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 proposed the trip, he thought to call the threesome of himself, Paul Fields and me ..read more
“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, for many reasons, it would be the last document of my work to be ..read more
Dec 15th, 2017
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 something for this art form; meanwhile, my contemporaries have spent their careers trying to do something for themselves.” –Bill ..read more
Aug 2nd, 2017
A first, after 48 years (and counting)…More to the point, this happened without any networking or hustling on my part. (In this regard, it should also be noted I am not a viable commodity in the now, and for some time commodified world of improvised music/free jazz, and, additionally, have no “handlers”.) So, particularly in this ..read more
Mar 31st, 2017
Motivations. There was (almost) enough money in the Shih Shih Wu Ai Records “account” to fund it. (Since the label’s inception in 1972, all proceeds, save for money paid back to associate producers, have been recycled into further publications.) From there, I wanted to document the sound of my instruments in a solo context within ..read more
Mar 2nd, 2017
Videographer, ardent supporter, and friend Mike Yaeger was in town taking care of some family business and asked if he and his son, Andrew (a budding drummer) could come over and see me in action on the drum set and marimba with an eye to recording the “private concert” for YouTube. As the previous solo ..read more
The music recorded during 2 days of sessions at Porgy & Bess in Vienna on May 26 and 27, 2016 — over three dozen 4 minute pieces featuring small groups culled from the 21 member reformARTorchestra —was originally intended to be published as a 2 CD set accompanying a follow-up book to “Wiener U-Bahn-Kunst”. ..read more