A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. (Frank Zappa)

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. (Richard Strauss)

News

Martina Skalova premiered Improvisation for solo viola on May 7, 2008, as part of the UW Viola Project. The concert took place at Mills Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Seventeen Years Underground will be presented again with 60x60 Midwest Minutes April 26, 2008, at Webster University, Webster Groves, MO.

B.C. Brown's short film The plight of the north american bipeds, featuring excerpts from Liberal Media, will be screened May 31, 2008, at the Milwaukee Short Film Festival.

Seventeen Years Underground will be presented again with 60x60 Midwest Minutes April 4, 2008, at Collective: Unconscious in New York with video by Zlatko Cosic.

Seventeen Years Underground will be presented again with 60x60 Midwest Minutes February 5, 2008, at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, and February 21 at Grand Valley State University Art Gallery in Allendale, Michigan.

Seventeen Years Underground was presented as part of 60x60 Midwest Minutes January 17, 2008, at Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama.

2007

The New York Miniaturist Ensemble premiered Passaic Falls and Lower Falls, Grand Canyon on December 8, 2007, at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY, as part of a concert of new compositions to accompany short films by the Edison Motion Picture Company. The films (without music) are available online from the Library of Congress: Passaic Falls, Lower Falls, Grand Canyon.

Seventeen Years Underground, a short piece based on recordings of cicadas, has been selected for 60x60 Midwest Minutes. The project was premiered October 9 at the Kentucky New Music Festival in Lexington and October 12 at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival in Kansas City, Kansas. Further performances took place November 14 in Georgetown, Kentucky and November 29 at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington.

ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2007.

The New York Miniaturist Ensemble will premiere Mysteries of the Tiny Cheesehead Music and Attack of the Tiny Cheesehead Music on August 10 at the Brooklyn Center for Contemporary Music.

17 Years of Silence, David’s field recording of Brood XIII cicadas, was featured on the New York Miniaturist Ensemble’s podcast StaticMusic | Drones for the week of July 7.

Tubist Viktor Moricz performed Dig This, ____* on October 14, 2006, at Haegse Huus in Stellendam, The Netherlands.

The New York Miniaturist Ensemble premiered Return of the Son of Tiny Cheesehead Music on May 12 at the Chelsea Art Museum.

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