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Portrait by
Dean
Chamberlain of Jaron in his studio with some of the
many instruments he plays.
Thanks for visiting my recent music/music in progress
page. What kind of music is here? Not what you're used to, but here
are some recommendations. If you like pleasant acoustic music- the sort of
stuff they play at Starbucks, no insult intended- try Daredevil first. If
you like electronic music or movie soundtracks, try some of the tracks from the
Science Fiction project. But if you like to listen to music intensely on
good equipment, not while you're driving or working, but as the sole activity of
the moment, then give a listen to some of the tracks from "Proof of
Consciousness," especially the harpsichord suite.
Note this stuff is protected by copyright.
Music from 2007Fatherhood has
meant a lot less live performance
Have started making these quick piano-based recordings, a
piano blog, if you will...
This one was
done on May 28 - simple enchantment - added contralto clarinet and sitar plus
digital ornamentation
This one was
done on May 19 - purgatory's dive bar music - added alto sax plus digital
ornamentation
This one was
done on May 8 - giddy morning waltz with digital ornamentation
This one was
done on May 5- gothic with digital ornamentation
This one was done
on May 3 - deep of night with digital ornamentation
This one was
done on April 27 - plain old piano in the afternoon - had hurt my hand so less flying around the
keyboard than usual
Live music recordings from 2006
2006 was an active
and delightful
year for me and music. I'll be posting more live tracks from
this
year soon, but here are a few from various concerts as a start:
June 2 in Toronto with Arraymusic
Daredevil was
commissioned by
Arraymusic,
the superb Canadian new music chamber ensemble. This
performance
took place in the Great Hall of Hart House on the University of Toronto
campus.
In the first section I'm playing a rare instrument called a Claviola
and the piano at the same time. Then I'm playing a set of
overtone flutes (similar to the Sami seljefloyte) that I got from some
Hungarian Roma kids a long time ago- but am no longer at the piano.
In the last section I'm
playing the Laotian khaen.
April 28 in San Francisco
with Keith McMillen of
TrioMetrik
In this duet
I'm playing Khaen and Keith is playing his highly augmented guitar,
which both
makes it's own sounds and reconstructs the sounds from my instrument
in real time.
Will Calhoun
showed up at the
Luggage
Store Gallery in San Francisco, and we played a duet that was
reminiscent of the music we used to play in NYC.
I'm playing soprano sax
and Will is playing the wavedrum in this clip: here is the
audio,
and here is the
video
The World Premiere of the ballet Earthquake performed by
Diablo Ballet took place on April 5, 2006 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing
Arts in San Francisco to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1906
earthquake. This work was sponsored by
Computers &
Structures Inc., and the East Bay Community Foundation and
choreographed by Diablo Ballet's Co-Artistic
Director/Choreographer
Nikolai
Kabaniaev with an original sound score by Jaron Lanier,
Michael Bemesderfer and Nikolai Kabaniaev.
The full-length ballet can
be seen
here
A short documentary can be found
here
From a Science Fiction Project
SUB ULTRA
Richard Horowitz and I are working on an album called SUB ULTRA
This track
has Richard on piano (with synthesizers following the piano, which is possible because it is a
Disklavier) and me on an extremely rare wind instrument, the bass version of
the Armenian duduk.
In this track Richard is on piano and I am playing a contrabass clarinet.
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