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11: 2010
Numinous at 25
11. 2010
The year 2010 was the 10th anniversary of Numinous. And while I didn’t do anything special that year—I don’t even think I thought about the anniversary at all that year—my music pursuits were busy and varied. And while not everything was Numinous, most of the adventures featured musicians from Numinous.
Back in 2009 Simone Dinnerstein commissioned me to compose a piece for Face the Music, the student new music ensemble at the Kaufmann Center in Manhattan. It was as part of Simone’s (then) new concert series Neighborhood Classics and Face the Music played my piece “Liquid Timepieces” at various venues in NYC throughout the spring, including at PS 321–the school I was teaching kindergartners, the old Brooklyn Lyceum, and the midtown Apple Store, which was an especially spirited performance (the next year I would arrange for Numinous to perform). May 24th I took Numinous to debut at the old Tea Lounge in Park Slope (not the old old one in south Slope, but the old, now defunct one on Union Street), which included a couple new compositions and arrangements. The end of May/first week of June choreographer Edisa Weeks and her company Delirious Dances and Numinous workshopped “To Begin the World Over Again”, inspired by the writings for freedom and democracy of Thomas Paine. We premiered the work in 2012 and revived it in 2016—I’ll talk more about this piece for the 2016 year—but this is a piece still speaks to my crisis of democracy we face today.
On September 22, Numinous performed Vipassana at the Brooklyn Lyceum, which as it turned out, has been, disappointedly, the last time the piece has been performed. And on October 14-15 was Pulse’s first collaboration with Take Dance Company ,my composition “The Distance of the Moon” was based on one of the stories in Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino and choreographed by Take Ueyama himself. All of the compositions from all the composers of Pulse are up on my Youtube channel.
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The year 2010 was the 10th anniversary of Numinous. And while I didn’t do anything special that year—I don’t even think I thought about the anniversary at all that year—my music pursuits were busy and varied. And while not everything was Numinous, most of the adventures featured musicians from Numinous.
Back in 2009 Simone Dinnerstein commissioned me to compose a piece for Face the Music, the student new music ensemble at the Kaufmann Center in Manhattan. It was as part of Simone’s (then) new concert series Neighborhood Classics and Face the Music played my piece “Liquid Timepieces” at various venues in NYC throughout the spring, including at PS 321–the school I was teaching kindergartners, the old Brooklyn Lyceum, and the midtown Apple Store, which was an especially spirited performance (the next year I would arrange for Numinous to perform). May 24th I took Numinous to debut at the old Tea Lounge in Park Slope (not the old old one in south Slope, but the old, now defunct one on Union Street), which included a couple new compositions and arrangements. The end of May/first week of June choreographer Edisa Weeks and her company Delirious Dances and Numinous workshopped “To Begin the World Over Again”, inspired by the writings for freedom and democracy of Thomas Paine. We premiered the work in 2012 and revived it in 2016—I’ll talk more about this piece for the 2016 year—but this is a piece still speaks to my crisis of democracy we face today.
On September 22, Numinous performed Vipassana at the Brooklyn Lyceum, which as it turned out, has been, disappointedly, the last time the piece has been performed. And on October 14-15 was Pulse’s first collaboration with Take Dance Company ,my composition “The Distance of the Moon” was based on one of the stories in Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino and choreographed by Take Ueyama himself. All of the compositions from all the composers of Pulse are up on my Youtube channel.
#numinous25
#numinousmusic25
#josephcphillipsjr #numinous #numinousmusic @numinousmusic #mixedmusic #newmusic #contemporaryclassicalmusic #vipassana #vipassanamusic #insidevipassana #thedistanceofthemoon #takedancecompany #facethemusicnyc #liquidtimepieces #tobegintheworldoveragain
© 2010 Numen Music/BMI All Rights Reserved
Thanks and credit to all the original photos on this website to: David Andrako, Concrete Temple Theatre, Marcy Begian, Mark Elzey, Ed Lefkowicz, Donald Martinez, Kimberly McCollum, Geoff Ogle, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Daniel Wolf-courtesy of Roulette, Andrew Robertson, Viscena Photography, Jennifer Kang, Carolyn Wolf, Mark Elzey, Karen Wise, Numinosito. The Numinous Changing Same album design artwork by DM Stith. The Numinous The Grey Land album design and artwork by Brock Lefferts. Contact for photo credit and information on specific images.