Ambulance Chaser and The Law Of Average are the first tracks from a soon to be announced 13 hour installation. More singles will become available through 2013-15. This single is available in 96kHz/24 Bit resolution. In addition, The Law Of Average also introduces the Composite Song Series or ‘song within a song’ track. While many […]
Mikel Rouse and Ben Neill, collaborators on The Demo, a new music/media/ hybrid, will assemble the creative team of Jeff Sugg, Jim Findley and Bob McGrath at the Collapsable Hole in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for a two-week workshop. The Demo is a music theater work written by composer/performers Mikel Rouse and Ben Neill based on Douglas […]
On March 28, 2013 Mikel Rouse deposited more than 2500 pages of scores and manuscripts of the Mikel Rouse Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. This deposit is the beginning of Phase Two of a Four Phase plan for deposit. The handwritten manuscripts cover roughly 17 years […]
This February, the New World Symphony will present Making the Right Choices: A John Cage Centennial Celebration, a spectacular three-day festival dedicated to the music and ideas of John Cage. As part of the festival, NWS will host a new video installation entitled NWS: 4’33”, created by New York-based composer, director, performer and recording artist […]
Innovative composer and performer Mikel Rouse has been named the first ever Visiting Research Artist for the eDream (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media) Institute. Mikel and composer and trumpeter Ben Neill will be in residence Jan 13-27 at both NCSA and the Studio Theater at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. […]
For a limited time, you can download the Tirez Tirez holiday song “Christmas Time And You (Let’s Put The X Back In X-mas)”. We hope this oldie brings you good cheer and look forward to offering more rare archival recordings in the New Year! Christmas Time And You (Let’s Put The X Back In X-Mas)
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will present 4 performances of Ulysees Dove’s ‘Vespers’ set to Mikel Rouse’s groundbreaking drum machine score ‘Quorum’. The first piece of its kind for sequencer. This music was used for Ulysses Dove’s Vespers and presented by The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 1987 to the present. In the […]
Mikel Rouse commissioned for a new ‘stage film’ for The City Wears a Slouch Hat. PHOTOS HERE! Saturday, November 17, 2012. John Cage: On & Off the Air! celebrates this engagement with an ever-changing program of works wrapped around a newly staged revival of Cage’s peripatetic The City Wears a Slouch Hat (CBS Radio, 1942). […]
Innovative composer and performer Mikel Rouse has been named the first ever Visiting Research Artist for the eDream (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media) Institute. Rouse will be giving a public presentation on his use of technology in performance at 4 p.m. Oct. 25 in NCSA 1105. As a visiting research artist for […]
Mikel Rouse announces the May 1, 2012 release of his first double album, Boost|False Doors (Exit Music 1015-1016), through iTunes and all major retailers.This is the 30th release in Rouse’s prolific recording career. Boost|False Doors will be available via iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp, CD Baby, CD Connection and CD Universe and on disc through All Major […]
