Composer and artist David Behrman will present current updates on a project with composer/performer Ben Neill and his Mutantrumpet in the 1980s and early 90s — performed by Ben Neill on Mutantrumpet and John King on guitar. Also on the program will be an excerpt from My Dear Siegfried (2004) with Thomas Buckner (voice), Peter Zummo (trombone) and Ralph Samuelson (shakuhachi). The composer will run the laptop for both pieces.

Ben Neill will present music for his self-designed Mutantrumpet and electronics, with percussion by Chris Nappi. The evening will include new pieces based on texts by Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, and David Wojnarowicz that use musical cryptography to generate sequences of pitch material that control the live sampled acoustic timbres of the Mutantrumpet. The program will also include Dis-Solution 2, for Mutantrumpet and percussion (composed in 1986).

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.

The Interpretations series, now in its 34th season, is a New York-based concert series focusing on the relationship between contemporary composers and their interpreters. Sometimes the interpreters are the composers themselves; more often, the series features performers who specialize in the interpretation of new music. Since its inception in 1989, Interpretations has featured leading figures in contemporary music and multimedia, including Muhal Richard Abrams, Robert Ashley, Anthony Braxton, Thomas Buckner, FLUX Quartet, Joseph Kubera, Annea Lockwood, and Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Ursula Oppens, and Morton Subotnick.