Ian Power
@ianpoweromg.bsky.social
Composer & performer of unrestrained, unambiguous, emphatic music and music theater. Assoc. Prof. & Director of Arts Production & Management at University of Baltimore. he/him.
Los Angeles/Baltimore
ianpowerOMG.bandcamp.com
ianpowerOMG.com
Los Angeles/Baltimore
ianpowerOMG.bandcamp.com
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BRACE is out 11/6 at ianpowerOMG.bandcamp.com, pre-order now
Release show feat. Bergamot Quartet, Victoria Cheah, and SINGLE SOUND film 11/11 at Fridman Gallery NYC, tickets here: withfriends.events/event/jW7DsK...
Release show feat. Bergamot Quartet, Victoria Cheah, and SINGLE SOUND film 11/11 at Fridman Gallery NYC, tickets here: withfriends.events/event/jW7DsK...
TONIGHT: I hope any New Yorkers reading this can come to the LES to hear a great show with performances by the Bergamot Quartet, Victoria Cheah, and myself, plus a screening of IT ALLOWED THEM TO PRODUCE A SINGLE SOUND. Fridman Gallery, 8pm, $15.
Tickets: withfriends.events/event/jW7DsK...
Tickets: withfriends.events/event/jW7DsK...
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
TONIGHT: I hope any New Yorkers reading this can come to the LES to hear a great show with performances by the Bergamot Quartet, Victoria Cheah, and myself, plus a screening of IT ALLOWED THEM TO PRODUCE A SINGLE SOUND. Fridman Gallery, 8pm, $15.
Tickets: withfriends.events/event/jW7DsK...
Tickets: withfriends.events/event/jW7DsK...
Brace Record Release Show w/ Bergamot Quartet & Tori Cheah, November 11 at Fridman Gallery NYC. Tickets here: withfriends.events/event/jW7DsK...
November 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Brace Record Release Show w/ Bergamot Quartet & Tori Cheah, November 11 at Fridman Gallery NYC. Tickets here: withfriends.events/event/jW7DsK...
It's out now. Please listen at ianpowerOMG.bandcamp.com.
If you want a CD, they are $10; that will increase to $15 after the release show in NYC on Tuesday.
Thank you all!
If you want a CD, they are $10; that will increase to $15 after the release show in NYC on Tuesday.
Thank you all!
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
It's out now. Please listen at ianpowerOMG.bandcamp.com.
If you want a CD, they are $10; that will increase to $15 after the release show in NYC on Tuesday.
Thank you all!
If you want a CD, they are $10; that will increase to $15 after the release show in NYC on Tuesday.
Thank you all!
CDs! Out this Thursday.
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
CDs! Out this Thursday.
BRACE is out 11/6 at ianpowerOMG.bandcamp.com, pre-order now
Release show feat. Bergamot Quartet, Victoria Cheah, and SINGLE SOUND film 11/11 at Fridman Gallery NYC, tickets here: withfriends.events/event/jW7DsK...
Release show feat. Bergamot Quartet, Victoria Cheah, and SINGLE SOUND film 11/11 at Fridman Gallery NYC, tickets here: withfriends.events/event/jW7DsK...
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
BRACE is out 11/6 at ianpowerOMG.bandcamp.com, pre-order now
Release show feat. Bergamot Quartet, Victoria Cheah, and SINGLE SOUND film 11/11 at Fridman Gallery NYC, tickets here: withfriends.events/event/jW7DsK...
Release show feat. Bergamot Quartet, Victoria Cheah, and SINGLE SOUND film 11/11 at Fridman Gallery NYC, tickets here: withfriends.events/event/jW7DsK...
Reposted by Ian Power
For years, I had this vision of having a child and playing "Send it On" to them while I made breakfast in the morning. I got to do that, over and over again. How do you properly thank someone for providing that sort of soundtrack, for gifting you those sorts of memories? Man, what a loss.
October 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
For years, I had this vision of having a child and playing "Send it On" to them while I made breakfast in the morning. I got to do that, over and over again. How do you properly thank someone for providing that sort of soundtrack, for gifting you those sorts of memories? Man, what a loss.
Like a lot of my peers I had a skeptical relationship to much of Baudrillard's work (especially on America ironically). But the past three years (since the start of the latest Gaza war really) I have found myself reaching to him for these feelings I can't quite describe.
If you wanted to script a scenario to perfectly vindicate the work of Jean Baudrillard, it would be Trump II.
A simulacra of a president running a simulation of a presidency, based on simulacra of news broadcast by simulations of news media.
Baudrillard is to Trump II what Foucault was to GWB.
A simulacra of a president running a simulation of a presidency, based on simulacra of news broadcast by simulations of news media.
Baudrillard is to Trump II what Foucault was to GWB.
October 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Like a lot of my peers I had a skeptical relationship to much of Baudrillard's work (especially on America ironically). But the past three years (since the start of the latest Gaza war really) I have found myself reaching to him for these feelings I can't quite describe.
Thread about how AIs in schools are not being used to teach, but actually thinly disguising using students' time and skill to train the models to make them more marketable.
My daughter has always used a tablet-based platform for standardized testing here in Idaho and most weeks they do some work on it, with monthly metrics testing and an annual exam. It sucks and we talk a lot as a family about standardized testing, but that's not what this is about. It's about AI.
September 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Thread about how AIs in schools are not being used to teach, but actually thinly disguising using students' time and skill to train the models to make them more marketable.
I should also say that it's always an honor to be included in Steve's listing, and I'm reminded that he gave a brief NYT review of a Kitchen performance of Track 3, way back in 2013. That he said it had "resolute ooze and elemental graininess" has been a source of pleasure for me ever since.
For the Record: Sept. 5, 2025.
It's Bandcamp Friday… start your shopping with this list of new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Okkyung Lee by Eun Chun
It's Bandcamp Friday… start your shopping with this list of new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Okkyung Lee by Eun Chun
For the Record: Sept. 5, 2025.
It's Bandcamp Friday… start your shopping with this list of new arrivals and coming attractions.
open.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I should also say that it's always an honor to be included in Steve's listing, and I'm reminded that he gave a brief NYT review of a Kitchen performance of Track 3, way back in 2013. That he said it had "resolute ooze and elemental graininess" has been a source of pleasure for me ever since.
For the Record: Sept. 5, 2025.
It's Bandcamp Friday… start your shopping with this list of new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Okkyung Lee by Eun Chun
It's Bandcamp Friday… start your shopping with this list of new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Okkyung Lee by Eun Chun
For the Record: Sept. 5, 2025.
It's Bandcamp Friday… start your shopping with this list of new arrivals and coming attractions.
open.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I have a new album coming out, called Brace. It's available for pre-order on Bandcamp (Friday) today, and will be released on streaming (and mailed out for CD orders) on November 6.
September 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I have a new album coming out, called Brace. It's available for pre-order on Bandcamp (Friday) today, and will be released on streaming (and mailed out for CD orders) on November 6.
July 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Reposted by Ian Power
Out Today: A new performance film, written and performed by myself and Clint McCallum, produced by MusicForYourInbox. It is about mummies, mortality, and uncanny daytime TV.
Buy a ticket at the link below July 1-31 and receive the ~15' film in your inbox. You can get awesome mail art with it too.
Buy a ticket at the link below July 1-31 and receive the ~15' film in your inbox. You can get awesome mail art with it too.
July 2025 — Music for Your Inbox
musicforyourinbox.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Out Today: A new performance film, written and performed by myself and Clint McCallum, produced by MusicForYourInbox. It is about mummies, mortality, and uncanny daytime TV.
Buy a ticket at the link below July 1-31 and receive the ~15' film in your inbox. You can get awesome mail art with it too.
Buy a ticket at the link below July 1-31 and receive the ~15' film in your inbox. You can get awesome mail art with it too.
Out Today: A new performance film, written and performed by myself and Clint McCallum, produced by MusicForYourInbox. It is about mummies, mortality, and uncanny daytime TV.
Buy a ticket at the link below July 1-31 and receive the ~15' film in your inbox. You can get awesome mail art with it too.
Buy a ticket at the link below July 1-31 and receive the ~15' film in your inbox. You can get awesome mail art with it too.
July 2025 — Music for Your Inbox
musicforyourinbox.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Out Today: A new performance film, written and performed by myself and Clint McCallum, produced by MusicForYourInbox. It is about mummies, mortality, and uncanny daytime TV.
Buy a ticket at the link below July 1-31 and receive the ~15' film in your inbox. You can get awesome mail art with it too.
Buy a ticket at the link below July 1-31 and receive the ~15' film in your inbox. You can get awesome mail art with it too.
Missing my friend Rob Phillips today. A great composer. Seems crazy we won't be meeting up sooner or later at a festival to catch up.
April 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Missing my friend Rob Phillips today. A great composer. Seems crazy we won't be meeting up sooner or later at a festival to catch up.
Doing a listening night tonight, here's a #nowspinning thread
April 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Doing a listening night tonight, here's a #nowspinning thread
All of my regrets in life are related to moving away from physical media
April 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
All of my regrets in life are related to moving away from physical media
Watch what happens live
March 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Watch what happens live
Tonight in LA!!
And AWP we got the freshest poems and the lit 🔥 experimental music 🎼, to make your Friday night hype.
Come out 3/28, 7pm and celebrate the west coast launch of my book THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY, published by @blairpub.bsky.social
Come out 3/28, 7pm and celebrate the west coast launch of my book THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY, published by @blairpub.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Tonight in LA!!
Concert. In a swimming pool. With the great Carolyn Chen. Is happening. In June. Stay tuned. Buy a bathing suit.
March 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Concert. In a swimming pool. With the great Carolyn Chen. Is happening. In June. Stay tuned. Buy a bathing suit.
Now I'm gonna say it surpassed expectations. Cassia Streb and Jen Bewerse are miracle workers. Go to musicforyourinbox.com and sign up. You're... gonna want to see this.
March 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Now I'm gonna say it surpassed expectations. Cassia Streb and Jen Bewerse are miracle workers. Go to musicforyourinbox.com and sign up. You're... gonna want to see this.
Can't wait to play in support of my dear friend's book launch next Friday in LA! Come check out this unique event.
And AWP we got the freshest poems and the lit 🔥 experimental music 🎼, to make your Friday night hype.
Come out 3/28, 7pm and celebrate the west coast launch of my book THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY, published by @blairpub.bsky.social
Come out 3/28, 7pm and celebrate the west coast launch of my book THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY, published by @blairpub.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Can't wait to play in support of my dear friend's book launch next Friday in LA! Come check out this unique event.
Reposted by Ian Power
And AWP we got the freshest poems and the lit 🔥 experimental music 🎼, to make your Friday night hype.
Come out 3/28, 7pm and celebrate the west coast launch of my book THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY, published by @blairpub.bsky.social
Come out 3/28, 7pm and celebrate the west coast launch of my book THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY, published by @blairpub.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
And AWP we got the freshest poems and the lit 🔥 experimental music 🎼, to make your Friday night hype.
Come out 3/28, 7pm and celebrate the west coast launch of my book THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY, published by @blairpub.bsky.social
Come out 3/28, 7pm and celebrate the west coast launch of my book THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY, published by @blairpub.bsky.social