Sun. Sept. 23

We knew Paul D. Lehrman when he was a writer/softballer on the Boston Phoenix team - in those days, we wrote for the Globe, but played ball with the Phoenix. Somehow, a younger, hipper, more fun crowd. Now, we write for the Phoenix, among others, and, of course, put together JSInk. But enough about us. Lehrman is the co-ordinator of music technology at Tufts University and he checks in, to tell us about a free gig Sunday Sept. 23 at 3 p.m.: "Several composition students, John McDonald, and I put together a soundtrack for the 'Center for Cosmic Energy' exhibit that is now at the Aidekman Art Gallery. The exhibit is pretty interesting, not to mention pretty strange. ... We will be playing the music from that soundtrack. John will be performing his works and the works of hist students-for piano and prepared piano-and I will be performing two electronic improvisations based on the sonic materials that I used to construct the soundtrack. There will also be a short film about the work of the arists, Illya and Emilya Kabokov, who have been called the most important Russian artists of the second half of the 20th century." Should last about an hour. It's at the Distler Recital Hall at the Granoff Music Center on the Tufts campus.

20 Talbot Ave, Medford www.tufts.edu/musiccenter/events/calendar.html