AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES OHV 412
Andy Akiho
with Maura Valenti
Princeton, NJ
October 8-9, 2011
Part One
First impressions of Princeton - Paul Lansky - SO Percussion - Dan Trueman - Dmitri Tymoczko - Princeton compared to Yale - collaborating with performers - learning music by rote - rhythmic perception - notational approach - becoming a composer from performance background - “fusion” and “art” music - polystylism - Murasaki - Ki-Iro - greater accessibility of music - Bang on a Can - commissions - composition process - Alloy - engagement with Los Angeles Philharmonic/Green Umbrella Series - eighth blackbird - compositional techniques in thE stReAm of conSciousnEss machinery - extended techniques for piano, percussion - Five Movements for Piano Trio - Yellow Barn Music School and Festival
Part Two
“erasing” in thE stReAm of conSciousnEss machinery - Loadbang ensemble - Love Lost Lone - theatrics in Love Lost Lone - text - Jack Vees - combining tonal and post-tonal harmony - Ligneous - 2010 Norfolk commission - Ian Rosenbaum - Xenakis, scratch sounds - Martin Bresnick Grace - extreme articulation - 10-note overlapping scales - composing for marimba - Robert Van Sice
Part Three
Vicki/y - Vicki Ray - Vicky Chow - Manhattan School of Music Contemporary Performance Program - Bang on a Can Summer Festival - prepared piano with dimes - structure of Vicki/y
Part Four
Nils Vigeland - Reiko Füting - more structure of Vicki/y - studying a variety of percussion styles in college - going to Trinidad to learn pan - Ray Holman - Bugsy Sharp - playing with Starlift Steel Orchestra and Phase II Pan Groove - move to New York - pan community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn - Freddy Harris III - Scipio Sargeant - taking pan lessons with guitar teachers - limits of working exclusively in the Caribbean music community - working as sushi chef in 2006 - teaching through ArtsConnection (New York) - Baljinder Sekhon - entering Contemporary Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music in 2007 - influence of Bach on 21 - Bang on a Can - Patti Monson - studying composition outside of school with Julia Wolfe - Subconscious Inconsistency - entering Yale School of Music as composition student - studying with YSM faculty Christopher Theofanidis, Ezra Laderman, Martin Bresnick and David Lang - Lang and Stop Speaking - Princeton faculty Paul Lansky, Dmitri Tymoczko, Steve Mackey and Daniel Trueman - attending 2011 Aspen Music Festival and School - Christopher Rouse - Matthias Pintscher - influence of friends - Sam Adams - Domenic Salerni - Ian Rosenbaum - influence of studying West African drumming - influence of calypso - Mariel Roberts - composers who are performers - .