Last night I had the unexpected luck of hearing the German electronic musician Jan Jelinek perform at the new Brooklyn venue Public Records. It was lucky because I only learned of the show, which later sold out, by stopping by
Jan Jelinek
Trumpet Clouds
A beautiful performance of Craig Shepard‘s Trumpet Clouds for 14 trumpets last Thursday in Madison Square Park, presented at the opening of Erwin Redl’s light sculpture “WhiteOut.” The performance unfolded over the course of an hour, as the performers moved
Bottoms Up
I probably shouldn’t be doing this, but I just have to share this audio clip from Iggy Pop‘s BBC6 radio show last Friday. For the last few weeks he has been playing short excerpts from Pauline Oliveros‘ electronic composition “Bottoms
Satellite Canons
Satellite Canons for brass sextet, 2014 Written specifically for this Music for Contemplation concert (11/1/14) featuring Affinity Brass, Satellite Canons is a six-part un-coordinated, un-conducted canon. Each part is played independently of one another, with each player using a silent metronome
80s DC
WMUC DC Set 1986 by Danjoseph on Mixcloud During the summer of 1986 I hosted a weekly radio show on WMUC, the radio station of the University of Maryland, College Park. I wasn't a student there, but my friend
Plastic Ono Band
Recently I have been obsessed with Yoko Ono and her Plastic Ono Band. I was of course already aware of Ono and the Plastic Ono Band project for years and even own one of the early albums. But I never