Hope College
In September 2004, Elodie Lauten was invited to Hope College, MI, as a composer in residence. She worked with the students and faculty to present a program of her chamber music, including her new string quartet, The Wish of the Quickening Moon, and her piano trio, The Elusive Virgin Bachelor, as well as solo pieces for contrabass, viola and flute. She coached student performers, as well as jazz composition students. She also performed a short arrangement of the Harmonic Protection Circle on the synthesizer, along with two contrabasses, horn, bass clarinet and guitar. In a formal presentation she introduced the concept of dynergy in musical composition (see the article on the web site's home page) and explained the stylistic subtleties of minimalism, post minimalism and neo-post minimalism.

Her article on the same subject, Skirting the Post Classic Stretch, is published in the November issue of the New Music Box at www.amc.net/newmusicbox.

At Hope she also participated in literature classes with musical setting workshops of the work of Langston Hughes and Allen Ginsberg.

The Harmonic Protection Circle 2004
In October, the new Studio 21 Underground release Elodie Lauten Ensemble - Harmonic Protection Circle, with the new band including Jonathan Hirschman on guitar, Mustafa Ahmed on percussion and Mathew Fieldes on contrabass, aired on WNYC on October 15 and 18 in a program on the World Out of Tune Festival taking place in late October and featuring the music of Jon Catler, Neil Haverstick and LaMonte Young. The ensemble performed at Makor on October 19.

Acknowledgement: The premiere of Harmonic Protection Circle was supported in part by Meet the Composer and the American Music Center.

Rehearsing the Circle at Hope: (from left to right) Hillary Dykema, horn; Stephanie van Ravensway, bass clarinet; Tom Owens, electric guitar; Glenn Lester, contrabass; Andrew deAlvaré, contrabass

Slowest of the Slow
The Harmonic Protection Circle is featured on Kyle Gann's Post Classic Radio on the Internet, with the following comment:
"Of all the slow, stationary, eventless recordings on Postclassic Radio, Elodie Lauten's Harmonic Protection Circle is the slowest, most stationary, and most eventless. And absolutely gorgeous. "
For a link to this site, go to www.artsjournal.com

Unexpectedly, art
A single, solitary sample of Elodie Lauten's talisman art will be hanging at Lincoln Center Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, from Nov. 24 to Dec. 8 Mon-Sat in the annual Arts Loisaida show including works by Deborah Aslanian, Mario Bustamante, Christopher Butt, Hector Cardenas, Lois Carlo, Onno de Jong, Ken Ecker, Dennis Edge, Sonja Hofer, Elodie Lauten, Keiko Kato, Patti Kelly, Jill London, Horacio Molina, Orange, Carolyn Ratcliffe, Ana Ruiz-Castillo, Gavin Spielman, Leslie Tanner, Mario Vallejo. Opening reception: December 3, 4-6 PM Contact info: 212-674-4057 www.artsloisaida.org

Studio 21 News
In September 2004 Lauten launched the Studio 21 Underground collection of releases without bar code. They are produced as artist series and not available in stores.

CDs Just Released!

Orfreo - the opera by Michael Andre and Elodie Lauten, performed by Elaine Comparone, harpsichordist, and the Queen's Chamber Band, featuring Marshall Coid, countertenor: live recording of the acclaimed performance at Merkin Hall in
June 2004.

Hope - premieres of Elodie Lauten's chamber music performed by the students at Hope College, produced by John Erskine, conducted by Richard Piippo.

Upcoming productions: Charlotte Surkin, mezzo soprano - a CD featuring works by contemporary composers. Jon Catler and Meredith Borden, partners in just intonation - improvisations and duets.

Copyright Elodie Lauten 2005