X-ing 32nd Street performs Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians

This work, which can be described as an aura of perpetual propulsion is an evening-length sixty minute piece of music exploring some of Reich’s trademark process-music techniques: build-ups, melodic shifts, pulsing swells, and melodies generated out of resultant patterns …

Phoenix Art Museum

Another performance of my solo work for Berimbau and computer (Quocíente : Laços), this time at the Phoenix Art Museum …

World Premiere of Lunsqui’s “Materiali”

This May 1st 2013, Rob Esler and I gave the world premiere of Alexandre Lunsqui’s new duo for percussion entitled Materiali: Dentro do Dentro. The concert focused on “found and re-purposed objects” …

Trio realization with Doug Nottingham and Simone Mancuso. Photo by Joe Perez

ASU West Electro-acoustic Festival

The ASU West 3-day Electroacoustic Festival was presented this April of 2013 by the Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance. I performed with Crossing 32nd Street to give a concert as part of this festival …

Fourth International Symposium on Latin American Music

Recently, I participated in the 4th International Symposium on Latin American Music held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. This was a three-day event of musicians, dancers, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and scholars from Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, United States, and Venezuela …

PASIC 2012: John Cage Focus Day

This November I participated in the PASIC Focus Day that was held in Austin, TX. I performed as part of a simultaneous realization of John Cage’s 27’10.554″ for a Percussionist that included six of us performing our own sections and versions from this work condensed into about a little over ten minutes or so …

Play! A Festival of Arts and Technology

This festival was produced by urbanSTEW, an arts and technology collective. A lot of urbanSTEW’s work is through interdisciplinary arts (music, dance, installations, etc.) while using technology as an extension of these ideas. The theme of this festival was disability perception – limiting the art to the human body and technology …

Simone Mancuso and myself

Crossing 32nd Street 10th Anniversary Concert (2011)

This past October 15th, Crossing 32nd Street celebrated its 10th anniversary by inviting many past performers/collaborators to perform. It was quite an honor to be a part of such a group of talented musicians! …

Composer Glenn Hackbarth’s 60th birthday concert

Great concert of electro-acoustic music, all composed by Glenn Hackbarth and featuring Ben Hackbarth’s Open End, for vibraphone and electronics. Jenny Waleczek (piano) and myself participated by wrapping up the concert with Passage, for piano, percussion, and electronics …