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A happy new year to everyone! Here’s a minimally edited live set from my performance at Aleatoric.

OO-Ray @ Aleatoric 12-27-08 [30 MB download]
There are a few mistakes/technical glitches in it, but rather than try and edit them out, I think it’s important to leave them in for at least a couple [...]

Photo by Jennifer Siegel

Thanks all to everyone who came out last night! Lots of people showed up for post-holidays, post-thaw ambience and it really felt great to bust out the double stops.
I recorded my live set and will post it up soon after some edits. Also would like to mention the very nice [...]

If anyone is around after the holidays, I will be playing a show on December 27th, as part of Mike & Coco’s rebooted “Aleatoric” ambient night. It should be great! Both Wyndel Hunt and Son of Rose are from well known ambient label Dragon’s Eye will be playing as well.
Aleatoric
Featuring Son of Rose, [...]

Celebrating not 100 years of Jackie Chan, but 100 years of Messiaen.
I have been learning how to play the “Louange a l’Eternitie de Jesus” from Quartet at the End of Time…such a slow, beautiful piece - crystalline and swelling and full of emotion. The tempo markings in this piece are “infinitely slow” - [...]

I don’t normally link to Wired, annoyed as I am with their incessant techno optimism (technology will cure everything), but once in a while, they post something interesting. This week it’s a fascinating interview with Volker Bertleman, who performs on prepared piano as Hauschka.
A choice bit from the interview titled “How to Mod a [...]

Just got word from therestisnoise: Deutsche Grammophon is to release the Complete Edition of Olivier Messiaen: 32 discs of Messiaen, including his many birdsong transcriptions.
Many composers sample birdsong nowadays, but Messaien was one of the few to make it one of the cornerstones of his work. Here’s a quote from “Technique of [...]

Just saw “Let the Right One In” yesterday night. Any synopsis would make it sound trite or creepy: basically a swedish vampire flick about the love between a 12 year old boy and a 12-year old (in appearance, at least) vampire. However, it is terrifically atmospheric, fusing long external shots of winter night [...]