Mysterious Descent available now!
"Mysterious Descent is a mytho-dramatic song cycle based on the extant texts of the Idnat Ohintsôsh-ikh. Structured in twelve movements, dynamic music intersects with poetry and theatre, narrating the volatile and absurd descent into the darkness of the Self."
Physical media available here
Digital download available here
"Mysterious Descent is a mytho-dramatic song cycle based on the extant texts of the Idnat Ohintsôsh-ikh. Structured in twelve movements, dynamic music intersects with poetry and theatre, narrating the volatile and absurd descent into the darkness of the Self."
Physical media available here
Digital download available here
Upcoming shows
5/19/18 - w/ Lightbulb Ensemble, "Hamsa" - Santa Cruz
7/8/18 - w/ Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
10/26/18 - 10/27/18 - premiere of new opera, Oakland
Past Events (incomplete)
4/8/18 - w/ Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
4/2/18 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly - Makeout Room, SF
3/31/18 - w/ Lightbulb Ensemble, "Hamsa" (West Coast Premiere) - Community Music Center, SF
3/4/18 - Solo piano - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
2/11/18 - w/ Revenant Quartet @ 9:00pm - Day of Noise, 90.1 KZSU FM (kzsu.stanford.edu)
1/18/18 - w/ Two Aerials - Octopus Literary Salon, SF
11/18/17 - Mysterious Descent, CD release show - Center for New Music, SF
9/23/17 - w/ Eric Glick Rieman - Center for New Music, SF
9/8/17 - w/ Roscoe Mitchell - De Young Museum, SF
8/5/17 - Poetry reading - Adobe Books, SF
7/6/17 - w/ Andrew Jamieson's Ives Band - Luggage Store Gallery, SF
5/26/17 - w/ Two Aerials, CD release show - Uptown Nightclub, Oakland
5/12/17 - 5/13/17 - premiere of new theatre piece - "Mary's Dilemma, or That Sinking Feeling" - Orange Room, Oakland
4/19/17 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly - Piano Fight, SF
4/15/17 - Lou Harrison's "Suite For Violin, Piano, and Small Orchestra" - Mills College, Oakland
3/16/17 - w/ Two Aerials - The Night Light, Oakland
3/12/17 - w/ Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
3/5/17 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly (w/ Jack O' The Clock, Dirty Snacks Ensemble) - The Night Light, Oakland
11/22/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly, live on KFJC 89.7 FM
11/20/16 - w/ Lightbulb Ensemble, Brian Baumbusch's "Hamsa: Five Tales" - Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
11/19/16 - w/ Lightbulb Ensemble, premiere of Brian Baumbusch's "Hamsa: Five Tales" - Corcoran School of the Arts and Design - Wash., DC
11/6/16 - Mysterious Descent - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
10/26/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly (w/ Organofqwerty) - Octopus Literary Salon, Oakland
10/15/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly - Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley
9/6/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly (w/ Grex, Diatessaron) - El Rio, SF
8/14/16 - w/ Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
7/26/16 - Mysterious Descent - Outsound New Music Summit, Community Music Center, SF
7/10/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly, radio interview - KKUP 91.5 FM (www.kkup.com)
6/27/16 - Mysterious Descent - premiere! (also w/ Nathan Clevenger Group) - Studio Grand, Oakland
6/21/16 - Music of Eric Glick Rieman - Garden of Memory, Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland (www.gardenofmemory.com)
6/5/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly - All Tomorrow's After-Parties Benefit, Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley
5/25/16 - w/ Underweather Kitty - Center For New Music, SF
4/23/16 - Solo piano and spoken word - Octopus Literary Salon, Oakland
3/19/16 - w/ Underweather Kitty (w/ Phillip Greenlief/Jason Levis/Kazuto Sato) - Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley
3/7/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly - Make-out Room, SF
11/8/15 - w/ Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
10/10/15 - Brett Carson @ 9:00pm on KALX 90.7 FM (kalx.berkeley.edu)
8/15/15 - Quattuor Elephantis CD Release Show - Studio Grand, Oakland
8/9/15 - Solo piano (with new spoken word pieces) - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
5/31/15 - Rent Romus's Life's Blood Ensemble premieres a new piece of mine - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
4/12/15 - w/ Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
4/4/15 - w/ Bill Baird - Switchboard Festival, SF
3/6/15 - Signal Flow Festival - Mills College, Oakland
2/22/15 - Linea by Luciano Berio, w/ William Winant Percussion Group - Hertz Hall, Berkeley
2/8/15 - Duet with Mia Bella D'Augelli (w/ Jamieson/Douglas) - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
10/11/14 - Linea by Luciano Berio, w/ William Winant Percussion Group - Mills College, Oakland
10/5/14 - w/ Dan Gottwald's Analogous Ensemble - Thingamajigs Festival (3:00), Temescal Arts Center, Oakland
9/26/14 - Music of Steve Reich and Terry Riley - L@TE: Friday Nights, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
9/6/14 - w/ Bill Baird - Awaken Cafe, Oakland
9/5/14 - Music of Reich and Cage w/ William Winant Percussion Group - Santa Cruz
8/31/14 - Quattuor Elephantis - Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley
8/17/14 - Solo piano - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
8/9/14 - Music of John Cage, Jon Myers - Fractal Mindgaze Hut, Oakland
7/28/14 - w/ Thollem McDonas and the OutSpoken Improv Workshop Ensemble, Community Music Center, SF
7/15/14 - w/ Bill Baird - Hemlock, SF
7/13/14 - w/ Bill Baird - Makeout Room, SF
7/12/14 - w/ Bill Baird - Phono del Sol Festival, SF
7/6/14 - Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
6/21/14 - Music of Reich/Cage w/ W.Winant Group AND Lightbulb Ensemble - Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland
6/8/14 - Medium Size w/ guest Rent Romus - Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley
5/21/14 - Music of Eric Glick Rieman (w/ Tom Djll) - Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley
5/15/14 - Solo set + Quattuor Elephantis (w/ Pauchi Sasaki) - Mills College, Oakland
5/4/14 - Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
5/3/14 - Chamber music by Cage, Messiaen, Reich, and Mozart - Mills College, Oakland
4/25/14 - Mia Bella D'Augelli violin recital, premiere of a new piece of mine - Mills College, Oakland
4/19/14 - Medium-Sized Band w/ guest Rent Romus (2pm) - VAMP, Oakland
3/27/14 - Quattuor Elephantis (w/ Talk More) - Luggage Store Gallery, SF
3/22/14 - Music of George Lewis (including a world premiere) - Mills College, Oakland
3/6/14-3/9/14 - Signal Flow Festival - Mills College, Oakland
2/3/14 - w/ Josh Marshall and Tony Passarell - Luna's Cafe, Sacramento
12/13/13 - Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners - Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
12/7/13 - Performing chamber music by Cage, Schnittke, Muczynski, and Schubert - Mills College, Oakland
12/2/13 - Music by John Cage w/ William Winant Percussion Group - Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
11/22/13 - Medium-sized Band - Mynah Music, Oakland
11/6/13 - w/ Sharmi Basu - Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
11/3/13 - Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
10/6/13 - Quattuor Elephantis (w/ Ross Hammond's Humanity Suite) - Temescal Arts Center, Oakland
10/5/13 - Performing music by Nicolas Collins - Mills College, Oakland
9/23/13 - Quattuor Elephantis (w/ Fly Paper) - Luna's Cafe, Sacramento
9/15/13 - w/ Theo Padouvas, Kim Cass, Jacob Shandling - Actual Cafe, Oakland
9/2/13 - w/ Josh Marshall, Mateo Lugo, and Timothy Orr - Make-out Room, SF
8/18/13 - Noertker's Moxie (w/ Motoko Honda) - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
7/4/13 - Medium-sized Band (w/ Ell3) - Lightbulb Garden, Oakland
6/23/13 - Medium-sized Band (w/ Jim Ryan's Retro Blue) - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
6/16/13 - Soliloquium (Baroque keyboard music) (w/ Paul Baumbusch) - Lightbulb Garden, Oakland
5/30/13 - w/ Andrew Jamieson (w/ Julian Valdi-Vieso) - Luggage Store Gallery, SF
5/22/13 - w/ Josh Marshall - Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
5/19/18 - w/ Lightbulb Ensemble, "Hamsa" - Santa Cruz
7/8/18 - w/ Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
10/26/18 - 10/27/18 - premiere of new opera, Oakland
Past Events (incomplete)
4/8/18 - w/ Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
4/2/18 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly - Makeout Room, SF
3/31/18 - w/ Lightbulb Ensemble, "Hamsa" (West Coast Premiere) - Community Music Center, SF
3/4/18 - Solo piano - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
2/11/18 - w/ Revenant Quartet @ 9:00pm - Day of Noise, 90.1 KZSU FM (kzsu.stanford.edu)
1/18/18 - w/ Two Aerials - Octopus Literary Salon, SF
11/18/17 - Mysterious Descent, CD release show - Center for New Music, SF
9/23/17 - w/ Eric Glick Rieman - Center for New Music, SF
9/8/17 - w/ Roscoe Mitchell - De Young Museum, SF
8/5/17 - Poetry reading - Adobe Books, SF
7/6/17 - w/ Andrew Jamieson's Ives Band - Luggage Store Gallery, SF
5/26/17 - w/ Two Aerials, CD release show - Uptown Nightclub, Oakland
5/12/17 - 5/13/17 - premiere of new theatre piece - "Mary's Dilemma, or That Sinking Feeling" - Orange Room, Oakland
4/19/17 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly - Piano Fight, SF
4/15/17 - Lou Harrison's "Suite For Violin, Piano, and Small Orchestra" - Mills College, Oakland
3/16/17 - w/ Two Aerials - The Night Light, Oakland
3/12/17 - w/ Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
3/5/17 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly (w/ Jack O' The Clock, Dirty Snacks Ensemble) - The Night Light, Oakland
11/22/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly, live on KFJC 89.7 FM
11/20/16 - w/ Lightbulb Ensemble, Brian Baumbusch's "Hamsa: Five Tales" - Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
11/19/16 - w/ Lightbulb Ensemble, premiere of Brian Baumbusch's "Hamsa: Five Tales" - Corcoran School of the Arts and Design - Wash., DC
11/6/16 - Mysterious Descent - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
10/26/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly (w/ Organofqwerty) - Octopus Literary Salon, Oakland
10/15/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly - Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley
9/6/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly (w/ Grex, Diatessaron) - El Rio, SF
8/14/16 - w/ Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
7/26/16 - Mysterious Descent - Outsound New Music Summit, Community Music Center, SF
7/10/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly, radio interview - KKUP 91.5 FM (www.kkup.com)
6/27/16 - Mysterious Descent - premiere! (also w/ Nathan Clevenger Group) - Studio Grand, Oakland
6/21/16 - Music of Eric Glick Rieman - Garden of Memory, Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland (www.gardenofmemory.com)
6/5/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly - All Tomorrow's After-Parties Benefit, Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley
5/25/16 - w/ Underweather Kitty - Center For New Music, SF
4/23/16 - Solo piano and spoken word - Octopus Literary Salon, Oakland
3/19/16 - w/ Underweather Kitty (w/ Phillip Greenlief/Jason Levis/Kazuto Sato) - Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley
3/7/16 - w/ Reconnaissance Fly - Make-out Room, SF
11/8/15 - w/ Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
10/10/15 - Brett Carson @ 9:00pm on KALX 90.7 FM (kalx.berkeley.edu)
8/15/15 - Quattuor Elephantis CD Release Show - Studio Grand, Oakland
8/9/15 - Solo piano (with new spoken word pieces) - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
5/31/15 - Rent Romus's Life's Blood Ensemble premieres a new piece of mine - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
4/12/15 - w/ Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
4/4/15 - w/ Bill Baird - Switchboard Festival, SF
3/6/15 - Signal Flow Festival - Mills College, Oakland
2/22/15 - Linea by Luciano Berio, w/ William Winant Percussion Group - Hertz Hall, Berkeley
2/8/15 - Duet with Mia Bella D'Augelli (w/ Jamieson/Douglas) - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
10/11/14 - Linea by Luciano Berio, w/ William Winant Percussion Group - Mills College, Oakland
10/5/14 - w/ Dan Gottwald's Analogous Ensemble - Thingamajigs Festival (3:00), Temescal Arts Center, Oakland
9/26/14 - Music of Steve Reich and Terry Riley - L@TE: Friday Nights, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
9/6/14 - w/ Bill Baird - Awaken Cafe, Oakland
9/5/14 - Music of Reich and Cage w/ William Winant Percussion Group - Santa Cruz
8/31/14 - Quattuor Elephantis - Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley
8/17/14 - Solo piano - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
8/9/14 - Music of John Cage, Jon Myers - Fractal Mindgaze Hut, Oakland
7/28/14 - w/ Thollem McDonas and the OutSpoken Improv Workshop Ensemble, Community Music Center, SF
7/15/14 - w/ Bill Baird - Hemlock, SF
7/13/14 - w/ Bill Baird - Makeout Room, SF
7/12/14 - w/ Bill Baird - Phono del Sol Festival, SF
7/6/14 - Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
6/21/14 - Music of Reich/Cage w/ W.Winant Group AND Lightbulb Ensemble - Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland
6/8/14 - Medium Size w/ guest Rent Romus - Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley
5/21/14 - Music of Eric Glick Rieman (w/ Tom Djll) - Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley
5/15/14 - Solo set + Quattuor Elephantis (w/ Pauchi Sasaki) - Mills College, Oakland
5/4/14 - Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
5/3/14 - Chamber music by Cage, Messiaen, Reich, and Mozart - Mills College, Oakland
4/25/14 - Mia Bella D'Augelli violin recital, premiere of a new piece of mine - Mills College, Oakland
4/19/14 - Medium-Sized Band w/ guest Rent Romus (2pm) - VAMP, Oakland
3/27/14 - Quattuor Elephantis (w/ Talk More) - Luggage Store Gallery, SF
3/22/14 - Music of George Lewis (including a world premiere) - Mills College, Oakland
3/6/14-3/9/14 - Signal Flow Festival - Mills College, Oakland
2/3/14 - w/ Josh Marshall and Tony Passarell - Luna's Cafe, Sacramento
12/13/13 - Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners - Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
12/7/13 - Performing chamber music by Cage, Schnittke, Muczynski, and Schubert - Mills College, Oakland
12/2/13 - Music by John Cage w/ William Winant Percussion Group - Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
11/22/13 - Medium-sized Band - Mynah Music, Oakland
11/6/13 - w/ Sharmi Basu - Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
11/3/13 - Noertker's Moxie - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
10/6/13 - Quattuor Elephantis (w/ Ross Hammond's Humanity Suite) - Temescal Arts Center, Oakland
10/5/13 - Performing music by Nicolas Collins - Mills College, Oakland
9/23/13 - Quattuor Elephantis (w/ Fly Paper) - Luna's Cafe, Sacramento
9/15/13 - w/ Theo Padouvas, Kim Cass, Jacob Shandling - Actual Cafe, Oakland
9/2/13 - w/ Josh Marshall, Mateo Lugo, and Timothy Orr - Make-out Room, SF
8/18/13 - Noertker's Moxie (w/ Motoko Honda) - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
7/4/13 - Medium-sized Band (w/ Ell3) - Lightbulb Garden, Oakland
6/23/13 - Medium-sized Band (w/ Jim Ryan's Retro Blue) - SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF
6/16/13 - Soliloquium (Baroque keyboard music) (w/ Paul Baumbusch) - Lightbulb Garden, Oakland
5/30/13 - w/ Andrew Jamieson (w/ Julian Valdi-Vieso) - Luggage Store Gallery, SF
5/22/13 - w/ Josh Marshall - Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
