Up-and-coming composer Peter Dayton makes his Navona Records debut with the release of Notes to Loved Ones, an album of works for piano and strings. Dayton’s style of composition is heavily influenced by people with whom he is fascinated and their works of art.
Premiered on Apr. 25 in Baltimore, MD
By Tirzah Hawley (Gertrude)
Young Eun Lee (May)
Katharine Estes (Mabel)
Hanna Shin, Piano
Mari Takeda, Percussion
Aaron Thacker, Harpischord
Peter Dayton, Composer, Librettist, Conductor
Baltimore is a short, comedic, musical absurdist documentary about the city and its weird community of creatives. It is currently sitting on my 2009 MacBook Pro waiting for me to upgrade to a computer that can handle long, large, and intricately cut high definition video files. The film features live concert footage from Joe Squared where I have been a regular performer for over ten years, stand up comedy, interviews, and street and wildlife photography. Some of the footage I shot myself, but a lot was also shot by photographer Keston DeCoteau.
Over the past three years I've built a recording studio at An die Musik to record audio and video of the concerts that occur there. An die Musik is one of the top jazz venues in the city. Working with Henry Wong and Doc Manning, the goal is to promote Baltimore music and spread international awareness of the incredible caliber of music that occurs at the venue. The venue has world class musicians that perform there on a weekly basis, but those performances have never been documented.
Harmony and dissonance at the control of the viewer. An audience participatory work where anyone can press the buttons below each felted "mouth" in order to create their own composition using the notes of a sung musical scale.
For the purpose of documentation composer, Benjamin Buchanan, has created and performed a short composition to demonstrate the installation.
Bubble Bathis a web-based interactive sound art piece by Baltimore instrumental duo Peals (Bruce Willen and William Cashion) and artist Dina Kelberman.
Furniture is an interactive ambient composition composed of 16 audio loops controlled by the user. Experience Furniture at: http://pealsmusic.com/furniture.html