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NEWS:

July 29th, 2012-Ictus will premiere a new "7 inch version" of Clint's April Eighteenth 1993, Waco, Texas and the brand spankin' new Dance Up Close To Me II for Fender Rhodes and amplifier operator in Darmstadt Germany for the Liquid Room performance at the end of the summer courses!!!

April 13th, 2012-Brendan Nguyen will premiere Clint's new piano and electonics piece (title forthcoming) at 8pm in the UCSD Conrad Prebys Music Center Black Box.

March 9th and 10th-Ensemble Ictus will premiere Clint's new electric ensemble piece April Eighteenth 1993, Waco, Texas, at the Kaai Theater in Brussels. Clint will be there, tasting beer and cheese!!!

February 28, 2012-Leah Bowden will premiere Clint's new percussion solo Imploding Sent In Bomb, at 8pm in the UCSD Conrad Prebys Music Center Black Box.

February 24, 2012-Berglind María Tómastottír and Leslie Ann Leythem will premiere Clint's new flute and voice duo Twinzies, at 8pm in the UCSD Conrad Prebys Music Center Black Box.

February 15, 2012-At 9:30 west coast time, Clint will be playing new electric guitar and bass music with Nick Deyoe on the awesome experimental music series Ear Meal on LAArtStream. Streaming live around the world!!!

February 10, 2012-The La Jolla Symphony Orchestra will be premiering still getting rid of (Version B), a composition by Nick Deyoe that sets a new set of poems by Clint. Check out a recording here.  Find the full uncensored text here (the people in charge of the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra deemed Tattoo You/Tattoo Me to offensive for the ears of their audience. Judge for yourself.)

December 30, 2011-Akron Homecoming!!! The beastly Brooklyn percussionist Dennis Sullivan will be performing Clint's onanspazautonomotor at The Spot (27 North High Street, Akron OH). Show starts at 9pm.

December 20, 2011-Martin Losert and Ernst Surberg of Ensemble Mosaik will be performing Clint's in a hall of mirrors waiting to die in Stuttgart: Theaterhaus Stuttgart P1 Siemensstr 11.

December 3, 2011-Clint will be performing his piece onanspazautonomotor for electric guitar in New York City. The concert is all electric guitar music and will feature performances by Geof Holbrook, Bryan Jacobs, Christopher Trapani and Miller Puckette! Come check it out at Exapno (33 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY) 8pm!

September 21, 2011-The amazing film verion of Meat Your Mirror, filmed and edited by Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli and Miki Davis, was screened at the CalIT art happy hour. Watch it and see if you can resist sending it to your friends...

September 11, 2011-Clint finished a new composition comissioned by the profoundly bad-ass Belgian ensemble Ictus. It's ofr voice, sax, synthesizer, drumset, electric guitar and electric bass. It's titled April Eighteenth 1993, Waco, Texas. Guess the topic and win a free clintophonics t-shirt!!!

July 24, 2011-Clint finished a new solo percussion piece--Imploding Sentin Bomb: for 1 person playing vibes and drumset--on this day, his birthday!

May 29, 2011-Clint's composition in a hall of mirrors waiting to die continues to be a hit state-side and abroad. It will be played by Ensemble Mosaik on June 14, 2011 in Berlin, and then by Ensemble Nikel on July 8, 2011 in Tel Aviv!!!

May 26, 2011-Jonathan Piper premiered Clint's new composition, Jejumum Pummeller, for amplified tuba and drum-machine. Recording forthcoming.

May 22, 2011-The AQUAPUKE website got a make over, and there are some beautiful new recordings to listening to there.

April 15, 2011-NPR included Clint on its eclectic list of 100 composers under 40.

April 12, 2011-Clint's new composition, Final Girl 1, was premiered by Jess Aszodi, Leslie Leytham, Meghann Welsh, and Stephanie Aston. The piece involves the three woman screaming throughout, interpreting various emotional adjectives. The score and recording have been posted!!!

March 4, 2011-Clint premiered an original performance piece titled Your Thirty Three Years Are Up as a contribution to the Archive Fever performance/art series at the University Art Gallery of UCSD. He was joined by Leah Bowden and Eric Derr on drumset, and Jonathan Piper, Paul Hembre, and Sean Conway on trumpets.  Find video of the performance here, and check out Stephanie Lie's fabulous photography of the performance here.

December 6, 2010-Clint passed his qualification examinations, making him one step closer to the title of Doctor Clint. In order to fulfill the requirements he wrote three substantial papers: on ascending melodies in electronic dance music; on his re-enactment of Freeing the Voice and Lacanian psychoanalysis; and on three of his own compositions and their theoretical connections to anatomy, the butterflies, performance anxiety, masturbation, and horror movies. We'll post these papers as soon as our editors clean up the typos.

October 29, 2010-Clint re-enacted Marina Abramovic's epic 1972 performance piece Freeing the Voice. He laid on his back and screamed until he lost his voice (which took a little more then ninety minutes). Listen to the recording here. stay tuned for the video version that will be released some day. In the meantime, check out Jonathan Piper's beautiful photography of the performance here.

September 10, 2010-HOT HOT HOT OFF THE PRESSES!!! The recording of they don't make that part anymore, featuring: Matthias Koole on the axe; Ryan Muncy on the horn; Dennis Sullivan hittin' shit; and the one and only Lucas Vis beatin' the beats!

September 10, 2010-Important updates going on at the clintophonics compound. We finally got the ok to post Clint's infamous grindcore (he insists on the term "romanticore") record Love Songs. Listen to it here.

September 10, 2010-You can watch Clint perform in a leotard! It had to be split into part 1 and 2 for youtube. Meat Your Mirror was composed and performed by Clint and Bob Pierzak. 

July 17-31, 2010-Clint will be at the Darmstadt Musikinstitut where his new piece, they don't make that part anymore (for soprano saxophone, percussion, and electric guitar), will be premiered by Ryan Muncy, Dennis Sullivan, and Matthias Koole on July 30th in the Oranjerie.

Batya shreds! Check out this recording!

April 9, 2010-violinist Batya MacAdam-Somer wil premiere were running through the woods, Clint's new violin solo, at the Conrad Prebys concert hall at UCSD at 8pm. The piece is based on Clint's Messiaenic transcriptions of women screaming in his favorite horror movies.

The LA Times reviewed the Monday Evening Concerts program and gave Clint his first blurb: "He's a Coloradan who studied at UC San Diego but has not lost his cowboy hat." (Note: article title should read "Blood on the Keyboard in Zipper Hall." Which did happen courtesy of piano brutalizer Eric Wubbels. Eric played Webern immediately afterwards, so it's kind of like Clint bled on Webern).

January 11, 2009-In a Hall of Mirrors Waiting to Die, Clint's peice for soprano saxophone and piano, gets its Los Angeles premeire on the always awesome concert series Monday Evening Concerts. See the rest of the program and season here.

Check out Clint related videos on the youtube! Find him performing peices by Carolyn Chen and himself here, and a short interveiw with him about his music here!!!

October 26, 2009-The Kenners album got an awesome review on the New Music Box that includes some nice things said about Clint!!!

July 24, 2009-A new performance piece titled Trio Sonata (Dessert) will be performed by the man himself at The Wulf in LA on his 29th birthday! Check out  The Wulf here.

June 6, 2009-Spektral just released The Kenners album Intersections, which contains Clint's peice In a Hall of Mirrors Waiting to Die. Clint has lots of copies. Contact him if you want to donate something in exchange.

A new piece by Clint titled Back through the Window-Gaze: Hommage a Chris Burden will be premiered by the man himself on a fabulous concert curated by the amazing Carolyn Chen on Sunday May 17 at the Conrad Prebys Music building at UCSD...bring your goggles!

Clint will premere a new version of a peice for violin, tape, and dancers with Ashley Bowman (choreography) and Benny Nisbet (violin) in Tuscon on May 9 and 10

April 23, 2009-A new percussion duo with motorized bowing machines, written for Red Fish Blue Fish,  titled 3 Years and 4 Months Waiting in the Mud is finished and recorded. Final mix is coming soon!!! Kevin Larke is the man!!!

April 8, 2009-A new peice for harpsichord through Fender guitar amplifier, written for Takae Ohnishi, titled Dance Up Close to Me is done and recorded. Final mix coming soon!!!!!

Check out Clint singing with tuba master Jon Piper as the tuba-voice-electronics duo Aquapuke And The Decent Graduate HERE!!!

There's a new song on Clint's myspace page HERE!!!

Clint went to Darmstadt to attend the famous summer new music courses. Eliot Gattegno and Kate Ledger performed in a hall of mirrors waiting to die and the Darmstadt jury gave Clint a Stipendium prize!

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