Numinous
@numinousmusic.bsky.social
Musician/band
Music/Travel/Life of composer Joseph C Phillips Jr & Numinous. 1619 opera cycle; The Grey Land; Vipassana; Changing Same; co-founder of coming soon arts residency Club Delta de las Artes in Argentina 🇦🇷
www.numinousmusic.com
Music/Travel/Life of composer Joseph C Phillips Jr & Numinous. 1619 opera cycle; The Grey Land; Vipassana; Changing Same; co-founder of coming soon arts residency Club Delta de las Artes in Argentina 🇦🇷
www.numinousmusic.com
Wonderfully exciting time yesterday with Alarm Will Sound workshopping the first two movements of "We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident" as part of my CoLABoratory residency with American Composers Orchestra.
#weholdthesetruthstobeselfevident
#thegreatsilence #stealingaway #josephcphillipsjr
#weholdthesetruthstobeselfevident
#thegreatsilence #stealingaway #josephcphillipsjr
May 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Wonderfully exciting time yesterday with Alarm Will Sound workshopping the first two movements of "We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident" as part of my CoLABoratory residency with American Composers Orchestra.
#weholdthesetruthstobeselfevident
#thegreatsilence #stealingaway #josephcphillipsjr
#weholdthesetruthstobeselfevident
#thegreatsilence #stealingaway #josephcphillipsjr
Not all my opera research looks the same…
February 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Not all my opera research looks the same…
Some great news this week, among all the horror: the American Composers Orchestra will premiere my piece “We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident” at Carnegie Hall on March 11, 2026. My piece will also feature a film by Malik Isasis that will accompany the performance. Excited for my Carnegie debut!
February 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Some great news this week, among all the horror: the American Composers Orchestra will premiere my piece “We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident” at Carnegie Hall on March 11, 2026. My piece will also feature a film by Malik Isasis that will accompany the performance. Excited for my Carnegie debut!
On Saturday February 8th 1pm MST (3pm EST) I will give an hour-long Zoom presentation for the La Plata Historical Society’s Animas Museum about my forthcoming opera, Till Paths Be Wrought Through Wilds. The opera, 2nd in my 1619 cycle, is set in 19th century Colorado & focuses on concepts of freedom
January 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
On Saturday February 8th 1pm MST (3pm EST) I will give an hour-long Zoom presentation for the La Plata Historical Society’s Animas Museum about my forthcoming opera, Till Paths Be Wrought Through Wilds. The opera, 2nd in my 1619 cycle, is set in 19th century Colorado & focuses on concepts of freedom
1. 2000, The Beginning
Since 2025 is the 25th year of Numinous I’m doing some insights and reflections on those years #numinous25.
In 2000 I went to Japan for the first time and was inspired to write my piece To Kyoto. Ten months later, Numinous began. And on December 26, our first performance.
Since 2025 is the 25th year of Numinous I’m doing some insights and reflections on those years #numinous25.
In 2000 I went to Japan for the first time and was inspired to write my piece To Kyoto. Ten months later, Numinous began. And on December 26, our first performance.
January 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
1. 2000, The Beginning
Since 2025 is the 25th year of Numinous I’m doing some insights and reflections on those years #numinous25.
In 2000 I went to Japan for the first time and was inspired to write my piece To Kyoto. Ten months later, Numinous began. And on December 26, our first performance.
Since 2025 is the 25th year of Numinous I’m doing some insights and reflections on those years #numinous25.
In 2000 I went to Japan for the first time and was inspired to write my piece To Kyoto. Ten months later, Numinous began. And on December 26, our first performance.
The year 2025 is the 25th year of Numinous! Over the year I will be offering some insights and reflections on those 25 years of making music with Numinous and the wonderful projects, incredible musicians, friends, and collaborators over the years.
Happy New Year and happy beginning to #numinous25!
Happy New Year and happy beginning to #numinous25!
January 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The year 2025 is the 25th year of Numinous! Over the year I will be offering some insights and reflections on those 25 years of making music with Numinous and the wonderful projects, incredible musicians, friends, and collaborators over the years.
Happy New Year and happy beginning to #numinous25!
Happy New Year and happy beginning to #numinous25!
I am so appreciative that I received a 2025 NYSCA grant for my composition We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident! Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, the piece highlights various ideas of freedom for Black Americans and the first two movements will premiere in Spring 2026!
November 22, 2024 at 3:04 PM
I am so appreciative that I received a 2025 NYSCA grant for my composition We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident! Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, the piece highlights various ideas of freedom for Black Americans and the first two movements will premiere in Spring 2026!
Today Lara Downes latest This Land, includes the premiere recording of my piece “Never Has Been Yet”
Buy: laradownes.bandcamp.com/album/this-l...
About my piece: www.numinousmusic.com/the-numinosu...
Buy: laradownes.bandcamp.com/album/this-l...
About my piece: www.numinousmusic.com/the-numinosu...
August 23, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Today Lara Downes latest This Land, includes the premiere recording of my piece “Never Has Been Yet”
Buy: laradownes.bandcamp.com/album/this-l...
About my piece: www.numinousmusic.com/the-numinosu...
Buy: laradownes.bandcamp.com/album/this-l...
About my piece: www.numinousmusic.com/the-numinosu...
The second opera in my 1619 opera cycle was just awarded a 2024 MAP Fund award! The opera is based on the intersection of freedom and government policy toward Blacks, Indigenous, and whites in 1880s Colorado. The grant is to help support a performance of the opera @1619opera.bsky.social
August 20, 2024 at 7:35 PM
The second opera in my 1619 opera cycle was just awarded a 2024 MAP Fund award! The opera is based on the intersection of freedom and government policy toward Blacks, Indigenous, and whites in 1880s Colorado. The grant is to help support a performance of the opera @1619opera.bsky.social
In Liverpool for opera #3 research for @1619opera.bsky.social
May 27, 2024 at 1:06 PM
In Liverpool for opera #3 research for @1619opera.bsky.social
April 16, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Thankful to ACO & Boosey & Hawkes for this incredible opportunity! My piece is the first in a series of orchestral, choral, & chamber works which, while tied to themes of my 1619 opera cycle, also represent distinct, independent addendums & companions to the operas. www.boosey.com/cr/news/Amer...
February 9, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Thankful to ACO & Boosey & Hawkes for this incredible opportunity! My piece is the first in a series of orchestral, choral, & chamber works which, while tied to themes of my 1619 opera cycle, also represent distinct, independent addendums & companions to the operas. www.boosey.com/cr/news/Amer...
February 8th in Charleston, South Carolina the Colour of Music Festival Orchestra will perform five scenes from my The Grey Land monoopera with soprano Rebecca L Hargrove and conductor Brandon Keith Brown
#josephcphillipsjr #numinous #numinousmusic #thegreyland #thegreylandopera #opera #newopera
#josephcphillipsjr #numinous #numinousmusic #thegreyland #thegreylandopera #opera #newopera
February 1, 2024 at 11:20 PM
February 8th in Charleston, South Carolina the Colour of Music Festival Orchestra will perform five scenes from my The Grey Land monoopera with soprano Rebecca L Hargrove and conductor Brandon Keith Brown
#josephcphillipsjr #numinous #numinousmusic #thegreyland #thegreylandopera #opera #newopera
#josephcphillipsjr #numinous #numinousmusic #thegreyland #thegreylandopera #opera #newopera
The final weeks of 2023 was spent doing some research out west for the second opera in the 1619 opera cycle, centered at the end of Reconstruction. 2024 will bring more research travel under my Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the beginnings of writing that second opera.
January 3, 2024 at 10:05 PM
The final weeks of 2023 was spent doing some research out west for the second opera in the 1619 opera cycle, centered at the end of Reconstruction. 2024 will bring more research travel under my Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the beginnings of writing that second opera.