Random Access Music is back for 2024!

Tickets: $25 Adults / $10 Students
Cash or credit at the door, or purchase online.

Lish Lindsey, flute & ryuteki
Thomas Piercy, clarinet & hichiriki
Sabina Torosjan, violin
Daniel Hass, cello
Marina Iwao, piano

RAM Composers
Masatora Goya
“Distance” for violin
Daniel Hass
“Sanctified” for clarinet, cello, piano (2024) (World premiere)

Zhihua Hu
"Exploration” for piano
Beata Moon
tbd
Allen Schulz
“Like Dancing About Architecture” for clarinet, violin, and cello (2024) (World premiere)

Guest Composers

Michael Begay
"Nahasdzaan Bikaa'gi Naasha" (I Walk The Earth) for clarinet and piano (2018) (World premiere; clarinet version)
Julius Eastman
“Buddha” for full ensemble
Luigi Antonio Irlandini
"Visões de Bashō" (Bashō Visions) hichiriki and piano (World premiere)
Noah Magnus
“Lunar Echoes” for ryuteki (2024) (World Premiere)

Random Access Music is back for 2024!

Tickets: $25 Adults / $10 Students
Cash or credit at the door, or purchase online.

Lish Lindsey, flute & ryuteki
Thomas Piercy, clarinet & hichiriki
Sabina Torosjan, violin
Daniel Hass, cello
Marina Iwao, piano

RAM Composers
Masatora Goya
“Distance” for violin
Daniel Hass
“Sanctified” for clarinet, cello, piano (2024) (World premiere)

Zhihua Hu
"Exploration” for piano
Beata Moon
tbd
Allen Schulz
“Like Dancing About Architecture” for clarinet, violin, and cello (2024) (World premiere)

Guest Composers

Michael Begay
"Nahasdzaan Bikaa'gi Naasha" (I Walk The Earth) for clarinet and piano (2018) (World premiere; clarinet version)
Julius Eastman
“Buddha” for full ensemble
Luigi Antonio Irlandini
"Visões de Bashō" (Bashō Visions) hichiriki and piano (World premiere)
Noah Magnus
“Lunar Echoes” for ryuteki (2024) (World Premiere)

Documentary Short “Dust to Light” by Erika Houle will be shown in DOC NYC, one of the biggest film festivals for documentaries! I contributed a few tracks for the film and am very looking forward to it! Tickets and details can be found here!

“New Heritage“ Contemporary Compositions for Gagaku Instruments is coming out on Bandcamp! My trio piece “Onibi“ is included along with the pieces by Alan Hovahness, Fabio Rambelli, and Julius Eastman.

This trio is the result of an intercontinental collaboration between three musicians with different backgrounds but united for their love of classical Japanese Gagaku and its possibilities in terms of new music. New Heritage includes some of the earliest contemporary compositions for Gagaku instruments, the two Sonatas by Alan Hovhaness, exciting new music by Masatora Goya and Fabio Rambelli, and an astonishing rendition of Julius Eastman’s Buddha in an adaptation for double woodwind trio. This is the world premiere recording of all these compositions.

Fabio Rambelli shō
Thomas Piercy hichiriki
Lish Lindsey ryūteki

The Gagaku trio of Thomas Piercy, Lish Lindsey, and Fabio Rambelli will be at Ghent University as the resident artists for the International Conference European Association of Japanese Studies. They will give concerts from August 17 through 18, and my “Onibi“ will be part of the Japanese Garden Concert on the 18th.

There’s a screening of the short documentary “Dust to Light“ by Erika Houle, for which I contributed a few music tracks, in the Big Apple Film Festival. The detail and ticket into in the link below!

Dust to Light is a 12 minute documentary about what is really going on under the surface when we are cleaning. The film listens as four Zen practitioners reflect on the transformative process of cleaning when it is approached as a meditation rather than burdensome chore.

I’ll give a couple of talks in the event. Details and the link are below.

Five Towns College presents: The Long Island Media Arts Show | Conference 

The Long Island Media Arts Show celebrates Long Island's Creative Digital Visual Arts Students with an Industry Conference and Juried Exhibition Friday, April 21, 2023. The Conference invites 125 Long Island High Schools to a unique experience that features Professional Presentations with Speakers, Workshops, and Demonstrations on Innovation and Career Success in the Digital Visual Arts Industry. Also featured are Tools of the Trade Vendors demonstrating software, hardware, and equipment.

The Five Towns College Performing Arts Center presents Student Films and Animation while the Five Towns College Gallery displays student Photography and 2D Digital Art Exhibits.

Tickets
$25 (General admission)
$10 (Seniors/Students)
Payment by cash or credit at the venue.
Doors open at 7:30pm

Program:
Guest composer:
Margaret Brouwer
“Sonata” for clarinet and piano (2022)
World Premiere of International Clarinet Association consortium commission

RAM composers:
Seth Boustead
“Dissonance Still Talking” for clarinet, violin, cello, piano (2007)
 Gilbert Galindo
"Currents" for violin, cello, and piano (2021) NY Premiere
 Masatora Goya
“How We Became Stardust" for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (2023) World Premiere
 Daniel Hass
“The Lord of Toronto, His Pavin” for cello and piano (2022)

RAM Players:
Thomas Piercy, clarinet  |  Sabina Torosjan, violin  |  Daniel Hass, cello  |  Marina Iwao, piano

One-Hour Preview Concert: Free Admission

Music by Margaret Brouwer, Seth Boustead, Gilbert Galindo, Masatora Goya, Daniel Hass

RAM Players:
Thomas Piercy, clarinet  |  Sabina Torosjan, violin  |  Daniel Hass, cello  |  Marina Iwao, piano

My brand-new quintet piece “Deep Dive“ for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, harp, and piano will be premiered by RAM. The evening is dedicated to this rare and exotic instrumentation. Please come check it out!

Tickets: $25 (General admission) $10 (Seniors/Students)
https://www.ram-nyc.org/ram-concerts-december-2022
Reservations / More info ram.nyc.info@gmail.com

Quintets for flute, clarinet, harp, percussion and piano

Yoshio Hachimura "Breathing Field" (1988)

Toru Takemitsu "Rain Spell" (1982)

Joji Yuasa "A Winter Day" (1981)
 

RAM Composers

Gilbert Galindo “Quintet” (2022) (World Premiere)

Masatora Goya “Deep Dive” (2022) (World Premiere)

Frances White “Quintet” (2022) (World Premiere)

RAM Players
Lish Lindsey, flute  |  Thomas Piercy, clarinet
Adam Phan, harp  |  Josh Perry, percussion  | Tengku Irfan, piano

My trio piece “Onibi“ for ryuteki, hichiriki, and sho will be performed at Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California. Free Admission!

Join SBMA in the galleries for an informal and intriguing concert featuring an unusual pairing of the traditional instruments of the Japanese Imperial Court with contemporary compositions. UCSB Professor Fabio Rambelli, on shō, and visiting musicians Thomas Piercy (hichiriki) and Lish Lindsay (ryūteki) perform works by Alan Hovhaness and John Cage, along with more recent original pieces and selections from the classical repertory.

My tiro piece “Onibi“ for ryuteki, hichiriki, and sho will be performed at UC Santa Barbara. I’m planning to visit the campus. Please check it out!

Gagaku is the ceremonial music of the imperial court and the major Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines of Japan, recognized by UNESCO as the oldest continuously performed orchestral music in the world. Gagaku has long been known for its ancient inter-Asian translocal nature and its rich vernacular traditions. It is less known that since the 1960s, composers all around the world, beginning in the US, have been writing new music for Gagaku instruments, either based on traditional techniques or as ways to explore new possibilities and develop a new musical language. Lish Lindsey (ryūteki), Thomas Piercy (hichiriki), and Fabio Rambelli (shō) perform works by Alan Hovhaness, John Cage, and more recent original pieces, as well as selections from the classical repertory. Join us for this beautiful and unexpected concert. Organized by Fabio Rambelli, International Shinto Foundation Professor of Shinto Studies, UCSB.

I’ll be mostly working backstage for this RAM concert, but have a short prelude for the trio!

Tickets: $25 (General admission) $10 (Seniors/Students)
https://www.ram-nyc.org/ram-concerts-october-2022
Reservations / More info ram.nyc.info@gmail.com

RAM Composers
Seth Boustead “Whitespace” for cello and piano (2020)
Masatora Goya “Float” A Concert Prelude for clarinet, cello, and piano (2013)
Gilbert Galindo “Three Episodes” for clarinet, cello, and piano (2006)
Beata Moon “Trio” for clarinet, cello, and piano (2022) (World Premiere)

Guest Composers
Jake Adams"Ångström" for ryuteki and hichiriki (2021) (Live concert Premiere)
Jake Adams “Confetti for the Outcasts” for ryuteki, hichiriki, koto, cello, and piano (2022) (World Premiere)
Ed Bland “Trio” for clarinet, cello, and piano (1992, rev. 2003-4)
Tania Leon “Arenas d'un tiempo” for clarinet, cello, and piano (1992)

RAM Players
Lish Lindsey, ryuteki | Thomas Piercy, clarinet/hichiriki
Masayo Ishigure, koto | Daniel Hass, cello | Tengku Irfan, piano

The documentary film I scored “Pure Land“ (director Nori Mizukami) has an RSVP screening in Kyoto.
音楽を担当しました水上監督のドキュメンタリー「ピュアランド」が京都で初お披露目中です。

Dear Pure Land supporters, | ピュアランド支援者の皆様へ

I hope this finds you well. The film, Pure Land, is finally ready to to seen!!

Celebrating the birth of the film, we are planning community screenings. And, the 1st screening will take place in Kyoto, this September. 

・9/4 13:30 at Kyoto Koka Women’s University

・9/5 18:00 at Kyoto Koka Women’s University

・9/9 15:00 at Shiran Community Hall

Please visit the link below for more details and your participation.

https://bit.ly/3Kaidqe

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お元気でしょうか。映画「ピュアランド」が遂に完成しました。

支援者と関係者の皆様向けにお披露目会を予定しております。

第１弾は９月の京都です。

・9/4（日）京都光華女子大学慈光館６階太子堂 / 会場 13:30 上映 14:00予定

・9/5（月）京都光華女子大学慈光館６階太子堂 / 会場 18:00 上映 18:30予定

・9/9（金）しんらん交流館2階大谷ホール / 会場 15:00 上映 15:30予定

ご参加は以下のリンクからお知らせください。

https://bit.ly/3dBg62u

I did the music for the video installation by Yuki Ideguchi and Suguru Ikeda! It’ll be projected on the wall of Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, as well as online on Facebook.

Curated by Leo Kuelbs

Participating Artists: Eszter Szabo, Jesse Fleming, Philipp Geist, Richard Jochum, Robert Seidel, Yuki Ideguchi & Suguru Ikeda

SPECIAL GUEST: Tracey Snelling with Arthur Debert in Berlin, Toronto and ONLINE!

Perspective/Reflective is the natural response to Reflective/Perspective, a multi-artist event which took place at the German Film Museum in 2015, presented by Leo Kuelbs Collection. Reflective/Perspective dealt with how changes in perspective can alter meaning.

Perspective/Reflective illuminates the same issues by considering several similar works, but from a different vantage point in time. Indeed, questions of how time, life events, as well as space/site (museum vs. public art setting), and changes in format impact meaning and experience are all valid.

Since 2015, many unexpected and exceptional events have occurred. None of them were foreseen when Reflective/Perspective was conceived, created and presented. Perspective/Reflective allows the reoccurring works a chance to breathe again in a new setting, thus enriching the lives of the objects; and allowing a response to time’s relentless creation of infinite narratives. Many of the original works will be evolved for this new setting, on the Manhattan Bridge and elsewhere, while other artists and works will be added to create greater depth and further articulate the concept.

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SCREENING SCHEDULE

2-8:00PM CONTENT STREAM https://www.facebook.com/light...

8:00-10PM IN DUMBO. Projected LIVE onto the Manhattan Bridge in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Best place to watch is from the Pearl Street Triangle.

8:00-10PM ONLINE, LIVE STREAM FROM DUMBO. Catch the feed from the Manhattan Bridge and live right here on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/light...

IN BERLIN, Germany! At SCOPE BLN Lübecker Straße 43, 10559 Berlin 8.30-10.00 PM CET

IN TORONTO, Canada! At "The Drey," Woodbine Ave, M4C 4E1, Toronto: 1229A, Toronto. 6-10 PM EST

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LIGHT YEAR is an ongoing project presented by DUMBO Improvement District, NYC DOT, along with Leo Kuelbs Collection, Glowing Bulbs and John Ensor Parker (fka 3_Search). Originally created for the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in DUMBO, Brooklyn, in celebration of the United Nations’ declaration of 2015 as the Year of Light and Light Art, LIGHT YEAR has become an international project supporting and presenting hundreds and hundreds of artists and curators from all over the world.

“Tales from Narrow Bridge: The Wyrmwood Devil“, for which I contributed the scores for a couple of stories, will be premiered at the Golden Door International Film Festival. Journal Square in Jersey City, a PATH ride away from Manhattan.

Random Access Music (RAM) returns to live performances with a concert featuring the music of RAM composers Seth Boustead, Nerissa Campell, Gilbert Galindo, Masatora Goya, Zhihua Hu, Tengku Irfan, Allen Schulz, and Frances White; the Call for Scores Winner Matt Mason; and guest composer Tania Leon. Exciting new music and premieres performed by the RAM Players: Risa Renae Harman, soprano; Lish Lindsey, flute/ryuteki: Thomas Piercy, clarinet/hichiriki; Russell Kotcher, violin; Daniel Hass, cello; and Tengku Irfan, piano.

Tickets (link coming soon) General Admission: $20. Students/Seniors: $10

Random Access Music (RAM) returns to live performances with a concert featuring the music of RAM composers Seth Boustead, Nerissa Campell, Gilbert Galindo, Masatora Goya, Zhihua Hu, Tengku Irfan, Allen Schulz, and Frances White; the Call for Scores Winner Matt Mason; and guest composer Tania Leon. Exciting new music and premieres performed by the RAM Players: Risa Renae Harman, soprano; Lish Lindsey, flute/ryuteki: Thomas Piercy, clarinet/hichiriki; Russell Kotcher, violin; Daniel Hass, cello; and Tengku Irfan, piano.

Tickets (link coming soon) General Admission: $20. Students/Seniors: $10

A live in-person experience of “Virtual Fall Leaves“ concert by Kyo-Shin-An Arts. An evening of new music written for shakuhachi, cello, piano, and percussion. Music by Justin Hines, James Nyoraku Schlefer, and Randall Woolf, and myself. I’m excited that my commissioned trio piece “MANAS“ will have another performance. Tickets and more details is here!

Recorded performances, Talk, Q&A by composer Masatora Goya. His works for hichiriki, shamisen, shakuhachi, kugo, and konghou.

Free. Online via Zoom through the link.

This event is made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Thomas Piercy will play a commissioned piece for hichiriki and strings “ONOKORO“ with Tacet(i) Ensemble in Bangkok, Thailand. Live-streaming at Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium 2021. (2:00-3:30 AM in EST)