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I will be appearing live at Pianos Bar & Grill in NYC on March 22nd as a special guest with Peter Gordon, as part of the UNCENSORED NEW YORK evening hosted by CLUB DELLA MORTE. I will play electric cello and synth along with Peter on Baritone sax and Kit Fitzgerald doing live video manipulation. Come by!

Update: Rare bookseller and Uptown Maestro Kurt Thometz attended the concert and afterwards said: “Expressionist, transgressive cabaret theater of the highest caliber… we found it profound, we thought it swellegant, your virtuosic evening. NuWeimar New York, in bowler hats, a supergroup in a master work, Downtown hasn’t felt this familiar in decades; a beer hall full of cruising youth, reactionary spoken word, nervous rock, a newer, perverser wave rave, on Ludlow no less. Congratulations on the best executed ensemble of urges, sexual, poetic and political, we’ve experienced in some time.”

“NuWeimar New York, in bowler hats, a supergroup in a master work”

Blake plays cello at Club Della Morte

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I will be giving two talks at Big Ears in Knoxville on March 30th:

1) A panel with Randall Poster (music supervisor: Killers of the Flower Moon, The Irishman, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Pat Irwin (musician, composer: SUSS, the B-52s, Dexter: Original Sin, Dexter: New Blood, Nurse Jackie, Rocko’s Modern Life) for a conversation about Music for Film & TV.

2) A lecture “How Avant Garde Music Consumed Hollywood,” looking at the ways in which experimental music has been used in mainstream cinema. From The Rite of Spring in Fantasia, through the cartoon music of Carl Stalling and Raymond Scott, to Laurie Spiegel’s music in The Hunger Games and beyond, we will screen excerpts and discuss this unique history.

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