• albums
  • Always Becoming
  • DR DIEGO
  • Symbolic Gesture
  • Payton MacDonald's Sonic Divide
  • PETITE ecstasy
  • Miolina
  • David Morneau's Love Songs Remixed

• 2022 performances
  • 21 April Diego Vásquez

• 2020 performances
  • 23 Feb Hans Tammen: the complete Cornelius Cardew

• 2019 performances
  • 22 May Itinerant @ Smack Mellon
  • 13 Nov mem mer mère @ Havre de Grace Cultura
  • 08 March l'Ao @ Pine Box Rock Shop

• 2018 performances
  • Fall performances
  • 30 Oct l'Ao @ KGBar
  • 19 Oct: l'Ao @ Hans Tammen's Hair
  • 29 June l'Ao w Nicole Antebi @ Brooklyn Art Lib
  • 22 June l'Ao @ Strange Stage
  • 10 June l'Ao @ Spectrum~Tom Piercy
  • 20 May l'Ao @ Pine Box Rock Shop
  • 06 May l'Ao @ DROM
  • 27 April l'Ao w Gahlord Dewald
  • 20 April Tuned Squared
  • 28 March l'Ao @ Marshall University
  • 24 March l'Ao w Marc Fiaux
  • 09 March l'Ao w Jessica Bowers
  • 27 Jan l'Ao @ Pine Box Rock Shop
  • 02 - 08 Jan l'Ao @ Toy Piano Fest

• 2017 performances
  • 18 Nov l'Ao @ Pete's Candy Store
  • 05 Nov world premiere @ lpr
  • 14 Oct l'Ao @ Emmet O'Neal Library
  • 12 Oct Miolina @ BNMF
  • 15 Sep EIO @ Soft Series No9
  • 22 Sep l'Ao with Thomas Piercy
  • 09 Sep l'Ao @ NCEMF
  • 18 Aug Sonic Divide
  • 01 Jun Sonic Divide
  • 26 May l'Ao @ Strange Stage no.3
  • 25 Apr Lynn Bechtold: Argentina
  • 22 Apr Bowers-Fader Duo
  • 17 Apr l'Ao @ Rutgers
  • 24 Mar Bowers-Fader Duo
  • 08 Mar Miolina NOC
  • 05 Mar Sonic Divide/CompCord
  • 29 Jan Miolina @ Rockwood
  • 27 Jan l'Ao Nicole Antebi
  • 26 Jan ETHEL
  • 08 Jan Nicole Antebi
  • 08 Jan Bowers-Fader Duo
  • 06 Jan l'Ao @ Toy Piano Festival

• Melissa Grey & David Morneau
  • Quiet Friends ~ Jessica Bowers
  • Trappist-1 ~ Thomas Piercy
  • Ao Vivo No Casarão | Lado B |
  • Good Morning ~ Yanbin Song
  • Biophonic Beats
  • Melissa Grey's Tuned Squared
  • Kepler-19 ~ Jessica Bowers
  • Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924)
  • Soft Series

• sounds
  • to...return for trombone & string orchestra
  • blur (after blue hour)
  • Environnement sonore
  • hyperlocal for Thomas Piercy
  • Photon Ecstasy M44, NGC 2632
  • Appassionata for Angela Grauerholz
  • SPRAWL: colony
  • Honeybee Cape Breton
  • Grey Theta for Winter Shack
  • Watertable
  • City
  • New York Interior
  • Psychodrama
  • Colony

• collaborations
  • Angela Grauerholz || Environnment Sonore
  • Angela Grauerholz || Appassionata
  • Nicole Antebi || Vince Clarke
  • Nicole Antebi || Procrustean Bed
  • Nicole Antebi || ...Bees Telling
  • Nicole Antebi || Eva Ingolf
  • David Morneau || Love Songs
  • Kirkbride || Overtone
  • Kirkbride || Beirne || Leal
  • 60x60 || New York Minutes Mix

• satorarepoTENEToperarotas
  • Vince Clarke || Nicole Antebi
  • Craig Hultgren, ecello
  • Claudia Dumschat, organ

• artistic director || concert series
  • l'Artiste ordinaire || Soft Series

• publications
  • l'Ao - Circumference Magazine
  • The Horror Show
  • Alphabet City: Water

• bio | contact
  • contact
  • bio

• . . .

17-20 August
Helper, Utah

Helper Utah Film Festival
Payton MacDonald's Sonic Divide chosen as an official selection for the Helper Utah Film Festival.

About
2,500 miles on a mountain bike, from Mexico to Canada, with 30 performances of new music created by some of the world's most original musical minds. This is the Sonic Divide, a unique performance art piece that brings together creative music, ultra-distance mountain biking, and film.

Composers include:
Bartlett, Nathaniel
Beglarian, Eve
Cooper, Dan
Esmail, Reena
Evans, Nat
Funk, Eric
Gordon, Michael
Grey, Melissa
Harrison, Michael
Hasenpflug, Thom
Ho Bynum, Taylor
Jarvis, Peter
Kitzke, Jerome
Link, John
Martin, Billy
Mittal, Aakash
Paranosic, Milica
Robert Morris
Pritsker, Gene
Rush, Stephen
Travis Salim
Sharp, Elliott
Srinivasan, Asha
Smith, Stuart Saunders
Swaminathan, Rajna
Tyson, Blake
Udow, Michael
Velez, Glen
Vishio, Anton
Weisberg, David

Trailer