out now!

a piece that adam sonderberg collaborated back in 2005, Speech Acts, has come out on a split release with Loren Chasse's piece Characters at Water Margin on Compost and Height. check it out here: compostandheightreleases.blogspot.com

July 2009 - what's happening?!!

We Are Fancy is playing two shows this month. come out---we've got a new sound sans percussion, have resurrected some old gems from the earliest days of Wilde Turkey, and have some new smokin' covers to play for y'all! (we are also in the process of shooting a music video for "Breadwinners," which should come out w/ our EP very very very soon!)

7/10 @ Bruar Falls

7/18 @ Don Pedro's

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in a different vein, the phenomenal Flux Quartet is performing my string quartet Inside UFO 53-32!

7/17 @ Barge Music - 8 pm

live on WFMU

i had a great time playing on Scott McDowell's show "The Long Rally" last night on WFMU 91.1. you can listen to the whole shi-bang online right here and even see some pictures - - -

Show: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/31898
Blog post: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/06/aaron-siegel-katherine-young-alex-chechile-woody-sullender-matt-bauder-jeremiah-cymerman-live-improv.html
FMA: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Telluric_Currents_Series_Preview/.

characters assembled included: Aaron Siegel (percussion), Alex Chechile (modular synth), Woody Sullender (banjo), Matt Bauder (tenor sax and electronics), Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet), and myself.

all of us will be playing as part of Jeremiah's new series at I-Beam in Brooklyn this weekend! (see below) check it out!

JUNE MUSIC - - SUMMER IN THE CITY!

sun 6/14
i will be joining my dear friends Christy & Emily for some songs down at the Todd P acoustic BBQ at Fort Tildon Far Rockaway Beach. i think things kick off around 3 pm and we're s'posed to play around 5 pm.

sun 6/14 - 2 pm
@ Green Mill, Chicago
Erica Dicker will perform my piece for solo violin and overhead projection, Scars Left by the Point in Motion. also performing Dan Peck (tubist extraordinairre playing Monk!), Ryan Igebritsen, and Shannon Budd.


wed 6/17 - 10 pm
i'll be playing on WFMU 91.1 FM on The Long Rally w/ Scott McDowell to promote a new music series curated by Jeremiah Cymerman. also scheduled to join us are Aaron Siegel, Uncle Woody, and Matt Welch.

sun 6/21 - 5 pm?
We Are Fancy...plays somewhere...more info coming soon

sun 6/21 - 10 pm
the third night of a Telluric Currents, new series curated by Jeremiah Cymerman.
the three sets tonight include:
* Sergei Tcherepnin @ 8 pm
* Doron Sadja @ 9 pm
* Erica Dicker (violin and baritone violin), Jeff Snyder (synthesizer), and Katherine Young (amplified bsn)
@ I-Beam

tues 6/23 - 8 pm
Till by Turning performs as part of the Exact Change 20th Anniversary concert
(for those of you who aren't familiar w/ experimental presses, Exact Change is run by Damon & Naomi!)
also on the program: Joan La Barbara, Alex Waterman, Loren Connors, and many other wonderful folks.
@ Issue Project Room


sun 06/28 - 8pm
@ The Stone, Ave. C and E. 2nd St

the music of Odeya Nini as performed by Alex Hills - piano, James Ilgenfritz - bass, Chris Kuklis - guitar, Jake Wise - clarinet, Katie Young - bassoon, Elena Moon Park - violin, Curtis Stewart - violin, Mallory Glaser - voice

MAY events (post facto)

05/10 - with Michael Pestel's Syrinx Ensemble
@ the Central Park Zoo Rainforest Room aviary
w/ M.P. - flutes, self-fashioned instruments ; Dave Ruder - clarinets, etc; Dave Kaden - oboe, etc; Amy Cimini - viola; Andre Marquetti - saxophone

05/04 - Jacob Wick's A Mown Lawn
@ Douglass Street Music Collective

upgrading

the band i play with, formerly known as Wilde Turkey, has a new name (to assuage the notion (how common, i'm not sure) that we were some kind of rootsy bar band...) - - -

We Are Fancy


info online here and here

April 11 / April 18-28

saturday 04/11/2009 - - 8 pm
Low Band @ NYU

featuring new pieces by Clara Hunter Latham, Alex Ness, Dan Peck, Peter Evans, and me

for some combination of the following::::

clarinet/bass clar (ms. meighan stoops)
bassoon (k.a.y)
trumpet (mr. peter evans)
tuba (senor daniel peck)
bass (mr. tom blancarte)
percussion (mr. nathan davis)
NYU Music Dept.
24 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003
Room 220
Entrance btwn University Place and Greene

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April 18-28 i will be on tour w/ the Nightingales in Germany and England. here're the facts & figures.

Sat 18 - ST. GALLEN, Palace www.palace.sg Sun 19 - LEIPZIG, TBC www.bllalabooking.de
Mon 20 - BERLIN, Wild At Heart www.wildatheartberlin.de
Tue 21 - HAMBURG, Hafenklang www.hafenklang.de
Wed 22 - KOLN, Blue Shell www.blue-shell.de + Another Nice Mess/DJ Marcelle
Thu 23 - RAVENSBURG, Club Douala www.douala.de
Fri 24 - MUNCHEN, 59:1 Club www.59to1.net
Sat 25 - ULM, Cat Cafe www.cat-ulm.de
Sun 26 - LONDON, 100 Club www.the100club.co.uk + David Cronenberg's Wife
Mon 27 - MARC RILEY'S BRAIN SURGERY www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/brain_surgery + + + live radio session on BBC 6 MUSIC 7pm*
Mon 27 - MANCHESTER, Night And Day* www.nightnday.org + Hotpants Romance Tue 28 - WOLVERHAMPTON, Little Civic www.wolvescivic.co.uk