This is Gelsey Bell rehearsing "This is the Real Me," a performance piece for solo voice about finding "the real me" both as a person and composer. The piece is at least as much about whoever is performing it (Gelsey, in this case, who will do an absolutely rockin' job.) It will be premiered as part of a large concert of my own compositions that will also feature my groups String Power, The Swizzy Winds (a wind quintet), pianist/composer (my teacher and the one who inspired me to do what I am doing) John McDonald and spoken word artist/musician/composer extraordinaire Lee Todd Lacks. This will take place at 3:00pm, Sunday, November 15 at the Douglass St. Music Collective. 295 Douglass St., Brooklyn. Iron Ox is just a fun little glimpse into my compositional process. I asked my upstairs neighbor and great singer, Wiltrud Weber to read some excerpts from Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (the "M" in S&M) in the original German. Then I approximated the pitches and created a melodies from her speech. Then I wrote a piece for strings based on this sentence: "...like Dionysus, who had the inventor of the Iron Ox roasted within it to see whether his wails and groans really resembled the bellowing of an ox."
I am from Seattle, WA. I've also lived in Boston, the Bay Area and Amsterdam. I play violin with Andy Mullen's Potbelly Gumbo, Emanuel and the Fear and I freelance with classical, jazz, experimental and rock ensembles throughout the NYC area. I am writing a musical, Anthropomorphic, with Tim Young and the Puppetry Arts Theatre, to be premiered on December 12 and 13 in Brooklyn. I hope to reach the point where playing and writing music is its own reward. It's easy to get obsessed with audience approval- and don't get me wrong, I want people to be genuinely moved by the music I make- but I think that the healthiest approach is to derive real satisfaction from the process of creating. And that includes everything from the initial impulse to the final product. Finding that intrinsic motivation is the key. I like to think that whether or not I become really famous or successful, I will always be able to enjoy making music.
Dear friends, Έχω uploaod τρία νέα κομμάτια του επόμενου CD μου I've uploaod three new pieces of my next CD J'ai téléchargé trois pièces de mon nouveau CD à paraître bientôt... Cordialement, Frédéric
Rock Show @ The Knit July 11th!!! This Saturday come to an all ages event w/ Silversafe,So Farr,Soverance,Powerchief,Illusion 33...Doors 7pm $8 @ The Knitting Factory (919 w sprague ave, Spokane WA) Brought to you by www.perfechterproductions.com
