My book with Brett Campbell, Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick, is available here.

I am also the author of Music of the Peoples of the World, a survey of musical cultures from around the world. The third edition is now available from Cengage/Schirmer.

• April 23 2023: My American Gamelan group will be joined by the Smudges in a performance at 2220 Arts and Archives in Los Angeles. You can find tickets and more information here.
• March 2023: My video Static Cling was screened at the South Bend (Indiana) Performing Media Festival.
• December 2022: The Huygens-Fokker Foundation and Centre for Microtonal Music in Amsterdam commissioned my The Geometry of Bird Flight, which was performed on the Fokker microtonal organ by Ere Lievonen with Gregory Oakes on his unique quartertone clarinet. Also this month at the Huygens-Fokker Foundation, the Scala ensemble repeated their performance of my On the Motion of Pendulums.
• December 2022: Nadia Shpachenko and the Cal Poly Pomona University Piano Ensemble premiered the five piano version of my Bad Attitude.
• November 2022: The radio show 1A on National Public Radio released a wonderful documentary on Lou Harrison, in which I am extensively interviewed. The show was scripted by Joe Horowitz and features performances by the PostClassical Ensemble and the Leipzig Radio Symphony among others. You can listen to the show here. Joe Horowitz, has also produced a PostClassical Ensemble documentary film in which I appear, Lou Harrison and Cultural Fusion, distributed by Naxos.
• November 2022: My animation Stellation was projected at the Buenos Aires Planetarium as part of Understanding Visual Music 2022.
• Oct.-Nov. 2022: The Elysian Trombone Consort performed my Rumble Strip for four trombones on their tour of seven venues in five states.
• October 2022: The HMC American gamelan performed my Elegy for Bill Colvig (with violinist Jeff Gauthier), Gending Chilao (with cellist Maggie Parkins), and Liminal Lanscape (with video).
• June 2022: Thanks to the Percussion Ensemble of the University of Canturbury (New Zealand) for their performance of my Gandrung.
• May 2022: My short animated opera Orfeo nel canale alimentare [Orfeo in the Alimentary Canal], a collaboration with filmmaker Rachel Mayeri was featured at Redcat Theater's film series at Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
• May 2022: The Presence in the Time Between for violin, cello, and gamelan was premiered by the Los Angeles duo The Smudges. Also on the program was my Elegy for Bill Colvig.
• April 2022: Thanks to the Chapman University Percussion Ensemble, who premiered Metallurgy for indeterminate metal instruments.
• April 2022: The HearNow Festival and People Inside Electronics presented my Night Refuge performed by the Brightwork Ensemble with electronics and video.

• April 2022: Members of the Brightwork Ensemble performed my Show Attachment at the University of Redlands.
• February 2022: My Mystic Canyon for violin and gamelan was featured on John Schaefer's New Sounds on WNYC, New York.
• January 2022: Thanks to Max Shea for including my The Question Mark's Black Ink (January) and Imbal-Imbalan (May) on his Martian Gardens radio show.
• January 2022: Soprano Kirsten Ashley Wiest included my song A Sonatina with text by Gertrude Stein on her virtual recital at the University of California Riverside. You can see her performance with pianist Nic Gerpe here.
• December 2021: The Scala Ensemble premiered my work On the Motion of Pendulums for microtonal guitar, microtonal piano, and microtonal organ, especially commissioned for this group and for the Huygens-Fokker Foundation in Amsterdam.
• November 2021: My animation Stellation was projected at the Buenos Aires Planetarium.
• November 2021: Rachel Mayeri's film Orfeo nel canale alimentare [Orfeo in the Alimentary Canal], for which I composed the score, was featured at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
• October 2021: San Francisco's Other Minds music festival featured my Mystic Canyon for violin and gamelan as part of their KALW broadcast about new music for gamelan.
• October 2021: Cellist Maggie Parkins and pianist Aron Kallay premiered my work Show Attachment at Pomona College.
• January 2021: Microtonal pianist Aron Kallay's new CD Beyond 12, Vol. 2 was released by MicroFest Records and included my work for Aron, Paths of the Wind. The release was featured on several radio and net broadcasts, including Xen Radio and Klara public radio (Belgium).
  

• January 2021: An online short play that I contributed music to, Brett Campbell's Safe Distance premiered as a part of Portland's Fertile Ground Festival.
• October 2020: The KC VITAs Chamber Choir of Kansas City premiered my Come Out, Cow with text by Gertrude Stein.
• August 2020: The Claremont Colleges Cello Choir, directed by Maggie Parkins , created a video performance of my California Mabommay for 16 cellos:
  
• July 2020: Thanks to Jude Thomas and Xen Radio for featuring my works, including Tingklik Toccata and Imbal-Imbalan.
• July 2020: New York cellist Philip Sheegog presented a virtual performance of my California Mabommay.
• June 2020: Maggie Parkins created a video performance of my piece for cello and computer processing, Resonant Halls of Memory.
• Feb. 2020: The Elysian Trombone Quartet premiered my piece Rumble Strip at the American Trombone Workshop in Fort Myers, Virginia.
• Feb. 2020: Brightwork newmusic performed my Night Refuge for chamber ensemble with electronics and video at the Ussachevsky Festival of Electronic Music.
• Nov. 2019: Rachel Mayeri's film Orfeo nel canale alimentare [Orfeo in the Alimentary Canal], for which I composed the score, was featured at the Rust Belt Microbiome conference in Pittsburgh.
• July, 2019: Thanks to Piotr Grella-Mozejko and his show Avant-Garde and Beyond for featuring my CD Guitars and Gamelan on CJSR Edmonton.
• Apr. 9, 2019: The HMC American Gamelan performed works at Tuesdays at Monk Space in Los Angeles as a part of MicroFest, including my Gending Sycamore Canyon, Breath of the Compassionate, and works by Lou Harrison. On April 21, we repeated the program in Claremont California with other works by Harrison and my Imbal-Imbalan.
• Feb. 24, 2019: Brightwork newmusic premiered my Night Refuge for chamber ensemble with electronics and video at Harvey Mudd College. The suffering of refugees inspired this new work, which includes processed and edited sounds from refugees and video depicting their exile. Brightwork also performed it in March at Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State Northridge.
• Feb. 10, 2019: Thanks to the Stephen F. Austin Percussion Ensemble for performing my Gandrung at the Texas Music Educator's Convention in San Antonio.
• Feb. 7, 2019: Michael Dean (BipTunia) has remixed my On Optimism for a new microtonal album to benefit Lyn Ulbricht.
• Feb. 1, 2019: Maggie Parkins performed resonant halls of memory for cello with live computer processing at Pomona College's Ussachevsky Festival of Electronic Music.
• Jan. 23, 2019: I participated in the Postclassical Ensemble's event titled Cultural Fusion: The Gamelan Experience at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. This remarkable concert included two gamelan from the Indonesian Embassy, orchestral works by Lou Harrison, and other works inspired by the Indonesian Gamelan. The program included my own Black Toccata for piano, four hands, performed by Benjamin Pasternack and Wan-Chi Su. I also gave a talk, via video with the assistance of the Indonesian Embassy Javanese Gamelan and Joseph Horowitz, about the relationship of Javanese gamelan and the Lou Harrison Concerto for Piano with Selected Orchestra.
• Dec. 15, 2018: Thanks to Amy Barston and her students at the Juilliard School in New York City for this video of their great performance of my California Mabommay .
• Dec. 10, 2018: Aron Kallay performed my Skala-Niskala, a concerto for retuned piano and Balinese gamelan with the Pomona College Gamelan Giri Kusuma.
• Nov. 2018: Rachel Rudich performed my In-Yo for shakuhachi and electronics at Ryogoku Monten Hall in Tokyo.
• Nov. 16 & 17, 2018: My abstract video with music Stellation was projected as part of the Concierto de Música Visual en Fulldome - UVM at the Galileo Galilei Planetarium, Buenos Aires.
• Sep. 2018: The Varied Trio performed my Five Gamelettes for violin, piano, and percussion at Occidental College.
• Sep. 2018: I gave a presentation on John Cage in Claremont, California for a symposium on Cage@Claremont hosted by the library of the Claremont Colleges. You can read a version of my presentation here.
• June 2018: The City of Bremen Gamelan performed my Gending Vogel Flats for violin and Javanese gamelan at the Munich Stadtmuseum as part of the Internationales Gamelan Musikfestival München.
• June 2018: Mary Chase Doll premiered her choreography to my Breath of the Compassionate at the Laban Institute in New York City.
• June 2018: Jaclyn Wappel presented a paper on my Concerto for Harp and Gamelan (which she has also performed) at the American Harp Society National Conference in Redlands, California. At the same conference, I gave a presentation on "The Harp and Lou Harrison." You can read a version of the presentation here.
• May 6, 2018: As part of MicroFest 2018 Mak Grgic and Brian Head premiered my Slim Pickings for two retuned National Steel guitars. These instruments were originally designed for Lou Harrison, who devised an 11-limit just intonation scale for them.
• Apr. 2018: Rachel Mayeri's film Orfeo nel canale alimentare [Orfeo in the Alimentary Canal], for which I composed the score, was featured at Vienna's' Universität für angewandte Kunst and the Viral Culture Symposium in Claremont. It also appeared at Perth's' Art Gallery of Western Australia and Old Customs House in Fremantle, Washington.
• Apr. 22, 2018: As part of MicroFest 2018 the HMC American Gamelan performed works by Lou Harrison, along with my At First Light and Liminal Lanscape for gamelan and video. The program also included David Doty's suite for retuned tack piano and Greg Schiemer's work for many microtonal iPhones.
• Apr.-May, 2018: The Claremont Concert Choir performed "A Sonatina" from my Three Songs of Gertrude Stein with soprano soloist Tessie Prakas.
• Mar. 2018: I spoke on a panel on Global Links in the Performing Arts at the South Asia Studies Association National Conference. Coincidentally, Aron Kallay performed my Paths of the Wind, which I spoke about, at the Soundwaves series at the Santa Monica Library.
• Feb. 2018: The Varied Trio premiered my Five Gamelettes for violin, piano, and percussion at Harvey Mudd College.
• Feb. 2018: On Optimism, my electronic score for a collaboration with choreographer Kevin Williamson, poet Warren Liu, and artist Kaspar Kovitz, premiered as a part of Artsmooch at Scripps College.
• Dec. 2017: Maggie Parkins premiered my resonant halls of memory for cello with live computer processing at Harvey Mudd College.
• Oct. 2017: Rachel Mayeri's film Orfeo nel canale alimentare [Orfeo in the Alimentary Canal], for which I composed the score, premiered at the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City as a part of Chimera Experiments.
• Sept. 2017: Kirsten Ashley Wiest performed my "A Sonatina" with text by Gertrude Stein with pianist Nic Gerpe at the unSUNg concert series in Pasadena. She has also performed it at recitals at Harvey Mudd College, Pasadena City College, Chapman University, and Tuesdays @ Monk Space in Los Angeles. You can see her performance with pianist Nic Gerpe here.
• June 2017: I delivered the keynote address about composer Lou Harrison at the CeLOUbration at Portland State University.

• May, 2017: Our book Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick received positive mentions on NPR, The New Yorker, the LA Times, 4Columns.org, Tempo and elsewhere. I spoke on the air on Bill McGlaughlin's syndicated radio show and KPFK's Global Village. Brett and I were guests and forum participants at the celebration of Harrison's music at New Music Works in Santa Cruz.

• Apr. 23, 2017 My Angin Listrik for two electric guitars and Balinese gamelan was performed at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

• Mar. 27, 2017: I was happy to be a guest of the Robb Composers' Symposium at the University of New Mexico, where my Sounds Ineffable was presented.

• Feb. 12, 2017: Gamelan Dwara Udyani of Denison University, Ohio, premiered my Gending Swallowtail with violinist Andrew Strietelmeier as part of the Tutti Festival.

• Feb. 3, 2017: BrightWork New Music ensemble performed my he watches the clouds pass the window at the Ussachevsky Memorial Electronic Music Festival. They will repeat the program in Pasadena on Feb. 25, sponsored by People Inside Electronics.