide awake, but half-conscious, embroiled in a mesh of thoughts. What completely woke me was the sound of two taps on my door. Knock knock. Again. Confident, dispassionate, but clearly meant to wake me. I turned on the light and opened the door… again, nobody there. And I think if had been another couple of acorns from the roof in the exact same place and the exact same rhythm that would be magically bizarre.
Well, I made it through the night. But what were those knocks?