Not sick anymore!
Okay, so after something like six days of not being able to breathe properly, I am back to work. Happy Memorial Day, everyone! I fully plan on grilling up on the roof this afternoon, and then, time permitting, playing the German Bean Farming Game. My first act, upon becoming well, was seeing the amazing Sock Puppet Showgirls. If you’re in NYC or Chicago, you need to see this. Trust me, you haven’t really seen pole dancing until you’ve seen it done by sock puppets. New York is awesome.
Anyway, my second act upon becoming well was to finally get to work on this new piece for Ellen Cornfield. She’s going to be doing a solo piece called Fault Lines as part of the Merce Cunningham Studios faculty concert, and graciously asked me to write something for her. As it’s shaping up, I think the music will be called Get This To My Mother, the title being based on this WWII radio recording on an old record of my grandfather’s (Koven R. Smith, incidentally). So this is where the piece stands currently. It’s a little bit too chaotic for my tastes just yet, and I feel like maybe I haven’t found the piece’s center yet, but it’s a good start. I’ll post more as it gets closer to completion…
