Plus-Minus Throes

Well, my big compositional project currently is a realization of Stockhausen's seminal and notorious work, Plus-Minus.  Luckily, there are two other realizers on board (Bruce Friedman and Jeff Schwartz), and we're doing two pages each (Bruce, who's idea this was, is stuck with three).

Our instrumentation is clarinet, trumpet, doublebass, and piano.  There is one page written already, and two others underway.  We will hopefully have this ready to perform on a Sonic Liberation Players concert in fall.  

I have two other projects that are on the backburner for a little while:  The Mountain Spirit, a piece for speaking pianist, based on the poem by Gary Snyder, and a piece for dance, choreographed by Kenneth Walker.  Will hopefully soon be back to these!

In non-musical compositional news, I am also working on a photography project that will end up being a sort of collage.  I'm using techniques much like John Cage's techniques for composing Roaratorio, but instead of using a book as fodder, I'm using a small town, and photography rather than sound.  This is underway, I've taken 6 of the 64 planned photos, so will be finished well before summer!

All for now...