simon hutchinson

composer

Browsing Posts published in June, 2007

I just returned from a trip to Seoul where my piece Anamnesis & Catharsis was performed at Ehwa Women’s University as part of the Festival for Gayageum and Western Instruments.
It was a great performance and a wonderful trip too. It’s inspired me to start working on another piece for Gayageum and Cello, since all the [...]

interaction in the subatomic world is the piece that I wrote for my final composition seminar here at UCSC. We had a few whirlwind rehearsals last week and performed the piece in the ensemble rehearsal room this afternoon.
I think I shocked the sound-guy a bit, and so he gradually turns down the levels… so the [...]

Please check back often this month, as recordings of recent performances keep trickling in.
This one is not terribly serious.
Becca, an elementary school teacher, asked her 5th grade class to come up with “lyrics” for a writing assignment. Little did they know that she was going to ask the UCSC graduate students to sit down two [...]

Joel Ford has uploaded our performance, as The Mindless Ensemble, at the Avant Garden Party from last Sunday, June 3rd.
We performed Christian Wolff’s “Pairs”, Fred Frith’s “Firewood”, my “Tr!o”, and Joel’s “Neutron Cannon” and “Antecedent”.
We expect to have an audio recording of the whole performance soon, but for now we only have the video of [...]

[ 8 June 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Digital Media Factory, 2809 Mission Street, Santa Cruz

“With an opening reception Friday June 8th and during two weekends in June, a diverse group of six graduates of UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program will come together to display their original works of digital and new media art from cutting-edge video and animation, special [...]

Digital Media Factory, 2809 Mission Street, Santa Cruz
“With an opening reception Friday June 8th and during two weekends in June, a diverse group of six graduates of UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program will come together to display their original works of digital and new media art from cutting-edge video and animation, special [...]

[ 3 June 2007; 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] 2888 Sandy Lane, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Advance Tickets: $35- $30- $25
At the Door: $40- $35- $30 (General, Seniors, Students)

This year’s Avant Garden Party is titled Thai Getaway. New Music Works hosts an all-too-rare visit of classical Thai music and dance performed by the Piphat Ensemble of Wat Buddhanusorn (from Fremont and Bangkok). The lovely [...]