paul bailey ensemble-eagle rock music festival, sunday october 3rd

Just got done sending out the emails for the Eagle Rock Music Festival next weekend. The festival is always a really good hang, Saturday is the rock acts and Sunday is a mixture of new music, world music and student performers. I am really happy to be performing, this is a great venue to enjoy a sunday afternoon concert.

It will be a fun day. I am looking forward to hearing the students from the Renaissance Arts Academy perform. I met a few of the students at our last performance and they were really interested in hearing Violin Machine live. It will fun to hear them play before us (12 noon) The school is currently holding some of their classes at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock and will be moving into their building soon. I am sure that they cannot wait to get into the new facilities.

We start rehearsals with everybody monday night at Avenue 50 Studio

The Program for the Concert is:

music from summerland, paul bailey
explores the juxtoposition of pop song forms and harmonies through post-modern and minimalist gestures. summerland refers to a mythical-emotional place where we escape daily routine by making music; composing, rehearsing and performing. this music lies somewhere between art music (music meant to be contemplated) and pop music (music meant for mass consumption).

violin machine, lloyd rodgers (featuring violinists Shalini Vijayan and Sam Formicola)
is a recomposition of the accompaniment of the bach double violin concerto, in which the solo violin parts are left unmolested. the composition was originally written for the violinists, joseph goodman and diana halpern of the cartesian reunion memorial orchestra in 1987.

law and order, michael bayer
is based on a 1983 event in which artists sprayed political slogans over advertisements in the new york city subway. law and order was originally performed ad-nausea by the cartesian reunion memorial orchestra, which was instigated by lloyd rodgers.

The ensemble is:
Shalini Vijayan and Sam Formicola violins, Giovanna Moraga cello, Pam Gadaire electric guitar, Matt Menaged, bass guitar, Diane Barkauskas, keyboard, Kyoko Kamei, vibraphone, Scott McIntosh, clarinets, Paul Bailey, trombone

social networking in music

one of the best things about having a ipod is the ability to manage and track the music you listen to. now you can share your listening habits and discover new music.

music mobs is a true social networking sight where you upload your itunes library and then it will give you the names and playlists of other people who you share musical tastes with. so far i am really impressed with some of the new music i have found, and seeing the variety of tastes many people have. i always have thought that i would find people listening to radiohead, bach, michael nyman, richard james all on the same playlist. now i know it really happens.

the internet itunes registry is also a great site. it is setup to document your playlist and give you graphs and tools to give you more info about your listening habits.

here is the breakdown of the tools:

last import
tracks
artists
genres
diversity of tracks
total time
total listening hours
average track length
average rating
number of ratings

both of these are just the tip of the iceberg. it looks like social networking is just another tool that connects us to useful information.

cheers!!

Retrace Our Steps, Jenny Bitner/Guy Debord

The second movement of my latest piece, Retrace Our Steps, is a combination of texts by Jenny Bitner and Guy Debord. These texts represent a juxtaposition between consumerism, apathy and idealism. The final libretto is a small part of both works; here are links to the original texts. The Pamphleteer starts out as almost a nonfiction essay but takes a wonderful fantasy turn near the end. The Society of the Spectacle is a large essay/manifesto on the nature of man and society.

Enjoy

Jenny Bitner webpage

the pamphleteer-The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002

Guy Debord 1 Guy Debord 2

Society of the Spectacle