Though I wouldn’t call myself a web designer, I have built a number of websites over the past many years that I think are worth checking out. Most importantly, I have a major part in the organization, design, and launch of each client’s webpage, guiding them through the process of displaying their work at its…
If there’s anything I’m qualified to do, it’s percussionings. All the percussions are belong to us. But seriously, I’ve been playing drums since I was 9 years old. I would play concert and marching bands at school, and 90s rock drumset at home. At 14, I got into a metal band with the local college…
I lived just north of Harlem for 14 years. We were between the George Washington Bridge / Bus Station and Columbia Hospital on Broadway directly above a Cuban restaurant. Needless to say, it was quite noisy and small, but you make it work. To adapt, I invested in the best plugins I could find to…
Since 2000, I have been using notation software to engrave scores at a professional level for my own compositions and those of my colleagues. After some time I developed a talent for notating rhythmically dense music and graphic scores with great beauty and precision. Many years later, I started working as a regular copyist for…
If there’s an audio puzzle to be solved, I can solve it. I have put together some of the most complex compositions and some of the absolute worst (and best) performances I’ve ever heard. When I’m done, everything is in it’s right place and the artist is always pleased. Whether it be score-following, marking parts,…
I’ve been recording music since 2003. I worked as a staff engineer at Louisiana State University where I captured hundreds of classical recitals and major academic concerts throughout the years. After I finished my bachelor’s degrees, I attended Manhattan School of Music where I did similar work, recording live orchestras, large chamber ensembles, and solo…
I have worked on dozens of albums as a producer, chamber music coach, conductor, and general artistic director; helping people of all ages make their art a reality. As a performer and audio engineer, I’ve prepared pieces for major classical labels like Innova, New Amsterdam, Cantaloupe, Cat Crisis, and New World Records. My experience as…
Brett William Dietz premieres my solo game piece, The Weight of Change, for drum and coins. Based on Brett’s previous homes’ street numbers, the performer rips out a serious of rhythmic phrases before the coin falls.
Greg Chudzik performs this upright bass masterpiece that makes incredible use of this giant instrument with virtuosic interplay between the right and left hands. Utilizing wooden dowels, triangle beaters, a guitar pick, and bow, Lunsqui creates a unique sound world that Chudzik champions with attitude and ease.
Recap is a New Jersey percussion quartet, presenting works by six powerhouse composers on their debut album.
Arlene Acevedo, Alexis Carter, Tiahna Sterling, & Aline Vasquez. Featuring TRANSIT New Music and Caroline Shaw. Available on Innova Records.
Recap performs “Count to Five” in a downtown Philly thrift shop. Using found objects like playing cards, newspapers, bowed wine glasses, and tape recorders, they play this great art piece with precision and finesse.
Performed and commissioned by Al Cerulo, Amplified Perception is an evening of new works for single solo percussion instruments with electronic enhancement featuring compositions by Eve Beglarian, Randy Gibson, Paula Matthusen, Mathew Rosenblum, and Jude Traxler.
The Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble performs four masterworks of the repertory for our 2020-2021 concert season.
Directed by Mike Perdue & Jude Traxler
Video production by Al Cerulo
For inverted snare drum, crotales, tuning forks, and audio looper, In Modifier Keys explores the extended sound world of a snare drum as a noise resonator with a 6-channel output. Commissioned as part of his Amplified Perception project, Al Cerulo performs this with piece with a ceremonial intensity.
The extraordinary Joe W. Moore, III wrote a piece for Manhattan School of Music’s percussion ensemble to be performed in front of the General Grant National Monument near the historic conservatory in Harlem.
Al Cerulo brings to life the wide dynamic range of a single cymbal equipped with a contact microphone and Mathew Rosenblum’s sixteenth-note world in “S.O.S. (Shiny Object Syndrome)”.
Al Cerulo performs Eve Beglarian’s electronic-assisted instrumental solo on glockenspiel accompanied by a simple 2:3 delay and a growing distortion crescendo.
A percussion retrospective by an all-star cast of performers celebrating the great composer Stuart Saunders Smith at his 70th year.
Mantra Percussion performs the stunning scraping and scratching soundscape of Jenny Beck in a glitch-laden video featuring Al Cerulo & Joe Bergen.
Echo Artifact’s third concept album on the art of becoming.
Al Cerulo, Greg Chudzik, Jude Traxler