Category Archives: Projects

Washington Post review

A substantial review of our world premiere performance of The Only Moving Thing has appeared in the Washington Post, written by Anne Midgette. Her entertaining, evocatively written review begins: Six musicians are playing a duet with recorded versions of themselves. It is like looking into an electronic mirror. The mirror refracts the rapid, driving beat [...]

Six-year miscellany

It has taken 6 years to get to this point. Years of begging Steve Reich and the Bang on a Can folks on bended knee; of finding co-commissioning partners for 80 very expensive minutes of music; of planning dates with managers and presenters; of hiring an “entourage” and working out the complex logistics. Then, this [...]

To monitor or not to monitor

8bb arrived in Richmond VA over the weekend, in advance of the world premiere of The Only Moving Thing. The next three days will be a busy, stress-filled hell, but I will still try to post short “miscellanies” with photos from rehearsals. Over the past two weeks we have essentially been hibernating in our Chicago [...]