simon hutchinson

composer

Browsing Posts published in January, 2008

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. [...]

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 [...]

[ 22 March 2008; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. ] 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 [...]

’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 [...]

[ 29 March 2008; 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm. ] 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 [...]

[ 23 March 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] 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.