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My friend Kerstin Fuchs and her duo-partner, Jessie Marino performs from Carolyn Chen's Pears at a house concert in Neuköln, Berlin

Update: 175 East @ Wine Cellar (17 November)

On November 17, I will be joining 175 East for their 10th anniversary concert, also guest appearing will be John Bell on vibraphone, Paul Buckton on guitar.

175 East consists of
Ingrid Culliford, flute
Tim Sutton, bass trombone
Gretchen Dunsmore, clarinets
Katherine Hebley, cello
Dan Stabler, double bass
Andrew Uren, bass clarinet

The concert will be hosted by the Wine Cellar (St Kevin's Arcade, K'Road) at their cosy perfomance space out the back. If you come you can expect to hear at least some of the following music ...


John Cage: Five

Elliott Carter: Canon for 4 "Homage to William"

Lyell Cresswell: Of Whirlwind Underground

Morton Feldman: Durations IV

James Gardner: Knot

Ross Harris: Music for Trombone

James Saunders: 511 Possible Mosaics

Christian Wolff: Edges



November 17, 2008, 8pm

Wine Cellar in St Kevin's Arcade
Karangahape Road
Auckland

Entry by gold coin donation

Wandelweiser Sommerakademie

Earlier this year I attended the Wandelweiser Sommerakademie, hosted by Antoine Beuger at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf (11-17 July, 2008). Among many premiere performances I was involved in were three string quartets by Thomas Stiegler, Dante Oei and Samuel Vriezen, with some wonderul players, violinist Marc Sabat, violist Julia Eckhardt and cellist Stefan Thut.

This is a recording of Vriezen's Between Chords, which the composer describes as "a string quartet of chords that are never quite there."

Little Karaka Bay

When I was in Wellington for the Stroma concert, I stayed at the family home of my amazing cello-ist friend, Miranda Wilson. The beautiful Wellington bay view from almost anywhere along the water front was perfect for me to continue collecting sound - and video- field recordings. It also reminded me of being in San Francisco. Violent winds creating some seriously schizophrenic windage. At times almost as many Asians, meandering narrow roads and steep hills, on which houses perch dangerously. (Of course, with less of a snobby attitude and no crappy baseball teams.)

You can see the video I took here, which was actually taken from Maida Vale Road, higher up in the hills above Oriental Bay.