Promotional video for the 7th Edition Festival featuring the INA GRM Acousmonium. Shot and edited by John Chantler - January 2024 @ Larry’s Corner, Stockholm.
- “BLAME TUNING” TONGUE DEPRESSOR (HENRY BIRDSEY & ZACH ROWDEN) & JOHN McCOWEN, TAPE COMING SOON ON FULL SPECTRUM RECORDS
OUT ON SEPTEMBER 9th, 2022: MODELS OF DURATION
24/3/22:Peter Margasak included Robeson Formants in a selection of SUPERPANG releases for The Wire. See it here.
6/3/22: “John McCowen’s rendition of the contrabass clarinet version was genuinely intimidating: McCowen appeared to be exerting minimal power through the clarinet yet the extent to which it was magnified in the space made one wonder if anything would be left standing if he really let rip.”
A review of Cartography of Time for contrabass clarinet & electronics by Davið Brynjar Franzson from Dark Music Days 2022 in 5:4 here
2/4/22: announced performances at Borealis Festival in Bergen, Norway.
3/17: Norwegian Naval Forces Band: world premiere of NONAAH for concert band by Roscoe Mitchell, arranged/orchestrated by John McCowen 3/18: Roscoe Mitchell in Conversation with John McCowen 3/20: world premiere of UOOU: a duo performance for bass saxophone and contrabass clarinet by Roscoe Mitchell & John McCowen
10/17: Solo @ Sequences X Festival w/ Julia Eckhardt, Reykjavik 11/18: Solo @ FRIM w/ Lea Bertucci, Magnus Granberg, Stockholm
new record coming in 2022
(ABOVE) WORKS FOR FEEDBACK ENSEMBLE @ ROULETTE : CHRIS CORSANO, LEILA BORDREUIL, JOHN McCOWEN, JULIA SANTOLI, LUKE STEWART, C. SPENCER YEH
(ABOVE) JOHN McCOWEN & MADISON GREENSTONE @ ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: MUNDANAS FOR DUO
(ABOVE) SOLO CONTRABASS CLARINET PERFORMANCE FOR TVLREC: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
ARCHIVED LIVE STREAM: FEEDBACK 4TET (LEILA BORDREUIL, JULIA SANTOLI, LUKE STEWART, & ME) HERE
CONTRIBUTED A DIGITAL MAP OF AN ACOUSTIC PIECE, [12][A]123|123[F] TO ERSTWHILE RECORDS’ AMPLIFY SERIES
ARCHIVED LIVE STREAM: PERFORMANCE FROM EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIO/SHINYOKO CONCERT (5/19) HERE
NEW SOLO EP, TWO ENERGY COPS AT 3AM AVAILABLE ON BANDCAMP HERE
11/23 : FREQUENCY FESTIVAL, CHICAGO (2/29) : pleased to announce I will be performing as part of the 2020 Frequency Festival in Chicago, curated by Peter Margasak. I will be opening for Keith Fullerton Whitman @ Constellation on February 29th.