Entries by Aaron Siegel

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Lost Ideas #2 – Jingle

I was asked last year to quickly come up with a piece to share with a large mingling audience at a fundraiser event some friends were hosting. Having been working on some new texts for other projects, I thought I would experiment with the use of language appropriated from advertising. Advertisements play a convenient and […]

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Narrative and Politics

I have been spending most of the summer so far wading through David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest.” I am, at turns, overcome by the enormity of this book, its spellbinding intimacy and also maddened by DFW’s distractible and obsessive imagination. The sections of the book that I struggle most with are his satires of political […]

Recent Sightings

Photos and audio are in from the June 3, 2010 performance of Preparing the Past at Issue Project room. Audio is downloadable and streaming at the Free Music Archive. Pictures c. 2010, Robert Pottinger.

Preparing the Past – June 3 at Issue Project

Thursday June 3, 2010 9:00 pm Issue Project Room 232 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY Don’t miss the premiere performance of the complete Preparing the Past, for 4-hand piano, 2 vibraphones and 2 glockenspiels featuring Emily Manzo, Anna Dagmar and Mantra Percussion (Al Cerulo, Joe Bergen, Mike McCurdy and Chris Graham). Also, Christy Edwards will be […]

Ten Thousand Hours Interview

A month ago, I met up with bassist James Ilgenfritz to do an interview for his new podcast, Ten Thousand Hours. He posted the finished interview recently, and here is the link to listen. http://tenthousandhourspodcast.com/

Performing Occupation

I was in Vancouver, BC a couple of weeks ago for two concerts with Anthony Braxton, the second being an 8-hour “sonic genome” event that brought together over 60 musicians from the Vancouver area as well as a core group of the 12(+1)tet. Over the course of the day of performance, all of these musicians […]

An End in Site

One of the items I have seen most frequently on this year’s “best-of-the-decade” lists is the iPod. Mp3 players are so ubiquitous now it’s hard to believe they have only been around for 9 years . When we look at the cultural impact of this device though, the mp3 era is really the end of […]

Are You My Community?

I recently started contributing to an interesting online salon called ARCADE that’s hosted on the Stanford University website. My first post for this site is a focused look at the idea of community seen through my participation in a recent performance of Terry Riley’s “In C” hosted by Darmstadt New Music . Are You My […]