pretty much everything i've seen, heard, read, or done has influenced me. but seriously folks, here's a short list of recent interests: Minutemen, Public Enemy, Michael Finnissy, Anthony Braxton, Stan Brakhage, Helmut Lachenmann, Wu-Tang Clan (especially Ghostface), Sylvano Bussotti, Black Flag, Zen, Saint-Saens, David Tudor, Jerome Cooper, J.S. Bach, Bob Dylan, MC5, Ultramagnetic MCs, Richard Barrett, John Cage, Don DeLillo, Morton Feldman, Hollis Frampton, James Baldwin, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington, Harrison Birtwistle, Max Roach, Maurice Ravel, Earle Brown, Clipse, Kenneth Gaburo, John Coltrane, Erik Satie, Anton Webern, Brian Ferneyhough, Brian Eno, Biggie AND Tupac, Sonny Rollins, Claude Debussy, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Albert Ayler, Black Sabbath, Sun Ra, Max Neuhaus, Thelonious Monk, Richard Barrett, R. Buckminster Fuller, and on and on....
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I am a composer, percussionist, and teacher. I play and write as much bent music as is possible (really, how much music is possible?). My music has been heard by audiences in houses, dive bars, nightclubs, restaurants, art galleries, parks, amphitheaters, record stores, book shops, hotels, and concert halls. I have some degrees in music - University of Maryland at Baltimore County (BA), the University of Southampton (MA), and SUNY Buffalo (PhD) - and have studied composition and/or percussion with Stuart Saunders Smith, Kevin Norton, Jeff Stadelman, Tom Goldstein, and Michael Finnissy; I have learned a lot from friends such as John Dierker, John Hughes, Todd Whitman, Jonathan Vincent, Bill Sack, Evan Rapport, and others. My most recent compositions, such as Book, are graphically fantastic scores that are intended to be interpreted by musicians of varied backgrounds and abilities. Some of my recent performances have included free improvisation with baritone saxophonist Steve Baczkowski; a dramatic lecture/recital with musicologist Jaime Currie and the Open Music Ensemble; solo drum set recitals (evoking both Max Roach and Morton Feldman’s The King of Denmark); high-energy improvised rock-ish music with Microkingdom (Marc Miller (of the Oxes) and John Dierker); free jazz with 3081 (Dave Ballou, Mike Formanek, John Dierker) and drum and/or lo-fi electronics improvisations with many other good friends.
DIATRIBES+JOAO PEDRO VIEGA+PAULO CURADO Travessia dos Respigadores freejazz/electroacoustic improv album on TEST TUBE netlabel music under CC by-nc-nd, copy & share it, thanks
hey, so we just wanted to give you a free download of ours since you've been our buddy on myspace. pick it up at www.purevolume.com/arden and def let us know what you think. it's called "a slow spiral geoffrey" and it'll be on our new album. we'd love to hear your thoughts.
Great show last night at the Wind Up Space! We should find out if that was Jello Biafra singing polka versions of songs from "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables", or just someone who sounds a lot like him.
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