Listening Music for the Age of the Crystal Moon Cone

Leave a Comment / Chamber Music, Composer, Discography, Jazz / Yuganaut, Listening Music from the Age of the Crystal Moon Cone, Performer, Recordings and Book / By Stephen Rush

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Stephen Rush (piano/toys/retro-electronics)
Chris Peck (laptop/guitar)
Jon Moniaci (accordion/laptop)

We use music we find on the streets and in the forests and play it with our laptops. We play accordions, guitars, balloons, organs and pianos. Children’s toys. We play pretty music and we play noise. We care if you listen. We play for dancers and video and in the dark. We record in canoes, in swamps, and in studios. We perform in Europe, India and the U.S.

We invite you to listen.

We are 2 independent New York musicians who often work with dance and filmakers, and a college professor who does the same.

Come, join us in our sonic space.

Exotic Bakery Glow(post-edit) (Exotic Bakery Glow, Chris Peck, Stephen Rush and Jon Moniaci)

Foxes (Gagaku Wisdom) (Foxes- Gagaku Wisdom – Stephen Rush and Chris Peck)

Jon Moniaci, Chris Peck, Stephen Rush (l to r)

Steve at the Movement Research Festival in New York with “Listening Music”

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Stephen Rush has written 7 operas, over fifty works for Dance, chamber and electronic works, concertos, and three symphonies, performed by the Detroit Symphony and the Warsaw National Symphony. He has authored two books, including Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman. He has recordings on Nessa, Pi, Innova, ESP Disk’, Equilibrium, Deep Listening, Centaur, MMC, RogueArts,
Eroica, Summit and Cala Records
(with the New York Philharmonic Chamber Musicians).

He is Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, where he founded the Digital Music Ensemble (DME) which he has directed for 25 years. DME he has worked with Pauline Oliveros, Elliott Sharp, Alvin Lucier and Robert Ashley, and premiered works by John Cage, Philip Glass and
La Monte Young.

Rush has over 35 CDs released, and has performed or recorded with Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Grimes, Eliott Sharp, Steve Swell, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Kowald and Art Ensemble of Chicago. He also tours and records with his electronic psychedelic improvisation band, “Crystal Mooncone.”

He is also deeply invested in “Installation Art”, with current works in collaboration with Michael Gould and Henry Pollack (Nobel Prize winning physicist) – World Without Ice,
as well as “Jeweled Net of the Vast Invisible” in collaboration with scientists at the Fermi Lab.