Just served a big glass of milk to a group from MCA Denver. The milk, made by Straus Family Dairy was accompanied by recordings of Vivien Straus' remembrances of her childhood, then piped through a guitar. Machine Project hosted the group this morning, it was Excellent Fun. In upcoming news, I'll be putting on two exciting concerts on October 13:

I'm heading to Houston this weekend with Machine Project for BBQ, Rothko Chapel, and a series of events at a conference. On saturday 9/15 I'm performing FERMENT[cheese] for a group of conference goers: giving a cheese tasting with musical accompaniment with Mt. Tam from the Cowgirl Creamery. Then on sunday at 3pm, I'm collaborating with Casey Anderson on a project (below)

Land + Houses, my site-specific band recently created a series of works for the fountain outside the Pacific Design Center. Usually a loud omnipresent white noise, we arrived this fateful day to find that the fountain straight broke. We repurposed our works for this triangularly shaped, asphalt pad outside the PDC and played reassuring music to the broken fountain inspired

Photo Credit: David Lancaster The ARID Journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology has accepted my work into their first issue. I'm very excited to be included in this publication - and hope to have the opportunity to meet other desert artists, writers, and thinkers over the next few years. After the installation was completed in June of 2010, I returned to

Friday, July 6 // 8-10pm at Machine Project In overlapping performances, Colin Dickey, Nicole Antebi and Chris Kallmyer will explore the difference between two rival pitches, 440 Hz and 432 Hz: Colin Dickey will trace the history of the war for correct musical tuning, a debate that’s raged for two centuries and has involved the Nazis, French government, BBC, Lydon Larouche, and new age

Machine Project in San Francisco! Machine Project in San Francisco! FRREALZ! I'm heading up to San Francisco for house concerts on June 15 and June 18, partnering with BayArea artists for each event. I'm psyched to be working with our friends at SOEX again -- more information as it comes about how to participate in each event. On the 15th,

I have new piece being performed in Brooklyn by John Hastings this next week. The performance will be at Vaudeville Park on April 24 at 8pm, with a pre-show performance by Nat Evans, the proudly occidental seattle-based composer. Come check it out! Additionally, I've started a group called Land + Houses. We have our first show at the Getty Villa,

I've just published my second article with New Music Box, the NYC based contemporary music journal. The article synthesizes my recent research into Human Geography and its applications to performance, installation, and sound-based projects! The article can be found here: Sonic Cartography and the Perspective of Place. I'm speaking at the College Art Association Conference this week at the LA Center

I started working with Chad Clark from Beauty Pill back in 2008 when we were both having some pretty serious health problems - these discussions and late-night meetings fruited into brass tracks for BP's upcoming release - the first since 2004. Being 2012, a band like Beauty Pill (and a thoughtful guy like Chad) can't simply release a record. Instead the

with andrew tholl at beyond baroque Great news all around this winter season. I've been working with a local modern music collective here in LA called wild Up as a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and member of the creative team (helping to drive the group with programming, and concept with a sound art perspective on things). We recently got a review in the

Wow, what a great fall! Performing with wild Up, writing another article for New Music Box, and I've decided to finally get a dog. Things are awesome here in Los Angeles. Above is a video that Machine Project put together about our residency at the Walker Art Center this summer. It includes some performing in the Walker's beautiful building, their

I'm in Denver this week working with MCA Denver to create music to accompany their remarkable exhibit on Fred Sandback. The space is stunning. I'm having a great time developing these three projects with the MCA. My time has been spent making field recordings, drinking beer, trading ideas with the extraordinary staff at the MCA, and coming to

photo credit: Katie Bergin - CARS I'll be at the Getty Center with Machine Project on October 22 to perform a spatialized piece for two alphorns. A dream come true. Here is a photo of our sound check at the Getty. I'm performing on a buchel, a midland cousin to the alphorn. Terrain Music: for two alphorns with Loren Marsteller The Getty Center is

from the american lawn, and ways to cut it // Walker Art Center + Machine Project Summer Jubilee

Machine Project is going to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis for the last two weeks in July. Please come out for electric melons, personalized music, sheep, pickles, cowboys and angels. Information can be found on the Machine Project site, or the Walker's site. I'll be doing three projects at the Walker! Music For Parking Garages July 21, 2011 // 3-8pm Los Angeles

Here is the video for FERMENT[cheese]. By Emily Lacy. Thanks again to Cowgirl Creamery, Machine Project, and the Berkeley Art Museum for all of their support on this project. If you'd like to see more information about FERMENT and my method for creating my current work, please check out this interview with Isaac Schankler on the Catalysis Projects Blog. I'll be

I'm speaking at the Theater Communications Group National Conference, this Thursday July 16 at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. I'll be talking about the Little William Theater, and what it was like to play music in a coatroom. The talk will also include my experiments with context, architecture, and ample photos of goats. Also, in important news: wild Up has

I'm working on a giant piece for 100+ minneapolis/st.paul musicians playing brass, percussion, woodwinds and tiny whistles. The site specific performance will take place on the Stone Arch Bridge, stretching across the Mississippi playing overlapping melodies derived from the route of the river. The piece follows the route of the river south past St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans and into

This next week and a half, I'm on tour to the Bay Area. From 4/29 to 5/6, I'll be participating in concerts, workshops, and cheese-tastings! The first is a music//cheese collaboration with Cowgirl Creamery co-founder, Sue Conley. FERMENT[cheese] is at the Berkeley Art Museum from 6-9pm on 4/29. I'm doing a 4 channel sound installation with field recordings from

photo credit: Debi Del Grande // LA Record The last two weeks have a been a glut of great music! -- In early March, I played with DeVotchKa at the Music Box to a sold out crowd. A huge thanks to Shawn King, their drummer and chief operator of the trumpet for inviting me along for such an incredible night. You