Alone Together (2012)

There has been so much talk about the internet and social media being both the great connector and the great divider of people. The feeling is that these conduits of information and connectors of people bring with them a kind of odd alienation and disconnect, that we are simultaneous with people and without people. I had been thinking about these things and the image that stuck with me was the physical reality of how we spend so much of our internet time: alone, by ourselves, tucked away in our apartments and homes. My music comes from that place, the quiet times when we commune with our screens and our networks.

The title Alone Together takes its cue from the Sherry Turkle book of the same name and not the legendary Arthur Schwarz and Howard Dietz song.

Alone Together was commissioned by the Heavy Hands Bass Quartet and premiered May 10, 2012 at the Gershwin Hotel by the Heavy Hands Bass Quartet

October 8, 2019 Areté, Brooklyn, NY. Large Furniture.

March 17, 2019 Melbourne Girls Grammar, South Yarra, AU. Lisa Dowling.

February 18, 2017 Omi Arts Center, Ghent, NY. Lisa Dowling.

December 6, 2013 The Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, NY. Lisa Dowling.

December 5, 2013 Sprague Hall, Yale School of Music, New Haven, CT. Lisa Dowling.

December 18, 2012 Spectrum, New York, NY. Heavy Hands Quartet.

June 20, 2012 The Stone, New York, NY. Heavy Hands Bass Quartet.

May 10, 2012 Gershwin Hotel, New York, NY. Heavy Hands Quartet.