Wow. Jeez.
We can’t really express how excited and grateful we are for the support and encouragement we received from you guys. 97 people donated to our kickstarter campaign, and tons of others reposted our videos, shared our links, and were generally awesome throughout the whole thing. We raised well over our $5,000 goal. We have ordered the quartertone vibraphone and guitar, and they are being built and are en route. As soon as the instruments arrive, we will be working to put together Brian Ferneyhough’s Renvoi/Shards. It will be, without question, the most difficult piece either of us will have ever played. We are unbelievably excited for the challenge.
· We will be rolling out a new website within the next month. The space will be exponentially more interactive. The goal will be to make the collaborative process that goes into the creation, learning, and performance of new music as transparent and interactive as possible.
· In addition to the Ferneyhough and the new website, we will be kicking off our performance season in earnest. In the March and April, we will be playing on several festivals (Hot Air on March 4 and Switchboard on April 1) and performing with Tangents on April 27 and 28. If you are only interested in seeing half of the Living Earth Show, Travis will be performing with CalPeformances and mathrocking with MirthKon, and Andrew will be performing with the Magik*Magik Orchestra on Otherminds on March 3 and rock/rolling with Glass Gavel.
· Well, as long as we’re announcing things, we will be releasing our first recording, The Living Earth Show: The Complete First season. Here’s the “tracklist” or whatever. The actual order of these on the recording is yet to be determined.

We are honored, humbled, and inspired by y’all. Thanks for your support,
-Andy and Travis

Hello, friends and enemies!!!

We have been frantically getting the pieces in order in anticipation of the launch of our KICKSTARTER fundraising thing!  Yay!

We will have more detailed information for y’all as the days go on, but we will be raising funds for the construction of custom-built quartertone instruments (a vibraphone and a guitar) to perform Brian Ferneyhough’s Renvoi/Shards and other newly commissioned works for these instruments.

Our Kickstarter will launch fo’ realz in 10 days.  We will be posting stills from the video every day until then on facebook and twitter while we edit the final cut, rehearse our incentives (“Sport’n A Woody” by Dangerous Toys and a full hour of 311 songs aren’t going to learn themselves) and get everything else in tip-top shape for the official launch.

Woooooo!

And a happy end of summer to you. Things have been extremely busy here at The Living Birth Show HQ. We have announcements up the wazoo.

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Featuring the superhuman Deanna Hammond.

The Living Earth Show performing Tension Study #2 by Samuel Adams

Blender 2.0… I know we went quiet afterwards. But I think it went swimmingly. Despite the heat inside of The Schoolhouse, you clowns stuck around for 3+ hours of flamenco, guitar trio, improv dance, pipe-smashing aerialism. You amaze/bemuse me. Because of your steadfast allegiance to the Blender, we will never quit. Nor shall we stayed quitted. Blender 3.0 this fall…

http://www.youtube.com/livingearthshow

tryna go viral up in here.

First of all, thanks a billion to everyone who came to our recent shows. We had an awesome time playing ‘em. Here are brief recapz: Continue reading →

Sam Adams: Tension Study #1

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if you enjoy it, please give sam “slam” adams some love over at www.samuelcarladams.com

So we’ve got a show this Friday!  The fine, feathered folks at The Schoolhouse (1592 Market Street @ Franklin) have given us three hours to fill with music-sounds and visual art.  We, in turn, thought it’d be cool to just call up buddies whose music we enjoy and put everyone in a room and alternate pieces, round robin-style, for a few hours.  Then we were all like, what if a bunch of artists came and made art at the same time??  So we got a bunch of artists together too.  If all goes according to plan, there will also be dance and painting and poetry and collage and food art composed simultaneously.  The lineup of stuff should be really diverse and make for a pretty incredible night of music and art-making.

We’ll be playing Tension Studies 1 and 2 by Slam Adams and Adagio Tranquilo by Alexis Alrich. There will also be music composed by Javier Alvarez, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Sergei Prokofiev, Mario Davidovsky, Tielman Susato, Frank Martin, and others.

Here’s some of the other people performing!  I don’t know how to make everything the same font because I don’t know how the internet works!  Is this too long for a concert info post??  I’m self conscious about all this. Continue reading →