This coming Saturday, February 15, Oren Ambarchi and I will travel to Vancouver Canada to perform solo sets at a special concert organized by Vancouver New Music. We are both honored to be invited back by Giorgio Mangnanensi and this wonderful organization for this special event. Full details about the concert are online here.
On Saturday February 1, I will head to the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane (AU) to kick off the 2020 MONO concert series curated by Lawrence English. I will share this bill with a new project by Austrian artist Werner Dafeldecker and Australia video artist Scott Morrison. Looking forward to return to Brisbane to present new work as part of this great series!
Full details here.
photo by Robert Szkolnicki.
To kick off the new year I will be heading south to Launceston, Tasmania (AU) for the great Mona Foma Festival this January 17 – 19 2020. At Mona Foma i will present two of my projects in concert;
• Saturday Jan 18 at Midnight w/ Ora Clementi – my duo with James Rushford
• Sunday Jan 19 at 10:30 PM w/ Oren Ambarchi.
looking forward!
I am very pleased to present my solo piece The Nonsuch (2015 – 2019) this coming Monday, December 16 in Melbourne as part of the wonderful Inland series. This piece will be featured on my upcoming solo LP Beside Myself, slated for release on Students of Decay in January 2020.
For this edition of Inland 19B: GOLD BINDING HIS HEAD BENEATH A VAULTED ROOF – I am thrilled to share the bill with two of my dear friends and collaborators; James Rushford will perform a 2-part program of piano works by Lawrence Crane and Francis Plagne will be joined by James, Maria Moles and Alex MacFarlane to perform pieces from his upcoming songs record.
The event takes place at the Church of all Nations in Carlton. Details here.
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Coming up on Sunday September 8, Oren Ambarchi and i will perform in our duo at the Melbourne Recital Centre for FOJAM – Festival of Jewish Arts and Music. The event spans a full day of non-stop music, performance and talks in the beautiful recital centre. For full details about the festival see the embedded link above.
The long travel to Australia for a string of exciting performances in the coming weeks begins this week! Things get started this Saturday, August 24 at Supersense Festival of the Ecstatic in Melbourne. I will perform on the Saturday afternoon ‘Minimal’ program in a first time trio with Graham Lambkin (UK) and James Rushford (AU). I am really looking forward to creating something unique and uncompromising with these two lovelies.
The wonderful journal Sound American, edited by Nate Wooley, has just published their 21st issue. I was invited to contribute to Jennie Gottschalk‘s piece ‘Two Questions for Sound Practitioners’ in this issue and you can read the piece online here. The full issue is up on their site and is packed full of really terrific pieces. Subscriptions and physical copies can be purchased via their website or bandcamp as well! (Support!)
I have been commissioned to create a new piece for radio Broadcast by the wonderful folks at Radiophrenia in Glasgow Scotland. A Piece of Work (2019) was completed in Berlin using recordings made in Oslo, Berlin, Vienna, Winnipeg, Melbourne and Lisbon. The piece is a dynamic journey through shifting acoustic spaces and includes guest players Oren Ambarchi (AU) and Seiji Morimoto (DE).
My work will be broadcast Friday May 17 at 12 PM & 6 PM. Tune in to Radiophrenia for this and many other wonderful new works! 
I’m so pleased to be performing solo at KM28 in Berlin, this Friday May 17 as part of the 5th edition of the emitter micro festival. Also performing are Boris Hegenbart and Olaf Hochherz.
Full details on the event can be found here.
Tonight – May 15 2019 – Oren and i will perform our duo as part of a fabulous bill presented by Reihe M in Cologne Germany. Sharing the bill are absolutely incredible musicians Alessandra Novaga (IT) and dear friends Eiko Ishibashi (JP) & Joe Talia (AU).
The concerts take place at Stadtgarten starting at 8 PM tonight. Full details here.
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