David Simons: Past

A collective celebration of the innovative electronic music pioneer, with performances by friends, family, former students, and others.

14 contemporaries of the luminary drummer/percussionist improvise with homemade and/or unusual instruments he amassed.

A select retrospective of David’s compositions for gamelan, voice, mixed ensembles, and interactive theremin. Featuring Gamelan Son of Lion, […]

Hans Tammen uses Earle Brown’s open form composition idea as a starting point to create a large multi-movement piece, thoroughly composed […]

Hirsch (voice) and Ho (keyboards) have composed an evocative & playful suite of pieces, filled with sonic pictures, kooky autobiographical […]

In::tension:. (Roulette commission premiere)-percussive, intimate, visceral, ritual and electrically charged, this music explores tension point […]

Spinning Combinations: the iconoclastic gamelan presents syncretic works, conflating tunings, timbres, and cultural norms, combining Indonesian […]

Original compositions and arrangements of Bosnian, Estonian, Yiddish, Indonesian and Beefheart. Theremin and voice become MIDI triggers for […]

Composer/Drummer Joe Trump will present new works including collaborations with guitarist Elliott Sharp, a drumset duo with Virgil Moorefield, a […]

Samm Bennett’s percussion song project with the composer on drums, percussion, electronic percussion and vocals; Tim Spelios, drums, […]