Here’s a brief rundown on what’s happening. I promise to get to all of it in more detail soon:

1) I’ll be playing some kind of hybrid live/DJ set at Brooklyn’s venerable Halcyon Records on Wednesday, April 14 from 7-9pm EST. If you don’t happen to be in Brooklyn, fear not; the whole thing will be broadcast live at dailysession.com and then archived and streamed via both dailysession and the Halcyon website. Expect music and witty banter.

Ghostly International

2) I previously discussed my performance of Terry Riley’s In C at Le Poisson Rouge in November of 2009 with the venerable and not-to-be-stopped GVSU New Music Ensemble. I’m thrilled to announce that the live recording of this performance will be released by the also-venerable and not-to-be-stopped Ghostly International on April 27. I can’t tell you how thrilled and honored I am about this, both because GVSUNME deserves all the attention they can get and because Ghostly is pretty much my favorite label, ever.

3) I’ll be performing at the Whitney Museum of American Art on May 7 at 6:30, as part of a series of performances on and around a sculpture installation. For about an hour, I’ll be recording the sounds of the sculpture and the room itself and turning them into something like music in real time.

4) I’m writing an opera for the Staatsoper Stuttgart for performance this July. Yes, that’s very soon. This is why I’m busy.

The Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble is a pretty amazing group.

A couple years ago they managed to blow everyone’s minds with a series of killer performances of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, culminating in a critically-acclaimed recording for Innova. This year, they’ve done it again, releasing a new recording of Terry Riley’s In C along with 18 remixes by electronic artists from all over the spectrum (and world.)

I was honored to be one of those remixers, and even more honored to spend some time with the students in October and November. I visited GVSU, did a little teaching and provided live electronics for performances of In C with the group on their campus and at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York.

Playing In C at LPR (photo: Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times)

The press around this group makes a lot of noise about how their Midwestern pedigree makes them such an unlikely success story. Maybe some of that is true, but that’s the sort of narrative that sells newspapers; not CDs.

The real reason they’re successful is because they play the hell out of this music.

Go buy their stuff.