My friends, Puppetbox have come out with a new disc!
This has nothing to do with my music save for the fact that two of the three members of the band are alumni of the same band I am, Mrs. SKAnnotto
Anyway, the new disc is synthy, poppy, and a whole lot of fun. I recommend it. You can check out some of the tunes on CD baby, and soon it’ll be up on iTunes too.
Internet fairies upgraded my account.
Of course I don’t really believe in internet fairies, but somehow, without any notice from my hosting service, my server space was quintupled. I’m currently uploading some more music.
I’m going to put links up on my biography page then later on the media page once I have all of my program notes together.
Enjoy!
Hanamaki International Center, Iwate, Japan
Admission: Free
Daniel Brown, Young-Shin Choi, Simon Hutchinson, Won-Hui Jang, Yu-Sun Kim, and Sarah Morris, all performers and composers from Korea, Japan, and California, will talk about Korean traditional music and their current project, a concert to be performed the following evening at Sakura Hall. Performers will play musical examples and be available for questions about both traditional and modern Korean music.
’5色燦爛’ (the harmony)
This month we are organizing all of the dates for our Japan-Korea tour in March. Traditional pieces, as well as pieces by me, Daniel Brown, and Young-Shin Choi will be performed by flautist Sarah Morris, and Korean performers Won-Hui Jang and Yu-Sun Kim, and the composers themselves.
Hopefully these concerts and their cross-cultural pieces can be part of a friendly international dialog for our three insular countries.
Our Tokyo concert is still very tentative, but the concerts in Kitakami and Seoul have been confirmed.
Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
Admission: Free
Performers from Korea, Japan, and American will come together for an evening of cross-cultural music featuring new music by young composers for the Japanese shamisen, Korean janggu and gayageum, and flute, cello and electronics.
Over the holidays, I received the DVD of the performance of Alan Tollefson’s Dedokoro. My “Four Short Pieces for American Trio” were performed alongside electronic music by Leaf, and dances, dialog and other motions by the troupe.
Here is an mp3 of the Four Pieces created from the performance. The pieces overlapped with both the electronic music and the actors dialog, creating a wonderful theater experience, but not necessarily conducive to a great recording.
score (though please note numbers two and three are reversed)
Sakura Hall, Chû-Hall, Kitakami, Iwate, Japan
Admission: 1000 yen
Performers from Korea, Japan, and American will come together for an evening of cross-cultural music featuring new music by young composers for the Japanese shamisen, Korean janggu and gayageum, and flute, cello and electronics.
