Anyone who goes to the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art
is just dying to go back and have as much fun again, and we are no exception. We did it a little
differently, this year - we transformed ourselves into a sort of lounge band for the official Spark
Party, turning in what is the longest continuous performance of our career - 72 or so minutes. That
such a feat was undertaken by our pal Terry with a pair of cracked ribs is a testimony to his stamina
and dedication. He is a true road warrior. Our usual "let's go back to the hotel and play and record"
also yielded some fun (but more about that at a later date), too.
Live at the Spark Festival
When it all started, I was going to go down to see
Nathan Wolek at
Stetson University,
rant at the students, and do a little solo work. Happily, this
morphed into a wonderful PGT outing: distributed ranting, really nice
students, a great hall, and a generous audience. Here's an audio diary
page with some pictures of us near Spanish Moss:
A Visit to Stetson University
We were really honored to perform as a part of the Cycling '74 AES evening at the world-famous
Lemurplex
in Brooklyn, and particularly happy that our pal
Luke Dubois
was able to add his visualist mojo to the proceedings. And, as if that weren't enough, our buddy
Darwin Grosse
brought his
Wii-based MSP step sequencer instrument and sat in for the evening.
I'll be updating it later, but here's a nice page of rough mixes for the evening:
Lemurplex 071006
It's well-known that the only music I don't play on my radio program
RTQE is my own. For nearly the
first time in twenty-odd years, I've broken that rule, and done so in what
I hope is considerable style. Rather than playing my own recordings, the visit
of Messrs. Garton and Pender to Madison for the purposes of a performance at
Mother Fools' (one of my favorite local
venues) provided the occasion for a live on-air in-studio performance during
the course of the evening's radio program on September 23rd, interspersed with short chats with
the boys about their own work as composers. Here's a record of the evening's
performances:
RTQE 1
RTQE 2
RTQE 3
Brad Garton's 50th birthday neatly lined up with his hosting an evening of the Roosevelt Arts Project
in the Borough Hall of the amazing community he lives in, Roosevelt, New Jersey.
We did two pieces for the evening's program - here's the first of those two performances - 21 minutes informed by the pleasure of being among friends.
Roosevelt Arts Project 070415
For the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, we grew to a quartet with the
addition of our pal Luke Dubois as our visualist (that's him holding the camera on
the right in the picture at the top of the page). While we can't bring you a visual record, here's an MP3
copy of our two-part set.
trio live 070221, part 1
trio live 070221, part 2
You can also find a live set recorded at Columbia University in July, 2006 here.