October 28, 2020 | Toplap Israel Emergent Behavior
Toplap Israel live stream
20-minute Tidal Cycles live coding session with Cai on visuals as Caider at 1:50PM PST
https://generator-israel.online/
October 20, 2020 | CSMC + MuMe
2020 Joint Conferece on AI Music Creativity
YouTube stream of paper presentation of "Karaoke of Dreams: A multi-modal neural-network generated music experience" with Sofy Yuditskaya and Sophia Sun
August 21, 2020 | Art-a-Hack at Battery Dance Festival
elektron live streaming platform
11 am EST performance with dancer Razvan Stoian featuring my Pure Data audio contributions alongside the work of my Art-a-Hack teammates
August 18, 2020 | Caider at Tidal Cycles New Moon Marathon
Twitch/YouTube
10 PM 20-minute algorave set with Cai on visuals as Caider
August 18, 2020 | Small File Media Festival
Zoom Roundtable
2 PM roundtable discussion with other SFMF artists including talk about my festival-featured video bombaybeach
July 18, 2020 | Caider at Network Music Festival
Toplap Berlin Mozilla Hubs VR Algorave
Cai on visuals, Derek on TidalCycles
May 31, 2020 | Caider at Neuvoids Algovoids
Twitch
Cai on visuals, Derek on TidalCycles
May 2, 2020 | Caider at the Cyber Yacht VR Algorave
Mozilla Hubs Cyber Yacht
Cai on visuals, Derek on TidalCycles
March 21, 2020 | Who's Afraid of the Singularity ft. Caider
Mars (Bombay Beach, CA)
frame drumming accompaniment for Yin Cheng-Kokott improvised dance and Cai Kinect/Touch Designer projected layered visuals
TidalCycles live coding/KORG WaveDrum improvisation set with Cai on projected layered visuals in p5live, Processing, and Touch Designer later joined by Arseniy on Moog Drummer From Another Mother.
March 14, 2020 | Caider Desert Algorave
Mars (Bombay Beach, CA)
TidalCycles live coding set with Cai on projected layered visuals in p5live and Processing
March 2, 2020 | Brahman.ai TidalCycles live coding workshop
Chatsubo (Bombay Beach, CA)
TidalCycles live coding workshop (notes found here)
February 15, 2020 | Brahman.ai TidalCycles live set
Mars (Bombay Beach, CA)
half-prerecorded/live-coding set at Brahman.ai - features evening flushing warm among other things
2019
July 13 - August 5, 2019 | Music Makers Art Show
Hacker Labs on R Street (Sacramento, CA)
features art made by musicians (and music made by artists)
features Catmoticon Portraits, Chinese Dog, Polyshrimp of Polyhealth, and Studious Overachieving
July 5-27, 2019 | Digital Art Curation at The Brickhouse Art Gallery
The Brickhouse Art Gallery (Sacramento, CA)
curation of digital art including my own as well as the work of Boris Allenou and Tavarus Blackmon
features Catmoticon Portraits, Chinese Dog, Polyeye of Polyhealth, and socketMusic: airports
2018
October 27, 2018 | Bates Digital Music Symposium
Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
presentation and performance of socketMusic: wireless (new 2018 revision)
April 12, 2018 | UC Davis Shinkoskey Noon Concert
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center (Davis, CA)
design/implementation/performance of electronic audio components in Pure Data for Josiah Catalan's Parallax Oblivion (2018) for harp and electronics (Jennifer Ellis, harp)
March 23-25, 2018 | Sacramento Ballet
Sacramento Community Center Theater (Sacramento, CA)
section percussionist in the chamber version of Carmina Burana (Matilda Hofman, conductor)
2016
November 16-20, 2016 | 5th International Pure Data Convention
New York University (New York, NY)
performance of Derek Kwan - shoebox memories for kalimba and live processing (Nov 18)
presenting paper on the development of the Pure Data Cyclone library (Nov 19)
performance with Hans Tammen's Dark Circuits Pd orchestra (Nov 19)
June 13, 2016 | New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
12:30 pm, Abrons Arts Center Playhouse (New York, NY)
Derek Kwan - airport music for 2-channel fixed media
February 25, 2016 | UC Davis Shinkoskey Noon Concert
12 pm, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, Jackson Hall (Davis, CA)
Derek Kwan - socketMusic:wireless for percussion and socket.io-enabled mobile devices
Martin Matalon - Short Stories for vibraphone
Derek Kwan - shoebox memories v2.0 for kalimba and live electronics
Jason Eckardt - Sweet Creature for frame drum
Derek Kwan - streetlight puddle light for glockenspiel
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Solo Nr. 19 for melody instrument and feedback
2015
June 26, 2015 | New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
4 pm, Abrons Arts Center Playhouse (New York, NY)
Nat Grant - With the Inside Where the Outside Should Be for solo vibraphone with digital integration
Derek Kwan - shoebox memories for kalimba and SuperCollider (revised 2015)
May 4, 2015 | Final Dissertation Recital
3:00 pm, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Georges Aperghis - Quatre pièces fébriles for piano and marimba (with Mikael Darmanie, piano)
Jason Eckardt - Transience for marimba
Derek Kwan - socketMusic for percussion and WebSockets (world premiere)
Derek Kwan - Love Letter/fuckbird after a postcard piece by Liza Lim for solo hand drum and electronics (world premiere)
Anthony Pateras - Hypnagogics for crotales, small percussion, and electronic playback
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Solo Nr. 19 for melody instrument (vibraphone) and feedback
2014
November 2, 2014 | The Solo Percussion Works of John Cage presented by Stuart Jackson
8:00 pm, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
John Cage - Fourteen
October 22, 2014 | Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players
8:00 pm, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Edgard Varese - Ionisation
June 5, 2014 | New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
3:30 pm, Abrons Arts Center Playhouse (New York, NY)
Ethan Greene - Lissajous for vibraphone and electronics
May 16, 2014 | DMA Rectial #4
12 pm, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Derek Kwan - Magic Smoke for laptop, smartphone, inductive telephone pickup, and SuperCollider
Derek Kwan - shoebox memories for kalimba SuperCollider
Martin Matalon - Short Stories for vibraphone
Richard D. James (Aphex Twin, arr. by Derek Kwan) - prep gwarlek 3b for percussion setup
John Luther Adams - Red Arc/Blue Veil for piano (Erica Murase), percussion, and electronics
Jason Eckardt - Sweet Creature for frame drum
Mark Applebaum - Entre Funérailles II for vibraphone
April 11, 2014 | Sonic Spring
8 pm, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Derek Kwan - Magic Smoke for laptop, smartphone, inductive telephone pickup, and SuperCollider
March 8, 2014 | North Jersey Percussion Festival
Montville, NJ
Derek Kwan - Magic Smoke for laptop, smartphone, inductive telephone pickup, and SuperCollider
March 6, 2014 | f(glitch)
8 pm, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Jesse Allison - Divergence for marimba and five mobile devices
2013
June 21, 2013 | Make Music NY
11 am - 9:30 pm, all around NYC
Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning (NY Premiere) for 50+ performers
June 8, 2013 | Cloud City Double Header with Hell's Bells Percussion Group and The 7 Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act
8 pm, Cloud City (Brooklyn, NY)
Aaron Siegel's Science is Only a Sometimes Friend featuring Owen Weaver, Mika Godbole, Matt Evans, Amy Garapic, Karl Larson, Carson Moody, Yumi Tamashiro, Frank Tyl, and Derek Kwan
May 14, 2013 | DMA Recital #3
8 pm, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Georges Aperghis - Graffitis for percussionist
Earle Brown - December 1952 realized with found metal objects and radio broadcasts from December 1952
Mei-Fang Lin - Flux for marimba and electronic sound
multiple electronic and acoustic realizations of John Cage's Variations II
Eric Lyon - Twinkletoes for theatrical snare drum soloist and electronics
Gerard Grisey - Stele for bass drum duet (featuring Chris Howard - percussion)
May 8, 2013 | DMA Lecture Recital
1 pm, Staller Center Room 107 (Stony Brook, NY)
a lecture on the electronic and electroacoustic performance practice of John Cage's Fontana Mix followed by a full performance of my electronic and my acoustic realizations
April 25, 2013 | Sonic Spring Electronic Music Concert
8 pm, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Earle Brown - December 1952 realized with found metal objects and radio broadcasts from December 1952
April 5, 2013 | New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
7:15 pm, CUNY Graduate Center (New York, NY)
Mei-Fang Lin - Flux for marimba and electronic Sound
2012
December 13, 2012 | DMA Recital #2
8 PM, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Franco Donatoni - Omar for vibraphone
Vinko Globokar - ?Corporel for solo percussionist
John Cage - Fontana Mix (electronic realization and live realization performed simultaneously)
Derek Kwan - shimmer go slowly for glockenspiel and max/msp (world premiere)
Derek Kwan - streetlight puddle night for glockenspiel
arrangement of Derek Kwan - violetblue clouds forever for flute (Hristina Blagoeva), vibraphone, and glockenspiel (Chris Howard)
November 16, 2012 | Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players Premieres!
7 PM, Symphony Space (New York, NY)
sound reinforcement and electronic support for Alex Temple's World for two pianos and two percussion
percussion in Du Yun's Keep Something Broken
November 15, 2012 | Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players Premieres!
8 PM, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
sound reinforcement and electronic support for Alex Temple's World for two pianos and two percussion (world premiere),
percussion in Du Yun's Keep Something Broken (world premiere)
November 13, 2012 | Hristina Blagoeva DMA Recital #3
12 PM, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
percussion in Lou Harrison's First Concerto for Flute and Percussion
October 25, 2012 | Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players
8 PM, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
sound reinforcement and percussion for Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians
June 21, 2012 | Iktus Percussion
7 PM, Central Park Naumberg Bandshell (New York, NY)
sound design for Karlheinz Stockhausen's Musik im Bauch
featuring Chris Graham, Christopher Howard, Piero Guimaraes, Dennis Sullivan, Steven Sehman, and Josh Perry
May 2, 2012 | Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players
7:30 PM, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Iannis Xenakis - Persephassa
April 19, 2012 | Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players
8 PM, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Luciano Berio - Folk Songs
April 12, 2012 | DMA Recital #1
8 PM, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
David Lang - String of Pearls for solo marimba
Franco Donatoni - Mari for solo marimba
Nathan Davis - Diving Bell for triangles and live processing
Morton Feldman - Bass Clarinet and Percussion (with Chester Howard - b cl., Chris Howard - perc.)
February 25, 2012 | Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra
8 PM, Staller Center Main Stage (Stony Brook, NY)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5
2011
December 9, 2011 | Stony Brook Cabaret Collective
9 PM, Staller Center Basement (Stony Brook, NY)
Javier Alvarez - Temazcal for maracas and electronic tape
December 7, 2011 | Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players
8 PM, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Steve Reich - Double Sextet
December 3, 2011 | Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra
8 PM, Staller Center Main Stage (Stony Brook, NY)
Bartok - Dance Suite
November 11, 2011 |Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players Premieres!
8 PM, Symphony Space (New York, NY)
Stacy Garrop - The Book of American Poetry III and IV
November 10, 2011 |Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players Premieres!
8 PM, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Stacy Garrop - The Book of American Poetry III and IV (world premiere)
October 27, 2011 | Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players
8 PM, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Musik im Bauch
October 6, 2011 | Stony Brook Percussion Studio Recital
8 PM, Staller Center Recital Hall (Stony Brook, NY)
Franco Donatoni - Mari for marimba solo
September 24, 2011 | Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra
8 PM, Staller Center Main Stage (Stony Brook, NY)
Claude Debussy - La Mer, Schoenberg - Five Pieces for Orchestra, op. 16
July 21, 2011 | Kites of Saturn/BACK Duo/Elevator Rose
7 PM, Thalia Cafe @ Symphony Space (2537 Broadway, New York, NY)
Music by Derek Kwan, Laurence Goldman, Daniel Fine, and Patrick Kelley
June 19, 2011 | Bang on a Can Marathon
12 PM, Winter Garden @ World Financial Center (1 World Financial Ctr., New York, NY)
Anthony Gatto's Portrait of Eva Hesse
May 15, 2011 | Nota Bene
7 PM, Player's Theater (115 Macdougal St., New York, NY)
Richard Boukas's Trio Nordestino for marimba, cello, and guitar
May 11, 2011 | Queens College Percussion Ensemble
12 PM, Queens College LeFrak Concert Hall (65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY)
Anthony Gatto's Portrait of Eva Hesse
May 10, 2011 | Nota Bene
8 PM, Queens College LeFrak Concert Hall (65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY)
premiere of Richard Boukas's Trio Nordestino for marimba, cello, and guitar
May 1, 2011 | CUNY New Music Festival
7 PM, Baruch College (55 Lexington Ave., New York, NY)
Elevator Rose performs Vasudevan Panicker's i heart pulse v2.0
premiere of the revised version of Amir Shpilman's percussion sextet As If These Clouds
March 10, 2011 | Ginastera's Cantata para América Mágica with Talujon and Friends
8 PM, Symphony Space (2537 Broadway, New York, NY)
February 27, 2011 | Elevator Rose and BACK
7 PM, Death By Audio (49 S 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY)
2010
December 14, 2010 | Queens College New Music Group w/ Elevator Rose
8 PM, Queens College LeFrak Concert Hall (65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY)
premieres of daniel fine's ghosts of the solovki and vasudevan panicker's i heart pulse
October 31, 2010 | Raphael Mostel's Music for the October Moon
3 PM, Metropolitan Art Museum
September 22, 2010 | Elevator Rose
9 PM, Glasslands Gallery (289 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, NY)
Derek Kwan - Silky Anteaters (world premiere), Terry Riley - In C
July 31, 2010 | Bang on a Can Marathon @ Bang on a Can Summer Festival
4 - 10 PM, MASS MoCA Hunter Center (North Adams, MA)
Tan Dun - Elegy: Snow in June, Annie Gosfield - Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery Nik Bärtsch (arr. Evan Ziporyn) - Modul 35, Modul 32, Modul 33
July 26, 2010 | Bang on a Can Summer Festival
4:30 PM, MASS MoCA Hunter Center (North Adams, MA)
world premieres of Adam Haws - Invocation, Maria Grigoryeva - Eyjafjallajokull, Svetlana Maras - sample spaced, Amanda Feery - From Drums to Light, Sophie Cash-Goldwasser - Turbo Grind
July 24, 2010 | International Crumb Day @ Bang on a Can Summer Festival
8 PM, MASS MoCA Hunter Center (North Adams, MA)
+ George Crumb - Lux Aeterna
May 2, 2010 | CUNY New Music Festival
4 PM, Baruch Performing Arts Center (New York, NY)
David Schober - Taepoong (2002) for marimba
7 PM, Baruch Performing Arts Center (New York, NY)
David Lang - Cheating, Lying, Stealing (with members of the Queens College Nota Bene ensemble)
April 30, 2010 | Diaghilev Multi-Media Celebration
8 - 10 PM, Miller Theater at Columbia University (New York, NY)
Igor Stravinsky - Les Noces (with the Princeton Chamber Choir, Columbia Classical Performers, and the Queens College Percussion Ensemble)
February 26, 2010 | Brooklyn Composers Collective
3 PM, The Tank (254 W. 45th St., New York, NY)
Steve Reich - Music for Pieces of Wood, Amir Shpilman - As If These Clouds
2009
November 21, 2009 | Purchase Day of Percussion
2 PM, SUNY Purchase (Purchase, NY)
Iannis Xenakis - Metaux from Pleiades (w/ Queens College Percussion Ensemble)
November 1, 2009 | Concert of Works by David Schober
2 PM, Flushing Town Hall (Flushing, NY)
David Schober - Taepoong (2002) for marimba
April 2, 2009 | New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
4 PMl, CUNY Graduate Center (New York, NY)
Courtney Brown - losing love in magnetic time (w/ Adam Forman)
February 26, 2009 | Pulse of 1939 with Talujon Percussion Quartet and Friends
8 PM, Symphony Space (New York, NY)
Henry Cowell - Pulse (w/ Queens College Percussion Ensemble)
February 14, 2009 | Manhattan Percussion Project
3 PM, Ades Performance Space at the Manhattan School of Music (New York, NY)
David Lang - Anvil Chorus
2008
July 24, 2008 | soundSCAPE festival
9:30 PM, S. Maria Gualtieri (Pavia, Italy)
world premiere of Jason Baskin - Water, the Abysmal
July 23, 2008 | soundSCAPE festival
9:30 PM, S. Maria Gualtieri (Pavia, Italy)
world premieres of Hakki Eren - Birds Were Whirling Around the Cross, Stephen Bachicha - Seducción de la Danza
