new piece for Open House Chicago

Saturday, October 13, I will premiering (approximately 6 times!) a new piece:  
After the fire, quarries dynamited for bassoon and fixed media.

Access Contemporary Music commissioned this project as part of the annual Open House Chicago events organized by the Chicago Architecture Foundation.  One of four ACM composers working at different buildings throughout the city, I have written the piece inspired by the material textures and history of the Nickerson Mansion. I will be performing the piece every 20-30 minutes from 1-4 PM on the third floor of the house (which is also known as the Driehaus Museum).

www.acmusic.org/attend/concerts/open-house-chicago

Nickerson Mansion
40 E. Erie
1:00 to 4:00 PM
www.driehausmuseum.org

Releasing Bound Water from Green Materials - review

The recent Prom Night release of an audio-visual collaboration between Mike Kenny and me gets a review on an Italian blog. Google translate offers some insight...

http://scriveredijazz.blogspot.com/

September 2012 - PRETTY MONSTERS!

This month -- finally! -- PRETTY MONSTERS releases its debut record on Public Eyesore.

We've got 2 SHOWS lined up this month to celebrate the release:

WED 9/19 - presented by Ars Nova Workshop 

@ The Rotunda, Philadelphia 

8 PM -- FREE!

http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com/events/pretty-monsters-09-19-2012


THU 9/20 

@ Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn

with Christy & Emily and Sam Kulik's Escape from Society

8:30 PM - $10

http://www.vaudevillepark.org/events/pretty-monsters-record-release

E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E

Very pleased to be in NYC for rehearsals for the expansive and amazing upcoming production of Daria Fain and Robert Kocik's E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E with the Commons Choir.

The performance are Oct 31-Nov 3 at New York Live Arts.

more info: 

http://www.newyorklivearts.org/event/e_v_e_r_y_o_n_e

http://www.usaprojects.org/project/e_v_e_r_y_o_n_e_with_the_commons_choir

http://www.prosodicbody.org/Prosodic_Body.html

Great write-up in the Reader about the Architeuthis Walks on Land's show on THU 6/28!

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/architeuthis-walks-on-land-keefe-jackson-and-jason-adasiewicz/Event?oid=6753460

Summer 2012

SUN 06/24 - Till by Turning
In anticipation of our summer trip to Germany to record a new album, members of TILL BY TURNING -- violinist Erica Dicker, violist Amy Cimini, and I -- present a summer afternoon of music. 

TBT will be joined by two very special guests: singer/song-writer Kent Lambert and composer/electronicist Ryan Ingebritsen.

This concert helps us launch our Kickstarter campaign to raise the remaining money necessary to make this recording project possible, and the program features previews of my album-length piece "Four Chambered Heart," which we will record in August at the Klangbad Studio run by Joachim Irmler of Faust.

The record is slated for a 2013 release on Klangbad's imprint, and we've already raised half the money through grants. But with this concert and our Kickstarter, we hope to raise the remainder. More details about the Kickstarter forthcoming...

Full details about the concert available here:
http://www.facebook.com/events/309593502460792/

For more information about Till by Turning:
www.tillbyturning.com

@ Saki, 3716 W. Fullerton, 60647
2:30 pm


THU 06/28 - Architeuthis Walks on Land
9pm: Architeuthis Walks on Land -- Amy Cimini (viola) and Katherine Young (bassoon) 
10pm: Keefe Jackson (reeds) and Jason Adasiewicz (vibes)
as part of the Umbrella Music Series
@ Elastic, 2830 N. Milwaukee Ave, 60618

** ALSO ** 

MON 06/19 - with Dave Rempis (saxophone) and Matt Schneider (guitar)

@ Myopic Books, 1564 N. Milwaukee Ave, 60622 

7:30 pm - FREE

THU 06/21 - James Tenney's 1967 Swell Piece No. 1

produced by a.pe.ri.od.ic as part of Make Music Chicago

with Billie Howard, Alex Temple, Joann Cho, Eliza Bangert, Matthew Oliphant, Nomi Epstein, Kenn Kumpf, Jonathon Kirk, Noé Cuéllar, Nora Barton, Joseph Clayton Mills, Katherine Young, 

Brendan Finucane, Jeff Kimmel, Ammie Brod

@ Oak Street  Beach

7pm - FREE

SAT 07/07 - Duo with Owen Stewart-Robertson
@ Douglass Street Music Collective
part of the Save the Date series hosted by Prom Night Records


SUN 07/22 - Quartet with Dusting Carlson, Brad Henkel, and Jeff Kimmel 
@ The Owl
also performing : Jeff Parker, solo guitar

SAT 08/25 - The Life You Save May Be Your Own 

for flute, bass clarinet, cello, piano, percussion and 8-channel sounds

performed by TALEA ENSEMBLE as part of the Harvard Summer Composition Institute

also on the program pieces by Justin Hoke, Clara Iannotta, Mauricio Pauly, Robert Phillips, and Thatchatham Silsupan

 

-May-2012-

FRI 5/4 - Free Jazz Bitmaps Vol. 1 Record Release and Exhibit


w/ Joann Cho (piano) and Jenna Lyle (voice + electronics)
in celebration of the Free Jazz Bitmaps Vol. 1 release curated and designed and printed and published (!) by Sonnenzimmer [Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher]


Nick Butcher will perform first. We will perform second.


@ Saki, 3716 W. Fullerton 60647
6-9pm, music@ 6:30
FREE! with food by FoodPlace and drinks by Cellar Rat


THU 5/10 - Carol Gennetti, Frank Rosaly, Jason Soliday & Katherine Young
also performing: James Falzone, solo clarinet, celebrating a DVD release

@ Comfort Station, 2579 N. Milwaukee Ave 60647
7:30pm
FREE!




MON 5/14 - Roommate 
i'll be sitting in with my buddies Roommate as part of the monthly Chirp Radio night 
also playing: Biographer


@ the Whistler, 2421 N. Milwaukee Ave. 60647




SUN 5/27 - Jeb Bishop, James Falzone, Tomeka Reid & Katherine Young
we're playing the first set of the evening, probably around 9:30pm
Nate Lepine Trio plays second.


@ the Hungry Brain, 2319 W. Belmont 60618