CURRENT
Jan. 20—Apr. 13, 2012: Uprising, collaborative sound/visual installation with artist Rick Araluce at Suyama Space in Seattle. Plumbing run amok! Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9-5.
Dec. 31, 2011: An excerpt from Solar Ring is included on Iron, a FREE DOWNLOAD-ONLY compilation released by Dragon's Eye Recordings.
UPCOMING
Feb. 2012: not a leaf remains as it was, a new duo CD with Steve Roden on the 12k label, recorded and mixed by Doug Haire during an Artist Support Program residency at Jack Straw Productions. All-acoustic improvised songs based on Japanese jisei.
RECENT
Sept. 18—Dec. 31, 2011: Index Filicum was presented as part of the Florasonic series curated by ESS. Four luscious voices sing the Latin names of the species in the fern room at the Lincoln Park Conservatory in Chicago.
Sept. 16—Oct. 30, 2011: hover was a collaborative sound/visual installation with artist Christine Wallers, based on the mysterious auroral sound associated with the Northern Lights. Audible Gallery at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago. Review.
July 2011: Lições dos Antepassados (Lessons from the Ancestors) was created during a three-week Binaural artist residency in the tiny mountain village of Nodar, Portugal. Bells, ghosts, flora and fauna.
June 21—July 11, 2011: An excerpt of The Very Rich Hours is included in With Hidden Noise, a traveling exhibition of sound art curated by Stephen Vitiello for Independent Curators International. It also includes work by Taylor Deupree, Jennie C. Jones, Pauline Oliveros, Andrea Parkins, Steve Roden, Michael Schumacher, and Stephen Vitiello. Its first stop was at the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, CO.
June 10, 2011: the Webster Cycles was performed again in England by the ensemble Interrobang, directed by composer Simon Cummings, in St. Philip's Cathedral in Birmingham. Read about their previous performances here, and listen to them here.
Gamelan Encantada, an ensemble I played with for many years in New Mexico, celebrates their 20th anniversary with their first CD, Oasis in the Desert, featuring contemporary works for Javanese-style American gamelan composed for them over the years by group members and others. In addition to my own Tjotjog, there are very beautiful works by Joseph Weber, Beth Yip, and Daniel Davis.
Trimpin: Contraptions for Art & Sound has recently been published by Marquand Books. It is the catalog of a series of exhibitions surveying Trimpin's work since moving to Seattle twenty-five years ago. I wrote a short essay about Archival Investigations, the show he had at Jack Straw Productions documenting some of his earliest work here.
The new album I produced by Blackberry Winter, featuring the wonderful singer Marideth Sisco and other great Ozarks folk musicians heard on the Winter's Bone soundtrack, is now available on CD, iTunes, CD Baby, etc. 
Arbouse Recordings has released Erik Satie et les Nouveaux Jeunes, a tribute to the eccentric French composer who has inspired so many of us. I'm happy to be included on this 2-CD set, along Steve Roden, Rachel Grimes, Hauschka, and many others. EUR 18 + shipping at the link above.
Angelitos Negros is a new CD-EP I recently produced by Santa Fé diva Nacha Mendez, with the great West African kora player Foday Musa Suso. It includes three different versions of the classic title song, plus my Spanish-language mix of Mi Sueño (released in English on her last album).
