Over the summer, I dusted off my rusty broadcast journalist chops and edited an 18-minute educational documentary on Anthony Braxton and his Syntactical Ghost Trance Music (SGTM). The video Introduction to Syntactical Ghost Trance Music premiered earlier this month at “ANTHONY BRAXTON: 50+ YEARS OF CREATIVE MUSIC” international conference in Darmstadt, Germany, and is now available in…
So, the Big Ears Festival was a big surprise in terms of Braxton repertoire. I wrote in the last post that the Anthony Braxton Trio, which I am part of, usually performed Braxton’s Falling River Music. That was before I left for Big Ears. The 10+1tet had been getting ready to perform Ghost Trance. But…
Listeners often ask me about the Braxton trio I am part of (with AB, Taylor Ho Bynum, me), usually along the lines of “what’s going on musically?” Braxton’s musical systems are multi-layered and interconnecting. The main composition used in our trio, or what we refer to as the primary composition or territory, belong to his…
Some of the scores used for 12 Duets (DCWM) 2012 Tracks 1 – 4 Available at http://tricentricfoundation.org/12-duets-dcwm-2012-cd These tracks were recorded over two days, Aug. 14 and 15 in 2012, at Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall. Each track consists of two different Falling River Music scores (graphic scores), one each for Anthony and myself, plus one…