Concertimento

From the summer 2015, a concertimento for bass clarinet and small orchestra...Flute, French Horn, Vibraphone, Violin, Cello. The piece is dedicated to great Peter Hess. Using a system of modal circularity called BOSWIJCK TONE WHEEL. Constructed in panels of colored staff paper, made by my sons Felix and Avery and then composed through these methods of spontaneous composition. Lets play this!!

ASSEMBLAGE MANIFESTO Assemblage is a method of building art, especially music and sound art. It is process- based and improvisationally-realized. It is spontaneous, not a genre. The center METHOD OF ASSEMBLAGE is proactive, pro-performance, pro-people! It is an instant awakening of the gaps between composed and improvised, stylized and genreized, electronic future systems and analog knowledge. The result of Assemblage is building concepts to explore the widest possible range of ideas and to present these works to excited, informed audiences. ******************* PRAGMATICS Performing is the goal. Expect virtuosity. Command the pragmatic of the sound soul. To perform is to unlock the soul being. Assemblage methods move beyond the "remix method" into a #constellationflow Every concert is unique! The process developed into a new language involving electronics, graphic and symbological notations, and totally spontaneous performance approaches. ****************

GREEN DOME LIBERATION SUITE:  Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello

New Directions in Flow: Selected Gold Sparkle Discography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNihr6NvhvY

PI Piece from "19Pieces" for Solo Clarinet

BAM, BANG, BOOM (156.12) - This piece was written on the side stage at Brooklyn Academy of Music while I was working on a commercial shoot, my day job for 13 years. Such a beautiful psycho-acoustic location. It is the second movement of a long, long series of works entitled "Porch Music" that runs some 13 movements in various combinations of the quintet:  trumpet, clarinet/bass clarinet, vibraphone, viola, cello. This work is in three movements, classical style but written in free jazz minimalist fashion. Also the day this was written was the day Steve Ben-Isreal died, famous poet from the Rzewski works so the third movement includes a quote from 'Coming Together' originally narrated by Ben-Isreal. We did a shared a bill once at the Poets' Vision Fest, part of the Vision Festival - I played with my tuba trio, Andrew Barker and Ron Caswell. We had to climb through the second story window to the fire escape and climb back into the garden. I remember B