SJ’s long-awaited CD of recent music, “Americans”, is available on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, where it joins the remastered versions of “John Somebody” and “Patty Hearst” (originally released on Nonesuch).  This electro-acoustic CD includes the title work “Americans”, for electric band and the sampled voices of immigrants from Afghanistan, China, and Romania, as well as 3 other pieces for electric ensembles: “Bowery Haunt”, “The Illusion of Guidance”, and “Anthem Hunt”. 

Currently under construction is “Mind Out Of Matter”, a major new work for large amplified ensemble and the sampled voice of philosopher and Darwinian Daniel Dennett.  It will be premiered by Alarm Will Sound, acclaimed by the New York Times as "the very model of a modern music chamber band”.  With luck, 2009’s long days of CD production will continue to be replaced by long days of composition -- leaving few traces on this News page, but many little black dots and lines on score pages.

RECENT EVENTS

May-June 2009
SJ was a fellow at Civitella Ranieri in central Italy.

April 24, 2009
SJ joined a distinguished cast of musicians in a 45th anniversary performance of Terry Riley’s “In C” at Carnegie Hall, directed by David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet.

January 21, 2009
Roulette, New York City
“New & Used Guitars”
Scott Johnson and Mark Dancigers
Music for electric guitars by Johnson, Dancigers, and Alex Temple.

June 2-6, 2008 
SJ was visiting composer in residence at the University of California-Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies.

May 7, 2008 
Music from “How It Happens”, performed by Ethel on a concert of speech sampling works by Scott Johnson, Steve Reich, and Jacob TV at the Tribeca New Music Festival, NYC

May 3, 2008 
Music from “Americans”, performed by the Juilliard Electric Ensemble, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky, Miller Theater, Columbia University, NYC

May 1 & 2, 2008
“Pact”, performed by the Crash Ensemble, Dublin