Tag Archives: Max/MSP
Sine Qua Non with Kaoru Watanabe
Thursday, October 25 915pm Kaoru Watanabe-flutes, Brett Sroka-laptop Shapshifter Lab 18 Whitwell Place (Park Slope) Brooklyn, NY (map) $5 This Thursday at Shapeshifter Lab I’ll be collaborating with one of my oldest friends, Kaoru Watanabe, for the first time. Kaoru … Continue reading
Ergo at Penn – concert review
Big thanks to Dr. Guthrie Ramsey for having us to present our music and thoughts at the University of Pennsylvania, and thanks to composer Erica Ball for writing this thoughtful review. “The shadows of bebop, Coltrane, Sun Ra, and other … Continue reading
random scraps
This is just a random scrap from the cutting room floor of the Cherubim record in progress. I thought it was interesting-ish… but not interesting-ish enough… Randomscrap008 by srokasonic
Raindrop Redux
Tim Tsang and I did some electro-acoustic riffing on Chopin’s raindrop prelude last night at I-Park. Raindrop Redux by srokasonic I-Park Open Studios this Sunday
Introducing… CHERUBIM!
Guitarist Yuko Pepe and myself have recently embarked on a collaboration we’re calling Cherubim. We’ve been playing together for the past few years in the noise, rock, improv, collective 12,000 Trees and wanted to see what that aesthetic paired down … Continue reading
All About Jazz
An interesting and thoughtful review from Glenn Astarita in AllAboutJazz.com. Thanks Glenn! “Ergo’s modus operandi is not easily categorized, which is a good thing. A mark of distinction pervades throughout these compositions, partly engineered with budding layers, climactic opuses, subtle … Continue reading
Outer Dark
A few months ago my good friend Jessi Patz asked me to compose something for a new dance piece she’s been creating. Jessi does all kinds of dance so I wasn’t quite sure what it would be, but I can … Continue reading
Jazz Times!
A great review from the venerable Jazz Times and Bill Milkowski- “From the droning, Terry Riley-inspired loops of “Sorrows of the Moon” to the exquisite music-box pointillism of “Two for Joy” and the free-jazz vehicle “Little Shadow,” nothing is predictable … Continue reading
babyblaue-seiten review
Here’s a German review of “If Not Inertia” from www.babyblaue-seiten.de, which I gather from google translate is generally positive. http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/index.php?content=review&left=genre&albumId=12365&genre=31
Point of Departure
Here’s a new, quite in depth and generally positive review of If Not Inertia recently received from pointofdeparture.org: “If Not Inertia is never hurried or brash and willingly sacrifices what is often received as intensity in favor of a depth … Continue reading
