Ruckus Amongstus: or, the rise and fall of the city of Muppet Darmstadt
This is going to be a wonderfully mad show. I’ve been looking forward to the day when the team behind No Signal got back together with some new friends in New York and put on shows again, and that time is finally upon us. This Saturday, 8 PM, at the Exapno New Music Community Center,...
Ian Rosenbaum tries out a monologue
Last night I went over to Ian Rosenbaum‘s place, and we went over some of the sketches I’ve got for the new scene 1 of Summer’s Twilight. As usual with a marimba part, you think some things are hard when they’re easy, and you think some things are easy but they’re hard. Sometimes you take...
Watch Cucumbers & Gin
Thanks to the hard work of a lot of brilliant and talented people Cucumbers & Gin is now complete! This project has been an incredible experience, from our Kickstarter campaign, working with backers, through pre-production planning, the incredible day we shot and recorded the project, and through post-production as well, creating an interactive way for...
Watch The Seafarer
The film version of The Seafarer is complete! Thanks so much to everyone who’s worked on this from concept to shooting through post-production. We did it!
Cucumbers & Gin Cocktail Round-up
We’re done! We’ve created seven different custom cocktails each featuring cucumbers and gin for awesome our Kickstarter backers. It was harder and more rewarding than I expected. Both ingredients have very distinctive flavors, and coming up with seven different recipes that a) aren’t horrible and b) aren’t identical wasn’t easy. We created a lot of...
NY Times Review
So, my day job is to run the MTC Studio, which we launched last November at Meet The Composer. Since before that I’ve been working with six fantastic composers to commission new works to premiere on our festival, the Three City Dash. We’re two concerts in, with one to go – tomorrow at the Morgan...
A huge thank you
To Sean for his performance, to Zach for his recording, to Alan, Mike, Kate, Gill, Dave and Ben, our fantastically talented crew, to Gramps and Maxine for welcoming us into their home with all the gear and the noise and the interruption, and to all our backers on Kickstarter for making the whole thing possible....
It’s game day.
I just posted an update on Kickstarter about how today is the day. We’re filming, we’re recording, and we’ve got well over half a ton of stuff if you count the people. Earlier in the week, the forecast said cloudy, rainy and gross. But the sun’s come out, so if our luck holds you can...
Final preparations for Cucumbers and Gin
We’re recording on Saturday. Sean and I are rehearsing every couple of days, and putting the finishing touches on his performance. If I could focus only on that, this would be easy. But we’ve got to sort out a film crew that seems to get new members every day (we’re up to five now). We’ve...
Thirty Thirty Thirty Four Hours to go-uh-oh……
We’re nearly there, guys. Kickstarter’s counting down to the finish in hours instead of days at this point. And thanks to our current crop of 32 backers, we’ve raised $1,000 – well over the $750 goal. I was really nervous when we started this campaign, but it’s turned out to be a great success,...
Peabody’s all over Kickstarter
And that means either that we’re a bunch of clever musicians on the leading edge of the new creative economy, or that we’re all desperately in need of cash. One of those two. It’s great to see so many of my Peabody classmates and collaborators trying something new, and I’m excited to see all of...
Cucumbers and Gin: Kickstarter Project is a go!
Cucumbers & Gin just kicked off its fundraising period – we’re finishing on Christmas Eve, and with your help we’ll be able to make a great recording and performance film. I’ve just joined my family for Thanksgiving, but wherever you are, please check out our project and our great rewards:
