Be Home Now
"The Willis" is truly HOME.... It was a great day today. I felt totally "in the zone." I'm in the process of organizing my place after the past 15 months of insane travel. I've been organizing my music, filing papers, throwing old shit away, making things so that when I begin my new regime---a kind of composing "retreat"---there will be very little in my workspace to distract me from the task. Things are put in their rightful place, my filing system has been reestablished, and it's quite calm and workable in here. I also totally overhauled my outside balcony, installing a simple awning over the table and chairs which get slammed by summer sunlight all day, every day, and potting a few lavender plants and desert succulent plants. It's a little zone of pleasure there.
Next is the simple and major task of devoting every morning to composing new pieces; arranging previously written pieces, transcribing/synthesizing/arranging some of the Brazilian music I've been listening to for the last five months; revising elements of the commissioned pieces I premiered at the Kuumbwa and Cerritos venues. This all starts Monday. This will all get channeled into a new AW Nonet recording on Groove Note records. Also, the second volume of the "Our Gang" trio sessions will be released this September on Groove Note. Our phoenix is rising.
Lots of art to see right now in LA. Most highly reccommended is the Margaret Kilgallen installation and retrospective at REDCAT in Downtown LA. This magnificent artist's life was cut short at the age of 33 due to breast cancer, and it's really sad, because she was a true avatar of a kind of new primitive image painting. Nobody else in her generation can touch her synthesis of many disparate graphic elements such as traditional sign-painting, Amish style craft art, surf art, and hobo boxcar writing. There's a group show of new artists from the Bay Area opening tomorrow at Rosamund Felsen's gallery; Frederick Sommer and Paul Strand at the Getty; "The New Traditionalists" at Subliminal Projects gallery; and lots of other interesting stuff to see around town.
Also, this summer, there's a new flick coming out that's based on a Haruki Murakami short story, I think it's called "Tony Takitani"....
Listening to Bjork, "DEBUT" on the stereo.
A cool breeze eases in through the window.
Speaking of Murakami, I have to finish that book of short stories of his that I started reading recently.
All in all, I couldn't think of a better summer to have some real quality time to myself. If you're reading this, I hope your summer is going great too.
Next is the simple and major task of devoting every morning to composing new pieces; arranging previously written pieces, transcribing/synthesizing/arranging some of the Brazilian music I've been listening to for the last five months; revising elements of the commissioned pieces I premiered at the Kuumbwa and Cerritos venues. This all starts Monday. This will all get channeled into a new AW Nonet recording on Groove Note records. Also, the second volume of the "Our Gang" trio sessions will be released this September on Groove Note. Our phoenix is rising.
Lots of art to see right now in LA. Most highly reccommended is the Margaret Kilgallen installation and retrospective at REDCAT in Downtown LA. This magnificent artist's life was cut short at the age of 33 due to breast cancer, and it's really sad, because she was a true avatar of a kind of new primitive image painting. Nobody else in her generation can touch her synthesis of many disparate graphic elements such as traditional sign-painting, Amish style craft art, surf art, and hobo boxcar writing. There's a group show of new artists from the Bay Area opening tomorrow at Rosamund Felsen's gallery; Frederick Sommer and Paul Strand at the Getty; "The New Traditionalists" at Subliminal Projects gallery; and lots of other interesting stuff to see around town.
Also, this summer, there's a new flick coming out that's based on a Haruki Murakami short story, I think it's called "Tony Takitani"....
Listening to Bjork, "DEBUT" on the stereo.
A cool breeze eases in through the window.
Speaking of Murakami, I have to finish that book of short stories of his that I started reading recently.
All in all, I couldn't think of a better summer to have some real quality time to myself. If you're reading this, I hope your summer is going great too.
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