IRIDA BOXED SET RELEASED
Blank Forms of Brooklyn, New York, as part of their “extensive program dedicated to Jerry Hunt” has re-released all of recordings of IRIDA Records — Jerry Hunt’s record label — including the Cartography record featuring Waschka’s Runes and Euwe Suite. The recordings are re-released as an impressive boxed set, produced with great care and dedication. Find more information at Blank Forms.
RECORDING OF RIDING WITH PHIL RELEASED
Waschka’s composition for flute and string trio, Riding with Phil, has been released on Phasma Records. Iwona Glink, Renata Ripo, Yaroslav Tokarev, and Ilias Sdoukos, performed and recorded the work. For more information, see the Discography page.
NEW RECORDING - WASCHKA PERFORMER
Ravello Records has released a new CD featuring a performance by Waschka. The disc, comprised of works by composer Jeff Morris, is called Hearing Voices: Human Sounds, Digital Ears.
The CD, released in May 2020 by the New Hampshire-based company, includes Morris's piece, A Tuesday With Rodney, that features Waschka performing as the vocalist in the three-movement, twenty-minute work.
PREMIERE AND PERFORMANCES OF A PORTRAIT OF BESSIE COLEMAN, HARRIET QUIMBY, RAYMONDE DE LAROCHE, AND MARY, LADY HEATH
The premiere performance of Waschka's A Portrait of Bessie Coleman, Harriet Quimby, Raymonde De Laroche, and Mary, Lady Heath took place at Lewis University in the Chicago area on December 6, 2019. Subsequently, the work was performed at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana on February 9, 2020 and at the 2022 International Computer Music Conference in Limerick, Ireland. The work was inspired by the lives of these pioneering women pilots.
RECORDING OF CONSIDERING JUPITER RELEASED
A compact disc recording of Waschka's piece, Considering Jupiter, has been released on Blue Griffin Records of the United States. The work, scored for piano, tape, and realtime computer graphics by Emil Poljak, was recorded by pianist Olga Kleiankina, who commissioned the work especially for her project, "...Our Passage to the Stars...". The composition was inspired, in part, by recent NASA investigations of the planet Jupiter. Read about the project here. The disc is available here.
WORLD PREMIERE OF A PORTRAIT OF LARRY AUSTIN
Waschka's piece, A Portrait of Larry Austin, received its world premiere performance at the joint 2019 International Computer Music Conference and New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival in New York. Hosted by New York University, the Conference/Festival featured composers and performers from around the world. Waschka's piece celebrates the life of composer Larry Austin (1930-2018) and was composed before Austin's death in December of 2018. Waschka was interviewed about the work by WGXC Radio just before the concert.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Waschka gave the keynote address at the International Music Metacreation conference, part of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity. Waschka spoke about endings in music metacreation.
RECORDING OF FILM NOIR TRAILER RELEASED
A recording of Waschka's piece, Film Noir Trailer, has been released on Phasma Records of Poland. The work, scored for two flutes, was recorded by Iwona Glinka. The piece was inspired by old advertisments (trailers) for film noir movies. The CDs are available here.
RECORDING OF AU REVOIR, SVETOZAR RELEASED
A recording of Waschka's piece, Au Revoir, Svetozar, has been released on Ablaze Records of Australia. The composition, scored for string quartet and zheng, was premiered by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and recorded in Prague, Czechija. The work was composed using a compositional algorithm based on the Henon Map.
PREMIERE OF STRING QUARTET NO. 4
The Aizuri Quartet gave the premiere performance of Waschka's String Quartet No. 4 on February 16, 2017 in Thompson Hall. The work was composed using a compositional algorithm based on the Duffing Map.
PREMIERE OF RALEIGH OVERTURE
The Raleigh Civic Chamber Symphony under the direction of Peter Askim presented the world premiere of Waschka's Raleigh Overture on April 24, 2016 in Stewart Theatre. Read all about it here.