new music

in the midst of an insane fall. Lots of exciting things happening, though. waded through apocalyptic traffic to play an awesome gig with Brad Shepik at the Puffin Foundation in Teaneck NJ last Saturday. We played music from Brad's soon to be released album "Human Activity". Also playing were Ralph Alessi, Drew Gress, and Tom Rainey.

next up is another gig at SciFi Philly @ Gojjo with Doug Hirlinger, on 12/14. The two of us will be playing music by Tim Berne, stuff from the Hard Cell/Science Friction/Big Satan books. This will be a nice prelude to a gig with Tim Berne himself at The Stone on 1/10/09. The band is called Adobe Probe, as is one of the tunes. The new stuff is fantastic, at least it is if you begin from the premise that his music is generally fantastic; I certainly do. Super excited about the band too: in addition to Tim and me, there's also Chris Speed, Shane Endsley, Mary Halvorson, John Hebert, and Gerald Cleaver.

In the midst of that there will also be the first week of the Big Ears residency with John Hollenbeck. I've done a little blogging over there, in addition to posting some music. www.bigearsphilly.com

To top it all off, I'm playing again at The Stone 11 days later [1/21], this time solo piano. Gonna try some new things. More on all of this later.

Also, there's new music on the page! An excerpt from my blowing tune Salvo, and three noisy electronic things. I hope you like them, please let me know what you think.

first laptop

so, a few nights ago, 4/28/08, specifically, I played my first ever laptop show, as the first of three very different sets at a Bowerbird show at the Gallery at the Gershman YMCA in Philadelphia. I'd originally been gearing up for a piano set, but it turned out the piano wasn't obtainable, so I got a chance to finally get a solo set together. So, I gathered some acoustic guitar junk samples and rock some Zebra synth over it, and voila. In retro I wish I'd set the master volume a touch louder, but it was a smallish room and the main set, which turned out to be the fantastic trio of Nate Wooley/Sean Meehan/Carl Ludwig Huebsch, I figured [correctly] was going to be super minimal and quiet, so i initially erred on the slightly lower side of volume. Also playing was an extremely cool duo of Tim Albro and Dan Cappechi, very unique and inspring, nice melodic guitar shards with Oxley-inspired percussion.

all in all, a great night, a great communal feel, at least for me. thanks to Dustin Hurt for having me on the show, and to Ian Fraser for taking the above picture and sending it to me. BTW, missing from the picture, above my head and to the left, was a big sign reading 'AIDS'. As you might surmise from the ones you can make out in the above photo, the gallery at the time was filled with photos of AIDS orphans, children with AIDS and rehabilitated child soldiers, all from Africa [like a dipshit, I don't remember exactly where]. Very depressing and perspective inducing.

I'm lucky as shit, ultimately.

to Poland and back

So, this past week I was in Katowice, Poland as a SIM faculty member. SIM stands for School for Improvised Music http://www.schoolforimprov.org/, it's run by my friend Ralph Alessi, who was also there. Also also there was Ravi Coltrane, Brad Shepik, Mark Helias, and Jim Black. Except for Ralph, these are all musicians I had played with only a little bit [Ravi] or not at all [the rest] before this past week; including Ralph, these are all some seriously amazing musicians of whom I've been a fan for a long time. So, the week was a total blast. We played two concerts, each of which featured 6 tunes, one by each group member. And there were of course some jam session moments which were also hilarious and fun. I averaged at most 5 hours a night of sleep, and we taught a good deal of the day every day as well, so it was exhausting when coupled with the transatlantic flights and connections and so forth. Then, to top it all off, a nice old lady inadvertently stole my bag back after I arrived in NYC. She did bring it back to Aer Lingus, who are shipping it to me today.

Yes, I had pierogies, which were delicious. Plus, Polish vodka - Zubrowka!

So, now I'm back and recovered. Pictures were taken, not by me, but as soon as I can coax any out of the ether I'll post some.

allrighty. I'll be getting to some new stuff soon, to begin the cycle of new postings.

Mad Dog! Mad Dog! http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink10324.html

-mm

more newness

So, as you can see, there've been a couple more changes to the site. For one, there's a permanent link to my MySpace page to the right [your right] of this post. There's a bunch of music up there that for the most part will not be up here. The amount of intersection of between this site and that one will probably fluctuate.

Also, you now can contact me through this site. Simply click on 'Contact' and send me your info. You are not required to fill in every field. For instance, you don't have to fill in your phone number. It probably would make sense to at least put in your email address, though, if you want to be put on the list or to leave me the option of writing you back. But, if leaving an anonymous drive-by is your style too, that's fine! I welcome contact!

BTW, when showing the new page with the new pieces on it to my wife, I played her the 'bibliotics' piece at the bottom of the page. after about 20 seconds, she said, 'I want to play with Lite-Brite!' Remember Lite-Brite?

yeah, she's hilarious.

talk to ya later.

-mm

new music samples

Hey, m'yall. Six, countemsix new downloads, at long last. These draw exclusively from my electroacoustic rucksack. I'm glad to have a workflow that now allows me to more frequently share this stuff with everyone, because there's a bunch of it, yes there is.

There's a point a couple minutes into 'stain caucus' when some really high frequencies don't quite make it past the lossy gestapo. Please forgive. It's a longish piece and therefore a tad cumbersome to have there in full lossless format, but I really like it and decided to upload it despite that couple seconds or so of teeny compromise. Who knows, maybe I'll get just pissed off enough about it in a few days that I'll just upload the big one anyway, bandwidth be damned.

Anyway, thanks for listening and checking it out. Any feedback is welcome.

also, please be aware that I now have a myspace music page, with some different material than here. it's at: http://www.myspace.com/matthewtilymitchell

Thanks!

hi

So, new/old website. in the coming days I'll tighten up some things that will serve as new music downloads. nearly 2 years is enough time for the old stuff, I think. It's certainly not that there's a lack of material, that's for damn sure, so I hope to pick up the pace.

Thanks, and come back!

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