home
    recordings

      to see video clips
      from some of these performances,
      go to: videopage.DavidJSimons.html

      UPCOMING and Archived PERFORMANCES:

        2023


        D Simons at the Michael Evans tribute concert Jan 28 @ Roulette, Brooklyn
        Improvised trio with Andrew Drury and Skip LaPlante
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-g81cEEAc @ 48:48
        Lots of interesting performers as well . . .
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        2022

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        2019

        Feb 15 in Bushwick!


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        2018

        also see: https://www.facebook.com/events/816094698586635/
        thank you
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        2017

        see video clips of the performance here: davidjsimons.weebly.com/videos.html


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        2016


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             July 9, 2016

        directions: Palisades Pkwy to exit 12 https://goo.gl/maps/X38w1wcKvpQ2
        Composer info: http://simons-karrer.com/DavidJSimons.music.html

             Description and Theories of the Music
        Begin with entrance music: zheng (Chinese zither) and suling (Indonesian bamboo flute). Played in the style of Kecapi Suling (easy listening Javanese music), but with live multitrack recordable moments, played back and looped at varying speeds. Add a pinch of delay for effect.

        Then The Honey Ant Song from my 1980 Australian aboriginal inspired piece "Native Cat Songs". Using jaw harp, bamboo and coconut shell drums with rhythmic cells of 6/4 + 3/8 (15 eighths) or 4/4 + 5/8 (13 eighths) cycling over steady quarter note click sticks.

        Following that, 7557 is a rhythmic formula that adds up to 12, and could be a Big 3 or 4 or subdivided otherwise. Described as Klezmer meets Salsa, 1994.

        After which is Cremation Music, my take on Balinese ritual music for the celebration of the soul's release. Performed on the 4 note gamelan instruments from the Rockland Angklung Society (Gamelan Son of Lion), from 1994.

        Ending the first set with Bali Hi, in which a tune from the musical South Pacific is re-united with its namesake island via gamelan arrangement. In this way a piece of musical kitsch (which was not about Bali itself, but a mythical South Pacific island), returns to its origins with samples that remind us of Balinese gamelan, while retaining its unique nature of "exotica". Conjuring with theremin and voice "a place you would like to be".

        Set two is the interactive digital part, opening with InnaGadda Detective for floor tom, cymbal and laptop. Each successive note of the famous riff is played when the drum is struck, simultaneously unpausing a segment of old time radio drama. It's about American pop music history, and the deconstruction thereof. Parallel is the reference to American radio dramas, of a quite different time period, and again deconstructed (sampled, edited, remixed, and recontextualized). The interpretive act of the phrase "Inna Gadda da Vida" may be seen as a deliberate mispronunciation of "In the Garden of Eden", the mythological place where the first pre-civilization, pre-historical Biblical paradise existed. And it is also the very same place from which we were unredeemably exiled, creating the concept of "original sin".

        Following that, It's Not About the Money is my newest composition. Using samples of pop songs about money triggered by slide guitar, and manipulating projected images of money art, and layering my own image via webcam, and triggering other sample with the webcam. This is a total interactive collage about money, from which I won't make any money, because my art is not about that.

        Next for something soothing, easy and curious - the Theremin in a sui generis (and hyper-sensitive) method of sample triggering with velocity and proximity. Fujara uses sounds from the overtone flutes of Slovakia, and Pythia uses the ideas and sound bites of Hitchcock's film Suspicion mingled with the ancient tradition of oracle as medium to an other state. Occupational Therapy is the breakthrough piece, constantly reshuffling the deck (of samples). I wanted to surprise myself while performing this piece.

        Finally Gamelan in the Air. You've heard of air guitar? well this is gamelan played in the air, with a webcam projecting in real time. A grid of 8 zones in space , and each one triggers a certain pitched octave, key, drum or gong. We are hoping for a tag team audience involvement.

        The rest is just a flick of the wrist.

        - david simons, 6/24/16
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        Weird Wednesdays:


        2015

          Jan 17, 2015 - Dark Circuits at Spectrum, 9pm

        Taking a few steps beyond Leon Theremin's invention, Simons uses motion and proximity to activate and manipulate audio samples. This non-linear compositional method is a unique and hyper-sensitive interactive design. Two electro-magnetic spheres of possibility are created by the instrument's antennae.
        David Simons will perform his recent compositions for solo Theremin: Pythia, using dialogue from Hitchcock's film Shadow of a Doubt; Fujara, based on the sound of Slovakian overtone fipple flute; Occupational Therapy , and You Don't Know, featuring jaw harp, drums and Donald Rumsfeld (2013-14). Guest vocalist Lisa Karrer joins with Dear Officer, their nightmarish collaboration from 1998 on a suicide note which made headlines; her voice will also trigger samples. A webcam will provide live motion tracking to trigger sound and image in Gamelan in Motion, from 2013, with Simons playing a virtual gamelan "in the air". And finally video projections are manipulated via theremin proximity, along with filmic soundtracks. In these works David Simons is investigating how one medium can be used to control another: sound alters image and light triggers sound. Other new works to be announced.
        https://www.facebook.com/events/754147654673833

        Spectrum
        121 Ludlow St, 2nd fl
        NYC 10002

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            2014

              The Art of Video Games at The Hudson River Museum,
              including a new interactive piece by composers/sound artists David Simons and John Morton.

              Participants walk into a room and their movement is tracked by a camera,
              triggering sounds and images of Gamelan, Shakespeare, and Cognitive Neurobiology.
              Feb 15 - May 18. Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, NY

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              2013

                Premier of David Simons' new piece "Pythia"
                based on his music for the film,
                performed on interactive Theremin
                at Joe's Pub in The Public Theater, NYC Sept 15, 2013

                link to Joe's Pub for more info

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              Tuesday March 26:

                                        http://roulette.org/events/vital-vox-2

                LISA KARRER - Collision Theory: Works and Premieres for Voice & Multi-Media
                Lisa Karrer (in collaboration with composer/multi-instrumentalist David Simons) will present works for voice, electronics,
                interactive video, triggered theremin and keyboard, including premieres of Karrer's "Meeting Max: Vocal Experiments with Interactive Video Mixer",
                and Simons' "The Opera Within the Opera" and "ODeath" a body movement activated sound score.

                               VITAL VOX explores the myriad power of the human
                     voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres.
                  It celebrates composer-performers in the vocal arts who stretch and
                    expand the voice in new and original ways, continuing a strong
                         contemporary tradition developed in the United States.



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              March 13:   SIMONS @60

              a retrospective of music by David J Simons
              at ROULETTE
              509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
              featuring performances by The Gamelan Son of Lion, Momenta Quartet, Denman Maroney, Lisa Karrer, and more more more.
              gong humping, microtonal strings, interactive theremin, voices, UBU and other surrealist songs.
              Wed at 8pm
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            2011

              October 22:
                check schedule www.remixedmedia.org

                many activities going on all day and night . . . discount tickets available

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              June 11:

              June 1:

              May 6:

                2010

                November 8:

                                            http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/seminars/fall-2010/simons-karrer
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                Sundays with the Gamelan

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                For more info, directions etc: http://www.ramapo.edu/berriecenter/events/march.html
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                  2009

                  Taking Darwin on the road: San Diego, Nov 10
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                  THREE Great events at GAGA Arts Center:

                    directions to gaga
                    featuring dances by Tjokorda Gde Arsa Artha and Carlos Fittante

                    AND

                    Robert Egert & Lisa Karrer present Prussian Blue
                    a collaborative graphic & sound Installation
                    Created for Garnerville Holding Company's 150th Anniversary
                    with 100 contemporary Artists / October 23 - November 25
                    Opening Reception: Friday October 23 6-9pm
                    AND

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                  ENTERTAINING SCIENCE:   
                  Sunday October 4th, @ 6:00PM
                  Curated by Roald Hoffmann

                  Featuring Lisa Karrer, composer, vocalist and multi-media performance artist, David Simons, composer/musician,
                  and Shahid Naeem, biologist, Columbia University

                  Cornelia Street Cafe'
                  29 Cornelia Street, NYC 10014   (212) 989-9319
                  Sunday October 4th 6:00PM Cover $10

                  NATURAL LAW: DARWIN'S TANGLED BANK
                  Charles Darwin's last sentence in The Origin of the Species reads: "There is grandeur in this view of life; from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." Grandeur indeed. To celebrate, and to preserve.



                    Lisa Karrer is an internationally celebrated composer, vocalist and multi-media performance artist.
                    She brings us "Schismism: Natural Law", a solo performance inspired by Darwin's exploration of
                    evolution and universal connectedness, in collaboration with composer/musician David Simons.
                    In the spirit of natural selection, the audience will decide the sequence of events in real-time
                    during the performance.

                    And Shahid Naeem from Columbia University will join us reflecting on the consequences of
                    the modern day unraveling of the entanglement of biological diversity evolution has spun
                    over the last 3.5 billion years. His laboratory's motto is "Ecology With No Apology,"
                    and explores the environmental consequences of widespread losses in biodiversity,
                    or the disentanglement of what Darwin called, the "entangled bank."


                  for more info: http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/downstairs/list.asp?sdate=10/4/2009



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                  Video and Sound installation at RoCA's Media Project Space:




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                  INTERACTIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL on the same bill as NYPD Academy BIG BAND!
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                  June 7 - call 845-358-4601 for directions

                  Gamelan Son of Lion: GONGing Ceremony
                  Sunday June 7th, 3-5pm
                  Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) 521 N. Broadway, Nyack, NY

                    Outdoor processional, ceremonial and concert music featuring David Simons' "GONGing" and pieces by other composers in the gamelan. Gamelan Son of Lion specializes in new music written by its composer members for large gongs and percussion instruments of Java and Bali. With guest Balinese mask dancer Tjok Gde Arsa Artha. Outdoor on the grounds; inside if rain.
                    Suggested donation $10.


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                  MUSIC @ THE FLEA 
                  ~ curated by Kathleen Supove ~
                  Lisa Karrer and David Simons
                  in

                  COLLISION THEORY
                  May 27 & 28 at 7pm (Wed - Thurs)

                  Lisa Karrer and David Simons perform highly original works for voice, interactive Theremin,
                  video with soundscapes for brain scan, time warp and magnetic sculpture,
                  molecular self-assembly with processed voice, and compositions featuring voice, slide guitar, percussion, jawharp and laptop.


                  The Flea Theater is located in Tribeca at 41White Street NYC(between Broadway & Church Streets);
                   accessible from the A, C, E, N, R, Q, W, 6, J, M, Z to Canal Street or the 1 to Franklin Street.

                  Admission is $20. Tickets may be purchased directly on the FLEA site http://www.theflea.org
                  or by calling 212-352-3101, or in person at the Box Office, which opens one hour prior to show time.

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                  highly original works for interactive Theremin,
                  video and soundscapes for brain scan
                  and magnetic sculpture,
                  molecular assembly with processed voice,
                  and vocal compositions
                  with extended keyboard, slide guitar,
                  percussion and laptop.

                  With original lyrics and texts
                  drawn from pre-Surrealist authors
                  Alfred Jarry and Raymond Roussel,
                  post-modernist Mark Leyner,
                  proto-feminist Olive Schreiner,
                  a palindromic opera
                  and poet WB Yeats.



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                  (it's a thursday nite)
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                  Barbara Benary, Lisa Karrer and John Morton
                  perform repertoire and premieres of contemporary music, including
                  works for chamber group, music boxes, voice, video and electronics.

                  An exciting evening of sonically and culturally diverse music
                  in the intimate and beautiful setting of the Emerson Gallery.

                  With special guests Gregor Kitzis, Denman Maroney, Sheila Schonbrun,
                  Steve Silverstein, David Simons and Yvonne Troxler

                  For more info visit: http://www.rocklandartcenter.org/

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                    2008


                      solo dance by Sin Cha Hong
                       with live music by David Simons
                          and soundtrack by Lisa Karrer

                        

                    LaMama 74A E 4th St, NYC
                       Thurs-Sun Nov 20-30 at 7:30, Sunday shows at 2:30

                    about GODOT

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                         THE LIVING THEATRE PRESENTS
                      "SCHISMISM part 2: NATURAL LAW"
                    A SOLO PERFORMANCE BY LISA KARRER

                      The Living Theatre, 21 Clinton St., NYC 212 792 8050
                      October 20, 21, 27, 28 at 8pm, October 26 at 3pm and 8pm
                      Tickets: $15; $12 students/seniors

                      Lisa Karrer will premiere her newest piece "SCHISMISM: NATURAL LAW"for a 6 performance run at the Living Theater
                      in Manhattan."Schismism" is a multi-media solo performance inspired by the life of Charles Darwin and his theory of
                      Natural Selection, and features an interwoven collection of stories, visual associations and musical concepts that
                      mirror Darwin's exploration of evolution and universal connectedness.

                      In collaboration with multi-instrumentalist/composer David Simons and sculptor Jacqueline Shatz, Lisa Karrer's solo voice is featured
                      with arresting sonic and visual backdrops, acoustic and electronic compositions, linked and triggered video sections and hands-on sculptural
                      stage constructions. SCHISMISM combines the human voice with technology and 3-dimensional visual media, a richly layered story-telling
                      hybrid that illuminates our fragile coexistence and the ties that bind us.

                      In the spirit of natural selection, the audience will decide the sequence of onstage events in real-time during each performance.
                      There will be a panel discussion lead by a special guest moderator following each performance.

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                      under the Brooklyn Bridge!

                      http://www.last.fm/event/650954
                      info:brooklynbridgepark.org


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                      the DOWNTOWN ENSEMBLE presents:
                      "CIPHER" String quartet PREMIERE by David Simons
                      June 25 at Greenwich House Music school 46 Barrow St, 8 pm

                        DAVID SIMONS - zheng
                        SKIP LAPLANTE - styrobab
                        STEPHANIE GRIFFIN - viola
                        ALEX WATERMAN - cello
                        the concert also features music by Betsey Biggs, Skip La Plante and Karl Korte

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                      Listen to David Simons' show at the Whitney Biennial
                      http://www.neighborhoodpublicradio.org



                      Sunday May 25, from 4:-5:pm
                      Live internet radio (tune in to the archive here)
                      The show is all about THEREMIN history, new works, and intrigue.

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                          LISA KARRER at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
                          Issue's " Week of Voice" series
                          Thursday February 28 at 8pm
                          $10

                          Lisa will perform an eclectic set for solo voice,
                          piano, electronics and video, featuring guest artists
                          Stephanie Griffin on viola
                          and David Simons playing percussion and jawharp.
                          In addition to English and pseudo-Slavic,
                          Lisa will sing in Batak (Indonesian)
                          and Pre-Columbian languages.
                          Her compositions include texts by Olive Schreiner, Mark Leyner,
                          Ariel Dorfman and Sitor Situmorang.

                          Lisa will share the evening with the excellent vocalist Dean Bowman.

                          ISSUE PROJECT ROOM is located at 232 3rd St at 3rd Ave, 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY


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                        THEREMIN society at ISSUE Project Room
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                        2007
                        see Tues. nite perf !
                        check out the Living Theater's Music series

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                        LOWER EAST SIDE PERFORMING ARTS presents a free series of new opera films

                        Lisa Karrer's WOMAN'S SONG:THE STORY OF RORO MENDUT
                        (premiered at The Kitchen)
                        &
                        Barbara Benary's KARNA
                        (premiered at LaMama)

                        Saturday November 17 at 2pm
                        New York Public Library
                        Hamilton Fish Park Branch
                        415 Houston Street (Ave C-D)
                        Information: 212-388-0202
                        for complete series schedule:
                        http://www.geocities.com/lesperformingarts
                        Admission is free
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                        Henry Brant: Dormant Craters

                        Learn More

                        Wednesday, August 22, 2007 TWO Performances! 7: PM and 7:55


                        South Plaza

                        Lincoln Center Out of Doors

                        FREE and open to the public!

                        A massive, special, spacial percussion event composed by Henry Brant and conducted by Neely Bruce, featuring Gamelan Son of Lion,
                        Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, Wesleyan Steel Drum Band, Pheeroan akLaff, Warren Smith, and more . . .


                        http://www.lincolncenter.org/show_events_list.asp?eventcode=-59128

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                        Manhattan New Music Projects presents

                        KINDRED SPIRITS - AN EVENING OF EXPERIMENTAL CHAMBER MUSIC
                        June 20th 8PM @ Christ & St. Stephen's Church
                        122 West 69th Street
                        (between Broadway and Columbus Avenue)
                        $15 at the door
                        The Manhattan New Music Project presents an evening of experimental chamber music pieces to honor the adventurous spirit of a broad variety of composers of chamber music, jazz and classical works. The pieces presented will include early works by MNMP's late founder Paul Nash, as well as compositions by Thelonius Monk, Johann Sebastian Bach and Lisa Karrer.

                        Featured musicians: Lisa Karrer (vocals, spoken word), Dave Taylor (trombone), Bruce Williamson (saxes and clarinets), Ben Kono (oboe, saxes, clarinets), Thomas Ulrich (cello), and Bill Ruyle (vibes and percussion).
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                        Saturday, June 23, 6pm
                        The Laura Andel Orchestra @ BRAC

                        Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) presents Bronx River Sounds
                        1087 East Tremont Avenue (next to the Bronx Zoo)

                        The Laura Andel Orchestra
                        New York-based Argentinean composer and conductor Laura Andel premieres a new work commissioned by the Bronx River Art Center for her nine-piece orchestra comprised of an unusually eclectic instrumentation that includes bandoneon, gamelan instruments, electric guitar, Fender Rhodes, vibraphone, cornet, viola, clarinets, piano and double bass.
                        The Laura Andel Orchestra includes the long-time collaborators and unique musicians Taylor Ho Bynum, Ken Filiano, Stephanie Griffin, Carl Maguire, Ursel Schlicht, David Simons, and Danny Tunick, and for this BRAC performance, the special participation of Argentinean Tango bandoneon player Daniel Binelli, and New York experimental electric guitar player Elliott Sharp. In addition to the BRAC premiere, the orchestra will perform another recently created work titled Doble Mano.

                        SUBWAYS: #2 or #5 to West Farms Square/East Tremont stop. (Walk one block east to Bronx Street.) http://www.bronxriverart.org/directions_hours.html
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                        MAY 18 GAMELAN CONCERT
                        NYC premieres!!! 8pm

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                        Sunday, April 1, at 6pm - 8pm
                        Roald Hoffmann's Entertaining Science cabaret
                        downstairs at the Cornelia Street Cafe

                        Molecular architect Shuguang Zhang from MIT talks about the dynamic process of molecular self-assembly, A RIFF ON THE WAY TO STRUCTURE ; with Lisa Karrer and David Simons performing music that assembles, dissembles, and re-assembles itself in real time, triggering sounds in unpredictable ways, asking the listener to create their own connective tissues of meaning.

                        29 Cornelia Street between Bleecker and W. 4th
                        Admission $10; Reservations 212-989-9319.
                        featuring very good food!!!

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                        FEBRUARY 24 THEREMIN FESTIVAL
                        at issue project room:

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                        Feb 2 '07
                        "ODENTITY" World Premiere of the composition by David Simons
                        for Newband and the Harry Partch instruments -

                        KASSER THEATER, Montclair State University, NJ
                        for full information see:
                        http://www.newband.org/events.htm

                        MONDAY FEBRUARY 5 @ 7PM
                        LISA KARRER premieres SCHISMISM: FRACTURED AMERICA Pt 1
                        at THE FLEA THEATER / NYC "Music With A View" Series
                        SCHISMISM is a work-in-progress combining voice, piano, stilts, electronics and video.
                        Utilizing a wide variety of mediums, "Schismism . . . " examines the American condition from various aesthetic and cultural perspectives. With triggered light device created in collaboration with sculptor Gregory Barsamian
                        (2001 Leonardo New Horizons Award for Innovations in New Media).
                        Sharing the bill that evening will be Endangered Guitarist Hans Tammen!
                        The FLEA is located at 41 White Street (between Church and Broadway), in Tribeca, 3 blocks below Canal St. Admission: FREE

                        January 13 at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: GAMELAN SON OF LION
                        part of "The Independents" Festival, Locust recording artists
                        Program will include selections from Locust's reissues of the ensemble's early recordings:
                        The Complete Gamelan in the New World (1979, Folkways) and Metal Notes (1985, New Wilderness Audiographics)
                        plus pieces by current ensemble members.
                        for full program and concert directions see:
                        http://www.issueprojectroom.org/events.html
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                        2006

                        NOV 11, 2006 @8pm
                        "SINKHOLE-SONOGRAM-INHERITANCE" for 2 voices, piano and percussion - Nov 11 '06
                        STATE OF THE MUSIC:
                        Six Contemporary Rockland Composers
                        a concert of original works by Barbara Benary, Mark Steven Brooks, Lisa Karrer,
                        Denman Maroney, John Morton, and David Simons
                        Rockland Center for the Arts
                        27 South Greenbush Rd, West Nyack, NY
                        845 358 0877
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                        APRIL 23 - DAVID SIMONS & LISA KARRER -
                        inflammable flapping chewable cymbal crushers


                        sTRANGEmUSIC presents: ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!

                        A SERIES OF ONE HOUR CONCERTS ON ALTERNATE SUNDAYS

                        Sunday, April 23, 4:30 p.m., at THEATERLAB, 137 West 14th Street (6th & 7th Aves.).
                        Tickets are $10. Doors open at 4:00 p.m.

                        Four Kotekan - Balinese counterpoint on bamboo instruments
                        Dematerialized - Theremin as proximity controlled sample player
                        I Like it Here - live vocalist courts her refracted mirror images
                        and from their opera "The Birth of George":
                        Bella's Fantasy - acappella heart wrenching leap of faith
                        God of Mud - genre-cide w/National Geographic captions from 1940's (featuring guest keyboardist and series curator Patrick Grant)
                        Dear Officer - a classic NY Post headline suicide note set to music
                        ALSO:
                        a world premiere lap steel guitar & voice duet !!!
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                        Saturday, April 8
                        theremin society: an evening of theremin III
                        with: Armen Ra, Anthony Ptak
                        David Simons, Rob Schwimmer
                        Michael Evans, Dorit Chrysler
                        Elizabeth Brown, Jon Bernhardt, Jen Hammaker
                        Issue Project Room
                        400 Carroll St, Brooklyn
                        between Bond and Nevins. F or G train to Carroll
                        8:00 p.m., $10
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                        GAMELAN SON OF LION's next performance will be on the Interpretations concert series,
                        presented by the World Music Institute and Tom Buckner
                        Thursday Feb. 2, 2006, 8pm at Merkin Concert Hall
                        129 West 67th St. New York City.
                        The program:
                        Bang on a Tin Can by Laura Liben
                        The Tempest Suite by Jody Kruskal
                        Jigalullaby - Gaelic songs and jigs by Barbara Benary
                        Bali Hi - a unique arrangement by David Simons
                        River Kotekan by Lisa Karrer

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                        Thurs, Jan 19 8pm $10
                        Issue Project Room
                        400 Carroll St, Brooklyn, between Bond and Nevins. F or G train to Carroll
                        DAVID SIMONS, composer/performer
                        Theremin as spacial-controlled sample trigger,
                        jaw harp, percussion and homemade instruments.
                        with:
                        Lisa Karrer - Voice
                        Stephanie Griffin - Viola
                        Skip LaPlante, Carol Weber,
                        Michael Evans, Sima Wolf - Homemades
                        program:
                        INFORMATION - from the CD "Prismatic Hearing"
                        FAIT/HURT/KOOL TANG - more samples triggered by theremin
                        DEAR OFFICER - an actual published suicide note & original poem by Lisa Karrer
                        GRANDMA - text by Mark Leyner from "My Cousin My Gastroenterologist "
                        VIRTUAL PERCUSSION TRIO - in which the viola, voice and theremin each midi-trigger percussion phrases
                        COLLECTIVE CHOK - for blown bottles and styrocello
                        CREMATION MUSIC - new arrangement of Balinese gamelan
                        For more information: Issue Project 718 812 1129
                        A concrete silo performance space on the Gowanus Canal with 16 channel hemispherical speaker array !!!
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                        2005
                        in concert December 2:
                        Five unique approaches to playing the THEREMIN

                        for more info visit Issue Project Room in Brooklyn

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                        Gamelan Son of Lion
                        & North River Music
                        Presents a concert of New Works and PREMIERES
                        for Gamelan Orchestra, FLUX String Quartet,
                        2 Pianos, Voices & Percussion
                        Thursday March 24 at 8pm
                        Greenwich House Music School/The Renee Weiler Concert Hall
                        46 Barrow Street, NYC
                        (between Seventh Ave. South & Bedford)
                        For more info, please call 212.242.4770
                        for complete details visit www.gharts.org/GSOL+FLUXMar242005

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                        WEST GOES EAST
                        Cal Arts at The Kitchen
                        a 4 day festival of performances January 26-29, 2005 8 PM
                        FEATURING on Jan 29, "MUSIC FOR THEREMIN and GAMELAN"
                        and other works by David Simons performed by the GAMELAN SON OF LION
                        schedule of events:

                        512 W.19th Street, NYC Tickets $15 Festival pass $50
                        www.thekitchen.org 212-255-5793

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                        2004
                        Roulette presents
                        Gamelan Son of Lion
                        Sunday November 21, 2004

                        New York's New Music gamelan presents a program of syncretic works, conflating tunings, timbres, and
                        cultural norms, combining Indonesian and European scales, Western and Eastern timbres and sensibilities.

                        Works by Barbara Benary, Daniel Goode, Lisa Karrer, Laura Liben,
                        David Simons, Jody Kruskal, Empi Morn, and David Demnitz will be presented.

                        The New York Times calls this composers' collective
                        "one of the most provocative and artistically rewarding gamelan ensembles."

                        At Location One 26 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets), NYC.
                        Performance begins at 8:30pm. Admission: $12 / Students: $8 / Roulette members: free
                        Reservations/Tickets:
                        212.219.8242

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                        Gamelan Son of Lion
                        Spring Concert of new music premiers 2004
                        Friday April 2nd, 8pm
                        Wooster Arts Space, 147 Wooster St. NYC
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                        Gamelan Son of Lion
                        June 2004 concerts in Brooklyn & Rockland
                        Saturday June 5th 2004 @ 7:30pm
                        Music and Dance at The Re:Creation Center
                        748 Union Street, Park Slope Brooklyn (btw. 5th & 6th Ave.) hosted by Spoke the Hub Dancing Admission---$15./$5. Reservations: 718.408-3234
                        AND
                        Wednesday June 9th 2004 @ 7:00pm
                        Music & Word with Poetry Jam at The Nyack Center 58 Depew Ave, Nyack NY (corner of S. Broadway) Rockland County Admission by donation. For further info call 845 354-3375
                        Indonesian gongs, drums, xylophones, and home-made instruments.
                        New Music by David Demnitz, Skip LaPlante, Lisa Karrer, Barbara Benary, Jody Kruskal, Empi Morn, and Arvo Part / arr. by Laura Liben and guest composer - hammer dulcimer player Dan Joseph; also with players Dan Goode, Bill Jacobs and David Simons .

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                        "PRISMATIC HEARING"
                        CD release concert:
                        JULY 6, 2004 Tues 8pm at TONIC, NYC

                        David Simons and Lisa Karrer and friends
                        Saturday, JULY 10
                        Roxbury Art Center, NY

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