I had a great time at my two-month Land Steiermark residency in Graz, Austria, as well as on visits to Vienna, Prague, and Krakow! Now I’m back in the States, where tonight I’ll play in Philly as a local artist for the first time. Tomorrow I fly to California, where World/Inferno will play shows in LA, Orange County, San Diego, Berkeley, and Sacramento! Then I head to Houston for a Dykes and Young performance. It’s all happening within the next week and a half – read on for details.
Photo by Clara Wildberger
| First, a recap of what’s happened since I last wrote: in September, I premiered A History of Characters, the piece I created with Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Manuel Alcaraz Clemente, and Arne Glöckner, in Vienna and Graz. Margarethe and I formed a new duo named Marbleous and made plans to tour the Northeastern US in late February. In October, I played a solo-ish show in Graz with special guests Patrick Wurzwallner and Peter Hutter, played at group free improvisation nights in Graz and Vienna, played a trio improvisation show with Andrea La Rose and Darrell Johnson in Prague, and played a solo set in Krakow. Then I came back to NYC to play with the World/Inferno Friendship Society at Hallowmas and in a live video for Paste Magazine – watch it here! I’m very excited for tonight’s show in Philly, where I’ll play a violin and electronics solo set including material developed at my residencies in Minnesota and Austria this year. I’ll be kicking off a bill featuring NYC’s Public Speaking (who kindly invited me to play) and fellow locals Datadrift and Street Rat. Come out and support! Tomorrow, I fly to California to perform with The World/Inferno Friendship Society! We’ll play an acoustic set in LA on Sunday in a DIY space, then club dates Monday at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, Tuesday at Moroccan Lounge in LA, Wednesday at Casbah in San Diego, Friday at Cornerstone in Berkeley (at the Alternative Tentacles Records 40th anniversary show!), and Saturday at Cafe Colonial in Sacramento. See you out there! Next, my travels continue in Texas, where I’ll perform with Dykes & Young in Houston for the first time. Laura Dykes moved to Houston from Austin earlier this year, and I’m excited to play a show in her new home base. I’m also looking forward to playing on the newest iteration of Houston’s They, Who Sound series at the Lawndale Art Center – my first ever performance in Texas was on this series back in January 2012! After that, I head to Michigan for Thanksgiving at my partner Evie’s family home. In December, it’s back to the Northeast for performances with thingNY and World/Inferno in NYC, New Jersey, and Long Island, including a brand new thingNY program with music by Jessie Marino, Robert Ashley, Jennifer Walshe, Sam Scranton, and our own Paul Pinto, and World/Inferno’s album release show on New Year’s Eve in Brooklyn! Further ahead, World/Inferno will tour from Texas to NYC via Florida in January, and again out west in February. There’s my tour with Margarethe in late February. And in April, thingNY revives our experimental opera ADDDDDDDDD for its tenth anniversary! Stay tuned… Enjoying my new home in the city of concrete cowboys, Jeff |