Now up on my blog, an interview with composer
Douglas Henderson:
http://beckermusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/interview-with-douglas-henderson.htmlDoug's work straddles a line in between the categories of
music, sculpture, and dance and theater. He has presented works at the
Whitney Museum at Altria,
Dance Theater Workshop, and PS122 in
New York
and at Inventionen and daadgalerie in
Berlin, among many others. Anyone interested in
sound installations, sound and sculpture, and/or the art of recording should check out his work.
November 7 and 8 in NYC, I'm participating in the premier of his monumental
Music for 100 Carpenters. Doug
describes
Music For 100 Carpenters as “a theatrical
surround-sound music performance, enlisting 100 skilled and unskilled
tradespeople. Prying at
Stockhausen’s convolution of rhythm and timbre,
100 hammers, 100 blocks of wood and some 10,000 nails of varying sizes
are brought to bear in a real-time, real-world articulation of complex
computer synthesis."
Chris Becker
www.beckermusic.comP.S. We're still looking for volunteers for one or both performances of
Music for 100 Carpenters. Leave a comment, email me, or visit the links found in the interview with Douglas if you'd like to participate!