May 2015. I made it a priority to hear as much live contemporary classical music as I could find. Started out with hearing the West Coast premiere of John Luther Adams' amazing "Sila" at the Ojai Music Festival. I ran into old musician friends performing at that festival, including my last piano teacher, Vicki Ray, who told me she would be playing at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival at Mass MOCA that summer. So there was concert #2. Actually, five concerts over three great days! And concert #3 was the "Sick Puppy" marathon at NEC (GO to this if you have a chance). After hearing all of this music over just five weeks, I got inspired to start writing more and practicing more once again.
November 2015. I was feeling a little "funky" and was wondering why and I decided I needed to be playing more music with more people once again. Called up my friends from CalArts who have moved out to Boston area and we decided to put together a new music group. I've had the name for this group for about eight years, and finally some musicians to put in it! The Sonic Liberation Players was started.
February 2016. Looking over the next four months: three premieres of new pieces that I've written over the last 2-3 years, four different concert programs, and a total of nearly ten concerts. This is exciting and a bit terrifying and I have to remind myself I am doing this for the love of music and sound.
All of this being said, I can't wait to share with you the music that SLP will be creating together. It's a wonderful group of musicians! And I can't wait to share with you the music that I've been writing lately. See you then!
