Go Ahead, Trick Yourself
Sometimes, in order to get to nothing, you have to trick yourself into thinking you are doing something. Happy Summer!
Entries by Aaron Siegel
I Would Write
This script is meant to be a duet in letters between a Man and a Woman.
The Song of the Dream Awake
This scene is meant to be an aria for a man who starts to discover the seeds of his own madness, and wonders whether to be afraid or excited.
Experiments in Opera Spring Series
The Experiments in Opera Spring Series will be presented at Roulette in Brooklyn on May 10-11, 2012. The two-day event will pick up where the January 2012 inaugural concert left off, with full versions of Jason Cady’s Happiness is the Problem and Matt Welch’s Borges and the Other. In addition, two of the choral excerpts […]
Tinkering
One of the pleasures of parenthood is the opportunity to play with toys again. And when the toys themselves are filled with memories of ones own childhood, the experience is both generative and reflective. This past holiday season, we got my son Leo a set of tinker toys, and though they are a little different […]
Experiments in Opera Inaugural Festival – January 16, 2012
The Experiments in Opera collaborative has its inaugural festival at Le Poisson Rouge on January 16, 2012. My chamber opera-in-progress, Brother Brother, will be one of the featured works on this festival along with other excerpts from new works by Matthew Welch, Jason Cady and George Aperghis. When Matt, Jason and I first got together […]
Men and Women Thinking
By way of a lucky encounter with my friend and fellow raconteur, Dave Ruder, I got invited to participate in an upcoming performance of Robert Ashley’s early opera “That Morning Thing,” which will play at The Kitchen from November 19-21 as part of Performa 2011. I have long been an admirer of Ashley’s work and, […]
Put Your Hands Together
Last Spring I participated in the FlashLight event associated with the Festival of Ideas for a New City and got to know the great people working on NuitBlanche NY. They have an annual festival called Bring to Light that features many, many video artists, musicians and performers all contributing to a huge happening event in […]
GROUP – 6/21/11 New York Stock Exchange
GROUP: 6-21-11 Performance from Aaron Siegel on Vimeo. Last week, close to fifty New Yorkers downloaded the GROUP app for their iPhone and came out to the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate Make Music New York and the River to River Festival. Here is just a sampling of the word on the street. WNYC […]
Now Available – Science is Only a Sometimes Friend
This Spring, LockStep Records released “Science is Only a Sometimes Friend,” a magnum opus for eight glockenspiels and organ. See below for early reviews and then buy the record, which is available as a CD or a download. Science is Only a Sometimes Friend by LockStep Records