Dear Readers, I want to invite you to a very special performance this week.  Still Life with Microphone is my performance format for mixed up styles and genres.  Version X, in process for the 3 years, has the live interactive video art of Luke DuBois at its foundation, and tomorrow night we welcome Bass Clarinetist and composer Michael Lowenstern,  and one of my favorite musicians, percussionist Satoshi Takeishi.   Presented by The Electronic Music Foundation’s EMFLab, the show opens with a set by Jen Stock, which I’m looking forward to very much.

Want to know more about Still Life with Microphone history and what you’ll be seeing?  Read the program note here.

Wednesday, May 21st,  7pm
The Flea Theater
$15/$10 Students

Electronic Music Foundation presents the first annual EMF Lab, a new concert series bringing together emerging and established composers and improvisers to explore the convergence of sound and technology.

The Flea Theater inhabits the building at:
41 White St (between Broadway and Church St)
Tribeca
212-352-3101
Subway: A, C, E, J, M, Z, N, Q, R, W, 6 to Canal St; 1 to Franklin St  | Directions

The Return of Slow Boys

(from Michael Lowenstern and earspasm.com)

Saturday, May 10, 2008 — 8pm & 10pm (THIS Saturday!)
at The Stone
(Corner of Ave C and 2nd St, NYC)

Slow Boys was formed by Todd Reynolds and Michael Lowenstern (me) in 1990, in the heyday of Eastern Long Island’s fertile hip-hop music production vanguard. Yep, a hip-hop group it was.

Very (very) soon it mutated into an all-out electronica funk techno house avant classical jazz quartet called Portable Electronic Coffee House. That was a hard band to classify, much less book.

Well, fast-forward nearly 20 years, and during the intervening time as Todd and I followed our separate — but always intersecting — paths, we often talked about getting the band back together.

So, we’re getting the band back together. Now.

This show, in two sets, will feature some of the new work Todd and I have been writing together, including the new commission from Meet the Composer that Todd premiered back in March. It’ll also feature some never-performed duo works from my CD Fade and Todd’s new CD-EP.

8pm set – Mike with Todd; electro funk and jazz
10pm set – Todd with Mike: down-tempo and ambient

The cover is $10 for each set, or $25 for both shows which includes a CD from each of us.

Please come down and check it out! We’d love to see you.

Here’s a convenient link to The Stone

Welcome to May, and if you’re in the Berkshires…

Eye to Ear is a lecture series which explores the inside of the artist mind. Hosted by Cultural Pittsfield and The Berkshire Museum, this series has invited me to present my work and creative process tonight for what I’m sure will be a lovely bunch of Berkshire residents and art-lovers. I’ll blog more about it tomorrow, but for now it’s back to collecting the baby-pictures…