Lou Bunk is a composer and improviser of sonically rich and intricate music that investigates sound and silence through extended instrumental techniques, microtones, amplified found objects, and generative approaches to texture and form.
Recent Projects
Collide-O-Scope Music, I co-direct this NYC based new music ensemble.
Opensound, a concert series I co-produce in Somerville MA.
Form-and-timbre: The BSC and the Boston Improvising Community, A chapter I wrote for the book “Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music”, Oxford University Press (2011) Avaialble on Amazon.
Being and Becoming, a lifelong composition exploring how subtle change can both lead to and be structural transformation.
Luna, for saxophone and electronics is inlcuded on Phantasm, Eric Honour's recent release on Ravello.
Scratch-O-Lin, a homemade instrument of cardboard, Styrofoam and elastic bands.
Tower of Electro-Acoustic Flim-Flammery, A vertical improvising instrument of sound making trash and bric-a-brac.
Grizzler, a gigantic improvising ensemble, directed by Dave Gross.
2lous, an improvising duo with Lou Cohen.
Star of Love, a Children's Opera about love and music.
Feb. 16 Collide-O-Scope Music plays Opensound in Somerville MA.
Feb. 22 Peforming Styrofoam-o-phone at Xfest at the 119 Gallery in Lowell MA.
April 13 New solo clarinet piece for Collide-O-Scope Music
April 20 Performing "Study for Bowed Cardboard" at SEAMUS national conference in St. Paul MN.
April 27 2lous plays Opensound. in Somerville MA.
April 28 Cut (feat. K. Kirchoff) programed on BEAMS, Waltham MA
May 4 Performing "Walls and Lattices" with Collide-O-Scope Music at The Cell in NYC
June 1 Performing styrofoam-o-phone at the Flopera House Awards Shows.
June 9 Segements of Cut (feat. K. Kirchoff, toy piano) will be played at Mobius for "Sign of Our Times"
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