photo by Rob Kollaard, The Hague 2008.
ABOUT /
WORKS LIST /
DISCOGRAPHY /
PRESS + REACTIONS /
AUDIO /
VIDEO /
TEXT
OTHER /
PROJECTS /
AFGHANISTAN /
THE LOVE STORY /
ONE IS ONE: PRELUDES & FUGUES /
DODGING BULLETS /
SOLO SAXOPHONE /
MAZUR/NEURINGER /
DUO WITH DJ SNIFF /
DUO WITH JOEL RYAN /
WALDEN WITH ENSEMBLE KLANG /
WORKS LIST /
DISCOGRAPHY /
PRESS + REACTIONS /
AUDIO /
VIDEO /
TEXT
OTHER /
PROJECTS /
AFGHANISTAN /
THE LOVE STORY /
ONE IS ONE: PRELUDES & FUGUES /
DODGING BULLETS /
SOLO SAXOPHONE /
MAZUR/NEURINGER /
DUO WITH DJ SNIFF /
DUO WITH JOEL RYAN /
WALDEN WITH ENSEMBLE KLANG /
ONE IS ONE: PRELUDES & FUGUES /
48 performance texts, divided evenly into four books with the following titles:
Book I: Dodging Bullets
Book II: One is One
Book III: You Decide
Book IV: is Against
On a structural level the collection deals with the musicality of language and the language of music. Its arrangement is both linear and modular, and references numerous other works, thinkers, and ideas, sometimes more subtly, sometimes outright. It exists among and between the disciplines of music, literature, performance, theater, and perhaps philosophy. (As the collection developed the visual aesthetic of pages filled with text was also an important component; after the first 24 texts were complete it was presented as part of an installation.) In its wide-ranging content One is One addresses the violence and untenability of civilization, social and personal confusion, ambiguity, morality, cynicism, and the will to do good, among many other issues. This is the note that precedes the collection in its manuscript form:
"These are Preludes & Fugues, Acknowledgements & Dedications, Themes & Variations, Composed & Notated between December 2004 & September 2008 in accordance with certain structural principles (of JS Bach, of Evan Parker, & of Rosa Parks, for example), by one among the teeming privileged, the wretched reluctant, the well-fed starving, the colossal colonizing colonized, one nonetheless mean & meek, born in New York & residing during the time of these works in The Netherlands, & offered humbly & solely by the author to no one in particular & anyone in general-- including the reader, the performer, the listener & the arranger--with an interest in music; in literature; in the overlap of tradition & experimentation; in form, content & aesthetics; codes, lists, love letters & talking aloud to oneself in public (while walking, for example, or standing, perhaps, on a stage); self defense & addressing adversity; creative discipline; intellectual rigor; the birth pangs of a post-civilized world & the quiet constant & happy threat of self-immolation."
48 performance texts, divided evenly into four books with the following titles:
Book I: Dodging Bullets
Book II: One is One
Book III: You Decide
Book IV: is Against
On a structural level the collection deals with the musicality of language and the language of music. Its arrangement is both linear and modular, and references numerous other works, thinkers, and ideas, sometimes more subtly, sometimes outright. It exists among and between the disciplines of music, literature, performance, theater, and perhaps philosophy. (As the collection developed the visual aesthetic of pages filled with text was also an important component; after the first 24 texts were complete it was presented as part of an installation.) In its wide-ranging content One is One addresses the violence and untenability of civilization, social and personal confusion, ambiguity, morality, cynicism, and the will to do good, among many other issues. This is the note that precedes the collection in its manuscript form:
"These are Preludes & Fugues, Acknowledgements & Dedications, Themes & Variations, Composed & Notated between December 2004 & September 2008 in accordance with certain structural principles (of JS Bach, of Evan Parker, & of Rosa Parks, for example), by one among the teeming privileged, the wretched reluctant, the well-fed starving, the colossal colonizing colonized, one nonetheless mean & meek, born in New York & residing during the time of these works in The Netherlands, & offered humbly & solely by the author to no one in particular & anyone in general-- including the reader, the performer, the listener & the arranger--with an interest in music; in literature; in the overlap of tradition & experimentation; in form, content & aesthetics; codes, lists, love letters & talking aloud to oneself in public (while walking, for example, or standing, perhaps, on a stage); self defense & addressing adversity; creative discipline; intellectual rigor; the birth pangs of a post-civilized world & the quiet constant & happy threat of self-immolation."