Dark Music Days Festival 2025 - Reykjavík, Iceland, photo by Brian Fitzgibbon
UPDATE ON MUNDANAS VII-XI LP: We at Mengi Records have been placed in a bad situation. The pressing plant, DeepGrooves, after holding our order for over 5 months, claimed bankruptcy. We are doing what we can to place a new order with another pressing plant ASAP. But, for the time being, we will be opening a vinyl preorder for this record, as well as our other record that was sent to the plant, Skúli Sverrisson & Anthony Burr’s new LP. More info soon.
Thanks,
Mengi Records
MUNDANAS VII-XI is out now on Mengi Records- LP/digital. Digital available now - LP preorders announced soon. Compositions for two contrabass clarinets performed by John McCowen & Madison Greenstone
UK Shows in October - Performing a new album’s worth of solo contrabass clarinet material / photo by Dawid Laskowski
John McCowen & Theresa Wong, Headlands Center for the Arts - Sausalito, CA - August 18, 2024
MUNDANA X for CONTRABASS CLARINET, FLUTE ENSEMBLE, & SINE TONE IS AVAILABLE ON VIIBRA’S NEW LP ON MARVAÐA CREATIONS
Promotional video for the 7th Edition Festival featuring the INA GRM Acousmonium. Shot and edited by John Chantler - January 2024 @ Larry’s Corner, Stockholm.
PRESSURE CHORDS: Lucy Railton, John McCowen, & Weston Olencki @ Morphine Raum - Berlin, Oct. 2 2023 photo by Weslee Kate
NEW WORK FOR TRIO WITH WESTON OLENCKI & LUCY RAILTON: OCT 2ND, MORPHINE RAUM - BERLIN + MICHIKO OGAWA, SOLO - SHŌ
with Roscoe Mitchell, Sept. 9 2023 - Courtesy of ISSUE Project Room. Photographer: Cameron Kelly McLeod
Lukas Koenig’s Sound Hazard (L to R): John McCowen, Farida Amadou, Lukas Koenig, Luke Stewart, Pat Thomas - Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2023, Austria - photo by Matthias Heschl
Q-O2 OSCILLATION FESTIVAL, BRUSSELS / APRIL 2023 - PHOTO by CAMILLE POITEVIN
pianissimo etc. by Carlo Costa (percussion) & John McCowen (contrabass clarinet) out now on Triptick Tapes
- “BLAME TUNING” TONGUE DEPRESSOR (HENRY BIRDSEY & ZACH ROWDEN) & JOHN McCOWEN, TAPE COMING SOON ON FULL SPECTRUM RECORDS
SOUND AMERICAN 29: THE ROSCOE MITCHELL ISSUE - AVAILABLE NOW. HONORED TO HAVE MY WRITING AND INTERVIEW WITH ROSCOE FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE ALONG WITH ZEENA PARKINS, TYSHAWN SOREY, TOMEKA REID, JAMES FEI, SAM WEINBERG, NATE WOOLEY, AND MANY OTHERS.
FEBRUARY 7TH, 2023: CONTRABASS CLARINET ON M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN’S KNOCK AT THE CABIN, MUSIC BY HERDÍS STEFÁNSDÓTTIR. IN THEATERS NOW.
THE WIRE MAGAZINE: OCTOBER 2022, ISSUE 464 - DEEP RESONANCE
OUT ON SEPTEMBER 9th, 2022: MODELS OF DURATION
Roscoe Mitchell & John McCowen: Borealis Festival, Norway, 21 March 2022 (photo by Jan Granlie)
24/3/22: Peter Margasak included Robeson Formants in a selection of SUPERPANG releases for The Wire. See it here.
6/3/22: “John McCowen’s rendition of the contrabass clarinet version was genuinely intimidating: McCowen appeared to be exerting minimal power through the clarinet yet the extent to which it was magnified in the space made one wonder if anything would be left standing if he really let rip.”
A review of Cartography of Time for contrabass clarinet & electronics by Davið Brynjar Franzson from Dark Music Days 2022 in 5:4 here
John McCowen, Matthias Engler: Kaldalón, Harpa, Reykjavík, 4 March 2022 (photo: Ester Magnúsdóttir)
2/4/22: announced performances at Borealis Festival in Bergen, Norway.
3/17: Norwegian Naval Forces Band: world premiere of NONAAH for concert band by Roscoe Mitchell, arranged/orchestrated by John McCowen
3/18: Roscoe Mitchell in Conversation with John McCowen
3/20: world premiere of UOOU: a duo performance for bass saxophone and contrabass clarinet by Roscoe Mitchell & John McCowen
more info at borealisfestival.no
10/1/21:
10/17: Solo @ Sequences X Festival w/ Julia Eckhardt, Reykjavik
11/18: Solo @ FRIM w/ Lea Bertucci, Magnus Granberg, Stockholm
new record coming in 2022
NEW EP RELEASE, ROBESON FORMANTS ON SUPERPANG HERE - CONTRABASS CLARINET & SINE TONES
AN INTERVIEW WITH ONE OF MY FAVORITE ARTISTS, SEAN MEEHAN FOR ISSUE 25 OF SOUND AMERICAN. ORDER IT HERE
(ABOVE) WORKS FOR FEEDBACK ENSEMBLE @ ROULETTE : CHRIS CORSANO, LEILA BORDREUIL, JOHN McCOWEN, JULIA SANTOLI, LUKE STEWART, C. SPENCER YEH
(ABOVE) JOHN McCOWEN & MADISON GREENSTONE @ ISSUE PROJECT ROOM: MUNDANAS FOR DUO
(ABOVE) SOLO CONTRABASS CLARINET PERFORMANCE FOR TVLREC: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
NEW DIGITAL ALBUM, LIVE @ ISSUE PROJECT ROOM AVAILABLE ON BANDCAMP HERE
ARCHIVED LIVE STREAM: FEEDBACK 4TET (LEILA BORDREUIL, JULIA SANTOLI, LUKE STEWART, & ME) HERE
CONTRIBUTED A DIGITAL MAP OF AN ACOUSTIC PIECE, [12][A]123|123[F] TO ERSTWHILE RECORDS’ AMPLIFY SERIES
ARCHIVED LIVE STREAM: PERFORMANCE FROM EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIO/SHINYOKO CONCERT (5/19) HERE
NEW SOLO EP, TWO ENERGY COPS AT 3AM AVAILABLE ON BANDCAMP HERE
performance of SOLO CONTRA @ ISSUE Project Room | Feb. 8th 2020
12/7 : ISSUE PROJECT ROOM AIR 2020 // I will present three concerts at IPR throughout 2020. More info tba
11/23 : FREQUENCY FESTIVAL, CHICAGO (2/29) : pleased to announce I will be performing as part of the 2020 Frequency Festival in Chicago, curated by Peter Margasak. I will be opening for Keith Fullerton Whitman @ Constellation on February 29th.
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/frequency-festival-lineup-schedule-2020-experimental-margasak/Content?oid=75697365
5TET | Theresa Wong, Li Xing, Lao Dan, Boyu Deng, & John McCowen | 7/17 @ YUE SPACE, BEIJING
Zach Rowden / John McCowen @ Vox Populi, Philadelphia (music starts @ 2’15’’)
MUNDANA V @ ENDE TYMES FEST, SECRET PROJECT ROBOT, BRKLYN with MADISON GREENSTONE