Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

This is a new piano piece called, “Kyle Gann.” Kyle was my composition teacher at Bard College. This piece is not a traditional homage but rather, a piece based on my former teacher. Here’s to Kyle.

Dear friends, family, and colleagues, I am writing today to ask for your help. I have been working on a new opera, “Tydrus the Twit,” for the past year, and after months of planning, we are starting our fund raising campaign. We are 13 musicians, actors, and artists eager to perform this exciting new opera, […]

I have put up an annotated script of my first opera, How to Look at the Ocean (Now I am a Flower) on my website. This includes mp3’s to all the hits, like The Wrinkler. Here’s a synopsis I wrote up. How to Look at the Ocean (Now I am a Flower) is a multimedia opera […]

Susie & Mark A new opera-play by Zeke Virant Oh, it ain’t easy, What’s me is me, Brain, rain, rain, brain, Tired. Fancy. Free. —Charlotte Howe Before sleep, with wine, and fine young times in love. Ain’t that a chamber opera, Susie & Mark? Singing and spinning, praying and living. Wine fine, nighttime, I don’t […]

I’ve zipped three albums, Goons on the Moon, HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY, and !!!!!SAF EWEWEWDE so you don’t have to download everything one at a time. HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY and !!!!!SAF EWEWEWDE are HERE Goons on the Moon is HERE The ordering and names of the files are weird on HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY and !!!!!SAF EWEWEWDE, […]

The Triangle Goons first album, “Goons on the Moon” is now available for download! It features eight tracks… six real songs, two in the “other” category. A Centipede Story At the Ocean Baby, Don’t Cry Love at the Beach Lord in Heaven Everybody Thinks You’re Stupid In the Morning When You Wake Up How much […]

…my friends and I are doing a staged reading of my new performance piece, Bottles, Nails, & Tambourines. Here’s a thing I wrote up for it:   BOTTLES, NAILS, and TAMBOURINES a new performance piece by Zeke Virant  Thursday, May 14, at the Blum/Avery Amphitheater, 7:00pm. Featuring three scenes of music, drama, and noises: bottles […]

Last show with the Triangle Goons was a blast. Tonight, I’m doing a show in Brooklyn with Sam Rosen and Birth. (Birth, which is Aaron Wistar and I, are Sam Rosen’s band.) It is sure to start around 9 or 10 and cost around $3 to 5. The show is at N 13th and Wythe. I’m […]

Here’s something that has been floating around for a while, and I recorded it yesterday. Imagine rooms. Love at the Beach In other news, Shades McGlenn, myself, and the Triangle Goons are playing at Smog at Bard College next Friday… sometime around 8? I’ll also be playing with Dickswitch. Here’s the roster: Dickswitch (an improv group […]

I have copies of old, rare CD-Rs I thought I was going to go give away, but instead they have gathered in my closet. If you would like a free CD of some of my old music, I will send you what I have hanging around. E-mail me or leave a comment with an address, […]