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Franklin Furnace Fund grant for 2010 to continue work on a "Robotica" - for Eric Singer's GuitarBot and various percussion bots plus gestural controllers. Inspired by the work of Al-Jazari, a 13th century Mesopotamian/Iraqi inventor of the first musical automaton and many other ingenious devices..

The work will be presented at Music with a View in March 2011.

Premiere June 17th!

"Panda Half-Life", my new piece for Magic Names vocal sextet plus electronics premiered at Issue Project Room June 17th (plus we performed an excerpt from Karlheinz Stockhausen's Stimmung!). Dense and sparse, composed and aleatoric, sung and wheezed.. with 6 singers, 6 audio speakers, 6 game controllers.

Made possible with funding from American Composers Forum and support from Harvestworks.

June 28th I participated in "New instruments for Improvisation and Experimental Approaches" a day-long symposium June 28th organized by Harvestworks. I will present projects created during my residency this year and perform as well. Also presenting / performing are Matthew Ostrowski, Hans Tammen, Laetitia Sonami.