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Year 5: 2004
Numinous at 25
5. 2004
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A “light” year for Numinous activity, 2004 was not lacking in music. Numinous had a second concert at Greenwich House in Manhattan that January; and then in July, the first reading of my large ensemble piece Vipassana (which would premiere the following spring also at Greenwich House, and be our second album in 2009). But 2004 also saw the creation of Pulse, a composer collective I founded with 6 friends Darcy James Argue, JC Sanford, Jamie Begian, Josh Shneider, Yumiko Sunami, & Bill Apollo Brown (at the end of our run in 2011, Pulse was myself, Melissa Dunphy, JC Sanford, Jamie Begian, Josh Shneider). Kind of an off-shoot of the monthly Composer Salon discussion group I had been running (for two years by that time), Pulse was an opportunity to create chamber music for creative projects/themes that did not fit into any one particular genre.
That inaugural concert for Pulse my piece was “The Spell of a Vanishing Loveliness” (2004), about my 9/11 experience in NYC. But some later pieces for Pulse I also orchestrated and performed with Numinous: “Race” (2007), about Olympic runners; and piece for Pulse’s second collaboration with Take Dance Company—“Unlimited” (2011), inspired by Gamble and Huff, Barry White, and the inauguration of Barack Obama—would become the last movement of Changing Same, Numinous’ 2015 album.
🎵: “Tapestry” by Carole King, arranged by Joseph C Phillips Jr, Numinous live at Greenwich House 1.23.04
Numinous: Ben Kono, Tom Christensen, Ed Xiques, Dave Smith, Kurtis Pivert, Nick Mancini, Andrew Green, Deanna Witkowski, Doug Hinrichs, Dave Grunberg, Sarah Bernstein, Jessie Reagen, Jennifer Vincent, Noriko Ueda, Joseph C Phillips Jr, conductor
Piano solo: Deanna Witkowski
#numinous25
#numinousmusic25
A “light” year for Numinous activity, 2004 was not lacking in music. Numinous had a second concert at Greenwich House in Manhattan that January; and then in July, the first reading of my large ensemble piece Vipassana (which would premiere the following spring also at Greenwich House, and be our second album in 2009). But 2004 also saw the creation of Pulse, a composer collective I founded with 6 friends Darcy James Argue, JC Sanford, Jamie Begian, Josh Shneider, Yumiko Sunami, & Bill Apollo Brown (at the end of our run in 2011, Pulse was myself, Melissa Dunphy, JC Sanford, Jamie Begian, Josh Shneider). Kind of an off-shoot of the monthly Composer Salon discussion group I had been running (for two years by that time), Pulse was an opportunity to create chamber music for creative projects/themes that did not fit into any one particular genre.
That inaugural concert for Pulse my piece was “The Spell of a Vanishing Loveliness” (2004), about my 9/11 experience in NYC. But some later pieces for Pulse I also orchestrated and performed with Numinous: “Race” (2007), about Olympic runners; and piece for Pulse’s second collaboration with Take Dance Company—“Unlimited” (2011), inspired by Gamble and Huff, Barry White, and the inauguration of Barack Obama—would become the last movement of Changing Same, Numinous’ 2015 album.
🎵: “Tapestry” by Carole King, arranged by Joseph C Phillips Jr, Numinous live at Greenwich House 1.23.04
Numinous: Ben Kono, Tom Christensen, Ed Xiques, Dave Smith, Kurtis Pivert, Nick Mancini, Andrew Green, Deanna Witkowski, Doug Hinrichs, Dave Grunberg, Sarah Bernstein, Jessie Reagen, Jennifer Vincent, Noriko Ueda, Joseph C Phillips Jr, conductor
Piano solo: Deanna Witkowski
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.