Dennis Bathory-Kitsz aka Kalvos

@bathorykitsz.bsky.social

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Composer, author, editor, former Kalvos & Damian radio host. Extended voice, gardening, carpentry. Books on classical music, music tech, & country stores. Motto: Fly me, feed me. Will pun with you.

ginger cat Jack looking to the left, closeup on eyes and ears
Original John Everett Millais "Ophelia" painting showing the drowning Ophelia, but with the water full of algae and the head of DJT looking upward toward the heavens
Poster showing Greg Williams, viola, and Diana Golden, cello. "Music & Art in Dialogue about Extreme Weather" with Diana Golden & Greg Williams. Jun 26: Creators’ Panel, 5pm, Multimodal, 39-26 24th St, LI City. Jun 28: Concert, 4pm, Maple Grove Cemetery, Brownson Center, Kew Gardens. QR codes for panel and concert.
A page from the ePub version of Soiled Amplitudes. See previous post for alt text.
A page from the PDF version of Soiled Amplitudes, with a spectral view of a sound, a paragraph including a note about Ch. A. B. Huth's Farbige Noten from 1888, and an impage from Huth's work.
A block of tofu sliced horizontally and vertically to resemble a stone wall, slightly irregularly stacked so it resembles brutalist architecture.
Graphical score pages from three composers, two monochrome and one color.
Book "Soiled Amplitudes" splayed open with back & front covers & spine, showing the yellow cover with blue type. On the back is the blurb and ISBN.
Text superimposed on the book "Soiled Amplitudes" that reads “The book takes a radical look at composing of nonpop music in our culture. It is absolutely unique and will change the way you think about music making in our society.” —composer Stephen Michael Gryc
Two-page spread from "Soiled Amplitudes, showing a block diagram of the "In Bocca al Lupo" electronics on the left and three photos of the buildings from the installation "Wolf5 at Traveler's Rest" on the right.
Large crowd in Montpelier, Vermont (state capital, pop. 7837) during No Kings.
Two pages from "Soiled Amplitudes", showing color photos of scores by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz (Underside) and Jesper Pedersen (Kesselschleicher). The partially visible text asks about the source of installations and the success of scores like Underside.
Pages from "Soiled Amplitudes", showing a frame from my "Underside" video with block colors and structural designs, and three captures from Jesper Pedersen's "Kesselschleicher" animated score.
Cover of "Soiled Amplitudes" by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, showing the title words crossing each other in blue and red on a yellow background and the subtitle "My musical composition and notational aesthetic in five seasons" with clips from two graphical scores in the background.
A page from "Return to Nineveh" by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz for solo voice and effects (filtering, loops, levels, microphone actions, reverb, and other effects). The section shown includes the text "yet they shall flee away. stand! stand! but none shall look back ... Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold, for there is none end of the store and of the glory."
Large crowd at the NoKings protest in Montpelier, Vermont in an image taken from the state house steps.
$7,500 raised of $7.5K goal, 81 donations, with a completed green circle
Sinfonietta Vidin; Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, composer; Svilen Simeonov, director; Lin Chen, mezzo-soprano; Friday, March 21, 6pm, Philharmonic Hall. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, "Winter: Three Songs on the Nature of Armageddon", world premiere; Mozart, Symphony No. 40.
Distance view of snow falling on bird feeder, gardens, trees, and a greenhouse in Vermont.
Inside cover of tape reel box. Reads Quarter-track, stereo, 7-1/2"/sec. Youth Symphony Nov. 26, 1967. Metropolitan Youth Orchestras, All Beethoven Program, Gerhard Track, Conductor. Side I. Coriolanus Overture, Op. 62 0-411 (8 min). Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello, & Orchestra, Op. 59 in C major. 429-941 (15-1/2 min). Piano - Thomas Schultz, Violin - Linda Edberg, Cello - John Wells. Side II. Symphony No. 5 in c minor Op. 47. 0-1125 (32-1/2 min.)
Orange cat jack stretching his back in a Halloween cat manner and staring sternly in front of a deck railing and behind a log.
Soprano clef (bottom staff line) with 7 flats in the key signature.
Round rose designed by the author for the soundboard in his 1974 Zuckermann harpsichord. It is gold, surrounded by painted red and green flowers. Strings are running front to back above the rose and soundboard.
Sleeping orange cat flopping on chair almost falling off.
Profile of the head of yellow cat Jack looking over his shoulder to the right, with big yellow eyes and a friendly expression.
Front page of Queens Tribune, November 22, 1974, with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz dressed as a turkey playing an Ionic Performer Synthesizer. At Shea Stadium for the Avant-Garde Festival of New York. Queens Tribune was 5 cents. The main headline was "Crisis Looms Over Elmhurst Hospital" and the photo caption reads: Ever wonder who provides the beautiful music at Shea Stadium during the seventh-inning stretch? Well, he came out of hiding for all the world to see during the Avant Garde Festival held at the Stadium on November 18th. "The Phantom of Shea Stadium" was only one of many odd sights to be seen during the Festival.
Young girl in pink tshirt with pink polkadot table cloth and pumpkin pie at her birthday party.
Home studio in 1972. Includes hand-made pine cabinets with hand-made mixing matrix, patch bay, several turntables, three reel-to-reel tape recorders (including a TEAC TCA-42), two Dynaco preamps and power amps, an ancient Grundig radio, headphones, and two Advent Model 100 Dolby units.
Just the head and perky ears of pretty pale orange cat Jack looking up and to the left, perhaps in hopes of food or petting.
Poster for concert Moonlight & Maple Syrup with the CompCord Ensemble. Friday, August 30th, 7pm, Capital City Grange, Berlin, Vermont
Jack, my cat, a beige ginger with golden eyes.
Neon sign that reads "Rag Top Diner"
Katie Buckley playing harp and Frank Aarnink playing metallophone in Iceland.
Announcement of Composers Concordance concert on November 29 at 9pm, DROM, 85 Avenue A, NYC. New art songs sung by Ljiljana Winkler.
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz teaching music theory class in 2015 with projected image of Miley Cyrus YouTube video We Can't Stop.
Mozart's Musical Dice Game with measure fragments and the "Table de Chiffres"
Singing Noise Colors poster. Announces concerts in Elizabethtown NY at Hand House on October 6 at 7pm, October 7 at 7pm, October 8 at 3pm, and a popup "Music While You Wait" concert at Plattsburgh Champlain Mall on October 6 at 3:30pm
DBK dressed baby, grey and red outfit and red hat on a slate sidewalk.
Woman looks out at green hills from Libby's Look in Bolton VT
Popup concert Plattsburgh Champlain Centre Mall October 6 in the afternoon
Poster for Singing Noise Colors, Oct 6 7pm, Oct 7 7pm, Oct 8 3pm, Hand House, Elizabethtown NY. pianobynature.org for details
My face photoshopped on Mozart conducting from Amadeus.