Hi all - come listen to the PodCast about my most recent composition!
A year of recording and I’m almost finished - only one more song to lay down!
Recently I was in Seattle working and after 5 days of work followed by 4-days of recording I want to share with you the project in-progress.
This is the first of a series of PodCasts about The Cat Who Loved Flowers project - watch here for more!
A brief thought on the future as we hurtle toward it: The last month in Portland, Oregon, my hometown has opted to join the rest of the world in the 20th Century. Friend, compatriot and fellow CalArts alum Steve Bilow writes about it on his blog Almost Rational. I agree with him on all counts.
Now I wonder, if this is the stuff that paved the way for the last half century - what is paving the way for the next century? By this time 100 years ago Schoenberg had just begun composing Pierrot Lunaire (according to Wikipedia, he began composing March 12, 1912 and finished the following July) and already had finished Erwartung, though the latter wasn’t premiered for another 15 years.
I wonder, what are the works that point to the future of music now? What are the trends or movements in art that history will identify as ‘indicative of that age’?
I don’t know if these are questions worth answering, much less asking…but since we have the benefit of knowing history, it is curious to turn a historical glance to the present and ponder…
(Source: nfchase.net)
The return of the lethal improvising trio NIRUSU III! A full-length studio recording made at the legendary Maybeck Recital Hall is in post production and will be available before Spring! Watch for previews and samples here!
Improvised at the Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, California June 5 & 6, 2005
Susan Allen harp, Korean kayagum, & omnichord
NF Chase laptop, turntables
Rus Pearson double basses
Produced by NIRUSU III. Mixed & Engineered by Nicholas Chase
Solifuge for bowed music stand and laptop - rehearsal | nicholaschase
This is a recent rehearsal - go into recording on Saturday at Jack Straw…I thought playing one note would be EASY???
Theta II, Part II | nicholaschase
Work on Theta begins…and continues!
September 24, 2011
Illuminated Corridor Dept. of Public Works
Saturday
11:00pm
Oakland Underground Film Festival
NIMBY
8410 Amelia Street
Oakland, CA
www.oakuff.org
I’m re-joining Illuminated Corridor Department of Public Works at the Oakland Underground Film Festival to illuminate the stylings of PUNK FUNK MOB and OAKLAND FADERS. Live video, film projections and other strange lights by Nick Chase, Suki O’Kane, Alfonso Alvarez, and Wayne Grim. Performing with IllCorr is one of my alltime favorite things to do!
