Amy is pleased to be included among the many interesting women profiled in this recently released book from German press Buddy’s Knife — Giving Birth to Sound: Women in Creative Music.
A nice review in All About Jazz.
To order the book, click the image above.
Mark Palmer did a lovely job of editing this video from the December 2014 performance of my piece for the Paul Dresher ensemble. We perform the entire concert again (10 songs by 10 composers, with projected images) in San Francisco in spring 2015.
• Writing a piece for the Truman State University percussion ensemble, to premiere in October. They’re good! Look/listen. My piece, entitled Crowd Source, is for voice and 10 players (including 4 steel drummists). The lyrics were (mostly) crowd-sourced.
• Learning and writing music for December CalPerformances premiere of They Will Have been So Beautiful — my collaboration with the Paul Dresher Ensemble in which we perform photography-insired songs by 10 composers, including Paul and myself. Tickets are on sale Here, Now.
• Enjoying singing and recording with this fabulous band Vacuum Tree Head for their forthcoming CD extravaganza.
And in the planning stages:
• Creating my own interpretation (voice and electronic percussion) of Jerry Hunt’s classic 40-minute song cycle Song Drapes, to be performed at reiheiM series, Cologne, Germany, spring 2015.
• Finishing up the recording of my Fill as Desired song cycle for Solstice vocal ensemble, for a spring 2015 CD release.
• Then for the rest of 2015 will be hard at work on Hunger Strike for the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra with the Squid Inc. string quartet, voice, and live electronics; spring 2016 premiere.
And slowly amidst all that, enjoying the occasional spurt of solo weirdness, recording new studio songs in once-a-month day-long ICS sessions. Eventually this will result in a new release for your Spotifying pleasure.
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I’m pleased to report that the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and I will be recipients of a $50,000 Gerbode/Hewlett commissioning grant for composition and production of a song cycle for voice, electronics and orchestra. The full work, tentatively titled “Hunger Strike” and exploring aspects of hunger both literal and figurative, will premiere in spring of 2016 as part of the SFCO’s Main Stage concert series (San Francisco, Berkeley and Palo Alto).
Read the press release and this year’s list of recipients and projects (pdf).
Read about the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. Their shows are always free!
Read about the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.
Good lord, it is 2014 already.
The year is off to a…. start!
January 18:
I am psyched, jazzed and delighted to be singing with the legendary Vacuum Tree Head at the Night Light in Oakland. Also on the bill: Jack o’ the Clock and Surplus 1980. What could be more happening?
January 25:
I am thrilled, honored and exceptionally pleased to bring you a full evening of Amy songs at the intimate house concert setting of Wisteria Ways in Oakland. This concert is already showing signs of selling out; advance reservations are highly recommended.
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Those are the musings of Isabel, the cat I am cat-sitting in NYC, who apparently walked across the keyboard while I was up getting a snack.
I’m here for the month, doing holidays with family, hanging with buddies, seeing and hearing and tasting and smelling and working and gigging and giggling and ogling.
2 confirmed shows, and possibly more….
SUNDAY DECEMBER 8, 7:00 PM
Weird Wednesdays series (on a Sunday) at The Branded Saloon
603 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn • $10
Presented by Terry Dame, solo performances by Radio Wonderland (a.k.a. Joshua Fried), Amy X Neuburg (me) and Terry herself. Read more info and join us on facebook here.
and then… a totally different thing:
THURSDAY DECEMBER 12, 8:00 PM
Rabbit Tales new works series at Rabbithole
33 Washington St., Brooklyn • $5
Here I’ll be performing live-looping duets with violinist Todd Reynolds — songs and structured improvs. Also on the bill will be performance readings by Rebecca Mills and film/fashion by Matthew De Leon.
