Appearances

Past Appearances

Audio Mostly 2020 Festival, Graz, Austria, performance of I Dig A Pygmy in 360° Surround

Fund-raiser for Senator Pat Jehlen (D-Somerville), Cambridge, Mass. Songs of Resistance

Benefit for HIAS, Weston, Mass. Songs of Resistance

Back Room at the Burren, Davis Square, Somerville. Songs of Resistance, with Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, Ian Goldstein, Beth Bahia Cohen, Sharon Kennedy, Adina Schechter, and Michael McLaughlin

Tufts University Electronic Music Ensemble, with guest performer Michael Buffington and guest presenter Gotye. ElectroMechanicon! Works by Grieg, Santana, Brasstracks, Stevie Wonder, Debussy, Marianne Faithfull, and the world premiere of the Rhythmicon performing Henry Cowell’s 1931 Rhythmicana (Concerto for Rhythmicon and Orchestra)

Audio Engineering Society, Javits Center, New York City. Panel: The Future of Audio Education

Newton Public Library. Songs of Resistance

Tufts University. Songs of Resistance, with Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, Ian Goldstein, Beth Bahia Cohen, Sharon Kennedy, Adina Schechter, and Michael McLaughlin

Granoff All-Night Music Festival, Tufts University. Songs of Resistance with Rabbi Jeffrey Summit and Ian Goldstein

Brown University, Providence, RI: Performance of Ballet mécanique for solo piano and acousmonium, Guy Livingston, soloist, and lecture on Antheil’s use of multiple player pianos

George Antheil Film Music Mini-Festival, Tufts University. Lecture on Antheil’s use of multiple player pianos, and an appreciation of Marni Nixon. US Premiere of Ballet mécanique for solo piano and acousmonium, performed by Guy Livingston

Tufts University Electronic Music Ensemble, Touch! Works by Shostakovitch, Satie, Ralph Towner, Stevie Wonder, Snarky Puppy, Ravel, Shadowfax

Tufts University Electronic Music Ensemble, Sparks! Works by Stevie Winwood, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Andrew Jarowenko, Eli Boninger, Ricario Philips, Talking Heads

Tufts University Electronic Music Ensemble, Oh No! Works by Frank Zappa, Alfonso the Wise, Richard Thompson, Grieg, Bach, Ruben Sonz-Barnes, Pink Floyd

Tufts University. Songs You (Still) Should Know…and that Still Matter, with Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, Ben Krakauer, Beth Bahia Cohen, Sharon Kennedy, and Dana Price. Repeated May 27, 2014 at the Newton (MA) Free Library

Tufts University Electronic Music Ensemble, Out of the Cave! Works by Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, Ralph Towner, anonymous, Edgard Varèse, Rachmaninoff, Ricario Philips, Pink Floyd

Philadelphia Museum of Art, panel on “Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis.”

Steinway Hall, New York City. Presentation of Music Engineering at Tufts for New York Tufts Engineering Alumni.

Tufts Electronic Music Ensemble, Acid Drain. Works by Mussorgsky, Jefferson Airplane, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Lalo Schifrin, Edgard Varèse, Lehrman.

Sonic Boom! Tufts University Wind Ensemble/Electronic Music Ensemble combined concert. Works by Mussorgsky, Pink Floyd.

12th conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Poster session: The problem of multiple pianolas in Antheil’s Ballet mécanique.

Tufts University Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Haydn: Mass in Time of War (1st bassoon)

Analog Devices General Technical Conference, Seaport Hotel, Boston. Keynote speaker: “Music and Technology at Tufts University” and “The Revival of Ballet mécanique.”

Johnny D’s Somerville, MA. Labor songs and sing-alongs. Kickoff event for re-election campaign for Sen. Pat Jehlen (D-Somerville). With Geoff Brown, Sharon Kennedy, and Marcy Goldstein-Gelb.

Tufts University Wind Ensemble, Costa Rica (bassoon)

Tufts University Symphony Orchestra, Gil Rose, conductor (bassoon)

MakerFaire, New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadow Park, Queens, NY, 3:00 PM. The history of Ballet mécanique.

Songs You Should Know (…and that still matter)—songs of social consciousness from the 1950s, ’60s, and other times, with Rabbi Jeffrey Summit and guests…

February 2, 2010: Distler Recital Hall, Tufts University

February 14, 2010: Cohen Auditorium, Tufts University. Benefit for Haitian earthquake victims.

March 18, 2010: Johnny D’s, Somerville, MA

Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA, 8:00 pm. Boston Modern Orchestra Project presents “Big Bang,” featuring a live performance of George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique, conducted by Gil Rose, with 8 Yamaha Disklaviers. Q&A precedes the concert at 7:00 pm.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 5:20 pm. Screening of Bad Boy Made Good, a 71-minute documentary film on the revival of George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique,and the Léger/Murphy/Antheil Ballet mécanique, followed by audience Q&A.

Audio Engineering Society 127th Convention, Jacob Javits Center, New York City, 2:30 pm. Paper session on Consumer Audio, presenting “The Wii Remote as a Musical Instrument: Technology and Case Studies.”

IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA) , Holiday Inn Express, Woburn, MA, session 1 (10:15 am-12:15 pm). Presenting Doing Good by the ‘Bad Boy:’ A Robotic Solution for Performing George Antheil’s Ballet Mecanique, with video of Ballet mécanique automated orchestra.

Parsons Audio Expo, Holiday Inn, Dedham, MA. Moderating a panel on live audio.

“Antheil’s Legacy,” an evening of new works by various composers, for Disklavier and other instruments in the Ballet mécanique automated orchestra, curated by Charles Amirkhanian; plus the world premiere of the automated orchestra performing Antheil’s score to the Murphy/Léger film.At 3-Legged Dog Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (@ Rector St.), New York City (following that evening’s performance of Frequency Hopping).

Premiere of Frequency Hopping, a new play by Elyse Singer, featuring the Ballet mécanique automated orchestra performing excerpts from Antheil’s work, plus an original score by Joshua Fried .At 3-Legged Dog Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (@ Rector St.), New York City. Through June 29.

Tufts University “ElectroNME”—New Music Ensemble/Electronic Music Lab concert, Distler Recital Hall, Granoff Music Center. Featuring “Imaginary Dialogues,” a new composition by Paul and graduate student Phil Acimovic for Nintendo Wii controllers and laptop; plus two short films with scores by Paul’s students; plus the East Coast premiere of the video of the Ballet mécanique automated orchestra at the National Gallery of Art in Ambisonic Surround. 8:00 pm, free.

Doc Kountze Film Festival, McGlynn Middle School, Medford, MA. Boston premiere of The Eternal Road: Encounter with the Past, documentary film by Ron Frank, with music by Kurt Weill arranged and performed by Paul, about the revival of a “lost” opera by Kurt Weill and Franz Werfel, and how a German city attempts reconciliation with the Jewish families who fled at the beginning of the Nazi era.

Boston Audio Society holiday meeting, Futura Productions, Roslindale, MA. Panel discussion on careers in the audio industry.

Wolfsonian Museum of Florida International University, Miami, FL. Installation of an all-robotic orchestra performing George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique, edited and programmed by me, with robots designed and built by Eric Singer and the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, and pianos provided by Yamaha Corporation. Two performances daily, plus daily screening of Bad Boy Made Good, a 71-minute documentary film on the revival of George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique. Opening night party December 1.

Parsons Audio Expo, Holiday Inn, Dedham, MA. Presentation on alternative musical controllers, and the Tufts University course “Electronic Musical Instrument Design.” Moderating a panel on “Careers in Audio.”

Parents’ Weekend, Tufts University, Medford, MA. Lectures on Where Music Meets Technology: Using Electronic Musical Instrument Design to Cross the Bridge Between Art and Engineering, Tisch Library. Performances with prototype Electronic Music Ensemble, Granoff Music Center.

Audio Engineering Society 123rd Convention, Javits Center, New York City. Book release party and signings for The Insider Audio Bathroom Reader, published by Thomson Course PTR. At the Mix Magazine booth, # 942.

The Boston Area Definitive Audio Student Summit, The New England Institute of Art, 10 Brookline Place West, Brookline, MA. Panel discussion on “Careers in Audio.”

Hartt School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT. Lecture on National Gallery of Art installation of Ballet mécanique and video, with Ambisonic-encoded surround audio, of the performance.

Doc Kountze Film Festival, McGlynn Middle School, Medford, MA. Boston premiere of The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Real Story, documentary film by Ron Frank, with music by Paul, about the largest domestic disaster of World War II.

Audio Engineering Society 121st Convention, Moscone Center, San Francisco. Presentation of invited paper, “Doing Good by the ‘Bad Boy’: Performing George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique with Robots” (around 11:00 am) along with the world premiere of the video, with Ambisonic-encoded surround audio, of the robotic performance of Ballet mécanique at the National Gallery of Art (at 1:30 pm).

Doc Kountze Film Festival, McGlynn Middle School, Medford, MA. Boston premiere of the final cut of Bad Boy Made Good, a 71-minute documentary film on the revival of George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique,and the world premiere of a new video of the robotic performance of Ballet mécanique at the National Gallery of Art. Followed by audience Q&A.

New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, IRCAM, Paris. Presentation of invited paper “A ‘Ballet mécanique’ for the 21st Century: Performing George Antheil’s Dadaist Masterpiece with Robots” along with video of the robotic performance of Ballet mécanique at the National Gallery of Art. Actually, I was not able to go—the paper was presented by Eric Singer—because I was the program and technical director for the Doc Kountze Film Festival.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Construction and presentation of an all-robotic orchestra performing Ballet mécanique, with robots designed and built by Eric Singer and the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots.

Webster University, St. Louis, MO. First screening of a new cut of Bad Boy Made Good, a 71-minute documentary film on the revival of George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique, and the Léger/Murphy/Antheil Ballet mécanique, followed by audience Q&A, and workshops for music technology students. Read these writeups in the Riverfront Times and Mix. 

Conference of the Audio Engineering Society, Jacob Javits Center, New York City. Screening of Bad Boy Made Good, followed by Q&A.

New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Presentation of an original paper “Bridging the Gap Between Art and Science Education Through Teaching Electronic Musical Instrument Design.”

Lectures on the Ballet mécanique at The Calhoun School, New York City.

Celebrating the Ballet mécanique at the 2nd annual Light In Winter Festival, Ithaca, NY. Lecture: “Making the Ballet mécanique.” Screening of Bad Boy Made Good, a 71-minute documentary film on the revival of George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique, followed by audience Q&A.. Live performance of Ballet mécanique (with Léger film) by Ensemble X, conducted by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky.

Performance of I Dig A Pygmy, tribute to John Lennon for Kurzweil K2000 sampler; and Heroes, multimedia piece for storyteller and musician, with Sharon Kennedy, at Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge Street, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA.

Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. Lecture and workshop on Ballet mécanique.

Conference of the Audio Engineering Society, Moscone Center, San Francisco. Screening of Bad Boy Made Good, followed by Q&A.

First annual Northern Lights Documentary Film Festival, Newburyport, MA. Screening of Bad Boy Made Good, followed by Q&A.

Panel on “Careers in Audio” at the NEMO/Boston Music Awards Conference, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Boston.

Revised four-channel surround version of I Dig A Pygmy, Tufts Composers Concert, Tufts University, Medford, MA.

Ballet Mécanique, music by George Antheil edited to fit film by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy. Performed by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Jurjen Hempel, at Royal Festival Hall and four other UK venues.

Trinity College of Music, London, UK. Lecture and screening of Bad Boy Made Good, a 71-minute documentary film on the revival of Antheil’s Ballet mécanique.

Lectures and screenings of Bad Boy Made Good at Tufts University, Medford, MA; Hartt School, University of Hartford, CT; University of Massachusetts Lowell; Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

World premiere of Bad Boy Made Good, at FilmFest New Haven, in the Yale Center for British Art. Symposium followed. Winner of First Prize Audience award.

Capital Arts in Trenton (NJ), symposium at the New Jersey Network, celebrating the work of George Antheil, featuring a screening of an early version Bad Boy Made Good, and a lecture on editing the score of Ballet mécanique to make it playable as a soundtrack for the film of the same name by Fernand Léger et al.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Ballet mécanique, performed by Société de musique contemporaine, conducted by Walter Boudreau.

Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD. Lecture and performance of Ballet mécanique, including Léger/Murphy film synchronized with a live ensemble: The Peabody Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conducted by Julian Pellicano.

Boston premiere of the Ballet mécanique film, at the Museum of Fine Arts, with talks by Theodore Stebbin and me.

Ballet mécanique performance and lecture, featuring world premiere of the Léger/Murphy film synchronized with a live ensemble. The Peabody Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conducted by Julian Pellicano. It was the keynote performance at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Columbus, OH.

Using Musical Instruments as an Engineering Educational Medium, paper by Paul, Jesse Jones, and Chris Rogers of Tufts University, presented by Jones at Frontiers In Education conference, Boston.

Screening of The Eternal Road: An Encounter With the Past at the Atlanta Film Festival.

The Eternal Road was a biblical opera spectacle meant to awaken America to the plight of Germany’s Jews. A resounding success (although interestingly, a financial failure) on Broadway in 1937, the original production featured Lotte Lenya, Sam Jaffe, Dick van Patten, and Sidney Lumet. The work was then forgotten for over 60 years, and was remounted in Chemnitz, Germany in 1999 with the participation of Hollywood Bowl musical director John Mauceri.

This documentary looks at the climate in Germany that brought together the play’s creators, and follows a group of Jews (including the director’s father), exiled from Chemnitz during the rise of Nazism, as they return to their former home for the contemporary production.

The music in the soundtrack was written by Kurt Weill (mostly from The Eternal Road, but also from the Threepenny Opera), and was adapted, arranged, and performed—electronically—by me.

Airing of documentary film, “The Eternal Road: An Encounter With the Past“, KCET, Los Angeles, 10 pm PDT.

New York premiere of the “Ballet mécanique” film, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Reviewed in the Village Voice.

Lecture and screening of documentary film work-in-progress, “Reviving the Ballet mécanique“, a 30-minute documentary film produced by the Tufts Video Laboratory, Howard Woolf, director, and myself. The subject is the history of George Antheil’s 1924 composition, and how it came to be performed, for the first time, 75 years after it was written. At the annual banquet of the Boston chapter of the Audio Engineering Society.

Premiere of four-channel surround version of I Dig A Pygmy. “BEAMS (Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio) Marathon” concert, Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

The World premiere of a new print of the classic Dadaist / Cubist film “Ballet mécanique” by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy, accompanied by the original full-orchestral score by George Antheil, edited and programmed by me.

This print is identical to the version that was shown at the film’s premiere in Vienna in 1924. Originally, Antheil’s score was supposed to accompany the film, but the composer and the filmmakers worked separately, and the two works diverged. This was the first time the film was shown with the music by Antheil as he originally conceived it. After this showing, it will be shown in several dozen museums all over the world over the next five years.

Performance of Ballet mécanique, original 1924 version for 16 player pianos, four xylophones, four bass drums, tam-tam, two pianists, siren, electric bells, and three airplane propellors, by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conducted by Gil Rose, at Boston’s Symphony Hall. Part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

Lecture and screening of documentary film work-in-progress, “Reviving the Ballet mécanique“, a 30-minute documentary film produced by the Tufts Video Laboratory, Howard Woolf, director, and myself. The subject is the history of George Antheil’s amazing 1924 composition, and how it came to be performed, for the first time, 75 years after it was written. Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall, Tufts University.

Performance of I Dig A Pygmy. “Cyber Feast for Eyes and Ears”, Sorenson Center for the Arts, Babson College, Wellesley, MA. Part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

Lecture and screening of “Reviving the Ballet mécanique“, Hartt College of Music, University of Hartford, CT.