Hi there friends. Welcome to my new website, my new go to for all things Aaron Novik. I will be updating the site weekly with art, music and musings, so please check back every once in a while to see what I've been up to.

The big news right now is my upcoming release for John Zorn's seminal experimental music label, Tzadik records. The record is called "Secrets of Secrets" and I promise I will be posting a blog here soon detailing all of the ideas and research and travails that came about while making this record. It certainly was an adventure.

Besides that loveliness, I am still hard at work on my comic book/rock opera masterpiece tentatively titled either "THe Dragon Awakens" or "Frowny Frown." I just finished the entire script for 8 issues, and just today finished the rough sketch for the first issue, titled "Hanks Piperaceous and Millicent Ruckdeschel." This project is super daunting and I really can't say if or when I will actually finish it, but I do know that when that happens I will be in a different place creatively I hope.

In the studio. I recently went into the studio with the great Bass Clarinetist and throat singer Arrington de Dionyso. We recorded over an hour of purely improvised music for bass clarinets, bflat clarinet, throat singing, electronics and percussion. It was fun and seriously challenging, as it was my first recording session with no roadmap! Look for that sometime later in the year.

Finally, I have another record coming out with my great working band from the last few years, Thorny Brocky. We are looking at a May release for this, and I will somewhat immodestly state that these are some of my favorite pieces I've written. Really looking forward to everyone getting a chance to hear this record too.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. And thanks to Peter Varshavsky from Porto Franco for putting so much time into making this site for me. Talk to you soon.