On December 21st Tom Peyton and DoTank presented Tom's Bell by Bell event at Make Music Winter in New York. The video above contains music from both yours truly as well as Tom. I was very excited to write a piece of music for this ensemble, and as you can see from the video, it seems as though the event was successful from the standpoint of turnout as well as the anticipated and welcome outside sounds. This last weekend seems to have been filled with moments of happy accidents with sounds mingling...potatoes frying in a skillet creating fifths slowly inverting upwards with John Luther Adams playing on the stereo, a band saw outside creating a happy drone beneath some Friedman string quartets, and Doug Laustsen played a field recording of my piece, Lament, being performed at MMW on his radio show and noted the sounds intermingling as well. Perhaps my ears are unusually attuned to noticing such things since my Sunset + Music events over the summer encouraged such things, but whatever the case, it's been a pleasant series of sonic events as of late. To hear Lament in its entirety being played at Bell by Bell as well as a few other composers works for this event, click here.

Listening List
Lou Reed - Set the Twilight Reeling
John Luther Adams - The Light that Fills the World
Woody Allen - Wild Man Blues
David Lang - Child
Stravinsky - Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra