Above, watch 8bb perform Eel - four funky, canonic minutes of Dennis DeSantis-created madness - on Chicago TV station WGN’s midday news. You can also click here. The footage features Dennis DeSantis (far right in the video) remixing his own composition live. Ryan Ingebritsen acted as balance engineer for the performance.
The folks at Channel 9 [...]
Several weeks ago we gave the world premiere of a new piece for sextet and electronics by Frances White at University of Richmond’s 3P Festival of Electroacoustic Music. This is what I wrote at the time:
Each year the festival commissions one or two new works for 8bb to premiere. Last year it was pieces by [...]
On November 7, we received scores and parts for singing in the dead of night, the 45-minute-long collaboration between Bang on a Can composers Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon and David Lang, and New York choreographer, Susan Marshall.
Like all of our new works so far this season, this little electronic package came a little while past [...]
