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Pasadena, CA:
NOV. 3
Electronic and Computer Concert Music
works by
A concert of exciting new music by Portuguese composer Patricio da
Silva and Jennifer Logan (USA) at All Saints Episcopal Church in
Pasadena featuring electronic and computer music works by two composers
of contrasting aesthetic approaches. Jennifer Logan, currently
Assistant Professor of electronic music at Occidental College in Los
Angeles, has been distinguished with the Corwin Prize for
Electroacoustic music. Her compositions are characterized by a clear
definition of musical character, and the development of rich vibrant
colors. Patricio da Silva, who's music has been recently performed at
LACMA, Ojai Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Center, will challenge
the listener with rhythmic virtuosity and unusual polyphonic worlds.
The concert will be projected in a state-of-the-art dodecaphonic sound
system surrounding the audience.
Composers Bios:
Patricio da Silva (1973, Portugal) received formal musical training at
the Lisbon College of Music (1992-95) where he studied piano and
composition (B.M. in piano, 1995). Following his move to the USA, da
Silva pursued his composition studies with Morton Subotnick, Stephen L.
Mosko, and the late Mel Powell, as a recipient of the Betty Freeman
Foundation Scholarship in Composition at CalArts (MFA, 1999). With
support from the Fundation Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
(Portugal), he completed the Ph.D. program in composition at the
University of California (2003), having studied composition with
William Kraft, electronic and computer music with Curtis Roads, and
algorithmic composition with David Cope. In 2006 he was awarded the
Ottto Eckstein Family Fellowship as a composition fellow at the
Tanglewood Music Center where he worked with Michael GandolÞ, and John
Harbison. His work 4 Pianos was awarded the Gould Family Foundation
Young Composers Award (2000), and the Ojai Festival Music for Tomorrow
(2001). His music has been recently heard at Tanglewood Music Center,
Zipper Hall, Musical Explorations, The Resistance Fluctuations, Ojai
Music Festival, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),
Cistermœsica, and the Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey, having also been
featured in several European radio and television programs. During
200304, da Silva worked in Paris as an invited post-doctoral researcher
at IRCAM (France), followed by a research grant in the UK funded by the
Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology. His research feeds
directly into his own compositional work, and it focuses on the
induction and manipulation of compositional processes, music grammars,
computer representations of music, and composition with Artificial Life
models.
Jennifer Logan
Concert Location
THE FORUM
Free Parking
Eagle Rock, CA:
Project Accidental Concert
Please join us for the next Project Accidental Concert on November 4, 2006 at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts at 2225 Colorado Blvd.
PA will be highlighting the music of up and coming L.A. composers Brett Banducci, Justin Melland, Julia Newmann, Cody Westheimer and Carlos Rafael Rivera.
Also featured will be the jazz sounds of The Bonacci Trio and the fiery vocal ensemble Moira Smiley and VOCO.
Program to include:
Scheduled to perform: Robbie Anderson, Alison Balbag, Rob Brophy, Albe Bonacci, Ira Glansbeek, Vic Lawrence, Alyssa Park, Rob Schaer, Scott Sutherland, Jacob Szekely, Ashoka Thiagarajan, Edward Trybek, Pamela Vliek, Amy Wickman, Keve Wilson; plus Moira Smiley and VOCO.
November 4, 2006
LA:
Music at the smell this Saturday 11/4
Acre www.eyeofthe.com/acre/ (ex-member of Swarm Robbery and Lords Of Light Speed from Olympia, WA)
the smell
Wilmington, CA:
SCREAM 2006 - 20th Anniversary Reunion Concert
When: Saturday, November 4
SCREAM (The Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music) celebrates its
20th anniversary with a concert of works by the original members of SCREAM. The
concert will include the world premieres of Barry Schrader's "Wu Xing: Cycle of
Destruction" (solo electronic version) and Rodney Oakes' "Variations on the Krakow
Fanfare". Also on the program are live/electro-acoustic and studio compositions by
Roger Bourland, Tom Flaherty, Frederick Lesemann, and Samuel Magrill. Featured
performers will include Cynthia Fogg on viola, Rodney Oakes on Trombone, William
Powell on clarinet, and Susan Svrcek on piano.
For more information:
LA:
THE EAR UNIT - TARGET
November 7, 2006
"The EAR Unit performs with exuberance and razor-sharp
precision." --The New York Times
One of the finest contemporary chamber ensembles in America,
the EAR Unit has been hailed for its unparalleled virtuosity and
incandescent artistry. This evening's program brings a selection of
challenging new works composed in response to recent global turmoil.
The centerpiece is Keeril Makan's utterly riveting Target,
featuring special guest artist Laurie Rubin -- the electrifying young
soprano who brought down the house in the work's world premiere at
Carnegie Hall. Also on the program: Ge Gan-ru's Si, an
anguished elegy for the victims of Tiananmen Square; Ulrich Krieger's
elegant beforeQuake, Steven Rick's Mild Violence;
Hideko Kawamoto's Burning; and Mary Jane Leach's provocative Gulf
War Syndrone.
The California EAR Unit is funded in part by grants from the City of Los
Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, The Aaron Copland Fund for
Music, The James Irvine Foundation, LA County Arts Commission, the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Argosy Foundation Contemporary
Music Fund, BMI Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, the
Amphion Foundation and other generous supporters.
Tue 11.7.06 8:30 pm
NYC:
Rejection Show
The November 8th Rejection Show has been moved from 8PM to 9:30PM to be
included in the UCBT: The Best Comedy in the Universe Festival
The Rejection Show continues to uncover NYC's best (and worst) rejected
material in NYC's most prestigious venues landing at the famed Upright
Citizens Brigade Theater this fall!
Created, produced and hosted by writer and comedian, Jon Friedman, The
Rejection Show is a comedic based event that embraces the rejected and
turned down material of writers, comedians, cartoonists, artists, and
human beings whom display their creative ³failures² and personal stories of
rejection live on stage.
THE REJECTION SHOW
HOSTED BY JON FRIEDMAN
FEATURING THE REJECTED MATERIAL OF:
THE BOYS FROM COLLEGE HUMOR
ANDY BOROWITZ
MOLLY REISNER
A REJECTION VIDEO MONTAGE
AND MORE FUN REJECTION SURPRISES!
The Rejection Show
Berkeley, CA:
Gamelan Sari Raras of U.C. Berkeley will perform a Javanese Wayang:
Saturday November 11, 2006
Hertz Hall
tickets: $12 / $8 / $4
I hope you will all join us for this wayang with the well-known
dhalang, Midiyanto, and an incredible guest drummer, Darsono.
LA:
Contemporary Piano with Aki Takahashi at REDCAT, Los Angeles, Nov. 12, 7p.m.
Aki Takahashi is a recognized piano virtuoso and ardent supporter of
contemporary music who, through her unwavering enthusiasm, has won
the acclaim of audiences and composers alike.
The evening's program will include works by Morton Feldman, Peter
Garland, Marc Sabat and Somei Satoh—plus selections from the
celebrated Hyper Beatles series arranged by Akira Nishimura, Pauline
Oliveros, Carl Stone and James Tenney.
Program (in program order)
Selections from the Hyper Beatles collection (1989-91)
Aki Takahashi made her public debut shortly after graduating from the
Tokyo University of Arts with a masters degree in 1970. While
acknowledged for her classical musicianship, her enthusiasm and
acclaim as a new music interpreter have attracted the attention of
many composers. Cage, Feldman, Takemitsu, Yun, Oliveros, Ruders,
Satoh, Lucier, and Garland, to name a few, have all created works for
her. Ms. Takahashi received the first Kenzo Nakajima prize in 1982,
and was recipient of the first Kyoto Music Award (1986). She directed
the "New Ears" concert series in Yokohama (1983–97), was artist-
in-residence at SUNY Buffalo (1980–81) and guest professor at the
California Institute of the Arts (1984). Her landmark recording of 20
contemporary piano works, "Aki Takahashi Piano Space", received
the Merit Prize at the Japan Art Festival (1973). Her series of Erik
Satie concerts (1975–77) heralded a Satie boom in Japan, resulting
in her editing all of his piano works for Zen-On and recording them
on Toshiba-EMI. She created the Hyper-Beatles project with Toshiba,
which invited 47 international composers to arrange/recompose their
favorite Beatles tunes. Future projects with Ms. Takahashi on Mode
will include solo and ensemble works of Berio, Bowles, Cage, Feldman,
Hauer, Mikhashoff, Scelsi and Xenakis, with other projects planned.
HASHI (Bridges) Ⅳ (2006) Somei Satoh, world premiere
Somei Satoh was born in Japan in 1947 and currently lives in Tokyo.
Largely self-taught as a composer he came to musical creation through
the spiritual exercises of both Shintoism and Zen Buddhism. In early
1970s, after his attending the Nihon University of Art, Satoh joined
the Tone Field performance group, an experimental inter-arts ensemble
which performed his earliest composition. These early compositions
include those for solo piano or for piano with electronics in which
he explored gradations of sound by employing tremolos of single tones
or clusters using the instrument's various registers of dynamics. In
some ways, Satoh's techniques and career path paralleled those of
the American minimalists. His music, like theirs, has developed in
complexity and sophistication over the years. Over the course of the
1970s, his instrumental palette diversified and his music took on a
greater melodiousness. By the 1980s, his music became more sensual
after the model of the Romantic tradition. A visiting artist grant
from the Asian Cultural Council enabled him to spend a year in the
United States in 1983. Eventually, he received commissions from the
Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can, and the New York Philharmonic, among
others. Currently, Satoh tends to focus his work on large orchestral
forces. His compositions have been recorded for New Albion, Lovely
Music, Mode, and Alm.
Waves Breaking on Rocks (Elegy for All of Us) (2003) Peter Garland,
U.S. premiere
Peter Garland was born in 1952 and studied with Harold Budd and James
Tenney during the first years of CalArts. From 1971 to 1991 he edited
and published the new music journal and small press, SOUNDINGS; he
played a major role in the rediscovery of composers such as Lou
Harrison, Conlon Nancarrow, Dane Rudhyar and Paul Bowles. During the
1980s he lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he directed his own
performance ensemble. From 1991 to 1995 he lived and traveled
continuously around the world, visiting twelve countries on five
continents. From 1997 to 2005 he lived in Mexico, where he did
extensive fieldwork and investigations of Mexican traditional musics.
In addition to his own music, he has written nine books, only two of
which have been published. Along with studies of Javanese music and
puppetry and Australian aboriginal music, he has been a lifelong
investigator of native American musics, in California, the U.S.
Southwest and Mexico. He has collaborated with percussionist William
Winant and the ensemble Essential Music, and has worked closely with
Aki Takahashi since the 1980s. Ms. Takahashi has recorded three CDs
of Peter Garland's music, on the New Albion, Tzadik and Mode labels.
He currently lives in Maine.
Nocturne (1996) Marc Sabat
Marc Sabat is a Canadian composer, violinist and researcher living in
Berlin since 1999. He has written concert music for various ensembles
including acoustic instruments, live computer and electronics, as
well as making recorded projects involving sound and video
(installations, internet pieces, CDs and DVDs). His work is available
through Plainsound Music Edition. He has co-developed The Extended
Helmholtz-Ellis JI Pitch Notation, and teaches courses in acoustics
and experimental intonation at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
Sabat also performs chamber music and solo concerts, and has recorded
music on various labels including Mode, World Edition and Hat[now]
Art. Marc Sabat studied at the University of Toronto and the
Juilliard School of Music in New York. He is currently a visiting
composer at the California Institute of the Arts.
REDCAT (the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), CalArts' downtown
center for innovative visual, performing and media arts, is located
at the corner of W. 2nd St. and S. Hope St., inside the Walt Disney
Concert Hall complex. Aki Takahashi is slated to perform on Sunday,
November 11, 2006 at 7p.m. Ticket prices range from $20-$16, with
discounts available. Seating is general admission. Tickets may be
purchased at the REDCAT box office—located at the corner of 2nd and
Hope Streets, by calling 213.237.2800, or at www.redcat.org.
Please plan on arriving at least 30 minutes before curtain time.
Seating at REDCAT is unreserved, and late seating is not guaranteed.
Parking is available in the Walt Disney Concert Hall parking garage.
Enter from 2nd St. and proceed to level P3 for direct access to
REDCAT. The evening event rate is $8 after 5 p.m. Before 5 p.m., the
maximum daytime rate is $17.
LA:
A Tribute to Dorrance Stalvey
Monday, December 11, 2006 at 8:00 p.m.
Luciano Berio Circles
Virko Baley, piano
As Director of Monday Evening Concerts for 34 years, Dorrance Stalvey influenced and
inspired the lives of many. A group of exceptional musicians pays tribute to
Dorrance's legacy, including special guest Cristina Zavalloni, described as "an
astonishing singer in a class of her own" by Mark Swed of the L.A. Times. Revisit
Berio's classic Circles, first performed here at a 1962 Monday Evening Concert, hear
Stalvey's final completed work, and experience the L.A. premiere of an exhilarating
spectral masterpiece by Grisey. Join the artists for a complimentary wine and cheese
reception following the concert.
For tickets and more information, visit www.mondayeveningconcerts.org
Washington, DC:
Dear Friends of Washington Musica Viva,
We have three Sunday concerts in November!
Sunday November 5, 2006 at 2:30 pm:
Sunday November 19, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Sunday November 26, 2006 at 7:00 pm
See our website for details!
dcmusicaviva.org/recordings/recordings.htm
NYC:
Performance at Roulette
ROULETTE, $15, 8:30pm
ROULETTE
20 Greene St. (between Canal and Grand) 2 blocks west of Broadway
Interviews with the Artists at Roulette?s new Blog!..
Sat, Nov. 4th
New York based composer/pianist Shoko Nagai's grant commissioned project
"EPHEMERAL" explores the essence of Japanese traditional music, such as
Gagaku (the oldest classical music in Japan) and the sound of Nohgaku
(abstract theater) with the elements of the contemporary western music,
experimental electronic music and improvisations. Her compositions with its
use of multiple textures and the open sense of time evokes another realm of
time and place. She will be joined by Ned Rothenberg (shakuhachi, clarinet,
bass clarinet), Jennifer Choi (violin), Reuben Radding (bass) and Satoshi
Takeishi (percussion, electronics).
Sun, Nov. 5th
Peter Zummo: trombone, J.D. Parran: reeds, Guy De Bievre: guitar & lap
steel.
The Very Slow Disco Suite is the newest in a series of works researching
extreme time stretching of popular music formats. Extreme time stretching
allows the musicians to explore the music in both horizontal and vertical
manners, as the harmonic progressions are almost frozen. Whereas the
previous work, Bending the Tonic, relied on the standard blues idiom, The
V.S.D.S. sounds disco depths. The musicians play against a synthesized
backdrop, which contains the main reference to disco. Each of them is given
a microcontroller, which both conducts the processing of their sonic output
and, based on the sound happening in the room, indicates to them which part
of the score to perform.
Next Week:
NYC:
Music With a View @ The Flea
MUSIC WITH A VIEW @ THE FLEA 2006/2007
The Flea Theater is delighted to inaugurate, in the 2006/2007 season, a music series devoted to the discovery of new, fresh sound created and performed by contemporary musicians. After five years as Artist in Residence, The Flea has invited Kathleen Supové to launch and curate the series. Music With a View @ The Flea will feature works in progress by emerging and/or mid-career composers followed by an open discussion between the artists and the audience, curated by performer Kathleen Supové and special guests. Each evening, two composers will have the opportunity to share 30 minutes of their work.
The dates for Music With a View @ The Flea are:
Moday, October 9 @ 7pm
Monday, November 6 @ 7pm
Sunday, January 7 @ 3pm*
Monday, February 5 @ 7pm
Monday, April 9 @ 7pm
Monday, May 7 @ 7pm
Please note that the Sunday Music With a View @ The Flea matineehas been designated our "family friendly" event and is meant to be work that is fast-paced, full of activity and some visual interest, and strange and quirky in a good way.
www.theflea.org/musicbytes/index.htm
Cambridge, MA:
The Callithumpian Consort
The Callithumpian Consort returns to the front lines of avant-garde sound
with its EXPERIMENT SERIES. Once a month, on a Friday, new, uncharted
worlds at the frontiers of free improvisation and the avant-garde will be
trespassed and ruined for future generations.
The series was founded in March 2004 to present concerts that explore the
crossroads between composition and improvisation in an informal atmosphere
conducive to the enjoyment of both aficionados of creative music and the
first-time listener. Each concert is produced by New England Conservatory's
Callithumpian Consort, an eclectic contemporary music ensemble led by
pianist/NEC professor Stephen Drury, with support from the Massachusetts
Cultural and Cambridge Arts Councils. The series is co-curated by
improvising multi-instrumentalist Jorrit Dijkstra, who will invite special
guests to join the Callithumpian Consort in exploring different
improvisation strategies.
Friday November 10, 7PM:
VERY IMPORTANT!!!
Suggested Donations
UPCOMING:
Friday, December 8:
Suggested Donations
The Lily Pad (old Zeitgeist Gallery location),
www.callithumpian.org
Funded by the Cambridge Arts Council and the Mass Cultural Council
Tour:
Pamela Z Events in CA, Chicago, NYC, Russsia
Dear Livingroom Folks,
Just wanted to share with you some exciting upcoming events spanning
from California to Chicago to New York to Russia! Lot's of major
touring performance events in the land of Z this Fall!
In less than a week, I leave for Russia (my first time there!) to
give performances of my solo works in the Long Arms Festival in St.
Petersburg (Sept 27) and the Aposizia Festival in Moscow (Sept 29).
Then, I return to the States to give the Los Angeles premiere of my
one-act opera "Wunderkabinet" at REDCAT (Oct 12-15)! This is the
piece I created last year in collaboration with Composer/Cellist Matt
Brubeck and video artist Christina McPhee. This engagement is very
exciting for two reasons: One: it is my first chance to play at
REDCAT, the gorgeous, adventurous theatre and arts center located in
a beautiful, shiny Frank Gehry edifice in downtown Los Angeles. Two:
LA is the home of the famed Museum of Jurassic Technology, which was
the inspiration for Wunderkabinet, so it will be magical to perform
the piece there. If you will be in the area, scroll down for
specifics on the time, and address.
In November, I'll be performing my performance work "Voci" at the
Museum of Contemporary Art Theatre in Chicago (Nov 5) as part of the
Chicago Humanities Festival. "Voci", my solo work exploring many
facets of voice, involves multiple channels of video projections by
Jeanne Finley + John Muse and a beautiful lighting design by Elaine
Buckholtz. It will be my first opportunity to perform a large-scale,
multi-media performance in Chicago.
And Finally, I'll be performing as a member of Vijay Iyer and Mike
Ladd's company in their modern oratorio "Still Life With Commentator"
(about mass media in time of war) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
(Dec 6-10) as part of the BAM Next Wave Festival in New York.
Hope to perhaps see you at one of these events!
Cheers,
Pamela
Read on for specific details on all these events.
September 27, 2006
September 29, 2006
October 12-15, 2006
November 5, 2006
December 6-10, 2006
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK:
A Secret Service: Art compulsion concealment
Opening Hatton Gallery Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
Artists: Sophie Calle, Roberto Cuoghi, Gedewon, Henry Darger, Susan
Hiller, Teching Hsieh, Katarzyna Josefowicz, Joachim Koester and Adrian
Dannatt, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Mark Lombardi, Mike Nelson, Kurt
Schwitters, The Speculatice Archive, Jeffrey Vallance, Oskar Voll.
Curated by Richard Grayson
The human fascination with secrets is explored in A Secret Service:
Art, Compulsion, Concealment, a new exhibition organised by Hayward Gallery Touring in collaboration with the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University.
The exhibition explores the work of 15 international artists and groups
whose practices centre on the creation of secret worlds or the exposure
of hidden facts and images. It includes key figures of Modern art,
established and emerging contemporary artists and 'outsiders'. Together
they address numerous aspects of secrecy: magic, alchemy, sexuality,
dreams, religion, political conspiracy, assumed identity and the covert
workings of the State.
The exhibition has particular reference to Kurt Schwitters, whose final
creation, the Merzbarn is now permanently installed at the Hatton
Gallery. The Merzbarn 1947-48 is among the rare surviving examples of
Schwitters' four Merzbuildings - complex, architectural constructions
created from refuse and found objects. During Schwitters' lifetime the
Merzbuildings were seen only by his most trusted friends, today they
remain confounding riddles. A Secret Service presents rarely seen
documentation of the Merzbuildings in conjunction with a specially
commissioned new work by Turner Prize nominee Mike Nelson.
The exhibition explores the work of 'outsiders' and those operating
beyond the mainstream. It includes a substantial presentation of work
by the reclusive Chicago janitor Henry Darger whose immense body of
watercolour illustrations for the fantasy novel In the Realms of the
Unreal came to light only at the very end of his life.
A Secret Service is curated by artist and curator, Richard Grayson. His
recent exhibitions include Intelligence, 2005 and Messiah, 2004 at
Matt's Gallery, London. He was Artistic Director of the Sydney Biennale
in 2002 and Arts and Humanities Research Fellow at the University of
Newcastle 2003 - 6.
A fully illustrated catalogue featuring essays by Roger Cardinal, Clare
Carolin and Richard Grayson will accompany the exhibition. It is
distributed by Cornerhouse Publications.
Tour Details:
www.hayward.org.uk/touring_future_detail.asp?i=274
LA:
Perfomance, Art @ Dangerous Curve
"Keeping Body and Soul Together"
One of LA's 100 Most Interesting Artists, LA Weekly, 2005
at Dangerous Curve
Voted 5th Most Popular Art Gallery Best of Alternative L.A. Readers' Choice
Exhibit Dates
The exhibition opening celebration
1020 East Fourth Place
What happens when The Dark Side meets The Light Side? Come see Nancy Evans' "Keeping Body and Soul Together," where you'll see the perfect balance---cast in bronze! And the walls will be singing with sounds by Doug
Henry and Joe Potts. Live music/art TBA. The exhibition celebration is on Saturday,
November 11, 2006, from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m., featuring the usual great vegan food
prepared by our master vegan chef, John Saslow. The exhibit is up until December
16, 2006.
We're located at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and Mateo Streets, in the
back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts, #102, between the Fourth Street Bridge's (on
the LA River side of downtown) two on/off ramps. See our website
DangerousCurve.org for directions, pictures, and updates.
Nancy Evans works in a variety of media, including acrylic paint, fabric and fabric
dyes, plexi, wood, ceramic, and bronze. The media is traditional, but her use of
them is anything but. If you've ever seen her paintings, you know she has always
experimented with materials. The show "Keeping Body and Soul Together" features
Kali, the Indian goddess known as The Destroyer, cast in bronze using wax molds from
natural objects. The effect is similar to that of the Jan Svankmajer root baby:
friendly things start to look very menacing. Thankfully, the Kali figures are
counterbalanced by beings not so fierce. A compelling Max Ernst-ish Surreal effect
pervades all these non-multiple castings. To top it off, Evans adorns the icons as
she would dolls, hinting at strange, tongue-in-cheek rituals. Over on the wall, the
color and "images" of her paintings are echoed in dyed and manipulated fabric, which
is intertwined with a sound piece by artists Doug Henry and Joe Potts.
Evans, a native Californian, was born in Los Angeles and raised in Fresno. She
studied sculpture at UC Berkeley, then continued to live in the San Francisco Bay
Area for several years. She started performing because of Tom Marioni's "Museum of
Conceptual Art" in San Francisco. She moved to Los Angeles in 1982, after performing
in LACE's Public Spirit Festival and befriending Mike Kelley, Megan Williams, and
other recent CalArts graduates. In 1986 and 1987, she received grants from National
Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation, for her collaborative work in
performance.
Evans has exhibited her visual work since 1982, at such venues as LAICA, LACE, San
Francisco Art Institute, List Visual Arts Center at MIT, and the Ben Meltz Gallery
at Otis School of Art and Design. She has had solo shows at Sue Spaid Fine Art
(1992--1996), Gasworks Studios in London (1995), Sweeney Art Gallery at UC Riverside
(1997), and POST Gallery (1999). She's also been in two and three-person shows at
NYC's Fawbush Gallery (1994), and Marc Foxx Gallery (1995). She was included in "LA
Post Cool," curated by Michael Duncan for the San Jose Museum of Art (2002), "An
Active Life," curated by Sue Spaid for the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati
(2000), and "Sick Of Photography," curated by Michael Darling for the Contemporary
Art Forum in Santa Barbara (1998). Evans' work has been reviewed in the LA Times,
Artforum, Art in America, ArtNews, Art Issues, and other local newspapers. Evans
was listed as one of LA's 100 Most Interesting Artist in the November 3, 2005 issu!
e The LA Weekly.
Dangerous Curve related events:
November 4: "Team Up" with Tatsuya Nakatani: Chris Heenan, reeds, Jeremy Drake,
guitar, Tatsuya Nakatani, percussion. Plus David Rothbaum, solo, on analog
synthesizer, and Mitchell Brown, solo, on electronics.
November 19: Esperanza with TBA.
November 25: "Transplanted Locations" with Jessica Catron, Johnny Chang, Marc Nimoy,
Michael Pisaro, and Marc Sabat.
More good things being added by the moment. Check our DangerousCurve.org for
updates/changes and subscribe to our email list to get announcements.
Dangerous Curve is a leading contemporary art space in the Arts District of Los
Angeles. It is a privately run venue for live art/visual art performance,
experimental art and music, and installations. The gallery supports visionary
established and emerging artists of all ages, with live art residencies and
one-person shows of high-quality risky and intelligent work that's ahead of the
curve.
A huge thank you to our supporters, The Dale and Edna Walsh Foundation, Kate Bartolo
of The Kor Group, and others listed on our sponsor page. Because of their and your
generous support, Dangerous Curve is able to make a difference by helping emerging
artists and educating the commmunity about high-quality art.
LA:
The hop-frog kollectiv presents events:
DUNG MUMMY @ il corral
For more information, visit hop-frog kollectiv online:
Chicago:
Lampo fall schedule
Friends,
Lampo fall schedule and blurbs below ...
Skull Defekts - Sept 30
2116 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Ill.
Questions? Or to become a Lampo member: www.lampo.org
Friends of Lampo ... a must-hear event this Saturday.
MARK TRAYLE AND DAVID BEHRMAN
More info at www.lampo.org/
Mark Trayle and David Behrman share this concert at Lampo. Trayle and
Behrman first met at Mills College in 1980; although a generation apart,
they have collaborated on music projects in California and Berlin. Among
his other accomplishments, Trayle was a pioneer in the translation of
early pieces of analog electronic music into the software environments
that first became available at the end of the 20th century. Among these
was Behrman's 1968 piece, "Runthrough." The evening will feature solo work
by both musicians as well as collaborations.
Trayle will present selections from two works. "Domestic Intelligence" is
sonic data mining. Bits and bytes are extracted from the laptop, from the
Internet, and maybe even the audience's credit cards, then looped,
mangled, twisted and reassembled into something like music. "Saturation"
explores the possibilities of feedback softcircuits … no-input laptop
music always on the verge of collapse.
Behrman will perform "Acoustica," a new piece in which the borderlines
between acoustic music and computer-generated sound are blurred.
"Acoustica" makes use of the capabilities of current-day laptop computers
to handle high-quality acoustic sound, recorded live and on the spot or
beforehand, in multiple layers and channels simultaneously; to process
them in various simple or sophisticated ways; and to combine them with
computer-generated sounds of different varieties. The piece moves linearly
through a number of sections in which different themes are pursued and
different events unfold. Behrman is looking for the places, somewhere
midway across the spectrum from fixed composition at one extreme to free
improvisation at the other, where performers in a particular
personally-designed, software-based situation will be most comfortable and
most energized.
Some elements in "Acoustica" go back 35 years when the work Behrman and
his friends were doing consisted sometimes of building homemade analog and
hybrid analog / digital synthesizers and of playing them in live
performances. The homemade equipment of those days had characteristics
resulting from odd limitations. Some of those odd limitations have
attracted his curiosity again lately.
Mark Trayle (b. 1955, San Jose, Calif.) works in a variety of media
including live electronic music, installations, improvisation and
compositions for chamber ensembles. In the mid-80s he was among a group of
young California composers who pioneered the use of personal computers in
music. Trayle helped found computer network band The Hub (1985-1996) with
John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Scott Gresham-Lancaster and Phil
Stone. The Hub, now playing again after a ten year hiatus, was one of the
first ensembles to investigate computer networks as a medium for musical
composition and performance.
Trayle has performed and exhibited at experimental music and new media
venues and festivals in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including recent
appearances at t-u-b-e, DEAF '04, Resistance Fluctuations, net_condition,
Pro Musica Nova, Format5, and Inventionen 2004. His music has been
performed by Champs D'Action, Ensemble Zwischentoene, Kammerensemble Neue
Musik Berlin, and Ensemble Mosaik. Recent collaborators include Boris
Baltschun and Serge Baghdassarians, Toshi Nakamura, Wadada Leo Smith, and
the Rova Saxophone Quartet. Trayle has recorded for the Artifact,
Atavistic, CRI, Inial, Los Angeles River, Elektra/Nonesuch, and Tzadik
labels.
David Behrman (b. 1937, Salzburg) has been active as a composer and artist
since the 1960s and has created many works for performance as well as
sound installations. Most of his music has involved homemade electronics
and computer-controlled music systems that operate interactively with
collaborating performers.
In 1966, he founded the Sonic Arts Union with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier
and Gordon Mumma. Working at Columbia Records in the late 60s, he produced
the "Music of Our Time" series of new music recordings, which presented
works by Cage, Oliveros, Lucier, Reich, Riley, Pousseur and other
influential composers. From 1970-76 he worked as a composer/performer for
the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and was commissioned to write several
pieces. He received a D.A.A.D. fellowship in 1988-89 and an Individuals
Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts in 1994.
Behrman lives in New York.
David Behrman performed at Lampo in September 2003 -- his first Chicago
concert in more than 30 years. He presented "Homemade Synthesizer Music
with Sliding Pitches" and a new version of "QS/RL" made for cellist Fred
Lonberg-Holm.
LAMPO LINKS:
Questions? www.lampo.org/
UP NEXT:
Something new from JR ... synthesizer blurpage and campfire vocals ...
mysteries nested like Russian dolls ... homemade and heart-wrenching.
Masters of the Ellipsis, we are.
Rylan (b. 1974, London) is a sound artist and electronic musician who
lives and works in the Boston area. She builds analog synthesizers, which
she uses for sound installations at galleries (LIST Visual Art Center at
MIT, the Boston Center for the Arts, Bard College) and also in her high
energy musical performances. Her recordings are available on RRRecords and
Ultra Eczema, as well as her own IRFP label. In 2005, Rylan was named
Research Affiliate at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT to
study chaotic synthesizer design. She has lectured at Bard College,
Boston University, Harvard and Smith College.
Jessica Rylan and her Natural Synthesizer first appeared at Lampo in
October 2005.
UK:
Instal is a festival of underground music
13, 14, 15 October 06
Instal is a festival of underground music. Not mainstream or indie music - underground music. It's not about the Next Big Thing; it's an alternative to big things. Instal is the largest, best-attended and most exciting underground music festival in the UK, and is curated and produced for the Arches by Arika.
This year the festival will build on previous successes by commissioning original performances from and showcasing the best of international, national and Scottish underground music. In order to do this, we're expanding the festival to include a third stage, which will form the focal point of the festival later in the evening and will showcase the best up-and-coming Scottish and UK underground musicians.
We're interested in music that's made because individuals want to say something about themselves, the world around them or simply to investigate the form of music itself, without worrying about what scene they might fit into, or about sounding like someone else.
There are people all over the world making this kind of music; it's an underground community has nothing to do with connoisseurship or elitism, and everything to do with self-expression. We've handcrafted a programme and an atmosphere in which we hope this community feels real and open to anybody, where the connection between the artist, the work and the audience is direct and democratic.
Friday 13 Oct
Saturday 14 Oct
Sunday 15 Oct
Instal 06 – complete programme of events
Friday 13 Oct
Ellen Fullman + Sean Meehan
Nmperign/Jason Lescalleet
Oshiri Penpenz
Saturday 14 Oct
Lee Patterson
Steve Baczkowski + Ravi Padmanabha
Bohman Brothers
Lethe
Keiji Haino + Tony Conrad
Jazkamer
Sunday 15 Oct
Tetsuya Umeda
Arrington de Dionyso
Sachiko
Eye Contact
Kuwayama / Kijima
Maryanne Amacher
UK PLATFORM
WORKSHOPS
Arika champion underground music, film and art and also produce Kill Your Timid Notion, Music Lovers' Field Companion and recently, Resonant Spaces.
www.arika.org
Instal is supported by the Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Arts Council Lottery Funds, PRS Foundation, Glasgow City Council, Youth Music Initiative, Japan Foundation
San Francisco:
upcoming sfSound events @ ODC
Monday, November 11, 2006, 8 pm
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LA:
"No Point Takes Up Space" sculpture by Sky Burchard
an Experimental Exhibition and Live Art/Visual Art Performance Space
Voted 5th Most Popular Art Gallery
Exhibit Dates
Wednesday through Saturday
The exhibition opening celebration
1020 East Fourth Place
Los Angeles, CA, August 28, 2006 - Ever wanted to live inside a video game? Now you can at Dangerous Curve, at Sky Bur chard's "No Point Takes Up Space" sculpture exhibit. Step inside the mind of a great artist/hacker. The exhibition celebration is on Saturday, September 16, 2006, from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. Live art and music TBA, with the usual great vegan food prepared by our master vegan chef, John Saslow. The exhibit is up until October 21, 2006. See ourwebsite for directions, pictures, and updates.
We're located at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and Mateo Streets, in the back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts, #102, between the Fourth Street Bridge's (on the LA River side of downtown) two on/off ramps.
Burchard writes that he "was intensely analytic" as a child. He didn't just play with toys---he "would find their seams, test their strength, take them apart, put them back together, and exaggerate the way they were intended to be used." As with Richard Feynmann, the famous physicist, he has always been interested in how things are made, how they work. "Now I take things apart as I consume them," he writes. "I cannot throughly enjoy something if I am not taking it apart as it is coming together in front of me." He deconstructs movies as he watches them, video games as he plays them. "Avid gamers know that the best way to beat a game is to see what is behind the surface, behind the graphics and the narrative, down to the code," he writes. In fact, that is how Burchard makes art, going "about living, analyzing things, consuming them, poking holes in them while appreciating them."
This show highlights one leg of Burchard's multifarious output: his video game environments. He prefers light games to horror ones. His "Emerald Hill Zone/Act 2" is a 10-foot-long 3D version of the grass in the "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" game. He played the game when he was a child and always wanted to be inside it. In the game, we see the 2D version of the grass. Burchard "imagines" the 3D version of it, opting not for a relief, but a full-blown 3D version. He imports the image into Flash, makes a 3D template for it in Maya, snaps to grid to get measurements for cutting the parts out of EPS foam, cuts the foam, paints it, and assembles the pieces. He works bottom-up, building up works from small pieces. Nevertheless, Burchard learned from his employer Yutaka Sone not to get too detailed.
Burchard makes his "Blue Set" furniture pieces from the "Animal Crossing" game with texture maps on polystyrene, with more foam. They depict the way the game's objects are built out of 2D elements to appear 3D. He extrapolates the inner workings of various computer applications to sculpture fabrication. For instance, he noted that when one flips an image in computer graphics, one reverses the image rows, but if one "flips" each pixel-high row, one gets the same image. In "upside-down chair," he slices an IKEA children's chair horizontally, turns each slice upside down, and reassembles the chair with each slice in its respective position horizontally. The result is a chair that is globally right-side-up, but locally upside-down.
Burchard holds a BFA from UCLA and an MFA from USC. He's been seen in numerous group exhibits at such places as Black Dragon Society, Bowie Van Valen, Raid Projects, Shenandoah House, and Akiyoshidai in Japan.
Come see this beautiful show and be transported into worlds you never thought you'd visit.
Dangerous Curve is a leading contemporary art space in the Arts District of Los Angeles. It is a privately run venue for live art/visual art performance, experimental art and music, and installations. The gallery supports visionary established and emerging artists of all ages, with live art residencies and one-person shows of high-quality risky and intelligent work that's ahead of the curve.
A huge thank you to our supporters, The Dale and Edna Walsh Foundation, Kate Bartolo of The Kor Group, and others listed on our sponsor page. Because of their and your generous support, Dangerous Curve is able to make a difference by helping emerging artists and educating the commmunity about high-quality art.
Berkeley, CA:
CalPerformances presents Gamelan Sekar Jaya
Saturday October 14, 2pm
Zellerbach Hall A
$20/$26/$32
www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/presents/season/2006/world_stage/gsj.php
Directed: Ellen Sebastian Chang
Gamelan Sekar Jaya,the San Francisco Bay Area's
world-renowned Balinese performing arts troupe, will premiere "Kali
Yuga", a contemporary dance drama.
Interpreted by the renowned Javanese poet Goenawan Mohamad, the
stories are drawn from the ancient Mahabharata epic. Though the
stories come from the stock dance drama fodder, note that this show
far transcends ultra-orthodox Balinese performing arts traditionalism.
These performances *will* sell out, so get your tickets beforehand.
Sightlines event
Saturday October 14, 7.00 - 7.30pm
Zellerbach Hall A
FREE to all event ticket holders
Oakland, CA:
Paintings of Made Moja from Batuan in south central Bali
A show featuring the AA MM AA ZZ II NN GG (!!!)
paintings of Made Moja from Batuan in south central Bali.
Desa Arts
www.desaarts.com
510 595 1669
Eagle Rock, CA:
Open Gate Theatre
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
NYC:
MidAmerica Productions presents Carnegie Hall Concert Series and Weill Recital Hall Chamber Music Series
Visit the website for details!
Weill Recital Hall Chamber Music Series
NYC:
World Music Institute & Thomas Buckner present
2006-2007 season schedule:
November 9, 2006 – Merkin Concert Hall
January 17-21, 2007 – LaMaMa E.T.C.
February 8, 2007 – Merkin Concert Hallv
FLUX Quartet
March 8, 2007 – Merkin Concert Hall
April 12, 2007 – Merkin Concert Hall
Thursday May 10, 2007 – Asia Society
Monday May 21, 2007 - Zankel Hall
Programs subject to change.
NYC:
Big Bang--A NEW SERIES AT CORNELIA STREET CAFE ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH
SUCH AND SUCH PRODUCTIONS and CORNELIA STREET CAFE present
29 Cornelia Street (between Bleecker and W. 4th)
LA:
ART WORKS by JACKI APPLE at the new LITTLE TOKYO BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY
LITTLE TOKYO BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY
ART WORKS by JACKI APPLE
ARCHITECT: ANTHONY LUMSDEN
SAN FRANCISCO:
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance
Meridian Gallery
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance
This concert series celebrates new, traditional and world music through monthly
performances.
www.meridiangallery.org/MGMusic.htm
NEW YORK CITY:
ARTS ELECTRIC 11th Season
EMF is planning a lively and varied series of events in New York during its 10th anniversary season, including concerts, workshops, encounters, and installations. All events, with time, location, admission, and other details, are listed at Arts Electric as dates are confirmed: www.emf10.org/
JOIN US!
New York City:
TONIC events 2006!
This month at Tonic:
TONIC
Recently Posted and Ongoing
INTERNET:
The Rejection Show
Like the show itself, the new website will be a display of a variety of
rejected material from rejected cartoons, rejected short films, rejected
greeting cards, rejected TV pilots, videos clips, personal rejections,
essays, literary work, and more as well as continue to share unique insights
to the process of gaining acceptance from those who wield power. Rejected
material submissions open to anyone, anywhere.
Created and produced by writer and comedian, Jon Friedman, The Rejection
Show is a comedic based event that embraces the rejected and "turned down"
material of writers, comedians, cartoonists, artists, and human beings whom
display their creative "failures" live on stage.
INTERNET:
Siberian traibride improvisation project
Hi, all...
you can follow me through Siberia with my improvisation project here
the mobicast:
or the live radio from the train:
all best,
INTERNET:
BINARY KATWALK
Binarykatwalk announces the launch of its first edition.
Binarykatwalk.net
Binary Katwalk is an on-line New Media exhibition focusing on work that is experimental
and would benefit from this non-traditional exhibition space. The goal
of the site is to unify works over time into one expanding and unified
exhibition as opposed to specific exhibitions that open and then close or
go to a secondary archive. It is co-curated by Jeremy Hight and Sindee
Nakatani.
Come to Binary Katwalk to see the work of 5 strong artists from very
different points in the spectrum of New Media.
AGRICLOA DE COLOGNE, OLIVER DYENS, BJORN WANGEN, LISA TAO, CATHY DAVIES, OLIVER DYENS
INTERNET:
Mediatopia.2 fresh! @ mediatopia.net
Mediatopia.2 fresh! assembles an exciting mix of recent net-based work by a diverse group of neoteric artists, creatives and thinkers. Their fresh, networked interfaces look to a variety of means to utilize the internet, as playground, platform or paintbrush. Mediatopia.net is a recurring network mediated culture space for art, technology and writing. We still believe in networked culture. Mediatopia.net
Jessica Ivins
Produced by Adhocarts.org, a non-profit arts organization
Curated by Lara Bank and Andrew Bucksbarg
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mediatopia.2 fresh!
Artists create art in cyberspace, but can you hang it on a wall?
Mediatopia.2 fresh! assembles an exciting mix of recent net-based work by a diverse group of neoteric artists, creatives and thinkers. Their fresh, networked interfaces look to a variety of means to utilize the Internet, both as creative medium and as a channel to share and distribute their output. The Internet, with its network functionality and potential for user interaction, is their creative playground: a form to manipulate and a means of social or political expression. Mediatopia.2 fresh! is a net-based opportunity for artists to gain exposure for their culture work. Mediatopia.2 fresh! is produced by Adhocarts.org, a non-profit media-arts organization. Lara Bank and Andrew Bucksbarg worked together to curate a program from recent work submitted internationally that uses the Internet as a playground, platform or paintbrush.
Jessica Ivan's Retrotype historically traces female representation in video games through an interface that allows the participant to personalize and question the object of their gaze. Do you live in East L.A. and long to live closer to celebrities in a gated community? Carlos Katastrofsky performs Neighborhood and Area Research for you, so you can discover who your IP address neighbors are in cyberspace. On the Internet, distance is collapsed as ideologues are brought closer together. Michael Takeo Magruder's
Together these disparate works signify the production, both singularly and collaboratively, of persons whose concerns go beyond the instance of capital and reach outward to the cultural center of what digital media can mean for human expression and communication. Their work is a mirror before us that traces both our success and failure: together and separate in the network. These words may wish to provide an overview or representation of their work, but fail to provide the one thing these artists considered as they created their work- your interaction. This interaction forms a means to destabilize the relation of the author or creator, bringing in the user as an active director or participant in the process.
Artist's work created for the Internet poses problems for persons, museums or galleries who would collect and display it. Internet Art is not easily installed in these traditional spaces, and although digital information does not degrade, the technology that expresses it is constantly changing and upgrading. Software evolves, computers and their operating systems change, as well as progressive modifications to the human-computer interface, making it difficult to collect and archive this kind of work. Net-based art is ephemeral under these circumstances.
Artists who create "net.art,' have another problem at hand as well. How do you create value for something that is distributed on a network and available to anyone with a computer and connection? Historically, most art, aside from live performance, is based upon its being a one-of-a-kind object that maintains or even gains value as a collected piece. This makes raising funds for or selling this work a difficult proposition. Rachel Greene, author of Internet Art, writes, "Internet Art has less to do with objects of social prestige, and little, at least currently, to do with the cosmopolitan art businesses that thrive in New York, Cologne, London and other culture capitals.' These limitations have given artists who work with the Internet a kind of freedom and revelry of exploration, as well as a particular tool for cultural and institutional critique. Many artists see the Internet as a cause to really challenge fundamental elements of humanity: identity, methods of communication, technology, politics and the institution. These artists understand that people expanded by the Internet all over the world, are brought together in cyberspace.
The Internet was launched in 1989 by the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee. As the use of the Internet grew, so did a community of artists who began to utilize it as a creative medium by the mid 1990s. Some of the early practitioners of Internet Art were Post-Communist East Europeans and organizations like the Ljudmila Media Center in Slovenia, supported by George Soros's Open Society Institute. Much of the practice of Internet Art also saw support in media arts festivals in Europe during this time. Internet Art has grown over the years as the Internet has seen increased use and is now getting more recognition from the traditional formats of museums and galleries.
Artists will continue to participate in the social uses of new technology. They will take part in future network technologies and cultures, where the Internet will be augmented by shared virtual space. People on the network will come together in synthetic worlds to create, communicate and recreate. This is already occurring in online multi-player games and environments like Second Life (http://secondlife.com), which include their own economies. Objects and land can be bought and sold and complex social transactions take place in these ephemeral, digital realms that exist on servers. Some artists, such as Chris Burke, are hacking online multi-user games for other purposes, such as a talk show in game space (http://www.thisspartanlife.com).
Artists have a long history of socially relevant communication from within the culture they are steeped. Mediatopia.net and its supporting organization, Adhocarts, offer perspective to this process in the continually shifting phenomena of cyberspace. Mediatopia.net is produced by Adhocarts (http://adhocarts.org), which sponsors a variety of expressions that fall on the lines of interconnecting disciplines, theories, technologies and cultures. Adhocarts.org is a non-profit collaboration supporting arts and culture by producing avenues for creative expression and thought both online and off. Adhocarts.org was founded in 2000 and exists as a catalyst for work that uses technology and hypermedia, such as net.art, installation, digital video, writing and live art.
We still believe in net-based culture. Mediatopia.net
Press contact:
INTERNET & LIVE LOCATIONS:
Le placard's 8th edition, non-stop three month streaming headphone festival
Le Placard is a headphone concert festival, playing with concentration, intimacy, time warp, and teleportation. This year it goes on for 97 days non stop, in different cities.
Get more info: www.leplacard.org/.
INTERNET:
The Invisible Guy
is online now!
Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Fellow Cyber-Surfers:
This is to let you know that my latest and current project, The Invisible Guy, is now officially online. Over three years in the making (and still in progress), it consists of lots and lots of music - surf tunes, humorous songs, a couple of tangos, and some demented anachronistic pop stylings not easy to describe - and for every number a scene (delivered in prose, I'm afraid; no flash cartoons or videos. You have to enjoy a good read).
These will be uploaded every Friday for the next 40 to 50 weeks, much like a serial novel. So to enjoy the full ride you'll have to keep coming back. It's cumulative though; once up there, every episode will be permanently available and accessible any time.
You are invited to get your first glimpse of The Invisible Guy right now at the above URL. Listen to the theme song, meet the gorgeous but wicked Zipper Ripper, and learn a bit of trivia.
This is a free online entertainment from the Leisure Planet.
(By the way, view it in Netscape if you can. Some stuff doesn't look right otherwise, and I'm not sure why.)
Thanks,
INTERNET:
bentstrings radio
Hello friends,
I want to let you know of an internet radio station that I have
started. It is called
bentstrings radio at
www.live365.com/stations/martinherman
When you get there, simply click on the listen icon for bentstrings radio.
It is live streaming internet radio, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It
requires a cable modem or faster connection.
The station invites listeners to bend ears and minds and listen to
music that includes such composers as John Adams, Steve Reich, Gyorgy
Ligeti, Gerard Grisey, Frank Zappa, Lou Harrison, William Houston,
Evan Ziporyn, Joshua Fried, Eve Beglarian, Aphex Twin, Sigur Ros, Cort
Lippe, Gavin Bryars, Brian Eno, Arthur Jarvinen, Iva Bittova, Ivo
Medek, Miroslav Pudlak, Astor Piazzola, Conlon Nancarrow, Shaun
Naidoo, Carolyn Bremer, Robin Cox, Pauline Oliveros, Steven Mackey,
Nick Didkovsky, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can Allstars, Autechre, and
more...!
I will be expanding playlists and am interested in your input.
My interest is in curating playlists to explore unusual or
infrequently considered nodes of contact among currently active
composers. Please drop in and have a listen.
And please pass the word to anyone you think might be interested.
Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.
Bentstrings radio is a legal live365.com station and pays royalties to the artists programmed.
INTERNET:
The Memory Theater, an iPod opera
Plugged ~ In
18 April 2005
Dear Friends,
I wanted to let you know that we have just launched The Memory Theater, an iPod opera.
Serialized as 49 playlists between April 10, 2005 and February 24, 2007, The Memory Theater is a retelling of Cathedral's 5 moments through the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
The Fanfare (Program 1) has begun, and the Prologue will begin on April 24.
Featuring the pan-genre global collective Cathedral Band, The Chronicler, and the voices from the web, The Memory Theater is crafted especially for the sound world of the iPod.
I hope you'll be able to join Nora and me as we begin this new chapter in the Cathedral story.
Best wishes to all,
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As a podcast:
1] download free podcast receiver software.
On the web:
Need more help? visit our FAQs at
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INTERNET:
Viralnet.net is now online!
Viralnet is a productive nexus: critique, archive, art space and journal.
It intends to raise questions and provoke assumptions about culture,
media, politics and the arts.
Working with international social critics, media theorists, writers,
curators and artists, it is an online space that will grow and mutate as
it delivers material for these post-digital, post-democratic times. As
human experience becomes more mediated, we will highlight alternative
pathways into future thought and art making.
Produced by the Center for Integrated Media and the MFA Writing Program at
CalArts, Viralnet offers a series of commissioned online projects, essays
and interviews with a view toward articulating new concepts and working
strategies developed by contemporary intermedia artists, writers and
theorists. Tom Leeser, Director of the Center for Integrated Media,
says Viralnet is set up to look at digital media in relation to
culture, politics and the arts. The computer and the Internet have
expanded far beyond the boundaries of an exclusive digital domain,
allowing a transformation from novelty to the familiar," he says. "As with
radio at the beginning of the 20th century, digital technology has entered
a state of flux, going from an object of privilege to a common and
everyday ubiquitous appliance. This will have creative, social and
political ramifications that we are only beginning to
experience and understand."
Some of the contributors to this release of Viralnet include; social
critic and author, Norman Klein, new media theorist and author, Lisa
Nakamura, Kitchen curator and author, Christina Yang, artists, Perry
Hoberman and Sara Roberts.
You can find Viralnet at viralnet.net
INTERNET:
Iridian Radio
If you want to hear provocative "new music" that really is new, or at least created in the
last couple of decades, then check out Iridian Radio. You'll hear music of artists such as
John Adams, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Iva Bittova, Tan Dun, Kronos Quartet, Meredith
Monk, Steve Reich, and many more.
Not only is Iridian Radio's broadcast quality and programming unique to internet
streaming broadcasts, but the station home page also provides further info on the artists
and purchasing links for their recordings. This is a free service -no fees or subscriptions
needed to listen.
If you think Iridian Radio is an important outlet for this music, please forward the station
info to others that might be interested.
Iridian Radio is a fully legal Live365.com station and pays royalties to the artists
programmed.
INTERNET:
DRIFT Radio: from New Media Scotland
To listen to the stream, visit the DRIFT website at www.mediascot.org/drift
New Media Scotland
INTERNET:
New American Radio Website Project
New American Radio
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is pleased to announce its
redesigned, updated and expanded NEW AMERICAN RADIO (NAR) website that
includes full-length radio art programs by American and European
artists. Currently available are works by Terry Allen, Jacki Apple,
Diamanda Galas, Sheila Davies, Suzan-Lori Parks, Gregory Whitehead and
others. Additional programs will be added to the site in the coming months.
A weekly series distributed to public radio stations nationwide from
1987-1998, NEW AMERICAN RADIO includes over 300 original works
commissioned from such artists as Pauline Oliveros, Rachel Rosenthal,
Christian Marclay, Alvin Curran, and Carl Hancock Rux. During its 15
years of broadcast life, NAR became known-nationally and
internationally as the principal source of radio experimentation in
America, ranking with such high-profile international programs as ABC
Australia's The Listening Room. Its works, which won numerous prizes
in competitions worldwide, were aired throughout North America, Europe
and Australia. Although now off-air, NAR enjoys an active afterlife on
the Internet, where full-length programs, audio excerpts, scripts and
other artist writings are available.
An amazing cultural mirror of its time, both in regard to the issues it
dealt with and the techniques and strategies used by its artists, NEW
AMERICAN RADIO is also being archived in the World Music Archive at
Wesleyan University, CT, where it will be accessible both on location
and on-line to students, educators, artists, scholars, and the general
public. The archive is made possible by grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts.
For more information, please contact Helen Thorington at
newradio@turbulence.org
INTERNET:
Spongefork Radio
Spongefork Radio
INTERNET:
Intercontinental spontaneous jam session
New artwork by Icelandic artist Pall Thayer, the Intercontinental
spontaneous jam session is now open and accessible at
www.this.is/pallit/isjs
This piece explores abstract imagery created via a musical interface to
combine the inherently abstract qualities of music with randomness and
multi-user interactivity to create a truly abstract image that contains
no references to the physical world.
Pall Thayer
INTERNET:
ARTPORT from the Whitney Museum of American Art
http://www.whitney.org/artport -- read more !!!
INTERNET & NORTHWESTERN University:
Home, an interactive, navigable web work, contains the work of 17
artists
Home, an interactive, navigable web work, contains the work of 17
artists. These include: a screenwriter, a photographer, a set
designer, film and video makers, and sound and computer artists. Each
has a unique perspective on the meaning of home, this most universal
and basic of necessities.
Primary collaborators Drew Browning and Annette Barbier will be at
the Block Museum at Northwestern University to demonstrate and talk
about the work during the following times:
on Tuesday, Sept. 25 from 12-5 PM
Home is permanently on line via the Block web site at:
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/art_tech/virtual.html
For directions, see:
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/welcome/directions.html
The development of Home was supported by a grant from the Center for
Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts at Northwestern University.
Contributing artists from the Northwestern community include: Dave
Tolchinsky, Michelle Citron, Sam Ball, David Downs, Rives Collins, Linda
Gates, Dan Brintz.
INTERNET:
Post Media Network
Michele Thursz, the former Director of Moving Image Gallery, is proud to
present her latest project the Post Media Network:
The network operates as a physical and virtual structure composed of
editorial, curatorial, and artists projects that stresses the different
perspectives and uses of the electronic and computer-based mediums.
Post Media is an action demonstrating the continuous evolution of the term
and uses of media. The network promotes actions of collaboration,
representation and market utilization of all media.
The Network
Portfolios showcase the artists on the network, the digital studio and the
marketable physical and virtual objects.
Represented artists:
Developed by Claire Barliant (senior editor of artbyte), Dialogue
features conversations with the artists to reveal their history
and process.
The archives document the on going exhibitions and events
presented or affiliated with all past and present network participants.
Director: Michele Thursz
"All data is created equal" -- Arcangel
INTERNET:
Announcing the Launch of the Website for:
"Re: Duchamp Traveling Exhibition"
La Biennale di Venezia:
49th International Exhibition of Art--
Concomitant Exhibitions
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/duchamp
"The Re: Duchamp Travelling Exhibition is a project that has been evolving
over time. It has traveled to various cities in Germany, Poland, Chile and
Israel, as well as New York City. It is the ongoing work of Abraham Lubelski,
and incorporates the work of over 250 other artists, including Nam June Paik,
Dennis Oppenheim, Carl Andre, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Taylor Mead, Larry
Weiner, David Humphrey, Inka Essenhigh....
The Re: Duchamp Travelling Exhibition at the 49th Venice Biennale* is an
installation of clotheslines from which artwork is hung.** The idea for this
installation is derived from Marcel Duchamp's infamous benefit exhibition
organized on the Premises of the Coordinating Council of French Relief
Societies, 451 Madison Avenue, New York, October 14th - November 7th, 1942,
in which he criss-crossed the entire gallery with one mile of string. This
entanglement, which the public had to negotiate when they came to view the
art, stood as a metaphor for the difficulties encountered in attempting to
understand modern art.
The current exhibition uses this Duchampian metaphor to point to connectivity
as much as any difficulty that might hinder an appreciation of art in the
digital age---art whose nature may be partially or completely ephemeral,
time-based, or immaterial, and which might be conveyed digitally or housed
virtually. Re: Duchamp celebrates the process of visual sampling in a world
where the line between original and copy has been blurred, and the medium is
the readymade.
** Participating artists were asked to e-mail their submissions as digital
files. These were printed out, placed in plastic sleeves and brought to
Venice for installation. Hung from criss-crossing lengths of string at the
Church of S. Maria Ausiliatrice, they resemble so many Tibetan prayer flags,
the wind and the Web conveying and disseminating their messages.
* At the 49th Venice Biennale, the Re: Duchamp Travelling Exhibition forms
part of the Markers Project, which involves organizations in Venice including
the Peggy Gugghenheim Collection, the Biennale Arti Visive, and the
Municipality of Venice itself."
[--notes, Joy Garnett]
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
MARK AMERIKA, DANIEL GARCIA ANDUJAR, DOUGLAS DAVIS, CHRISTOPH DRAEGER, PETER
FEND, JOY GARNETT, PAUL GARRIN, KEN GOLDBERG, WANG GONGXIN, MARINA GRZINIC &
AINA SMID, WENDA GU, INGO GUNTHER, LIANG-MEI HUANG, JON IPPOLITO, EDUARDO
KAC, OLGA KISSELEVA, TINA LAPORTA, JENNY MARKETOU, MARCELLO MAZZELLA, PAUL D.
MILLER aka DJ SPOOKY, MTAA, OLU OGUIBE, ANDRES SERRANO,
HANI RASHID (ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTS), MARK TRIBE & KERRY TRIBE
Curated by: CRISTINE WANG
http://www.tribes.org/dystopia
For More Information contact: Cristine Wang tel:
917.318.0081
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/duchamp
Festivals, Contests, Conferences, Programs, Airtime Submissions Requested!
The Kronos Quartet-in collaboration with Carnegie Hall, Pop Montréal, the
Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at the Montalvo Arts Center, and the
American Music Center-is pleased to announce the launch of the fourth
Kronos: Under 30 Project, a program through which musicians under 30 years
of age are selected to create new music for the Kronos Quartet. The members
of Kronos will personally review the applications and select 1 musician to
whom the group feels artistically committed. Together, Carnegie Hall, Pop
Montréal, and Kronos will then jointly commission the selected composer to
write a new piece of music for Kronos. The Lucas Artists Programs at the
Montalvo Arts Center will host the composer during a multi-week residency in
the Saratoga Hills in Northern California, providing the composer a
supportive environment for creative work. The commissioned composer will
join Kronos in San Francisco, CA, to prepare the new piece, and will travel
to Carnegie Hall and to Pop Montréal for Kronos' performances of the work.
Please note: If you have applied to the Kronos: Under 30 Project in the
past, please read the following guidelines carefully, as they have changed.
We do not hold over applications from previous years, but we encourage you
to re-apply with your latest work. Applicant must be under 30 years of age
as of October 16, 2006, and can be of any nationality. Applicant must be
able to agree, if selected, to create a new work and provide written music
to Kronos no later than November 16, 2007. The selected composer will
receive a commission for a new work in the amount of $5000. (Commission fee
includes the creation of score, parts, any other necessary performance
materials.) The length of the new piece will be determined in discussion
with Kronos, but will be in the range of 10-20 minutes. The composer will
also receive travel and accommodations for an initial meeting with Kronos,
location and date to be determined; travel and accommodations for a
multi-week residency at the Lucas Artists Programs at the Montalvo Arts
Center; travel and accommodations for a residency with Kronos in San
Francisco to rehearse the new piece; travel and accommodations for the world
premiere of the new piece in concert in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall on
February 22, 2008; travel and accommodations for the Canadian premiere of
the new piece in concert at Pop Montreal in October, 2008. Submit the
following materials together in one package: (1) a completed, signed
application form, available for download from the website below (please type
or print legibly, as it is important that we be able to contact you with any
questions); (2) 5 copies of a CD containing at least 2 pieces of music that
are indicative of the breadth of your recent work, regardless of
instrumentation (include at least 1 complete work; additional material can
be excerpts; we encourage you to present your most recent work first; no
preference will be given to composers who submit recordings of string
quartets; we suggest you keep the CD under 30 minutes; label the CDs clearly
with your name, the names and timings of the pieces, and the instruments and
names of the performers; MIDI or computer realizations are acceptable; CDs
are strongly preferred, but cassettes are acceptable in exceptional
circumstances; and (3) a note about your music; please include a brief note
that you have written about your own music-it should not be a review or
commentary by someone else (for example, you might write about a specific
piece, like a concert program note, or you could choose to write a more
general note about what you hope to achieve artistically through your music;
(4) 2 copies of your bio or resume, about your musical background; (5)
Optional: other work samples, such as written scores or videos (DVD
preferred), if they provide extra insight into your work. All materials must
be clearly labeled with your name and title of the work. Please do not send
any original materials, as they will not be returned. Incomplete, illegible,
and/or late submissions will not be considered. The selected composer will
be announced on the Kronos Quartet website, http://www.kronosquartet.org, no
later than March 15, 2007. Send your application package to:
"Medical/Arts", an Open Call from NewTown About Medical Arts Title:"MEDICAL/ARTS" Deadline for Submissions: NOVEMBER 1, 2006 Working with regional doctors and medical facilities, “Medical/Arts” will explore the medical arts and sciences from artists’ perspectives and, conversely, the aesthetics of medical practice, equipment and materials from the perspective of doctors and other practitioners. Medical/Arts will explore the relationships between artistic and medical world views. How do artists view the medical practice, science and artifacts? In what ways do medical practitioners find aesthetics manifest in their field? Where are the commonalities? Where the divergences? NewTown will explore this topic with two different shows: A gallery-based show, opening late March/early April, 2007, will provide 8 to 10 artists an opportunity to create works exploring the world of medicine. A like number of medical practitioners will be engaged to bring their aesthetic perceptions of their field into the gallery format. It should be noted, however, as the curatorial process unfolds, NewTown is prepared to adapt its format to accept the most engaging and provocative works (e.g. a doctor who is also an artist with work relating to the medical practice, or vice versa). Can My Work Be Critical of Medical Practices? Will Existing Work Be Considered or Must it be New? PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS You must include a CLEAR WRITTEN DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PROPOSED WORK, along with how it addresses the theme of the show. This should be no more than one page long. It can be only a couple sentences if that does the job. Just a tip that the panel is more likely to be annoyed than impressed by a long-winded treatise. For visual arts, A SKETCH OR OTHER REPRESENTATION OF THE PROPOSED PIECE will be required. REPRESENTATIVE WORK SAMPLE(S) demonstrating your ability to complete the project are required. Although work samples employing similar skills to those needed to complete your project are always helpful, we both understand and encourage you to take new directions and risks. If this is the case, please try to send us materials that show a variety of skills, both conceptually and technically. Work samples may be provided in the following formats. IF YOU WANT WORK SAMPLES RETURNED, you must enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. If you want more than work samples returned, be sure to let us know. BIOGRAPHY NewTown email: info@newtownarts.org
The Sonict Ensemble of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater invites
composers to submit scores for consideration for performance. The ensemble
can perform works for varied instrumentation, including any combination of
acoustic instruments. We especially encourage submissions for small chamber
groups that include sax, sax ens, perc, and perc ens. We also strongly
encourage submission of works that include electronics, either on CD or to
be performed via Max/MSP. Two-channel tape works or works for/including
video will also be programmed regularly as part the series, both as part of
our regular ensemble concerts and on special electronics-only performances.
All submissions not selected for performance will remain in the music
library and may be considered for future concerts. If you would prefer to
have your materials returned to you, please include an SASE. Please email
for questions and send scores and recordings (if available; please, no MIDI
files) to:
tracks wanted for a power-field comp - recordings made "in the field" using power electronics
whatever "field" means to you, go there. and however you want to process, amplify, make it audible in that location or not,,,,, just bring yr gear and record it, whatever. take a picture too if you can, i'd like to use them for the
Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey
Forum, All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena
7:30 pm, free entrance
Jennifer Logan
Patricio da Silva
(b.1973) is a multi-faceted composer articulating her experience in
instrumental writing with computer music. She initiated her musical
studies at age six in California, with an emerging interest on
classical piano from a pluri-instrumental education. She studied piano
with William Aprile, the late Philip Lorenz, and Andreas Werz, while
studying composition with Jack Fortner. In 2004, she completed her
Ph.D. in composition at the University of California Santa Barbara
where she studied composition and orchestration with William Kraft, and
electroacoustic composition with Curtis Roads. During the 2003-2004
academic year, she was a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at l'Universite
Paris VIII/CICM (Centre de Recherche Informatique et Creation
Musicale), where she produced the first French to English translations
of three articles on computer music aesthetics by the Paris-based
Argentinean composer Horacio Vaggione. Additionally, she has
participated in other seminars such as the Stockhausen Courses (2001),
and the Ascoli-Piceno Music Festival in Italy (1998). As a pianist, she
has been active both as a soloist and as a member of multiple
ensembles, such as the ECM, Orpheus, and Polyhymnia, under the
direction of Jack Fortner, Stephen Stucky, Donald Crocket, and
Alejandro Planchart, and has performed in the US and abroad. Dr. Logan
is a prize-winner in the Los Angeles Liszt Competition, Keyboard
Concerts Youth Performance Awards, Tulare County Symphony Young Artists
Competition, and the Corwin Prize for Electroacoustic Composition. As
an educator, she has taught at Porterville College, California State
University Fresno, and University of California Santa Barbara.
Currently, she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Occidental College
in Los Angeles where she teaches electronic music, music theory, aural
skills, and music fundamentals. Since 2003, she has co-directed the
Spectrum New Music Festival and the Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey, concert
series dedicated to electronic and computer concert music.
Additionally, she has been commissioned for a new work for orchestra
and electronics which will be premiered by the Tulare County Symphony
in 2007. Her works have been performed in the US and Europe; scores
and MP3s are available online at www.spectrumpress.com
All Saints Church
132 North Euclid Avenue
Pasadena, California 91101-1796
Phone: 626.796.1172
Fax: 626.796.4749
"Whirler of the Dance" for solo guitar by Carlos Rafael Rivera
"Music of Thoughts and Shadows" for string quartet by Justin Melland
"Fourmis sans ombre" for soprano, harp, flute and string trio by Brett Banducci (World Premiere!)
"Who You Calling Little?! : Five Miniatures for the Strangely Combined" for english horn, cello, trumpet and tuba by Julia Newmann and Cody Westheimer
Eight oclock
Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
2225 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock, 90041
323.226.1617
$10 Suggested Donation
Wine and cheese reception
Kraig Grady anaphoria.com
Tecumseh Slujun www.myspace.com/slujun
On And Off Superfast www.myspace.com/onandoffsuperfast
alley between 2nd & 3nd
Spring and main st downtown L.A.
Where: Music Recital Hall, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA 90744
Time: 8:00 P.M.
Admission: $5
email: info@barryschrader.com
phone: 310-233-4413 or 310-233-4526
www.lahc.edu/music/announcements.html
www.lahc.edu/music/home.html
directions: www.lahc.cc.ca.us/map.htm
Barry Schrader's web site: barryschrader.com/
8:30pm
Box Office: 213.237.2800
NOVEMBER 8, 2006
THE UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE THEATER
THE BEST COMEDY IN THE UNIVERSE FESTIVAL
9:30PM
(REJECTED SUBMISSIONS FROM COLLEGEHUMOR.COM)
(AUTHOR, THE REPUBLICAN PLAYBOOK)
(STAND UP COMEDIAN)
(FEATURING REJECTED VIDEO SUBMISSIONS SENT TO THE REJECTION SHOW THAT WERE REJECTED BY THE REJECTION SHOW)
Hosted by Jon Friedman
Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
Wednesday November 8th @ 9:30PM
307 W. 26th Street
C, E, F, 1, 9 to 23rd Street
(212) 366-9176
$5
7.30pm
U.C. Berkeley
Somei Satoh: HASHI (Bridges) Ⅳ (2006), world premiere
Peter Garland: Waves Breaking on Rocks (Elegy for All of Us) (2003), U.S. premiere
Marc Sabat: Nocturne (1996)
Morton Feldman: Extensions 3 (1952)
Pauline Oliveros: "Norwegian Wood"
Akira Nishimura: "Because"
Carl Stone: "She Said She Said"
James Tenney: "Do You Want to Know a Secret"
James Tenney: "Love Me Do"
I have written four piano pieces of the title named HASHI (Bridges).
In Japanese legend, it is said there is a deep river between this
world and the other world. It is believed that there is a bridge
across the river, which was built by innumerable magpies. The bridge
is used to pass the dead. The bridge of magpies that floats on the
darkness is something that symbolizes the meaning of my life. The
title called HASHI originates in this legend. This piece is dedicated
to Aki Takahashi.
Waves Breaking on Rocks (Elegy for All of Us) was written in Oaxaca,
Mexico in 2003. It was commissioned and premiered by Aki Takahashi,
to whom it is also dedicated. The work was inspired (sic) by the
deaths of four of my close friends during the years 2000–03, and
individual movements are dedicated to each of them: 1. The White
Place, for photographer Walter Chappell; movement 2. Elegy for All of
Us, for the poet Laurence Weisberg; 4. A House in Island Bay, for New
Zealand playwright and poet Alan Brunton; 5. Sierra Madre, for
composer Lou Harrison. The other two movements are: 3. Summer, Again;
and 6. Waves Breaking on Rocks. It is hard not to see one's dear
friends for years, and then to be far away when they die, knowing
thus that one will never see them again. This was one motive, along
with other reasons, for my return to the US in 2005. This is the
third major solo piano work commissioned and premiered by Aki
Takahashi; each, curiously, seven years apart: Walk in Beauty (1989),
Bright Angel-Hermetic Bird (1996) and this one. So, with the hope
that we both will still be alive, I have promised Aki a new solo
piece for 2010. It's all about beauty: nothing else. —Peter Garland
Nocturne was composed as a study of metric modulations in slow tempo.
Each new pattern is introduced as a polyrhythm in relation to the
currently sounding cycle. In time, its own tempo is allowed to
dominate and redefine the perceived pulse. The mathematical
relationships of tempi are perceived as simple intervallic expansions
and contractions of the flowing passage of time. The piece is
dedicated to Linda Catlin Smith.
A Special Benefit for Monday Evening Concerts
REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater)
A Tribute to Dorrance Stalvey
A Special Benefit for Monday Evening Concerts
Dorrance Stalvey Stream (L.A. premiere)
Gerard Grisey Vortex Temporum (L.A. premiere)
Donald Crockett, conductor
Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, cello
Ross Karre, percussion
Taras Krysa, violin
Mark Menzies, violin
Lou Anne Neill, harp
Philip O'Connor, clarinet
Kazi Pitelka, viola
Vicki Ray, piano
Steven Schick, percussion
Dorothy Stone, flute
Cristina Zavalloni, voice
St. Andrew's United Methodist Church and Day School
4 Wallace Manor Road, Edgewater, MD 21037. Music of Bach, Mozart,
Schubert, Vaughan Williams, and Martinu for soprano, clarinet, and piano
with soprano Elizabeth Kluegel, clarinetist Ben Redwine, and pianist
Carl Banner. Tickets are $15 (donation). Information: 410 798-8251.
at The Patricia M. Sitar Center for
the Arts www.sitarcenter.org/, 1700 Kalorama Rd NW (in Adams Morgan):
"Scenes, Crows, & Rags": Music of Alexandra Gardner, Sidney Carl Bailin, Franz Schubert, WA Mozart, Jodi Beder, Pam Helton, Jaroslav Jezek, & Jelly Roll Morton. This program features an 11-piece ensemble, including soprano, tenor, strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, & piano. Admission is $18 in advance, $20 at the door.
at Galilee Lutheran Church
www.galileelutheranchurch.com, 4652 Mountain Road, Pasadena, Maryland, 21122.
Piano music of Schumann, Mozart, Chopin, and Brahms -
Carl Banner, piano. (donation).
www.dcmusicaviva.org
www.marilynbanner.com
The New Roulette Performance Space - 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets).
For more information go to www.roulette.org/events/2006_10.html
Fall Concerts 2006
8:30 PM $15 at the Door
Location One, Harvestworks, DTW members
students, seniors: $10
Reservations: 212.219.8242
Roulette members free
www.roulette.org
www.location1.org
www.roulette.org/blog/index.php
Shoko Nagai
Guy De Bievre - Very Slow Disco Suite - for three melody instruments and
computer
ROULETTE & DIXON PLACE PRESENT:
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see www.roulette.org/events/
Curated by Kathleen Supové
Moderator: Corey Dargel
Cornelius Dufallo
Jesse Krakow
Amy Kohn
Moderator: Neil Rolnick
Gene Pritsker
Adam Fisher
Kamala Sankaram
This is Family Sunday!v
Bring the kids!
Moderator: Preston Stahly
Nick Didkovsky
Joshua Fried
Ritsu Katsumata
Moderator: Nick Didkovsky
Lisa Karrer
Hans Tammen
Moderator: TBA
Molly Thompson
Jane Rigler
Douglas Cuomo
Moderator: Scott Johnson
Tamar Muskal
Guillermo Brown
Eleanor Sandresky
EXPERIMENT SERIES
Exploring the crossroads between composition and improvisation in an
informal setting.
Joe Morris' Callithumprov
The legendary improvisor will lead his strategies in a large ensemble with
Callithumpian members and guests
Adam Dotson - euphonium, Jeff Kimmel - bass clarinet, Dana Jessen -
bassoon, Joe Moffet - trumpet, Ben Schwartz - cello, Tim Feeney -
percussion, Amy Advocat - clarinets, Elliott Gattegno - saxophone, Elizabeth
England - oboe, Jessi Rosinki - flutes, Dylan Chmure-Moore -
trombone, Andrew Stetson - trumpet, Wendy Richman - viola, Gabby Diaz -
violin , Jorrit Dijkstra - alto saxophone, lyricon/analog synth, Joe Morris
- bass, guitar, conductor
Due to their temporary closure of the Lily Pad, this concert will be at:
The Nave Gallery
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church
155 Powderhouse Blvd., Somerville, MA
www.artsomerville.org/nave/nave_info.html
Door: $10, Advance: $7, call (617)497-0823
Luciano Berio: Sequenza Sequence
The great solo works for trombone, viola, piano, cello, flute, harp
Advance: $7, call (617) 497-0823
Door: $10
1353 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02139
All shows start at 7pm
www.jorritdijkstra.com
Pamela Z
Composer/Performer
www.pamelaz.com
Pamela Z at the Long Arms Festival
DOM Cultural Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia
longarms.ru/en/
Pamela Z at the International Musical Forum Apositsia
Theater on Mokhovaya, Moscow, Russia
www.aposition.org/e_v/ap_2006_e.htm
Pamela Z in "Wunderkabinet"
(with Alex Kelly on Cello and Electronics)
REDCAT
631 West 2nd Street/ Los Angeles, CA 213.237.2800
Score by Pamela Z & Matthew Brubeck w/ Video by Christina McPhee
www.pamelaz.com/wunderkabinet.html
redcat.org/season/0607/mus/z.php
Pamela Z in "Voci"
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue / Chicago, IL
Chicago Humanities Festival
www.mcachicago.org/performances/perf_detail.php?id=99
"Still Life with Commentator"
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue / Brooklyn, NY
BAM Next Wave Festival
www.bam.org/events/07STIL/07STIL.aspx
opening: Friday 15 September. 6pm - 8pm
16 September - 11 November
A Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition
16 September - 11 November 2006
Hatton Gallery Newcastle
27 January - 15 April 2007
De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill
5 May - 29 July 2007
Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester
sculpture and installation by Nancy Evans
an Experimental Exhibition and Live Art/Visual Art Performance Space
November 11--December 16, 2006
Wednesday through Saturday
1:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
7:00 to 11:00 p.m.
(500 Molino Street #102)
Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
664 no. heliotrope dr (just south of melrose ), los angeles , ca 90004
562-209-0896
www.hop-frog.com mp3s
www.myspace.com/themastermusiciansofhopfrog
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Florian Hecker - Oct 21
Mark Trayle and David Behrman - Nov 4
Jessica Rylan - Nov 18
All events 9 p.m. Admission open to all ages.
SATURDAY NOV 4 - 9:00PM
2116 W. CHICAGO AVE., CHICAGO, ILL.
ADMISSION OPEN TO ALL AGES
Trayle at pfmentum.com/ncm/contents/interviews/mt_5_00.html
Behrman at www.furious.com/perfect/behrman.html
JESSICA RYLAN
NOV 18
3 day pass £35/£28 | 2 day pass £26/£20| Friday pass £12/£8| Sat/Sun pass £16/£12
box office: 0870 240 7528
Blood Stereo + Ludo Mich
Ellen Fullman + Sean Meehan
Nmperign/Jason Lescalleet
Oshiri Penpenz
Lee Patterson
Steve Baczkowski + Ravi Padmanabha
Bohman Brothers
Lethe
Keiji Haino + Tony Conrad
Jazkamer
Tetsuya Umeda
Arrington de Dionyso
Sachiko
Eye Contact
Kuwayama / Kijima
Maryanne Amacher
artist information over
Blood Stereo + Ludo Mich
Blood Stereo is the collaborative project of the family man of the UK noise underground, Dylan Nyoukis, and his partner Karen Constance; linchpins in the noise scene, they're also astutely aware of 20th century avant thought, subsuming electro-acoustics and sound poetry into their sound. Ludo Mich is a musician/ poet, performance artist and Fluxus associate best known (if at all) for the series of hysterical 60's / 70's films. Instal aims to join the dots between current developments and previous generation's pioneers, this collaboration does just that. A UK premiere
Indebted to '60s minimalists like LaMonte Young, Pauline Oliveros and Phil Niblock, Fullman has spend 20 years developing her Long Stringed Instrument, a unique construction involving tens of wires strung in tension over great distances (she'll take up a whole 40m arch at Instal!). For this specially commissioned performance, Ellen has written a piece for herself and drummer Sean Meehan, who has over 15 years gradually pared down his kit to a single snare drum, conjuring sustained pitches with extraordinary purity of timbre by laying cymbals on the drumhead and gently exciting the surfaces with rosined dowels. We think he's one of the most interesting improvising drummers in world. A world premiere.
The Boston duo Nmperign - soprano saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley - are motivated by an intense determination to take their instruments beyond all obvious limits, far outwith the reaches of free jazz or European improvisation. Their collaborative CD with Lescalleet, (the result of 7 years of playing together live) is one of the best releases of 06, Lescalleet drawing a healthy dose of piercing noise from the two horn players as he reworks them live through tape loops and processing. Again, this is a UK premiere
Hailing from the Kansai scum rock scene (which also recently spawned Afrirampo), Oshiri Penpenz have exploded the Japanese underground with the same sort of ingeniously sloppy No Wave that made Pussy Galore so vital; a rickety clatter filled with hoarse, shouted vocals, scattered drum shots, and sharp, percussive guitar scrapings. They come to the UK with a wild reputation as the best live band in Japan right now: “most violent rock action in Japan” was how JOJO of Hijokaidan described them to me, and he would know. This is their first ever show outside of Japan.
Patterson has an incredible ear for the tiniest of sounds, setting up processes that make the minute real and understandable. Whether that's the use of tiny mics to amplify the energy released by the burning of seeds and nuts, the ever-changing drone of sparklers or the dynamic pops and bursts of glass bottles as they cool, his work is always both visually intriguing and sonically charming.
Baczkowski is one of the premiere free improvisers in the US at the moment, a wild and levelling bass sax player who has collaborated with a host of kindred spirits including Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty. His best work to date has been with Ravi Padmanabha, a Buffalo-based percussionist able to shift between sub-continental drifts, almost rhythm and blues, to full-on pounding clatter. A UK premiere.
Quintessentially British, and with the air of a pair of crazed lab technicians, the Bohman Brothers are the creators of a unique and impure experimental music. Traces of Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation can be detected, but ultimately the whole is greater and more arcane than the sum of its parts. Their tabletop instrumentation - full of fans, empty bottles, locally found junk, springs and Chinese take away menus - is a sight to behold.
Lethe is the solo project of Kiyoharu Kuwayama, one of the most startling young musicians in Japan today, his music marked by a profound interest in spaces both musical and physical. For his solo performance at Instal, Kuwayama has constructed 4 steel tables, which once heated by a single candle until searingly hot he then plays by rubbing dry ice across the table top, causing a caustic metallic drone to engulf the space: unlike any musical performance you'll see this year. A UK premiere.
Haino is without a doubt one of the most coruscating and urgent performers in music today with a catalogue of intensely realized conceptions, stretching far beyond the rock canon, each encompassing great dynamic range, numbing power and devastating emotional depth. Tony Conrad is a master of the exceptionally gradual surprise: his work (in the early days of the Velvet Underground, with the Theatre of Eternal Music, his legendary side with Faust and his own staggering layered violin works, which sound most like a fleet of B52s preparing for launch) marks him out as one of the true pioneers of avant thought. This is the first time they have played together in public.
'Metal Music Machine' is the new Jazkamer line-up - a leather-caked supergroup formed around Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre, expanded to include members of Black Metal heroes Enslaved and Manngard. It collides grindcore, extreme doom, 80's thrash and Glenn Branca-like black metal into a seething hulk of pulsating vitriol that is oddly nowhere near as savage as that description sounds. This is the first time this line up have played live.
Umeda works with self-built instruments to set up feedback environments within a space. His charmingly homemade speaker orchestras, with tweeters replacing the blades on domestic fans, produce densely evolving drones that change as you move around the space, and seem at times to be emanating from between your ears.
Working across circular breathing bass clarinet, wild throat singing, and the psychedelic use of a singing copper kettle and jaw harp, De Dionyso's Breath of Fire LP is one of the most startling free recordings of the century to date. His live performances are by all accounts shamanic - the Wire's Brian Morton said “De Dionyso doesn't so much shape a performance as let the spirit descend on him haphazardly”. This is his first ever show in the UK.
A member of Japanese psychedelic rock group Overhang Party and VAVA KITORA, Sachiko's first solo album you never atone for is one of the best debuts in years, a collection of wordless, floating star fields that at times remind you of liturgical chant, and at others explode into ferocious Patty Waters-style vocal hysteria. This is her first solo performance outside Japan.
Raw, live, avant-garde jazz: music that soars and uplifts and ignores all boundaries. Trumpeter and bass clarinetist Matt Lavelle is rewriting the rules for the trumpet with a scale that includes nondiatonic (western) notes, giving his music a unique richness. In Eye Contact, he's joined by Matt Heyner (of No Neck Blues Band and the legendary underground jazz cabal TEST) and Ryan Sawyer on drums. Heyner is an amazing bassist, highly intuitive and lyrical, with a wealth of influences, including flamenco and heavy metal. Sawyer is exciting as well, his kit propelling the music with both delicate stickwork and full-out cooking. A UK premiere
Kiyoharu Kuwayama and Rina Kijima are formidable players, and so well attuned to each other that their improvisations cannot be distinguished from highly complex compositions. With a particular interest in ambient sound, and locations that inspire improvisation, that can be worked with, they take advantage of the natural reverb of each location (under a bridge at night, an abandoned warehouse), and changing their position in it while playing create beautiful and charged performances. UK premiere
Maryanne is interested in sound. Not necessarily air-born sound, but structural-born sound, sound that rattles buildings but also the inner workings of your head and body. A friend of mine told me that when he visited one of her performed installations in New York, he walked through the space and felt as though the sounds he was hearing were somehow slowing him down, as if he were walking through sonic tar. He turned to explain this to his companion and as he opened his mouth, a sound that was not being created anywhere in the room came out of his mouth. The cavities in his skull were resonating and creating a shifting tone that wasn't present otherwise, but which Maryanne had composed her piece to utilize. When he closed his mouth, it stopped. Maryanne's work is complex, theoretically rigorous and yet utterly human and physical, perplexing yet engaging. This is her first ever performance in Scotland.
As mentioned above, the festival will also present a platform to some of the best young acts from the UK each night. This is still being finalised, but will hopefully include Usurper, Wounded Knee, Hockyfrilla, Kylie Minoise, NOMA, Opaque, Ben Reynolds, Polly Shang Kuan Band, Red Kites and Jazzfinger.
In addition, we're also planning a series of talks and workshops, including a 2 week residency from the most interesting music education practitioner in the USA, David Dove, at Platform, the new arts centre for Easterhouse. David's workshops for children and young adults are designed to stimulate a supportive environment for artistic exploration through music improvisation.
‘enabling some of the most exciting creativity the country has seen' - The Scotsman
Featuring a solo electronics performance and ensemble music by Bay Area stalwart John Bischoff.
surveying american ideas and traditions of experimental music,
performance art, live electronic music, and the various facets of contemporary improvisation.
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September 16--October 21, 2006
1:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
7:00 to 11:00 p.m.
(500 Molino Street #102)
Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Saturday October 14, 8pm
University of California, Berkeley
tickets@calperfs.berkeley.edu
510 642 9988
Choreographed: I Wayan Dibia
Composed: Wayne Vitale, I Made Arnawa
Sound Design: Jay Cloidt
Lighting: Elaine Buckholtz
Featuring: I Dewa Putu Berata, Tjokorda Istri Putra Padmini, I Ketut Rina
Pre-performance talk by director Wayne Vitale and visiting artists
University of California, Berkeley
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Oakland, CA 94609
Sunday evening concerts
2225 Colorado Blvd, Eagle Rock
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Admission $10 (students, seniors, and series performers half price)
Free parking is plentiful
Call (626) 795-4989.
Interpretations | 18th season
Roscoe Mitchell / Connie Crothers
Robert Ashley's Concrete
Joseph Kubera plays Michael Byron / Tom Hamilton
Thomas Buckner, baritone
Chinary Ung
Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Big Bang--A NEW SERIES AT CORNELIA STREET CAFE ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH
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Doors open at 8:30. $10 cover plus a one-drink (or equivalent) minimum.
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OPENED SEPTEMBER 2005
20 foot wide installation in lobby of twenty transparent color photo images on marble
6 ft x 4 ft canvas banner in Community Room
545 Sutter (between Mason and Powell)
San Francisco
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ONLINE ART & MUSIC
Celebrate the launch of the new Rejection Show website –
The Web's Official Home For "All Things Rejected."
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Associate Dean, Instructor of Harp & Improvisation CalArts School of Music
shoko.calarts.edu/~susie
www.summerharpcourse.com
Carlos Katastrofsky
Michael Takeo Magruder
Jillian Mcdonald
Mike Mike
Carrie Paterson
Christina Ray and Dave Mandl
Geoffrey Thomas
Lara Bank
Aerostatic and Andrew Bucksbarg
August 10th, 2005
Andrew Bucksbarg
Assistant Professor of Telecommunications
Indiana University
1229 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5501 USA
812-219-5310
Abucksba@indiana.edu
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and Friday, Sept. 28 from 6:30 - 8 PM with a gallery talk at 7:15 PM.
Cory Arcangel, Betty Beaumont, Carlos Casado, Andy Deck,
Jody Elff, Angie Eng, Fakeshop, Katrin Grotepass, Yael Kanarek,
Willy Le Maitre & Eric Rosenveig, Golan Levin, Michael Mandiberg,
Kevin & Jennifer McCoy, Yucef Merhi, Sally Minker, Joseph Nechvatal,
Michael Rees, Carlos Zanni, screaMachine and net.ephemera (Mark Tribe).
Design: Ray Canapini
Dialogue: By Claire Barliant
Intern: Seraphina Tisch
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Date of Shows: SPRING, 2007
Disciplines: ALL VISUAL, MEDIA AND PERFORMATIVE ARTS
Location: ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS (gallery - media/ performative TBD)
Honoraria: VISUAL ARTS, MINIMUM $300 per work: PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ARTS, CASES BY CASE
A show, possibly two, of media and performance art exploring artists’ perceptions of medicine. Formats may include media art, spoken word, music, dance, performance art and others. Additionally, NewTown will work with the medical professionals to present film and video materials they feel incorporate or express, whether intentionally or by their nature, extra-scientific, aesthetic qualities.
"Medical/Arts" is a parallel exploration of two of our species more noble pursuits; the need to cure the body of disease and palliate physical pain and the need to express our thoughts and feeling through the arts. Given that context, it becomes obvious that NewTown’s intent is to explore, rather than attack. Within that framework, however, works that are critical of medical practices will be considered without prejudice. The major criteria used in curation of these works will be the degree to which the critique opens a dialog on the subject. In other words, a “faith-based” attack will probably not be favorably viewed.
With only very special exceptions, works should have been produced after 2003 and new work would be wonderful. We are leaving a little wiggle room for works that are of outstanding artistic merit and are absolutely perfect for this show. What’s life without a wiggle?
A DVD that is either edited to a 6 minute presentation or with track(s) indicated. (Must be Region 1 format)
VIDEOTAPE that is either edited to a 6 minute presentation or cued to a desired 6 minute section.
CD that is either edited to a 6 minute presentation or cued to a desired 6 minute section.
35MM SLIDES, up to 10 with orientation indicated.
WEB SITE
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UW-Whitewater
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Whitewater, WI 53190
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