Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
This year’s New Works program kicks off on September 9th at the Cincinnati Ballet. Performances will go until the 19th. You can get tickets here: http://www.cballet.org/performances/newworks
For those of you unable to come, the music will be on sale here shortly after the performances. I can’t wait to hear people’s responses – it has been a massive amount of work for me, not to mention Heather, who only got the final version of the music a few weeks ago!
Friday, June 25th, 2010
I’ll be performing on the radio show Whad’Ya Know when they broadcast live from Cincinnati on July 17th. Listeners can tune in on their local NPR/PRI affiliate station. Info and tickets for the Cincinnati show are here.
Sunday, September 20th, 2009
A couple of reviews, one from David Lyman at the Cincinnati Enquirer and one from Julie Mullins at CityBeat.
From the Enquirer:
Northern Kentucky University faculty member Heather Britt, best-known locally for her Rhythm & Motion classes, closed the program with “All Too Wonderful.” Working with all 19 company members, Britt takes full advantage of the power of unison dancing. But the emotional underpinning of the piece is Peter Adams’ commissioned score. From its first notes, it invests the piece with a fable-like quality, a sense that something momentous – maybe even magical – is about to unfold.
I’m awaiting word on a video, and I’m also debating how to make the music available. I sold CDs of it at the performance, and I’ll get it up here on the site in some form, whether streaming, download, or physical.
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
I want to thank everyone who was out on Fountain Square last night on a beautiful May evening in Cincinnati. That might have been the most people I’ve ever played in front of, although last year’s 4th of July Festival in Northside was also pretty big. I certainly had a lot of fun. To think about how dead that area was just five years ago is amazing – maybe Cincinnati occasionaly gets things right?
We were also at WOXY yesterday morning, and as soon as I find the archive of that I’ll post it. We played Listen Harmony, Feet to the Fire, Elevators, Ghost in the Fen, and Annabel Lee.
And the Lunaphonic Omnibox is officially out of print! A big “thank you” to everyone who bought one – I know $70 is a lot to swing these days on music. I’ll put the vinyl copies of “Planets” up for sale on this site in the near future, and I’ve already begun selling them at shows.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Deep in the thick of writing and recording songs for the next album, I’m finding my thoughts returning over and over to three main subjects: my memories, my dreams, and my city. Sometimes they all get mixed up together and I can’t really tell where one ends and the other begins.
I found a book called Cincinnati Scenes that is comprised of wonderful little sketches by an artist named Caroline Williams. Some of you familiar with Cincinnati may recognize the name, as she provided sketches of the city to the Sunday edition of the Enquirer for several decades. She kept her eye on the city during a period of extreme transformation. The book doesn’t have any specific dates about when the sketches were made, but her descriptions sometimes contain hints, such as allusions to the “Northeast Expressway” (now known as Interstate 71) that would drastically alter the views. I estimate (based partially on info from the wonderful Cincinnati Transit site) that her sketches were made during the fifties and sixties.
I went through Google maps to look at some of the scenes as they appear today.
These first two are views of West Sixth Street, right in the heart of downtown. Williams, in her description of the scene, describes the huge brick market that used to take up this block and how many markets there used to be downtown. Today only Findlay Market remains. As fondly as she recalls the old market, I wonder how she would feel of the further alterations made to the block since her sketch. Now, the street is consumed on one side by the convention center and by the convention center’s four-story parking lot on the other. A skywalk can be seen further down the street, part of Cincinnati’s mid-70′s plan to suffocate street life.
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Peter Adams is a musician in Cincinnati. He writes, performs, and produces music by playing every instrument. He also plays live with a band. He is influenced by lo-fi neo-psych folk-punk and hi-fi avant-garde post-minimalist music, and is always on the lookout for a new hyphenated style.
