Member Since: 19/11/2006
Band Website: bayimproviser.com/jasonhoopes
Band Members: www.thebowinguniverse.blogspot.com
Influences:
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Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only because there is evil.
Therefore having and not having arise together.
Difficult and easy compliment each other.
Long and short contrast each other.
High and low rest upon each other.
Voice and sound harmonize each other.
Front and back follow one another.
Therefore the sage goes about doing nothing, teaching no-talking.
The ten thousand things rise and fall without cease,
Creating, yet not possessing,
Working, yet not taking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten.
Therefore it lasts forever.
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Sounds Like:In Progress
- untitled one [piano, voice]
2009
- Music for Films that don't Exist: 25 Dolls [drums, voices, piano, sax, horn, cello]
- six lullabies of varying degrees of emotion by which to put your pretentions to bed [piano, electric guitars, sax, trumpet, flutes, celeste, melodica, voices, bass]
- Speak for dance by Sophia Leiby [wineglasses, percussion, bass, piano, voice]
2008
- Cycles v.1 [any pitched instrumentation]
- Cycles v.2 [any pitched instrumentation]
- November Piece: The 12 Intentions [any instrumentation]
- October Pieces [Piano, Cello, Dance]
-Released album Light Will Remain with The Atomic Bomb Audition
- Trio 1 [Harp, Bassoon, Cello]
- the ebb [Strings, Gamelan, Percussion, Voices, Electric Guitars]
2007
- Quest for Knowledge - [2 minutes for 5 found objects (recorded music/lock/stick/flyer/sheet music)]
- Man - [guitar/voice/drums]
- Murderous Singer - [piano and amplified throat] w/Kiyomitsu Odai
- Pentasong -[tonal chart for improvisation ensemble]
- A Crushed and Broken Sun -(metal album)
- Piano Improvisations 4/6/07 – [piano]
- Founding 8 – [alto flute/bass clarinet/horn/tam-tam/violin/viola/cello/bass]
- Music for Dance - Clear Abyss (choreography: Jan Jennings) – [piano, violin, percussion]
- A Winter’s Solstice – [3 percussionists – amplified water sounds, bubble wrap, glockenspiel, crotales, triangles]
2006
- How The Peasants Must Have Cursed Both Armies! – [electric guitar improvisation]
- Live Noise @ Midnight – [Reaktor, ARP synthesizer (Travis Johns)]
- Electronic Music 1 – [electronic compositions]
- Participated in improvisation workshops/classes/lessons/concerts with Joelle Leandre, Fred Frith and Maggie Nicols. - [Double bass, voice]
- For Carly:
I. it’s ok to color outside the lines
II. not supposed to write you a letter so i won’t
III. naming
[piano, bass clarinet, cello, violin, 2 female vocalists]
- Founding 6 – [voice, electric guitar, trombone, 3 percussionists]
- Moon Over Japan (arr. for woodwind octet) – [Flute / Oboe / 2 Bb Clarinets / 2 Tenor Saxophones / Bassoon / Bass Clarinet]
- Anything But Fantasy Please – [clarinet, bass clarinet, French horn, percussion, piano, 6 female vocalists, cello, double bass]
2005
- Released Album Far and Away with ALIAS REAL – Rock Music [Bass, Guitars,
Synths, Flutes, Drums, Vocals]
- The Unexpected Season – [Piano]
- Moon Over Japan – [SATB Choir]
- In a Cell with Baudelaire and Huysmans – [5 8ve Marimba / Vibes / Tympani / Gongs / Cymbals]
[For HOST*, a six-member ensemble (Flute/Clarinet, Trumpet, Saxophone, Electric 7-string Guitar, Piano/Voice, Cello)]
- Podium [Song form; improvisatory elements; drone dominant]
- Arms Around Me [drone with chromatic melody]
- Leave Your Blood Here and Go Home [Short, fast, polyrhythmic, ostinato study]
- Face the Pulpit [12-tone melody with row-derived chordal structure underneath]
- Chronological Occurrence in Time: Chapter One – Spacesuit [composed with chance operations; aleatoric; spoken word]
- Frozen Pre-Dawn December Stillness [Improvisation guide; text, symbols]
* HOST is primarily an improvisation group.
2004
- @ the speed of tree – [Drone - Arr. for Electronics]
- Dialogue for Bass Clarinet and Field Recording
- for dead Iraqi man on face of NYT – [Soprano, Tenor, Piano, Cello, Field Drum, Low Tom]
- Movement in 5 Pieces – [SATB Choir, Secondary Choir, Percussion Ensemble]
a) Non Serviam
b) Perduta Gente
c) *Distance
d) Get Out of Whatever Cage You're In
e) X
- Released Album Found Sound with SIZEMIX - Down-Tempo Electronic Trio [Bass, Guitar, Turntables] www.sizemix.net
2003
- a strange room, no a child, no a strange room – [Grand Piano Strings, Voice]
- the – [Tenor Sax, Bb Clarinet]
- Smells Like a Dead Crow – [Synthesizer w/FX, Electric Guitar w/FX]
* [Distance - composed as third movement in Movement in 5 Pieces.]
- Multiple Sessions with CABLE – [Voice, Piano, Misc, MAX/MSP]
- Multiple Sessions with WARP MODULE.
2002
- Music for Romeo and Juliet as performed by Mountain Actors' Workshop - [Electronic]
2001
- State of the Union – [Piano]
- Music for Macbeth as performed by Mountain Actors' Workshop – [Electronic]
1999 / 2000
- Released En Route with Ed Macan’s HERMETIC SCIENCE [Piano, Synths, Mallet Instruments, Bass, Sitar, Electric Guitar, Drums]
Co-Composer on Against the Grain Part 1 and Part 3.
www.hermeticscience.com
Record Label: Musea (Hermetic Science)
Type of Label: Indie