other arts

while waiting for herb levy to get his other arts website online, been checking out the artists he's bringing to van cliburn recital hall next year: carl stone (march 7-8) and wayne horvitz's gravitas quartet (april 4-5). while i find the promo material for computer muso stone's most recent alb al-noor as perplexing as my pal jay hardesty's explanations of his tone23 project, the sound samples i've heard from gravitas quartet's 2006 alb way out east put me in mind of dave douglas' charms of the night sky, a fave spin around mi casa. maybe it's the unusual instrumentation (oboe, cello, trumpet, piano), maybe it's the "chamber music with improv" approach. whatevah, it sounds intriguing to me.