Reluctant postings of Jeffrey Lependorf
composer/musician
www.jeffreylependorf.com
Creativity (the effort at it) as the subject.
Creativity, which is a spark, always struck,
always immediately consumed.
Immediately struck again.Creation, the minute is, turns into a dead husk.
The husk must then be replaced (annihilated, as it were)
by the next succeeding immediate creative moment.
— Richard Foreman
ONTOLOGICAL-HYSTERIC MANIFESTO III
Heard
Is it inconceivable that in a single line, in a single poem the world can be shattered to bits?
— William Carlos Williams (from “A New Line is a New Measure,” a review of Louis Zukofsky’s “ANEW, a book of poems)
An open book is also night.
— Marguerite Duras
My god! Can theater finally come down to the irreducible fact that one group of people is looking at another group?
— Yvonne Rainer
featuring Chemical Composition
with Guest Artist Jeffrey Lependorf
Saturday. March 2nd, 6 PM, 2013
Tickets: $10/free for Friends of Omi
Ghent, NY— Zen meditation meets improvised chamber music on March 2nd at the Omi International Arts Center. A candlelight concert will feature Chemical Composition (Constance Cooper on piano, Thomas Desisto on electric guitar, and John Cacciatore on percussion), joined by guest artist Jeffrey Lependorf playing traditional Japanese shakuhachi and Chinese xiao and bawu bamboo flutes. The result will be an hour of ethereal new music in the spectacular Charles B. Benenson Visitor Center of The Fields Sculpture Park. Complimentary prosecco, mulled cider and homemade cookies will be served. The concert celebrates the release of NOTES ARE RAIN, TIMBRE IS SNOW, the new CD from the ensemble.
Eight Songs Between Morning and Dark — Improvisations for Shakuhachi and Percussion, my recording with percussionist Matt Hannafin is finally available! We made the recording in 2006, and it’s a long story, but it’s finally here and we’re really, really proud of it. Please check it out on CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, or wherever you buy your music online these days.
Genius is the error in the system.
— Paul Klee
I’m interviewed by David Wilk on his “Publishing Talks” podcast series (part of his Writers Cast website). We had a swell time chatting about SPD, CLMP and small press publishing, and David also threw in some nice shout-outs to me as a musician and composer as well!
