The last time I played at WAC was a collaborative concert with Derek Bailey and Steve Gnitka in 1983. (As implied by this 36 [!] year gap, there’s a multi-faceted back-story which I don’t have the appetite to publicly detail …
On the rare occasions I’ve been afforded the opportunity to present my work outside the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, the logistics have consistently been less than ideal. (The reasons for this state of affairs are clear. As I’ve reiterated too many …
Back story minutiae:
Gmunden is a small, quintessentially/stereotypically picturesque “destination” town in upper Austria; surrounded by farmland and nestled among mountains and a fairly large body of water. (Concerning the former, as one mountaintop appears to be a human profile, …
While mitigating circumstances impacted my travel/acclimation — at times to the point of absurdity/embarrassment — the music and camaradarie at the core of my recent visit to Austria more than compensated for these “difficulties”. I am extremely grateful to Siegfried …
Thanks to the efforts of Reform Art Unit spiritus rector Fritz Novotny and polymath Siegfried Holzbauer, I will, barring life’s vagaries, be returning to Austria at the end of August as a member of Three Motions. (When Fritz first …
“I am starting this thing with the hopes of breaking even, but I think there will be intangible benefits even if that fails.” — Atrocious Gnosis
When THE ONLY DIGNITY IS OBLIVION was released in 2017, my thought was that, …
From the film QUATERMASS AND THE PIT:
Colonel Breen: Do you ever find your early career catching up with you?
Quatermass: I never had a career. Only work.
From the book DIXONIA:
“I’ve spent my entire career trying to do …