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A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY of DAVID J. SIMONS
David Simons composes music for theater, dance, film, installations, and concert ensembles. His unusual collection of sounds from self-built and non-European instruments combines with digital sampling technologies to create a unique pan-cultural music. He has devised his own method of using the Theremin as a Midi controller. David is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, studying composition with Earle Brown, Morton Subotnick, James Tenney, Harold Budd; percussion teachers include John Bergamo (Cal Arts), Paul Price (Manhattan School Of Music), and Alan Dawson (Berklee). David has researched and performed music from many of the world’s cultures, and furthered his music studies in Bali, Bangkok and Seoul. As a founding member of the FUTURE PRIMITIVE ENSEMBLE his pieces were heard live on radio and in concert throughout the U.S. He has also performed on tour in Java, Bali, Korea, Japan, Eastern and Western Europe, Canada, Cuba and Hawaii. For many years he has been a member of Gamelan Son of Lion and Music for Homemade Instruments in New York, both of which regularly premiere his works.
David has received numerous awards and grants, including a 2003 Rockefeller Foundation residency at Bellagio, Italy to compose music for NEWBAND and their collection of Harry Partch instruments. In 1998 American Composers Forum and Jerome Foundation funded the Gamelan Son of Lion’s commission for David to write Music for Theremin and Gamelan, and an Arts International travel grant and Asian Cultural Council grant enabled him to perform it in Bali (2000); other awards include Harvestworks Artist-In-Residence (‘95 Project Residency, ‘89 computer music Programming Residency); Canada Council Visiting Foreign Artist (‘92) for sound installation at Art Metropole in Toronto; Composer-in-Residence at American Dance Festival (‘91); NY Foundation for the Arts Composition Fellowship (‘90, 2000); ASCAP Special Awards (1987-02); and several Meet the Composer commissions. The American Music Center’s recovery grant ‘Music Liberty Initiative for NY’, was awarded in 2002. The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation sponsored a teaching and instrument building residency in 2005 with artist Ken Butler, Lisa Karrer and David Simons at the Avampato Museum in Charleston, West Virginia. In 2009 David curated the INTERACTIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL on the Coney Island Boardwalk for Make Music NY, produced by Manhattan New Music Project with support from the NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs.
In collaboration with Lisa Karrer, David has received Artslink and Arts International awards for projects in Estonia (95-03), and the Mary Flagler Cary Commissioning Grant to compose their chamber opera "The Birth of George" (‘96). This opera was produced by Harvestworks and American Opera Projects and had its workshop premiere at La Mama in ‘97, supported by the Jerome Foundation and Greenwall Foundation, and an Aaron Copland Recording grant was received in ‘98 to make a CD, released on TELLUS in 2003. David’s CD on TZADIK "Prismatic Hearing" was released in 2004. His next TZADIK release "Fung Sha Noon" was released Fall 2009.
Other recordings include THE HENRY BRANT COLLECTION vol.9 on Innova 2007; AURAL SHOEHORNING by Barbara Benary on New World Records 2006; Laura Andel's DOBLE MANO 2009 and IN-TENSION 2005; Bob Hoffnar's NEW MUSIC for PEDALSTEEL GUITAR '05; BENDING THE GENDING, Gamelan Son of Lion 2002; PICK OF THE LITTER, Music For Homemade Instruments‘00; FLIGHT OF WHISPERS, Jason Kao Hwang CRI ‘99; FIELDS AMAZE, Patrick Grant ‘97; NEW GAMELAN NEW YORK, Son Of Lion’95; GOD IS MY CO-PILOT, Knitting Factory Works ‘93 ; CHUNK/LIVE AT THE KNITTING FACTORY VOL.2, A&M Records ‘89; A DECADE OF DEBRIS, Music For Homemade Instruments‘ 89; SHELLEY HIRSCH / SINGING, Apollo Records Holland ‘88; SHORTWAVE/ KURZWELLEN by Stockhausen with the Negative Band, Finnadar ’76. David’s writings on music and sound are published in EAR Magazine and Radiotexte (Semiotexte ‘94).
In theater David has composed music for plays by Pinter, Hawthorne, Dostoyevsky, Poe, Jarry, New Peking Opera, Arabian Nights, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and children’s theater. His scores for choreographers have been performed at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, DTW, Riverside Dance Festival, St. Mark’s Church, PS 122, Franklin Furnace, DIA Art Foundation, Yellow Springs Institute, Fashion Moda and the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Some of the choreographers David has written for and worked with include Sin Cha Hong, Douglas Dunn, Ronald K. Brown and Evidence, Colin Conner, Lauri Nagel, Harry Streep, Erin Martin, Anita Feldman Tap Dance, Wendy Osserman, Laura Shapiro, Nadine Helstroffer, Deena Burton, Islene Pindar's Balinese American Dance Theater, Tjokorda Gde Arsa Artha, Man Hong Kang, Eun Me Ahn. Other credits as multi-instrumentalist include: NY Shakespeare Festival’s THE TEMPEST directed by Lee Bruer; JUAN DARIAN by Elliot Goldenthal and Julie Taymor; MARCO POLO opera workshop by Tan Dun; THE PASSIONS by Shelley Hirsch in Munich, Vienna and Berlin; Microtonal Music Festival and SECOND SPECIES opera by Skip LaPlante; Samm Bennett’s electronic percussion trio CHUNK at New Music America ‘89 and European tour; DHARMA SWARA Balinese Gamelan at NY Indonesian Consulate, Asia Society, Museum of Natural History , the United Nations, Merkin Concert Hall; WORLD POWER Gamelan music by Lou Harrison for Mark Morris Dance at BAM; A POPOL VUH STORY directed by Ralph Lee with music by Glen Velez at The Public Theater, Intar, and on tour; UNIVERSE SYMPHONY by Charles Ives arranged by Johnny Rheinhard at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center; DORMANT CRATERS by Henry Brant at Lincoln Center (World Premiere); OPERATION KRACKPOT by David First at Roulette, Harvestworks and Diapason; and WOMAN'S SONG by Lisa Karrer at The Kitchen and on tour to Tallinn.
MAJOR WORKS
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2000 - MUSIC FOR THEREMIN AND GAMELAN commissioned by American Composers Forum SACRED RHYTHM Millennial Percussion Festival, Ubud Bali (and 12/99 at Knitting Factory, and 1/05 at The Kitchen, NYC) 1999 - VIRTUAL PERCUSSION TRIO for viola, voice, and Theremin, with Stephanie Griffin and Lisa Karrer, Galapagos, Brooklyn (and Ubud, Bali; and Brussels Theremin Convention, 2000) 1998 - ETHERS, for Midi-Theremin, slide guitar and voice, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria - COOL IT WAYANG, for gamelan, trombone and voice 1997 - THE BIRTH OF GEORGE, a Chamber Opera for 20 performers, co-written with Lisa Karrer, commissioned by Harvestworks and American Opera Projects, at LaMama NYC 1996 - TUGU ANEH (STRANGE MONUMENT), for Gamelan and Homemade Instruments, Jogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Java 1995 - KEBYAR LEYAK, for digital gamelan and acoustic instruments, studio PASS recording for Son of Lion CD - ZHANG BOILS THE OCEAN, Chinese Opera for Pedal Steel Guitar, Percussion and voices,Henry St.Settlement, NYC - THE GOD OF MUD (from THE BIRTH OF GEORGE), for six-piece ensemble, NYYD Festival,Tallinn Estonia 1994 - THIS HOARY PERCH, Just Intonation String Quartet, Music For Homemade Instruments, Rhode Island School Of Design (and at Microtonal Music Festival, NYC) and Pick of the Litter Homemades CD 1993 - CHAIN OF INCIDENT, quadraphonic sound installation for artist Margo Pelletier, Trans-Hudson Gallery, Jersey City - DIG, for orchestra and organ, (unperformed ) 1992 - GATE, collaboration with Samul Nori, Sincha Hong and Jason Hwang at Sejong Center, Seoul, Korea - DUETS FOR DIGITAL SAMPLERS, with Denman Maroney - Festival of Improvised Music, Berlin; Ijsbreker, Amsterdam; De Salon, Groningen; Apollohuis, Eindhoven; Zaal De Unie, Rotterdam. Sponsored by the Gaudeamus Foundation. - EIGHT EMPEROR PENGUINS SANG A DIRGE, audio visual installation at Art Metropole; concert at Music Gallery,Toronto 1991 - CORE, ensemble work for American Dance Festival, Ronald K. Brown choreographer, at Durham, NC and Lincoln Center Out of Doors, NYC - JIMMY AND TITO, electronic composition on tape, Sao Paulo Bienale, Brazil 1989 - A TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF TIME and other works, Roulette, NYC - STOCHASTIQUE, computer generated score for RUSH Dance Co., The Kitchen, NYC 1986 - NATIVE CAT SONGS ensemble concert at Roulette and live broadcast on radio WNYC - ISLE, tape music for Sincha Hong Laughing Stone Dance Co. at La Mama, NYC (and 1989 in Bejing, China) - NAKED WE STAND, at International Gamelan Festival, EXPO '86 Vancouver,Canada (and 2003 in Estonia) PUBLISHED WORKS 2009 - "Sitting at the Feet of Gurus" by Deena Burton, Xlibris Press , David Simons, editor. The book is about Claire Holt, Asian Dance ethnographer 1994 - "Radio Galaxy" article about radio waves in outer space, Radiotexte, Semiotext(e) , Neil Strauss, ed. 1986-91 - Articles, reviews, critical essays, contributing editor, EAR Magazine, NY 1979 - "LISHTA 3" for the Xperimental Chorus, score and article EAR Magazine, California 1978 - "An Arch is a Key" for 4 ensembles, EAR 1977 - "Undifferentiated Tissue" and "The Night Sky in October" Lovelights, David Moe, ed. - "The World Will Never Know" Mills College Center for Contemporary Music Anthology 1973 - "Whether or not to die in love" for mixed ensemble, Soundings , Peter Garland, ed. RECORDED WORKS 2009 - "FUNG SHA NOON" includes ODENTITY for the Harry Partch instruments, UNCLE VENUS for FLUX Quartet, MUSIC for THEREMIN and GAMELAN with Rob Swimmer, Stephanie Griffin, and Gamelan Son of Lion, and CHAIN OF INCIDENT epic soundscape for sampled cans and bottles; CD on TZADIK 2008 - "Naked We Stand" and part of "9-11 Suite" Gamelan Son of Lion SONOGRAM double CD on INNOVA 2004 - "PRISMATIC HEARING" works for Theremin, sampler and mixed ensembles, including THE UNRAVELING for Gamelan Son of Lion and COLLECTIVE CHOK for Music for Homemade Instruments CD on TZADIK 2003 - "The Birth of George" a chamber opera for 20 players, co-written with Lisa Karrer, conducted by Yvonne Hicks, Harvestworks/TELLUS 2002 - "Cool it Wayang" for gamelan, voice and trombone Gamelan Son Of Lion BENDING THE GENDING 2000 - "Cremation Music" and "This Hoary Perch" Music For Homemade Instruments PICK OF THE LITTER 1995 - "Kebyar Leyak" for digital gamelan, trombone, ocarina and text - Gamelan Son Of Lion - NEW GAMELAN / NEW YORK, GSOL 1994 - "Pygmy Dream" and " Honey Ant Song" for rock band God is My Co-Pilot HOW TO BE, The Making of Americans 1989 - "Native Cat Songs" for percussion, strings, winds and voice. Music For Homemade Instruments A DECADE OF DEBRIS, MFHI cassette 1980 - "Floating Worlds" for Zheng (Chinese zither), flute and harp. Self produced cassette >download this bio as a 2 page PDF<
1999 - VIRTUAL PERCUSSION TRIO for viola, voice, and Theremin, with Stephanie Griffin and Lisa Karrer, Galapagos, Brooklyn (and Ubud, Bali; and Brussels Theremin Convention, 2000) 1998 - ETHERS, for Midi-Theremin, slide guitar and voice, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria - COOL IT WAYANG, for gamelan, trombone and voice 1997 - THE BIRTH OF GEORGE, a Chamber Opera for 20 performers, co-written with Lisa Karrer, commissioned by Harvestworks and American Opera Projects, at LaMama NYC 1996 - TUGU ANEH (STRANGE MONUMENT), for Gamelan and Homemade Instruments, Jogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Java 1995 - KEBYAR LEYAK, for digital gamelan and acoustic instruments, studio PASS recording for Son of Lion CD - ZHANG BOILS THE OCEAN, Chinese Opera for Pedal Steel Guitar, Percussion and voices,Henry St.Settlement, NYC - THE GOD OF MUD (from THE BIRTH OF GEORGE), for six-piece ensemble, NYYD Festival,Tallinn Estonia 1994 - THIS HOARY PERCH, Just Intonation String Quartet, Music For Homemade Instruments, Rhode Island School Of Design (and at Microtonal Music Festival, NYC) and Pick of the Litter Homemades CD 1993 - CHAIN OF INCIDENT, quadraphonic sound installation for artist Margo Pelletier, Trans-Hudson Gallery, Jersey City - DIG, for orchestra and organ, (unperformed ) 1992 - GATE, collaboration with Samul Nori, Sincha Hong and Jason Hwang at Sejong Center, Seoul, Korea - DUETS FOR DIGITAL SAMPLERS, with Denman Maroney - Festival of Improvised Music, Berlin; Ijsbreker, Amsterdam; De Salon, Groningen; Apollohuis, Eindhoven; Zaal De Unie, Rotterdam. Sponsored by the Gaudeamus Foundation. - EIGHT EMPEROR PENGUINS SANG A DIRGE, audio visual installation at Art Metropole; concert at Music Gallery,Toronto 1991 - CORE, ensemble work for American Dance Festival, Ronald K. Brown choreographer, at Durham, NC and Lincoln Center Out of Doors, NYC - JIMMY AND TITO, electronic composition on tape, Sao Paulo Bienale, Brazil 1989 - A TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF TIME and other works, Roulette, NYC - STOCHASTIQUE, computer generated score for RUSH Dance Co., The Kitchen, NYC 1986 - NATIVE CAT SONGS ensemble concert at Roulette and live broadcast on radio WNYC - ISLE, tape music for Sincha Hong Laughing Stone Dance Co. at La Mama, NYC (and 1989 in Bejing, China) - NAKED WE STAND, at International Gamelan Festival, EXPO '86 Vancouver,Canada (and 2003 in Estonia) PUBLISHED WORKS 2009 - "Sitting at the Feet of Gurus" by Deena Burton, Xlibris Press , David Simons, editor. The book is about Claire Holt, Asian Dance ethnographer 1994 - "Radio Galaxy" article about radio waves in outer space, Radiotexte, Semiotext(e) , Neil Strauss, ed. 1986-91 - Articles, reviews, critical essays, contributing editor, EAR Magazine, NY 1979 - "LISHTA 3" for the Xperimental Chorus, score and article EAR Magazine, California 1978 - "An Arch is a Key" for 4 ensembles, EAR 1977 - "Undifferentiated Tissue" and "The Night Sky in October" Lovelights, David Moe, ed. - "The World Will Never Know" Mills College Center for Contemporary Music Anthology 1973 - "Whether or not to die in love" for mixed ensemble, Soundings , Peter Garland, ed. RECORDED WORKS 2009 - "FUNG SHA NOON" includes ODENTITY for the Harry Partch instruments, UNCLE VENUS for FLUX Quartet, MUSIC for THEREMIN and GAMELAN with Rob Swimmer, Stephanie Griffin, and Gamelan Son of Lion, and CHAIN OF INCIDENT epic soundscape for sampled cans and bottles; CD on TZADIK 2008 - "Naked We Stand" and part of "9-11 Suite" Gamelan Son of Lion SONOGRAM double CD on INNOVA 2004 - "PRISMATIC HEARING" works for Theremin, sampler and mixed ensembles, including THE UNRAVELING for Gamelan Son of Lion and COLLECTIVE CHOK for Music for Homemade Instruments CD on TZADIK 2003 - "The Birth of George" a chamber opera for 20 players, co-written with Lisa Karrer, conducted by Yvonne Hicks, Harvestworks/TELLUS 2002 - "Cool it Wayang" for gamelan, voice and trombone Gamelan Son Of Lion BENDING THE GENDING 2000 - "Cremation Music" and "This Hoary Perch" Music For Homemade Instruments PICK OF THE LITTER 1995 - "Kebyar Leyak" for digital gamelan, trombone, ocarina and text - Gamelan Son Of Lion - NEW GAMELAN / NEW YORK, GSOL 1994 - "Pygmy Dream" and " Honey Ant Song" for rock band God is My Co-Pilot HOW TO BE, The Making of Americans 1989 - "Native Cat Songs" for percussion, strings, winds and voice. Music For Homemade Instruments A DECADE OF DEBRIS, MFHI cassette 1980 - "Floating Worlds" for Zheng (Chinese zither), flute and harp. Self produced cassette >download this bio as a 2 page PDF<
1998 - ETHERS, for Midi-Theremin, slide guitar and voice, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria - COOL IT WAYANG, for gamelan, trombone and voice 1997 - THE BIRTH OF GEORGE, a Chamber Opera for 20 performers, co-written with Lisa Karrer, commissioned by Harvestworks and American Opera Projects, at LaMama NYC 1996 - TUGU ANEH (STRANGE MONUMENT), for Gamelan and Homemade Instruments, Jogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Java 1995 - KEBYAR LEYAK, for digital gamelan and acoustic instruments, studio PASS recording for Son of Lion CD - ZHANG BOILS THE OCEAN, Chinese Opera for Pedal Steel Guitar, Percussion and voices,Henry St.Settlement, NYC - THE GOD OF MUD (from THE BIRTH OF GEORGE), for six-piece ensemble, NYYD Festival,Tallinn Estonia 1994 - THIS HOARY PERCH, Just Intonation String Quartet, Music For Homemade Instruments, Rhode Island School Of Design (and at Microtonal Music Festival, NYC) and Pick of the Litter Homemades CD 1993 - CHAIN OF INCIDENT, quadraphonic sound installation for artist Margo Pelletier, Trans-Hudson Gallery, Jersey City - DIG, for orchestra and organ, (unperformed ) 1992 - GATE, collaboration with Samul Nori, Sincha Hong and Jason Hwang at Sejong Center, Seoul, Korea - DUETS FOR DIGITAL SAMPLERS, with Denman Maroney - Festival of Improvised Music, Berlin; Ijsbreker, Amsterdam; De Salon, Groningen; Apollohuis, Eindhoven; Zaal De Unie, Rotterdam. Sponsored by the Gaudeamus Foundation. - EIGHT EMPEROR PENGUINS SANG A DIRGE, audio visual installation at Art Metropole; concert at Music Gallery,Toronto 1991 - CORE, ensemble work for American Dance Festival, Ronald K. Brown choreographer, at Durham, NC and Lincoln Center Out of Doors, NYC - JIMMY AND TITO, electronic composition on tape, Sao Paulo Bienale, Brazil 1989 - A TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF TIME and other works, Roulette, NYC - STOCHASTIQUE, computer generated score for RUSH Dance Co., The Kitchen, NYC 1986 - NATIVE CAT SONGS ensemble concert at Roulette and live broadcast on radio WNYC - ISLE, tape music for Sincha Hong Laughing Stone Dance Co. at La Mama, NYC (and 1989 in Bejing, China) - NAKED WE STAND, at International Gamelan Festival, EXPO '86 Vancouver,Canada (and 2003 in Estonia) PUBLISHED WORKS 2009 - "Sitting at the Feet of Gurus" by Deena Burton, Xlibris Press , David Simons, editor. The book is about Claire Holt, Asian Dance ethnographer 1994 - "Radio Galaxy" article about radio waves in outer space, Radiotexte, Semiotext(e) , Neil Strauss, ed. 1986-91 - Articles, reviews, critical essays, contributing editor, EAR Magazine, NY 1979 - "LISHTA 3" for the Xperimental Chorus, score and article EAR Magazine, California 1978 - "An Arch is a Key" for 4 ensembles, EAR 1977 - "Undifferentiated Tissue" and "The Night Sky in October" Lovelights, David Moe, ed. - "The World Will Never Know" Mills College Center for Contemporary Music Anthology 1973 - "Whether or not to die in love" for mixed ensemble, Soundings , Peter Garland, ed. RECORDED WORKS 2009 - "FUNG SHA NOON" includes ODENTITY for the Harry Partch instruments, UNCLE VENUS for FLUX Quartet, MUSIC for THEREMIN and GAMELAN with Rob Swimmer, Stephanie Griffin, and Gamelan Son of Lion, and CHAIN OF INCIDENT epic soundscape for sampled cans and bottles; CD on TZADIK 2008 - "Naked We Stand" and part of "9-11 Suite" Gamelan Son of Lion SONOGRAM double CD on INNOVA 2004 - "PRISMATIC HEARING" works for Theremin, sampler and mixed ensembles, including THE UNRAVELING for Gamelan Son of Lion and COLLECTIVE CHOK for Music for Homemade Instruments CD on TZADIK 2003 - "The Birth of George" a chamber opera for 20 players, co-written with Lisa Karrer, conducted by Yvonne Hicks, Harvestworks/TELLUS 2002 - "Cool it Wayang" for gamelan, voice and trombone Gamelan Son Of Lion BENDING THE GENDING 2000 - "Cremation Music" and "This Hoary Perch" Music For Homemade Instruments PICK OF THE LITTER 1995 - "Kebyar Leyak" for digital gamelan, trombone, ocarina and text - Gamelan Son Of Lion - NEW GAMELAN / NEW YORK, GSOL 1994 - "Pygmy Dream" and " Honey Ant Song" for rock band God is My Co-Pilot HOW TO BE, The Making of Americans 1989 - "Native Cat Songs" for percussion, strings, winds and voice. Music For Homemade Instruments A DECADE OF DEBRIS, MFHI cassette 1980 - "Floating Worlds" for Zheng (Chinese zither), flute and harp. Self produced cassette >download this bio as a 2 page PDF<
1997 - THE BIRTH OF GEORGE, a Chamber Opera for 20 performers, co-written with Lisa Karrer, commissioned by Harvestworks and American Opera Projects, at LaMama NYC
1996 - TUGU ANEH (STRANGE MONUMENT), for Gamelan and Homemade Instruments, Jogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Java
1995 -
1994 - THIS HOARY PERCH, Just Intonation String Quartet, Music For Homemade Instruments, Rhode Island School Of Design (and at Microtonal Music Festival, NYC) and Pick of the Litter Homemades CD
1993 - CHAIN OF INCIDENT, quadraphonic sound installation for artist Margo Pelletier, Trans-Hudson Gallery, Jersey City - DIG, for orchestra and organ, (unperformed )
1992 - GATE, collaboration with Samul Nori, Sincha Hong and Jason Hwang at Sejong Center, Seoul, Korea - DUETS FOR DIGITAL SAMPLERS, with Denman Maroney - Festival of Improvised Music, Berlin; Ijsbreker, Amsterdam; De Salon, Groningen; Apollohuis, Eindhoven; Zaal De Unie, Rotterdam. Sponsored by the Gaudeamus Foundation. - EIGHT EMPEROR PENGUINS SANG A DIRGE, audio visual installation at Art Metropole; concert at Music Gallery,Toronto 1991 - CORE, ensemble work for American Dance Festival, Ronald K. Brown choreographer, at Durham, NC and Lincoln Center Out of Doors, NYC - JIMMY AND TITO, electronic composition on tape, Sao Paulo Bienale, Brazil 1989 - A TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF TIME and other works, Roulette, NYC - STOCHASTIQUE, computer generated score for RUSH Dance Co., The Kitchen, NYC 1986 - NATIVE CAT SONGS ensemble concert at Roulette and live broadcast on radio WNYC - ISLE, tape music for Sincha Hong Laughing Stone Dance Co. at La Mama, NYC (and 1989 in Bejing, China) - NAKED WE STAND, at International Gamelan Festival, EXPO '86 Vancouver,Canada (and 2003 in Estonia) PUBLISHED WORKS 2009 - "Sitting at the Feet of Gurus" by Deena Burton, Xlibris Press , David Simons, editor. The book is about Claire Holt, Asian Dance ethnographer 1994 - "Radio Galaxy" article about radio waves in outer space, Radiotexte, Semiotext(e) , Neil Strauss, ed. 1986-91 - Articles, reviews, critical essays, contributing editor, EAR Magazine, NY 1979 - "LISHTA 3" for the Xperimental Chorus, score and article EAR Magazine, California 1978 - "An Arch is a Key" for 4 ensembles, EAR 1977 - "Undifferentiated Tissue" and "The Night Sky in October" Lovelights, David Moe, ed. - "The World Will Never Know" Mills College Center for Contemporary Music Anthology 1973 - "Whether or not to die in love" for mixed ensemble, Soundings , Peter Garland, ed. RECORDED WORKS 2009 - "FUNG SHA NOON" includes ODENTITY for the Harry Partch instruments, UNCLE VENUS for FLUX Quartet, MUSIC for THEREMIN and GAMELAN with Rob Swimmer, Stephanie Griffin, and Gamelan Son of Lion, and CHAIN OF INCIDENT epic soundscape for sampled cans and bottles; CD on TZADIK 2008 - "Naked We Stand" and part of "9-11 Suite" Gamelan Son of Lion SONOGRAM double CD on INNOVA 2004 - "PRISMATIC HEARING" works for Theremin, sampler and mixed ensembles, including THE UNRAVELING for Gamelan Son of Lion and COLLECTIVE CHOK for Music for Homemade Instruments CD on TZADIK 2003 - "The Birth of George" a chamber opera for 20 players, co-written with Lisa Karrer, conducted by Yvonne Hicks, Harvestworks/TELLUS 2002 - "Cool it Wayang" for gamelan, voice and trombone Gamelan Son Of Lion BENDING THE GENDING 2000 - "Cremation Music" and "This Hoary Perch" Music For Homemade Instruments PICK OF THE LITTER 1995 - "Kebyar Leyak" for digital gamelan, trombone, ocarina and text - Gamelan Son Of Lion - NEW GAMELAN / NEW YORK, GSOL 1994 - "Pygmy Dream" and " Honey Ant Song" for rock band God is My Co-Pilot HOW TO BE, The Making of Americans 1989 - "Native Cat Songs" for percussion, strings, winds and voice. Music For Homemade Instruments A DECADE OF DEBRIS, MFHI cassette 1980 - "Floating Worlds" for Zheng (Chinese zither), flute and harp. Self produced cassette >download this bio as a 2 page PDF<
1991 - CORE, ensemble work for American Dance Festival, Ronald K. Brown choreographer, at Durham, NC and Lincoln Center Out of Doors, NYC - JIMMY AND TITO, electronic composition on tape, Sao Paulo Bienale, Brazil 1989 - A TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF TIME and other works, Roulette, NYC - STOCHASTIQUE, computer generated score for RUSH Dance Co., The Kitchen, NYC 1986 - NATIVE CAT SONGS ensemble concert at Roulette and live broadcast on radio WNYC - ISLE, tape music for Sincha Hong Laughing Stone Dance Co. at La Mama, NYC (and 1989 in Bejing, China) - NAKED WE STAND, at International Gamelan Festival, EXPO '86 Vancouver,Canada (and 2003 in Estonia) PUBLISHED WORKS
1989 - A TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF TIME and other works, Roulette, NYC - STOCHASTIQUE, computer generated score for RUSH Dance Co., The Kitchen, NYC
1986 - NATIVE CAT SONGS ensemble concert at Roulette and live broadcast on radio WNYC - ISLE, tape music for Sincha Hong Laughing Stone Dance Co. at La Mama, NYC (and 1989 in Bejing, China) - NAKED WE STAND, at International Gamelan Festival, EXPO '86 Vancouver,Canada (and 2003 in Estonia)
PUBLISHED WORKS
2009 - "Sitting at the Feet of Gurus" by Deena Burton, Xlibris Press , David Simons, editor. The book is about Claire Holt, Asian Dance ethnographer
1994 - "Radio Galaxy" article about radio waves in outer space, Radiotexte, Semiotext(e) , Neil Strauss, ed.
1986-91 - Articles, reviews, critical essays, contributing editor, EAR Magazine, NY
1979 - "LISHTA 3" for the Xperimental Chorus, score and article EAR Magazine, California
1978 - "An Arch is a Key" for 4 ensembles, EAR
1977 - "Undifferentiated Tissue" and "The Night Sky in October" Lovelights, David Moe, ed. - "The World Will Never Know" Mills College Center for Contemporary Music Anthology
1973 - "Whether or not to die in love" for mixed ensemble, Soundings , Peter Garland, ed.
RECORDED WORKS
2003 - "The Birth of George" a chamber opera for 20 players, co-written with Lisa Karrer, conducted by Yvonne Hicks, Harvestworks/TELLUS
2002 - "Cool it Wayang" for gamelan, voice and trombone Gamelan Son Of Lion BENDING THE GENDING
2000 - "Cremation Music" and "This Hoary Perch" Music For Homemade Instruments PICK OF THE LITTER
1995 - "Kebyar Leyak" for digital gamelan, trombone, ocarina and text - Gamelan Son Of Lion - NEW GAMELAN / NEW YORK, GSOL
1994 - "Pygmy Dream" and " Honey Ant Song" for rock band God is My Co-Pilot HOW TO BE, The Making of Americans
1989 - "Native Cat Songs" for percussion, strings, winds and voice. Music For Homemade Instruments A DECADE OF DEBRIS, MFHI cassette