From the Blog

• Tonight: ICElab presents “Hollow Skies: Music Of Nathan Davis”, a FREE Show/CD Release @ LPR!

  May 31, 2011

  

  Please join us for the final FREE concert of our three-month LPR residency tonight! We'll be featuring world and NYC premieres of music by ICElab composer Nathan Davis, and celebrating the release of his new album, "The Bright And Hollow Sky" via our good friends at New Focus Recordings. We're really excited for this show, and can't wait to share this music with you. Simply scroll down to read a guest post from Nathan, listen to a podcast/interview, and check out a full-lenth mp3 and clips from the forthcoming album!

• Nathan Davis: “The Mechanics of Escapement”

  May 27, 2011

  

  We are very excited for the forthcoming release of ICElab composer and ICE percussionist Nathan Davis' new album, "The Bright And Hollow Sky", which will be brought to you by our good friends at New Focus Recordings starting this Tuesday, May 31st. We'll be celebrating the release with an evening of Nathan's music, including world and NYC premieres of new pieces, at our final FREE ICElab show next Tuesday evening at LPR. In anticipation of the release, we bring you a full length mp3 of "The Mechanics of Escapement". See below for Nathan's description of the piece, and for streaming audio:

• Nathan Davis: “The Bright And Hollow Sky” - Streaming Clips via New Focus Recordings

  May 19, 2011

  

  This blog has been abuzz about ICElab composer Nathan Davis for days - we are anxiously anticipating his May 31st New York show (the final concert of our three-month residency at LPR) on and his contributions to our June 4th show at the MCA in Chicago. We're pleased to report today that New Focus Recordings has posted clips from Nathan's upcoming album, The Bright And Hollow Sky, which will be released on May 31st (same day as the LPR show, which is FREE)! The piece "Like Sweet Bells Jangled" is included as a part of the larger work Bells, which will receive its Chi-town premiere at the upcoming MCA show.

• ICElab: Hollow Skies now streaming on Q2!

  July 6, 2011

  

  The third in our series of free ICElab concerts at (le) Poisson Rouge from May 31st is now streaming on Q2, featuring world and NYC premieres from ICElab composer Nathan Davis.

• ICEcast: Nathan Davis

  May 25, 2011

  

  We recently sat down with ICElab composer Nathan Davis to discuss his writing process, on the eve of the release of his new album on New Focus Recordings, The Bright and Hollow Sky. In this episode of the ICEcast, Nathan tells us about composing for his friends in ICE, pulling inspiration from author Italo Calvino, dadaist Hugo Ball, and Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, in addition to what it's like for a professional percussionist & composer to try to make notes on a bassoon.

• Guest Post: Nathan Davis on “On Speaking a Hundred Names”

  May 12, 2011

  

  Below we have yet another illuminating guest post, this one from ICElab composer and ICE percussionist Nathan Davis, who we've been covering recently. We hope you enjoy this unique insight into the composer's process in preparing music for our upcoming Chicago and New York premieres, as well as his musings on the peculiarities and essential characteristics of instruments, the nature of acoustic phenomena, and the way in which he gets acquainted with it all.