Here is a video clip of Boston’s Hub New Music performing my Songs of Friction at Clark on Feb 4, 2018. The recording clips a couple of times but the musicians put commitment and enthusiasm into it:

Julian Boolean Bertino is an accomplished and dedicated guitarist who will be playing a whole programme of new Canadian works for 10-string classical guitar in his Master’s recital at University of Ottawa today, including a new piece of mine called Needing Space. It has been great to work closely with him on this.

Public Facebook page with all the information about the recital: https://www.facebook.com/events/191298208146461/

Some other pieces he will play:
John Armstrong – The Space Within:

Amy Brandon – Intermountainous:

His own Headspaces ii:

I just received word that I was accepted to give a mini-concert of solo guitar/laptop music at this year’s conference of MusCan (Canadian University Music Society) at MacEwan University in Edmonton at the end of May.

The CreatorSpace performance turned out to be a fun small gathering in a new space for electronic music in the Isabel Firestone library. They’ve got some nice synths, a MIDI-equipped Godin guitar, a Native Instruments Maschine, and a Theremin. I played a couple of new pieces Randomly and S(h)immer along with Broken Refraction with my guitar/laptop setup. Afterwards, they opened things up for people to jam with the gear, which turned into a straightforwardly rhythmic and energetic funk jam. I’m looking forward to playing these pieces again at Clark in a couple of weeks.

Photo by Ryan Hough:

Final projects from the fall’s MUSC141 (Introduction to Computers and Music) class are now available on the Clark Music Technology Soundcloud page.

I have dates for some spring concerts.

Songs of Friction (flute/clarinet/violin/cello) will be performed by Hub New Music at Clark on Feb 4 at the end of their residence. It’s a largely atonal work incorporating wind multiphonics and tempo modulation; mostly written in a Ryerson dorm during Congress 2017.

I will also give a solo lecture-recital, focusing on my interactive guitar/laptop music, at Clark on Mar 28 at 1:30. At least one new piece will be premiered, probably a couple, depending on how Christmas break goes.

Great work, Matthew Alvarado-Ross and Stephen Eleftheriou!

Final master of this classical guitar recording, feeling pretty good about how it sounds.