Last night was the first performance of "The Love of Three Kings", performed by the Bleecker Street Opera Company at 45 Bleecker Street. My friend and frequent collaborator, Paul Haas, is music director for the group and asked me to re-arrange/reduce/re-orchestrate (whatever you'd like to call it) the score to accommodate a 1-on-a-part sort of orchestra. 4 winds, 4 brass, percussion, keyboard, 5 strings.

Had a concert in Taos last weekend. Robert Mirabal performed "On Taos" with the folks at Music from Angel Fire. Best collection of players I've ever had performing my music and it was incredibly satisfying. To accommodate Mirabal's flutes the piece is almost entirely modal, and I often feel guilty for this, like I'm cheating or something.... but whatever, music is music, regardless of the math behind

Just did an interview and live performance with Sara Dee at KGNU during her set on Jazz and Beyond. My close friend and bassist, Robin Abeles, was here visiting from NM and it was prosperous timing for the interview. I've not done much live work on the radio. I played at KTAO on a few occasions with Robin, and I've done short interviews before but never something like this. It was a great pleasure.

On May 5 & 6 I'll be performing laptop in a concert with Sympho called FLECTION at Les Poisson Rouge in NYC. Sympho, created by Paul Haas, produces orchestral concerts with the goal of re-imagining what an orchestral concert could be - doing away with centuries-old conventions of the concert hall. Last year I did some laptop work for Paul Haas with the Des Moines Symphony in a piece called REWIND,

I've gotten fancy with a flash banner. The inspiration for this came from a recent visit to a really gifted Healer (hey, I live in Boulder, what do you think its good for? Healers abound!). Without getting into the messy dream-like space-cadet details, I'll just say that in my experience I was standing in "the void," looking up and screaming out questions to the proverbial "godhead" -- and into the