Wrangling the Writing Wrap-up - 11/20/11

_ After the sun set on the tour de sunsets in October, a great deluge of work and events came rolling on in, so up until now I've been spending most of my time doing lots of organizing and emailing (and thinking about organizing and emailing) for events next year. Occasional collaborator Ross Simonini and I are working on a new electro-acoustic score for Catherine Cabeen for March, I just finished another 'composerly' remix for NewVillager as well as a piece for Seattle Pacific University's Men's Choir and Percussion Ensemble, and then there are two guest-composer events on the east coast this spring that I've got two commissions for. One is for Beta Test Ensemble - a work for electronics and unspecified number of winds, and the other will be an electro-acoustic work in the vein of my sunrise and sunset pieces that will begin at sunset and take the listener into the black of night. The latter work is for Scott Comanzo's Private Works series at The Hartt School. Add to that a commission for a site-specific work for the 100 Acres Sculpture Park and a last minute invitation to write for Tom Peyton's roving bell choir (Bell by Bell) for MATA's Make Music Winter and it seems as though I won't be slowing down the composing train until the end of September 2012. Hopefully I'm not spreading myself too thin...

In other news, if you find yourself in need of more Evans Kammer, I recently released a couple of singles. One is called Collective Resonance, which is for percussion ensemble with electronics, and this little ditty was featured in the 2011 Music Issue of The Believer as well as on BBC3 and a couple other radio shows here stateside. The other is In a Shifting Landscape, which is for viola and cello with electronics, and has a brief write-up here. Both are available on your favorite online retailer.