Andrew Conklin

USD 60/60

My oboe/trumpet duet, Floating, was chosen for performance at University of South Dakota’s annual 60/60 new music concert!  This crazy and awesome idea for a concert is the brainchild of Nolan Stolz: composers are given 60 minutes to write a piece, and all of the chosen pieces must be rehearsed in under 60 minutes and, finally, performed in (you guessed it) under 60 minutes.  It is an homage to the power of brevity.

The concert is January 27, 5-6pm, at the John Day Gallery at the University of South Dakota.

JOMQ: Friday Nov 18

Just One More Question, my piece for clarinet and electronics, is making an encore appearance at the Aural Architectures concert this Friday at Stony Brook (8pm, Staller Recital Hall, SUNY Stony Brook).  Featuring Chester Howard on clarinet.

LOCATION CHANGE! Swarm Gallery: 560 2nd St Oakland

LOCATION CHANGE!

Swarm Gallery: 560 2nd St Oakland

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Andrew Conklin

—Ten Miles Underground

In 2009, Michael Chabon penned a review of a Big Star box set in McSweeney’s Panorama Magazine that opened with this sentence: “They called themselves Big Star and never made it big or found stardom, and there, along with a 2:49 song called ‘September Gurls’ that shimmers and chimes with all the hopeless longing you ever felt for someone you never got to hold or to keep, is the pocket history of power pop.”  The mission of the Oakland-based band September Gurls ­– comprised of Emery Barter (Man/Miracle, Quinn), Pat Spurgeon (Rogue Wave), and Andrew Conklin (Quinn, Laurie Lewis) – is to faithfully recreate the delirious experience of a Big Star live show, which Chabon describes as “three guys totally in love with the sound of a heart breaking to the accompaniment of handclaps and angelic la-la-las, playing their own jaded hearts out.”   With Kapowski, Mwahaha Tuesday, August 2 at the Stork Club 2330 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94612

In 2009, Michael Chabon penned a review of a Big Star box set in McSweeney’s Panorama Magazine that opened with this sentence: “They called themselves Big Star and never made it big or found stardom, and there, along with a 2:49 song called ‘September Gurls’ that shimmers and chimes with all the hopeless longing you ever felt for someone you never got to hold or to keep, is the pocket history of power pop.”  The mission of the Oakland-based band September Gurls ­– comprised of Emery Barter (Man/Miracle, Quinn), Pat Spurgeon (Rogue Wave), and Andrew Conklin (Quinn, Laurie Lewis) – is to faithfully recreate the delirious experience of a Big Star live show, which Chabon describes as “three guys totally in love with the sound of a heart breaking to the accompaniment of handclaps and angelic la-la-las, playing their own jaded hearts out.”

 

With Kapowski, Mwahaha

Tuesday, August 2 at the Stork Club

2330 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612

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—Drum Circle at Mosswood Park

HEARD: sunday 5.29.11 4pm

Two Shows This Week!

Wed (tomorrow) May 18, 9pm @ Subterranean Arthouse: Michael Coleman+Andrew Conklin+Rob Ewing play an opening set, followed by Chris Icasino (Seattle).

Fri May 20, 8pm @ Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut (Oakland): Jordan Glenn+Karl Evangelista+Andrew Conklin open for Jacob Zimmerman’s Lawson Ensemble.

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Earplay

—Sculpture I.

Here’s a recording of Earplay performing my piece, Sculpture I., on May 9 at SF State.  Higher quality recording coming soon …