Baker Artist Portfolios

'Pluto Dances' is a piece I composed in collaboration with the Effervescent Collective dance company. It is scored for 3 percussionists, violin, cello, bass, and electronics. It was written as a graphic score, with each part consists of a series of repeating cells written in traditional notation as well as a graphic part that is interpreted according to instructions. All of the parts allow for, and depend on, improvisational choices by the performers that give the music a sense of fluidity that could not be achieved with a strictly composed score.

Selected Group Performances

5. With the Effervescent Collective: Pluto Dances
Music: Andrew Bernstein with members of the bands Hume and Horselords.
Venue: Lumberhaus, Baltimore, MD.
Lights: Greg St. Pierre
Costumes: Lily Kind & Claire Cote
'Pluto Dances' honors Pluto, the kaboose of the solar system, ice-dwarf formerly known as a planet, now re-classified as otherwise. The dance revolves around the space where fact becomes fiction, as science and myth orbit each other.

5. With the Effervescent Collective: Pluto Dances
Music: Andrew Bernstein with members of the bands Hume and Horselords.
Venue: Lumberhaus, Baltimore, MD.
Lights: Greg St. Pierre
Costumes: Lily Kind & Claire Cote
'Pluto Dances' honors Pluto, the kaboose of the solar system, ice-dwarf formerly known as a planet, now re-classified as otherwise. The dance revolves around the space where fact becomes fiction, as science and myth orbit each other.

The Out of Your Head Collective is a Baltimore-based improvised music collective co-founded by bassist Adam Hopkins and guitarist Matt Frazao in early 2009. Hopkins and Frazao curate weekly performances by the collective on Tuesday nights at The Windup Space. Out of Your Head is an attempt to broaden the local improvised music scene in Baltimore by forming groups of musicians in performance that have never previously played together.

The Out of Your Head Collective is a Baltimore-based improvised music collective co-founded by bassist Adam Hopkins and guitarist Matt Frazao in early 2009. Hopkins and Frazao curate weekly performances by the collective on Tuesday nights at The Windup Space. Out of Your Head is an attempt to broaden the local improvised music scene in Baltimore by forming groups of musicians in performance that have never previously played together.