This trio plays a unique mix of adventurous
improvisation, intricate compositions, abstract soundscapes, and polyrhythmic
flow. I compose the music and perform on trombone and live electronics, joined by a bassist and drummer. In August 2010, I'm excited to be recording a new trio album in Lisbon for Clean
Feed Records, with Christopher
Tordini on bass and Dan Weiss on percussion.
listen: Excerpt from Between Shadow and Space,
Cosmologic is
a collective quartet founded in Southern California by Jason
Robinson (sax), Michael Dessen (tbn), Scott
Walton (bass), and Nathan
Hubbard (percussion). We've been composing and performing together
for over a decade, touring in North America and Europe, and recording four critically acclaimed albums.
listen: Sample track from Eyes In The Back Of My Head
The Rumpus (comp. Dessen)
More at www.cosmologic.org
Since 2006, I've been involved with many telematic (distance/networked) performances, collaborating with a variety of artists including Mark Dresser, Myra Melford, Victoria Petrovich, John Crawford, Chris Chafe, Shahrokh Yadegari, Jason Robinson and many others. For some of these projects, I have also designed algorithmic, networked "scorestreams" - compositions that are displayed dynamically on computer screens for improvisers to interpret.
video: Excerpt from Jazz Telemotions:
More on telematics...
Digibone is an animistic world of live electronics in which the viscoelastic nature of the slide trombone invokes shifting digital sprites and topographies. Technically, digibone is a performance environment for live processing and sampling of structured improvisations on the trombone, sometimes alongside algorithmically generated compositions.
listen: Googlar 1, live digibone track, unreleased (all rights reserved)
