Merci de diffuser « Processional » le jeudi passé, La Villa Strangiato, wonderful bilingual (predominantly francophone) progressive rock/modern jazz CHUO programme, animé par Gregory Kampf. C’était vraiment sympa que ses commentaires à propos d’Electric Currents étaient si positifs! Thanks again! :
Upcoming Performance at Analogue Music Series
Here’s the information for the virtual concert “Closer”, to be broadcast as part of Ottawa New Music Creators’ Analogue Music Series, at 7 pm on May 2. My one-minute cello homage to faulty video calls, Remote Connection, will be performed by Mark Molnar.
ONMC Podcast
Ottawa New Music Creators’ first podcast episode, featuring John Armstrong, was beautifully produced:
“Breeze” from 21st Century Guitar
Here is the video of my performance of “Breeze” (an improvisatory rondo for prepared guitar) from the 21st Century Guitar Conference:
21st Century Guitar Conference Starts Tomorrow
The virtual 21st Century Guitar conference will start tomorrow Mar 22. I’ll be part of the composers’ roundtable at 1 pm Eastern time, along with Tim Brady, Daniela Fantechi, Stephen Goss, Felipe Ribeiro, and Rita Torres. I also played in Blake deGraw’s Polympanic Entropy, which will be part of the 6pm EDT concert. My solo performance of “Breeze” will be premiered on the 26th.
Full schedule and links for streaming: http://www.21cguitar.com/livestream
Painting Music Videos
This is the video of my interpretation of Marilyn Browning’s artwork “Would You Open This Door?”, which premiered Friday night:
This is the complete video of all of Friday’s performances:
21st Century Guitar Performances
Looks like I will have a new live video performance of “Breeze” included in this year’s virtual 21st Century Guitar Festival on Mar 26, at 17:00 UTC (I think that’s 12 noon Eastern time but not sure after the time changes). I will also participate in the composers’ roundtable on Mar 22.
In addition, I played a part for one of the large ensemble pieces on the first day.
Vancouver New Music One-Page Score Project
I recorded an interpretation of Marilyn Browning’s artwork “Would You Open This Door?” for this fascinating project: https://fb.me/e/hPhY6fhKY.
It will be included in the video that premieres on Mar 19. Thanks to Vancouver New Music for inviting me!

Beauvais Creative Guitar Studio Video
I was honoured to play the original acoustic version of Shawn Bell’s “Currents II” as part of this video concert organized by my former teacher William Beauvais. It premiered on Feb 7. My performance appears at 19:30 but the whole video is of course great:
https://youtu.be/as0Rp7mlKdY?t=1171
Upcoming 21st Century Guitar Orchestra
I just finished recording my video and audio for my part in what is going to be a virtual guitar orchestra for a new piece by a Seattle composer at the virtual version of the 21st Century Guitar Festival that will take place Mar 22-26: http://www.21cguitar.com. Definitely an interesting way to work and an interesting piece. Looking forward to seeing how it goes.