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.