Thursday, June 18th at 8pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to stream Tracking My Packages, a new collection of home studio productions, recordings, slideshows, scenes, and video from composer and trombonist Peter Zummo. The piece is part of the Isolated Field Recording Series, commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time.
A Note from Peter Zummo on Tracking My Packages:
“Home studio music productions with slideshows featuring shadows on pavement, lane markings, a nighttime holding pattern north of Newark airport, an ultraviolet-equipped hand dryer, and video including a bathtub scene.
Recordings from the field of foghorns, cars, birds, wind, trombone, cornet, voice, drum machine, keyboards, hand claps.
Just doing what I would have done if I’d had the time. The studio at home offers opportunities but also makes demands. Is there an obligation to post-process an ambient recording, or to add a musical overlay?
This might be worth listening to.
As the project developed, issues arose: day and night, home and away, gestural and microtonal playing, doing what I think of - giving up on that, looking out the window.
Try something new.
Performing to the audience’s energy, out of habit, and out of time.
I think I understand.
Decisionmaking, doing the logical thing, and going back to make changes, improvements.
Try not to have a bad attitude about anything.”
Cue sheet:
Dark solo 2:20
Pavement spring 13:42
Pavement winter 7:47
Trombone bath 6:16
Holding pattern 4:44
UV hand dryer 15:04
Be myself 3:35
One way (ticket) 8:28
If you are in a position to do so, Peter Zummo has asked all donations during the event be directed to the Let Us Breathe Fund.
Peter Zummo is a composer and trombonist whose work with the contemporary trombone is genre non-conforming, and yet finds a place in any genre. His work as a creator and performer encompasses both the contemporary-classical and vernacular genres. Working in close collaboration with artists in related media, including composers, poets, bandleaders, choreographers, directors, and filmmakers, he functions as both a supporting character and a principal artist. Zummo received a Bessie award for writing the music for Trisha Brown’s Lateral Pass and also collaborated with choreographers including David Dorfman, Risa Jaroslow, Irene Hultman, Wendy Perron, Debra Wanner, Randy Warshaw, and Stephanie Woodard. His score for Lateral Pass has been released in various editions and formats by Loris Records, New World Records and Foom Music. Zummo worked closely with Trisha Brown and Donald Judd on her piece Newark (Niweweorce), orchestrating and translating Judd’s sketches for changing yet steady-state sound to accompany his solid-color stage panels. An earlier version with Zummo’s composition Fast Dream was presented at Boston Opera House. Zummo’s film-music credits include Rights Of Passing, by Risa Jaroslow; Wild Combination, by Matt Wolf; Tramas, by Augusto Contento; and Second Spring, by Andy Kelleher. Professional studies were with Carmine Caruso, James Fulkerson, Stuart Dempster, Dick Griffin, Makanda Ken McIntyre, Sam Rivers, Daoud A. Haroon and Roswell Rudd. Production credits include Indian Ocean’s Treehouse/School Bell, with Arthur Russell, on Sleeping Bag; H*E*R, by Yvette Perez, on Persian Cardinal; Zummo With an X, on Loris Records, New World, and Optimo Music; Experimenting With Household Chemicals, on XI; Downtown Only, on Lovely; Arthur’s Landing, on Strut; Lateral Pass and Frame Loop, on Foom; Dress Code, on Optimo; Deep Drive, on Unheard Of Hope; Watermelon Sun, on Brownswood; and Slybersonic Tromosome, with Tom Hamilton, on Penumbra.
