ONTOLOGIST RETURNS to SIMONES (960 w 18th st PILSEN CHITOWN) flowing R&B, soul, funk, reggae, ska, interesting hip-hop, groove, live visuals, love THIS FRIDAY APRIL 30, 2010 starting at 10 PM

I'm playing with Friends Of The Gamelan, the Indonesian music ensemble at University of Chicago. Our spring gamelan concert will be held on Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. at Hyde Park Union Church, 5600 South Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago. Joko Sutrisno, our guest artistic director, has crafted an outstanding repertoire of traditional and contemporary Javanese gamelan music. We've had great fun learning these compositions, and we hope that you'll join us for an inco

Another beautiful night of beautiful music and beautiful imagery. Two vids of the night attached: first, DJ TWITCH makes some beautiful noise with DOJO's recorded tracks. Both vids show off the double-projected imagery.

A piece originally written as a project in Jay Alan Yim's course at Northwestern, "Content In Music". After I wrote the music I had made a mp3 of it using sampled gamelan sounds, and posted that on my myspace profile HERE. I had been in contact with the lovely Dr. Jui-Ching Wang at Northern Illinois University the year before asking to borrow their gamelan for my recital, and while the school decided not to let me use it, she and I remained in touch and this spring she asked