December 19, 2024
8pm
Wormburner annual Holiday Show w/ Yule Dogs
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY
Wormburner (with me on bass guitar and electric guitar) performs their annual Holiday show with the Yule Dogs and their rocking holiday tunes at the storied Lower East Side music venue.
December 7, 2024 - 7pm
December 8, 2024 - 4pm
Traces
Community of Sound
1 Main St. Burlington, VT
A new iteration of the Traces project, featuring piano, text, singing, video projections, and more. Funded, in part, by Burlington City Arts Community Fund.
June 16, 2024
South Cove Song Overlay
South Cove Park (map location)
Battery Park City, New York, NY
part of the River to River Festival 2024
A new performance work, created for the River to River festival, centered on the past(s), present(s), and future(s) of Lower Manhattan. Featuring TILT Brass.
May 2 - 5, 2024
Music for Matthew Westerby Dance Company
Hudson Guild Theater
Chelsea, New York, NY
Performing Migratory Patterns, commissioned by MWC with Travis Just, and a new commission for the MWC, City of Ashes, a collaboration with Bent Duo.
March 15 - 16, 2024
Object Collection performs Robert Ashley’s Automatic Writing
The Lab
San Francisco, CA
Performing guitar in Object Collection’s reimagining of Ashley’s seminal 1979 album, Automatic Writing.
February 2, 2024
Terminal Cities (solo performance)
The Collapsable Hole (Mutual Obliteration no 1)
Westbeth Center, 155 Bank St.
New York, NY
Debut of a new performance project featuring long form, beat oriented, guitar explorations. The death and life of urbanity.
February 1, 2024
Wormburner
11th St. Bar (11th St. at Ave A)
New York, NY
Wormburner performs some stripped down originals and choice classic songs
December 21, 2023
Wormburner annual Holiday Show w/ Yule Dogs
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY
Wormburner (with me on bass guitar and electric guitar) performs their annual Holiday show with the Yule Dogs and their rocking holiday tunes at the storied Lower East Side music venue.
October 17, 2023
new performance by Casey Anderson with Bent Duo
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Appearing at Bard College with Casey Anderson performing a newly written work by Anderson with Bent Duo and myself.
October 14 + 15, 2023
Forest Song
Inwood Hill Park
New York, NY
A new site-specific performance conjuring a human / arboreal reflection and conversation. Supported by LMCC, UMEZ, & NoMAA. Performances at 2pm & 4pm on Saturday October 14, 2023 and at 1pm and 3pm on Sunday October, 15, 2023.
October 7, 2023 (raindate on Sunday October 8, 2023)
Uptown Dances by Matthew Westerby Company
Fort Tryon Park, Dongan Lawn
New York, NY
2pm-4pm
Selections from Migratory Patterns, a dance performance with original music by JPH + Travis Just.
September 29, 2023 POSTPONED to Friday October 6, 2023
Migratory Patterns & Other Works
The High Line
New York, NY
6pm
A new dance and music performance created with the Matthew Westerby Company.
August 3, 2023
The Hold Steady w/ Wormburner
R.J. Daniels
Rockville Centre, NY
tickets & info
Wormburner (where I play bass guitar / guitar) performers with the fantastic band The Hold Steady as part of the Shine A Light music series.
April 20 - 23, 2023
The Gathering
Matthew Westerby Company 2023 performance season
Hudson Guild Theater
New York, NY
Premiere of a new collaboration with choreographer Matthew Westerby.
April 1 - 24, 2023
Audible Biologicals, part of THE PRINTMAKERS LEFT: CATALOG OF THE RADICALLY USELESS AND USEFULLY RADICAL
The Gatewood Gallery, UNC Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
opening: April 3, 2023
March 17 - April 8, 2023
Traces
Indexical
Santa Cruz, CA
performances: March 17 & 18, 2023
Premiere of a new installation project, Traces, co-created with Ben Mayock. Featuring performances on March 17 & 18.
December 6, 7, 8, 2022
The Former World - a presentation
Brick Aux
628 Metropolitan Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
Doors - 7:30pm / Presentation - 8pm
Buy tickets here.
Installation and performance presentation of The Former World spread over three separate nights. Various conglomerations and amalgamations will occur each evening, resulting in differing sounds and activities. Presented at the Brick Aux 628 Metropolitain Ave Brooklyn, NY, part of The Brick Theater.
December 3, 2022
The Former World - a presentation
Indexical
Santa Cruz, CA
Touring version of The Former World, featuring Chris Kallmyer. Also performing Kallmyer’s Mountain Language.
November 30, 2022
The Former World - a presentation
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
Touring version of The Former World, featuring Chris Kallmyer. Also performing Kallmyer’s Mountain Language.
October 26-30, 2022
Automatic Writing
The Brick Theater
Brooklyn, NY
Performing guitar as part of Object Collection’s reinterpretation of Robert Ashley’s seminal recording from 1979.
October 8, 2022
Uptown Dances on the Lawn
Dongan Law, Fort Tryon Park
New York, NY
Creating music and sound for a new dance work by choreographer Matthew Westerby.
September 10, 2022
VERBATIM | text sound expo
Opus 40
Saugerties, NY
Performing as part of the winds measure record label
June 17-26, 2022
Look Out Sh!thead - Object Collection
La Mama
New York, NY
Performing processed piano as part of the Object Collection’s latest “stoned soap opera.”
June 2, 2022
7:30pm
Album release: Songs, Crystals, Drone / guitars from The Former World
Community of Sound
1 Main St.
Burlington, VT
This release show will feature performances from Terrance von Solomone, John P. Hastings, & Benjamin Mayock, dual screen projections and other ephemera. The LP as well as the book, The Former World: a photo book will be available for purchase.
December 3, 2021 - January 7, 2022
Audible Biologicals, part of Catalog: New Work from the. Printmaker's left
Cressman Center for Visual Arts
University of Louisville
100 E Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202
A new work will be debuted as part of the collective the. Printmaker’s left’s show at the Cressman Center.
October 27 - 30, 2021
Interstitials / Concrete Island
Various locations around New York City
Concrete Islands is a performance, video, and audio work that accesses the leftover, forgotten, and liminal spaces that exist in our urban environment. In our conception, these “negative spaces” become a platform for musical discovery, a visual reliquary for a specific time, and a place to investigate a different perspective on civic mindedness.
September 10 - 12, 2021
The Former World, an installation
ArtHop 2021
The Hive, Burlington, VT
This is an installation version of The Former World project, featuring audio, video, and objects; a photobook will available for purchase as well. For times and more information please visit SEABA’s ArtHop 2021 webpage: https://www.seaba.com/arthop2021
June 20 + 21, 2021
Cloudsplitter
Isham Park, Inwood, New York, NY
June 20, 2021: 11am & 12pm / June 21, 2021: 7:30pm
Cloudsplitter, a work for brass ensemble, will be premiered in June 2021. The work is supported by LMCC’s Creative Engagement grant, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, and Make Music New York 2021.
May 30 , 2020
Vermont Drone Day
live stream
1800 - 2200
A performance of Drones from The Former World in honor of International Drone Day.
September 21, 2019
Passages | Pasajes
Dongan Lawn, Fort Tryon Park, New York, NY
4pm - 6pm
Premiere of a new site specific work for many performers. Supported by Creative Engagement, part of LMCC.
July 16 & 17, 2019
Interrobang !? Festival
Brooklyn, NY
8pm
Performance of the final section of The Former World, CRYSTALS.
May 2, 2019
Waking Windows
Winooski, VT
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Performance of Drones from The Former World as part of the Community of Sound showcase at the Waking Windows festival.
April 30, 2019
University of New Haven
New Haven, CT
11am
Artist talk as part of the Honors course, Sonic Ecology: Music and the Outdoors
January 26, 2019
Community of Sound
Burlington, VT
8pm
Performance of White (VT) along with a new work by Ben Mayock.
January 26, 2019
Community of Sound
Burlington, VT
2pm - 5pm
Field Recording Workshop conducted at Community of Sound with Ben Mayock
September 29, 2018
Spiral Jetty
Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, UT
12pm
Performance of a new work for the clarinet and percussion duo Red Desert, Spirals for Jettie. Part of Utah Museum of Fine Arts Community Meetup.
June 21, 2018
Muscota Marsh Park
218th St. & Indian Rd. New York NY
7:45pm
Premiere of my new site-specific outdoor performance, Muscota Marsh Harmony.
January 21, 2018
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer St. Brooklyn, NY
3pm
Performance of STRATA section of The Former World along with works by Laurie Spiegel and Mark So.
November 11, 2017
2:20pm – 2:40pm
Underpass of I-10 Freeway and National Blvd.
Culver City, CA
Part of LA Road Concert 2017
Autopia is performed by Matt Barbier as part of the LA Road Concerts 2017.
September 9, 2017
Center for New Music
San Francisco, CA
8pm
New performance of The Former World with Ben Mayock.
July 15, 2017
LUMEN8
Staten Island Arts
at Atlantic Salt Co. Inc.
561 Richmond Terrace Staten Island, NY
11am-4pm
Repeat performance of LUMEN Resonant Sound Space as part of the LUMEN8 exhibition.
February 24, 2017
FIRST TAKE
Aratani Theater
244 S. San Pedro St. Los Angeles, CA
7pm
Presentation of my opera-in-progress The Former World. Produced by The Industry and wild Up. More information here.
December 16, 2016
Invisible Dog
51 Bergen St. Brooklyn, NY
7:30pm
Performance of various Text Operations (procedures for reading texts aloud) from my forthcoming opera, The Former World. Presented by Indexical and the Experimental Music Yearbook.
June 25, 2016
2016 LUMEN Festival
Staten Island Arts
Atlantic Salt Co Inc
561 Richmond Ter, Staten Island, New York 10301
7pm – 12pm
Premiere of my new site specific performance installation, LUMEN Resonant Sound Space
November 8, 2015
8pm
the wulf.
1026 S. Sante Fe Ave. Los Angeles, CA
Part of the Experimental Music Yearbook 2015
Premiere performances of Guitarmony and Give the Drummer Some.
June 21, 2015
8pm – 9pm
DUMBO ConEd Farragut Substation (Plymouth St. btw Gold S. & Bridge St), Brooklyn
Part of Make Music New York 2014
For the 4th year, I will be presenting my piece HUM 7 8 9 at the ConEd Farragut Substation in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
June 17, 2015
8pm
on the green at Rosa-Luxemburg-Str./corner Almstadtstr., Berlin 10119 Germany
Presented by Itinerant Interludes
European premiere of Pete Seeger in Monte Carlo by Seth Josel at the location of Michael Beutler’s site-specific installation WECHSELSTUBEN.
April 12, 2015
1pm
Recital Salon, School of Performing Arts
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
Performance of Fjord as part of the recital of Keane McBride.
February 5, 2015
8pm
Silent Barn
603 Bushwick Ave. Brooklyn, NY
New York premiere of my suite Folk Music. Part of Dan Joseph’s curated evening, Experiments with Instruments, Electronics and Whiskey.
August 7, 2014
8pm
Klangraum series
KUNSTRAUM / JAZZ-SCHMIEDE
Himmelgeisterstraße 107 a/e 40225 Düsseldorf
Premiere of Melody & Accompaniment performed by Antoine Beuger and D. Edward Davis.
June 25, 2014
9pm
Elastic Arts
2830 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL
As part of the Experimental Music Yearbook 2014 concerts, I am presenting a new work alongside Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, Troy Schafer and Katherine Young.
June 21, 2014
8pm – 9pm
DUMBO ConEd Farragut Substation (Plymouth St. btw Gold S. & Bridge St), Brooklyn
Part of Make Music New York 2014
For the 3rd year, I will be presenting my piece HUM 7 8 9 at the ConEd Farragut Substation in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Friday June 20, 2014
6pm
The Silent Barn
603 Bushwick Ave. Brooklyn, NY
As part of the Experimental Music Yearbook 2014 concerts I will premiere a new work alongside Carmina Escobar, Casey Anderson & Scott Cazan.
May 30, 2014
the wulf. 1026 Santa Fe. Ave. #203 Los Angeles, CA 90021
John P. Hastings presents ‘Folk Music‘
Year of the Snake – for cassette tape & boombox
Pete Seeger in Monte Carlo – for banjo
The Moon Shows No Light – for string instrument
Folk music is abstracted and reframed in this suite of new work. Personal histories are exhumed, cultural touchstones are requisitioned and the ghosts of protests and mathematics are synthesized.
February 8, 2014
Audio Visual Arts
34 E. 1st St. New York, NY
Sonic Baptism for Thomas B. R. Hastings.
November 23, 2013
La Chapelle
Montpellier, France
Performance of Theory of Harmony by Dedalus Ensemble. Part of their Made in the USA program.
November 22, 2013
Instants Chavirés
Paris, France
Performance of Theory of Harmony by Dedalus Ensemble. Part of their Made in the USA program.
September 9, 2013
8pm
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
Premiere of Theory of Harmony for Ensemble Dedalus. More information here.
August 14, 2013
8pm
Silent Barn
603 Bushwick Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
Laptop noise extravaganza / work-in-progress. With Travis Just, Paula Matthusen, et al.
June 29, 2013
8pm
Willow Place Auditorium
26 Willow Place
Brooklyn, NY
as part of Transit Series II.7: Bandwidth
Premiere of my new piece White (Vermont) for 6 performers and stereo playback. The concert also features work by my colleagues Michael Winter, Laura Steenberge and others as well as the immensely great piece Critical Band by the composer James Tenney.
June 21, 2013
7:30pm – 9pm
Plymouth St btw Gold & Bridge St.
DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
as part of Make Music New York 2013
Second year of having HUM 7 8 9 as part of Make Music New York. This is a group participatory piece, where the audience joins in to the 60Hz hum that is part of the ConEd power station. Score cards will be handed out, though the piece will be very easy to understand and entails no musical training.
May 4, 2013
3pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline Park
near the Bayfarm Bridge
Oakland, CA
The premiere of a new site specific piece for small ensemble, Oakland Shoreline Drone Space.
April 10, 2013
8pm
109 Gallery
109 Broadway Brooklyn, NY 11211
Solo double bass performance of Negative Space by Dominic Lash (UK). I will also be part of the ensemble for other works on the program.
January 31 – February 1, 2013
7pm
HERE Arts Center
145 6th Ave, New York, NY
Sonic accompaniment to Restless Nest, a work-in-progress performance piece by choreographer Rebecca Davis.
November 9, 2012
8pm
Center for Performance Research
Brooklyn, NY
Sonic accompaniment to a work-in-progress dance piece by choreographer Rebecca Davis.
November 5, 2012
8pm
Festival of New American Music
Sacramento State University, Music Recital Hall
Performance of my percussion trio, Terce, by Rootstock Percussion.
October 20, 2012
3pm – 5pm
290 Conover St.
Red Hook, Brooklyn
Premiere of my new site specific performance piece Red Hook Harmony.
July 27, 2012
8pm
Vox Populi
319 N. 11th St. 3rd Fl. Philadelphia, PA 19107
Performance of two pieces: Surface Noise and drops, with Tyler Wilcox.
July 26, 2012
8:30pm
The Red Room
425 E. 31st St. Baltimore, MD
Performance of two pieces: Surface Noise and drops, with Tyler Wilcox.
June 21, 2012
7pm – 9pm
Plymouth St btw Gold & Bridge St.
DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
More information can be found here.
Premiere of my new piece HUM 7 8 9. This is a group participatory piece, where the audience joins in to the 60Hz hum that is part of the ConEd power station. Score cards will be handed out, though the piece will be very easy to understand and entails no musical training.
May 11, 2012
8pm
Presents Gallery
64 Washington Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11216
East Coast premieres of new recent works: Terce for percussion trio and Negative Space a graphic score. Performers include myself, Cat Lamb, Travis Just and others TBD.
April 16, 2012
10pm
Eyebeam
540 W 21st St. New York, NY 10011
Performance of Structure (for Mies) with laptop. As part of Daniel Neumann’s Music After Hours series at Eyebeam Gallery
February 29, 2012
7:30pm
The LAB
2948 16th Street San Francisco, CA
Performance of a new piece written for the Rootstock Percussion trio. Presented as part of the 2012 Other Minds Festival Fellowship.
February 25, 2012
8pm
Issue Project Room
110 Livingston St. Brooklyn, NY
Performance of for Barnett Newman as part of the Experimental Music Yearbook concert at Issue Project Room.
November 13, 2011
8pm
S.E.M. Ensemble / Willow Place Auditorium
26 Willow Place Brooklyn, NY 11201
Performance of tone | field with James Ross, Michael V. Waller, Fahad Siadat and others TBD.
November 11, 2011
8pm
Sound Series at Presents Gallery
64 Washington Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11205
Debut of a new field recording piece, along with others in a special Phonography night.
October 22, 2011
8pm
the wulf.
1026 South Santa Fe Avenue #203, Los Angeles, California 90021
Premiere of my new graphic score, Negative Space (to Michael Heizer). Performed by Casey Anderson, Chris Kallmyer and Scott Cazan.
July 1, 2011
8pm
The Wild Beast 24700 McBean Parkway Valencia, CA 91355
Eric KM Clark will be performing my graphic score Proportions on his Simplified Violin™, a standard violin equipped with four E-strings.
June 24, 2011
7:30pm
Meridian Gallery 535 Powell Street San Francisco, CA 94108
Eric KM Clark will be performing my graphic score Proportions on his Simplified Violin™, a standard violin equipped with four E-strings.
June 23, 2011
8pm
Sound Series at Presents Gallery #13 64 Washington Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11205
Columbia University Architectural History Ph.D. candidate James Graham and composer John P. Hastings present a lecture / performance / homage to Mies van der Rohe. With a installation by Meredith Miller. I’ll be premiering a new piece: Structures II (for Mies) a solo piece created with field recordings and sine tones.
May 26, 2011
Music at Incubator Arts Project
Incubator Arts Project
Curated by Travis Just, I’m performing a suite of new works:
Proportions – a graphic score performed with the harmonically tuned electric guitars
Symmetric Convergence – for five players
and my new arrangement of John Cage’s Four5 performed with a quartet of ebowed electric guitars.
March 5, 2011
Sound Series at Presents Gallery
Presents Gallery
64 Washington Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11205
A concert devoted to my own music featuring for Barnett Newman, vibrations and the premieres of tone | field and bells.
November 20, 2010
Sound Series at Presents Gallery
Presents Gallery
64 Washington Ave. Brooklyn, NY
premiere of drops for two guitars
October 22, 2010
The Experimental Music Yearbook 2010
The Wild Beast at the California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA
Premiere of For Barnett Newman
July 31, 2010
Machine Project 1200 N. Alvarado St. Los Angeles, CA
Amplified Party, a performance / installation for party goers
June 19, 2010
The Pescadrome 101 S. Quarantine Street Santa Barbara, CA
Ensemble 303 Presents: my new work noise / tone / pulse / metal and new pieces by Anderson, Cazan and Winter as well as John Cage’s Four 6.
June 17, 2010
the wulf. 1026 S. Santa Fe Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90021
Ensemble 303 Presents: premiere of my new work noise / tone / pulse / metal and new pieces by Anderson, Cazan and Winter as well as John Cage’s Four 6.
June 8, 2010
The Dogstar Orchestra Volume 6
The Wild Beast, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
West Coast premiere of vibrations and pieces by Travis Just, Sam Sifirri, Jason Brogan and others.
March 31, 2010
Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Ave. Brooklyn, NY
Sound+Field
works by Cage, Tenney & Pisaro with premiere performances of pieces by Hastings, Jasenak & Mayock
October 25, 2009
The Experimental Music Yearbook Festival
California Institute of the Arts
Roy O. Disney Concert Hall Valencia, CA
premiere of The Rocketship in Langley Park for large ensemble
August 13, 2009
Sea and Space Gallery, Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA
Sea and Space Resort II
premiere of currently untitled performance / composition.
June 9, 2009
Roy O. Disney Hall, Valencia, CA
Dogstar Orchestra 5
premiere of bands for large ensemble
[Part of the Dogstar festival. This piece is incorporated with a 6.5 hour performance of
La Monte Young's Composition 1960 #7.]
June 6, 2009
NewTown Arts
On the Trail of… exhibition
Hahamongna Watershed Park, Pasadena, CA
installation of The Broken Chord
April 11, 2009
the wulf. 1026 S. Santa Fe Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90021
Ensemble 303 presents: Chocolate Wolff
premiere of Landscape II
December 9, 2008
the wulf. www.thewulf.org
1026 S. Santa Fe Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90021
Ensemble 303 Presents: Drones & Scones
premiere of Sonic Spiral
September 20, 2008
Soundwalk 2008
Long Beach, CA
installation of Sonic Spiral (installation version)
May 13, 2008
Roy O. Disney Hall, Valencia, CA
Ensemble 303 presents: An Evening of Experimental Music
premiere of An Investigation… for seven tunable instruments
April 17, 2008
Roy O. Disney Hall, Valencia CA
ESP 3
premiere of desertum for brass quintet with percussion quartet and sine wave
April 14, 2008
Roy O. Disney Hall, Valencia, CA
Graduate Composers Concert, The New Century Players conducted by David Rosenboom
premiere of telluric currents
November 29, 2007
8pm
Roy O. Disney Hall, Valencia, CA
ESP Concert #1
premiere of Fjord