events

4/5/2012 - 4/22/2012

GUAPAMACATARO INTERDISCIPLINARY RESIDENCY IN ART AND ECOLOGY
Michocán, Mexico
April 5th - 22nd


In a collaboration with Carmina Escobar (together as the Counterprotocol Collective), we will be working on a garden of small Arduino-based robotos that learn from their environment and each other.

More info at http://www.guapamacataro.org/

 

3/10/2012

OUT ON A LIMB WITH NOCO
Rogue Festival
http://roguefestival.com/

Fresno, CA


Christie Nelson-Sala and Brooke Schlecte of Out on a Limb Dance Company will be premiering a new work, Network Reflex: with The Woman in the Box.
Performances by L. Brooke Schlecte and
Original Music score by Scott Cazan!
 

2/25/2012

THE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC YEARBOOK
Issue Project Room110 Livingston St.
New York, NY
7:30pm


Now entering its 4th year, The Experimental Music Yearbook is a repository for composers, performers, and the public to glean the methods and styles of various artists working in the experimental music tradition. As the modes of experimentation in the arts change from year to year, the Experimental Music Yearbook’s annual issues will build into a comprehensive, and varied, database of experimentation in music/sound.

For this concert, the editors (Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, and John Hastings) will select highlights from the first three years to spotlight the different methods composers use to create their music. Differing in concept and execution, the compositions display the full range given to performers in realizing works in the experimental tradition. Composers include Peter Ablinger, Casey Anderson, Olivia Block, John P. Hastings, Tom Johnson, Lewis Keller, Hans W. Koch, Cat Lamb and Christian Wolff.

More info here: http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2011/12/19/at-110-livingston-the-experimental-music-yearbook/

 

2/24/2012

SOUND SERIES AT PRESENTS GALLERY
Presents Gallery
64 Washington Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
8pm
FREE


Presenting new material (based off work from the upcoming album) at Presents Gallery in Brooklyn.

http://soundatpresents.tumblr.com/

 

2/17/2012

SET AT BEYOND BAROQUE
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291
8pm


I will be performing a new live set! Also performing will be Wyatt Keusch, Casey Anderson, and others to be announced.

Beyond Baroque

 

1/29/2012

BANDWAGON! (A COMBINE)
Machine Project
1200 D. North Alvarado St.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
8pm


A musical evening inspired by David Tudor’s Bandoneon! (a combine):
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=583

Isaac Schankler will be unveiling a new piece of software for electroacoustic improvisation and Casey Anderson (saxophone), Scott Cazan (electronics), Daniel Corral (accordion) and Corey Fogel (percussion) will be performing with it. Additionally, in the spirit of chaotic collaboration, Sean Deyoe and Christopher O'Leary will be providing sculptural/visual interlocutions for part of the show.

 

12/04/2011

ALVARADO REMIX
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado St.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
1-5pm


I will be performing a 30 minute set using sounds sampled live from outside the Machine Project storefront. I will be performing inside while spectators listen from the new Machine Project recessed storefront. More details as well as other performers is forthcoming.

More info here

 

11/29/2011

OFF THE GRID I
The Wild Beast
CalArts
24700 McBean Pkwy
Valencia, CA
FREE


Live improvised electronic music featuring Wyatt Keusch, Riley Reasor, Scott Cazan, Elliot Eidelman, Sam Jones, and James Lake.

 

10/21/2011

EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC YEARBOOK 2011 CONCERT
BETALEVEL
Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA

http://betalevel.com/directions/

8pm


Playing with John Bischoff, GX Jupitter-Larsen, and Mark Trayle for the 3rd concert of the Experimental Music Yearbook which I am also acting as guest editor on.

The full listing:
Concert 1, 10/14 8pm (the wulf., Los Angeles, CA): Hans Koch
Concert 2, 10/15 8pm (Presents Gallery, Brooklyn, NY): Jessie Marino / On Structure
Concert 3, 10/21 8pm (BETALEVEL, Los Angeles, CA): John Bischoff, Scott Cazan, GX Jupitter-Larsen, and Mark Trayle.
Concert 4, 10/22 8pm (the wulf. Los Angeles, CA): Casey Anderson, John P. Hastings, Albert Ortega, and C. Spencer Yeh.
Concert 5, 10/29 8pm (Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA): Tashi Wada with Paul Clipson

 

10/15/2011

THE TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE
Richmond Arts Center
2540 Barrett Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94804
8pm
RAC Member: $30, Non-members: $35


Performing with Julia Goodman in a workshop on making beet papyrus while I transform the sounds of the workshop into a sonic substrate.

"Join Goodman and composer/sound artist Scott Cazan, in a multisensory exploration into the process of making papyrus. They will investigate material scarcity with an eagerness to reconnect to a time when paper was not readily available, when materials accessible for writing on were a reflection of one's local surroundings and when communication was limited"

http://www.therac.org/schedule/html/paper&canvas.html#visiting

 

10/15/2011

DOCUMENT
Congres Station
Boulevard Pachéco
40 / 1000 Brussels

Midnight
10 Euros


Sirens (video: Jana Papenbroock, sound: Scott Cazan) will be shown as part of DOCUMENT.

"Document crosses the borders of a temporary art space and a dance-floor, it is an heterotopia."

 

10/12/2011

RADIO BROADCAST WITH HANS W. KOCH
Bonnie Barnett's Trilogy Series
88.9 FM KXLU

Los Angeles, CA
http://www.kxlu.com/

9-10pm


I will be a guest along with Hans W. Koch on Bonnie Barnett's Trilogy Series on KXLU in Los Angeles.

 

9/23/2011

APPLIED MATERIALS
Betalevel
Los Angeles, CA
Directions here: http://betalevel.com/directions/
Chinatown
8pm


Improvised music for electronics with Jason Kahn, Casey Anderson, Ulrich Krieger and me!

http://www.jasonkahn.net/
http://www.caseythomasanderson.com
http://www.ulrich-krieger.de/

 

9/15/2011

JANA PAPENBROOCK, JULIA HOLTER AND SCOTT CAZAN
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N Alvarado St. (off Sunset)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8pm


A night of video and live music featuring collaborations between German artist Jana Papenbroock and LA based artists Scott Cazan and Julia Holter. The performances will be followed by a screening of Papenbroock's 60 minute film, What No One Knows, "...an experimental film collage consisting of the personal myths and memories of strangers. A film about faces, empty places and the fictituous truths of stories."

http://www.juliashammasholter.com/
http://www.janapapenbroock.com/

 

9/10/2011

DUBLAB AT LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

http://www.lacma.org/
8pm


I will have a sound installation being shown alongside Richard Serra's sculpture "Band" as part of Dublab's museum takeover.

http://www.lacma.org/
http://www.dublab.com/

 

8/12/2011

PURE METAL: HIFI/LONOISE, CASEY ANDERSON AND SCOTT CAZAN
Betalevel
Los Angeles, CA
Directions here: http://betalevel.com/directions/
Chinatown
8pm


A set of solo electronics by me, a set for trumpet and electronics by Louis Laurain and Pierce Warnecke (coming all the way from France), and Casey Anderson.

http://www.louislaurain.blogspot.com/
http://piercewarnecke.com/

http://www.caseythomasanderson.com

 

7/23/2011

TONALISM
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
2225 Colorado Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
6pm - 6am


I'll be performing on the front-corridor stage from 8pm - 10pm at this all night event. A number of really incredible musicians will also be performing courtesy of dublab.

Cooper Baker, Aaron Drake, Clay Chaplin, Damion Romero, SFV Acid, Damion Romero, Warner Jepson, Julia Holter, Lucky Dragons, Matthewdavid, and more.

More info here!

 

 

7/3/2011

the wulf @ MOCA Sunday Studio
MOCA
250 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA

1pm - 3:30pm


I will be performing a new piece for amplified objects along with other great artists associated with the wulf.

PLAZA: Workshops/pieces by Ezra Buchla, Scott Cazan, Casey Anderson
COURTYARD: Daniel Corral
READING ROOM:Daniel Corral, Dicky Bahto
ROTHKO ROOM: Harris Wulfson, Christine Tavolacci - performing Carlos Inderhees' Buch fur Flöte, Tashi Wada
STELLA ROOM: Matt Barbier and Luke Storm - JUZ by Wolfgang von Schweinitz and a new work by Larry Polansky, Mike Winter
MULTIPLE ROOMS: Eric km Clark, Laura Steenberge

 

6/24/2011 - 6/26/2011

BEAM Festival
Brunel University
Uxbridge, West London


"Book of Latter Day Saints" will be featured on the BEAM Train as part of the BEAM Festival of electronic and analog music.

More information here

 

 

6/19/2011

MUSIC BY SCOTT CAZAN, DICK HIGGINS, GERHARD SCHULTZ, AND VOLKER STRAEBEL
the wulf
1026 South Santa Fe Avenue #203
Los Angeles, California
8pm, Free


Featuring the world premiere of EQ Music by Berlin-based composer Volker Straebel, a realization of Clouds for Piano by Dick Higgins, a new work for feedback network by Scott Cazan, and bridge (paris 1870) by Gerhard Schultz.

http://www.straebel.de/
http://www.gerhardschultz.com/bridgeparis.php
http://www.thewulf.org

 

 

6/5/2011

Big Family Day
MOCA
250 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA

1pm - 5pm


I will be performing with sounds made by participants of Laura Steenberge's workshop on instrument building.

More information from the wulf:
Laura Steenberge
: build your own instrument
Scott Cazan
: record a sound with your newly built instrument (mixed and amplified by the wulf.)
Dicky Bahto
: documentation piece filming video for projection at the MOCA Sunday Studio
Alan Nakagawa
: What’s in the Box?

Rotating pieces in designated area:
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm :: Casey Anderson: talk radio - a radio opera
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm :: Liam Mooney: Styrofoam Orchestra
2:15 pm – 2:45 pm :: Casey Anderson: talk radio - a radio opera
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm :: James Klopfleisch: text/music/choir
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm :: Casey Anderson: talk radio - radio opera
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm :: Liam Mooney: Styrofoam Orchestra + any built instruments that want to join in

 

 

 

6/4/2011

Decayfest VIII: The Final Chapter
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd.
Venice, CA

9pm, $5


The final Decayfest! Performing alongside:

Matt Hettich
Wyatt Keusch
Riley Reasor

The show will also feature live cymatic visuals, created by the ensemble.

The show begins promptly at 9pm, at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, CA. Admission is a $5 suggested donation, and it's a BYOB event.

For all of you who've been supporting Decay Fest for the last 4 years, this will be a wonderful way to put an end to this event series, and for those of you who've never been to a Decay Fest, this would be a great last-chance opportunity to experience it.

 

 

5/6/2011

Blurred Edges - I Have Nothing to Say and I am Saying It
Meeting place: Hamburger Kunsthalle
Hamburg, Germany
16:00 (4pm)


A public performance of pieces written for an army of megaphones (including my piece, "Noise") will be performed by The Orchestra for Direct Democracy at Hauptbahnhof, Gerhard-Hauptmann-Platz, Jungfernstieg and Brahmsplatz in Hamburg this Friday.

Check it out!

 

 

4/29/2011

FERMENT[cheese]
Berkeley Art Museum
2625 Durant Ave. #2250
Berkeley, CA

6pm - 9pm


FERMENT[cheese] is a multi-media concert/presentation/tasting exploring milk’s journey to cheesehood. (milk, cheese, sound, music, film.

CHEESE
The Cowgirl Creamery is curating a milk-to-cheese tasting that will take visitors through the cheese making process finishing with their aged cheeses. At 7:30 Sue Conley, co-founder of Cowgirl Creamery will speak about the art of cheese making, and the sustainable qualities of artisan and... farmstead agriculture.

SOUND
The evening’s milk-to-cheese tasting will be accompanied by field recordings of cows eating grass, curd draining, cheese aging, and oral history with local dairyman, John Taverna. Chris Kallmyer will create site-specific and dispersed sound works inspired by the cheese making process and fermentation set within a rich texture of field recordings. The experimental ensemble, TempWerks will perform these new pieces using cow bells, harmonicas, violin, accordion, saxophone, and electronics.

IMAGE
Projected video will cover three walls of the space with images of John Taverna’s Jersey Cow Dairy. The ambient, incidental video will show visitors the pace of farm life with farm workers, cows grazing, and the surrounding landscape of John’s organic dairy farm. Films by Emily Lacy and Chris Kallmyer.
 

4/22/2011

A Screening of "Sirens"
Human Resources
410 Cottage Home St.
Los Angeles (Chinatown), CA

8pm
http://humanresourcesla.com/about/


There will be a performance of "Sirens," the video I worked on with Jana Papenbroock screening.

 

 

4/16/2011

California Electronic Music Exchange Concert (CEMEC)
Roy O. Disney Hall
CalArts
24700 McBean Pkwy.
Valencia, CA

8pm


A night of car alarms, modular synths, laptop interpenetration, sonic bbq'ed flesh, multichannel goodness and more at CalArts on Saturday in ROD at 8pm!

I will be curating this year's CEMEC concert at CalArts as well as showing an installation of "CodeSwitch," a collaborative project with Jordan Bartee for the opening of this concert.

Playing this night will be Evan Adams (Mills), Cooper Baker (UCSD), Adam Florin (CalArts), Joseph Mariglio and Adam Goodwin (UCSD), Jim Murphy and Charlie Burgin (CalArts), Brian Pear (Mills), Jacob Sudol (UCSD)

 

3/13/2011

Musical Soldering Workshop
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado S.
Los Angeles, CA

1-3pm
Register here


I wiill be performing music to solder by at a workshop on basic electronics by Chris Kallmyer.

"Learn to solder in this two-hour workshop! Participants will learn to solder by building a primitive, but rad synthesizer. During the workshop, musician Scott Cazan will play music to solder by, using the conductivity of soldering irons as musical material. As people get their synths working, they can join Scott in his texture of soldering, synthy goodness. By the end of the workshop everyone will play a simple and inevitably out of tune musical piece together."

 

 

2/27/2011

A Transparent Substrate - Beet Papyrus Workshop
18 Reasons
593 Guerrero Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

1:00pm - 3:00pm
$15 for members, $20 for general public
Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/153101


Julia Goodman, artist and papermaker, and sound artist Scott Cazan have developed a workshop for a hands-on exploration of pre-paper technology using the amazing, edible, seasonal beet.

During this two hour workshop, Julia will first discuss the range of materials used prior to the invention of paper. After we geek out on historical craft, Julia and Scott will lead participants in pounding out their own piece of beet papyrus. Beet papyrus is a gorgeous, translucent pink, red, and yellow that you can use to write a letter or decorate your home. While you hammer, Scott will transform your work into beats (get it?) and, for your snacking pleasure, chef Iyara Giminski will make chocolate beet cupcakes with lemony cream cheese beet frosting. This is one multi-sensory event for the books.

 

2/19/2011

Easter Everywhere's Winter Concert
Pehrspace
325 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

9:00pm
$5


I'm playing a set with Chris Kallmyer and Dylan Mackenzie for electronics, guitars, and California oak trees.

From the site:
We will host a night bringing together song-based artists and experimental composers at Pehrspace in Echo Park.

Our 4th EASTER EVERYWHERE installment.

-SCHEDULE-
9:00 PM -CHRIS KALLMYER / SCOTT CAZAN (Electronics, Guitars)
9:35 PM -THROW ME THE STATUE (solo)
10:15 PM -CAT LAMB (Viola, Oscillator)
11:00 PM -THE SLEEPING BAGS (Kivel bros, Abe Burns and Mark Nieto)
11:45 PM -KISSES DJ Set

 

2/18/2011

Scott Cazan/Wyatt Keusch/Casey Anderson/Clay Chaplin/Aaron Drake
BETALEVEL
963 N. Hill Street in Chinatown
Los Angeles, CA

8:30pm
FREE


New electronic/noise music by Scott Cazan, Wyatt Keusch, Casey Anderson, Clay Chaplin, and Aaron Drake. in various configurations.

I'll be playing a set with a contact-mic snare and Wyatt Keusch.

BETALEVEL is kind of tricky to find...see this for help: http://betalevel.com/directions/

 

1/14/2011

Mark Trayle, Casey Anderson, Cazan/Keusch at Pehrspace!
Pehrspace
325 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

FREE


Casey Thomas Anderson, Scott Cazan/w.keusch, and the inimitable…Mark Trayle performing electronic music at Pehrspace.

Performances start at 8pm, there is a $5 donation request at the door, and Pehrspace has a very nice BYOB situation going (so plan ahead).

A note about location: Pehrspace is located on Glendale Blvd., just south of Temple, on the west side of the street. It is in the back of a parking lot, behind a small palm tree. There is copious street parking on Glendale Blvd. and in the surrounding neighborhood. You may also park in the lot, but there are very few spaces. There is decent Thai food, however.

http://adagio.calarts.edu/~met/
http://www.caseythomasanderson.com/
http://www.wyattkeusch.com/

 

1/6/2011

Little William Theater Festival // FINAL EVENT
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado
Los Angeles, CA

FREE


Performances of works I wrote for the Little William Theater. "Seven(4)," "Seven(6)," and "Still" for two clarinets, two tubas, and two violins as well as a "best of" of pieces written chosen by each ensemble.

"If you like tiny music, experimental tubas, and Squirt: we have the event for you. Come by Machine Project to check out the Best of Little William Festival of New Music. A tuba duo, clarinet duo, accordion duo and violin duo will be performing their favorite two minute works written expressly for our coatroom festival. The program will include a Little William 'Best of' chosen by our resident ensembles."

http://machineproject.com/archive/events/2011/02/06/little-william-festival-at-machine-project/

 

1/1/2011

SIRENS AND UN ILOT
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof
Harburg Railway Station (above platforms 3 and 4)
Hannoversche Str. 85
21079 Hamburg, Germany
Wed. - Sun. 2 - 6pm
€2 admission


Jana Papenbroock and I will be showing two collaborative films, "Sirens" and "Un Ilot" throughout the month of January at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (http://www.kvhbf.de).

If you are near Hamburg in January please come check it out!

 

11/13/2010

ENSEMBLE ZWISCHENTÖNE - I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND I AM SAYING IT
Berlin, Germany
Schloßplatz
15:00 Uhr


A public performance of pieces written for an army of megaphones (including my piece, "Noise") will be performed by Ensemble Zwischentöne at the historic Schloßplatz, Berlin. The performances will begin at 3pm and will go on through the afternoon.

Nov. 13: Nikolaus Gerszewski, hans w. koch, Scott Cazan, Thomas Meadowcroft, Adam Overton, David Lidov
Nov. 20: Marina Rosenfeld, Susan Gevirtz
Nov. 27: ADORNO
Dec. 4: Philip Corner, Anna Bromley
Dec. 11: Ophir Ilzetzki, Sean Griffin,  Peter Ablinger, Stephen Chase, Jens Brand, Dr Maik Hester 

 

11/13/2010

THE TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE: A WORKSHOP ON BEET PAPERS AND BEAT MAKERS
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado,
Los Angeles, CA 90026
3pm - 5:30pm
$5 Members / $10 Non-Members
 


Julia Goodman, artist and papermaker, and sound artist Scott Cazan have developed a workshop for a multi-sensory exploration of pre-paper technology.

At this event, Julia will discuss the range of materials used prior to the invention of paper. Following the lecture, Julia and Scott invite each participant to make their own piece of beet papyrus. The workshop portion of the event will incorporate live sound feedback, mallets, hot pink and beet treats.

Enrollment is limited to 30.
http://machineproject.com/events/2010/11/13/the-transparent-substrate/

 

11/5/2010

TEMPWERKS - THE MUSIC OF ART JARVINEN
Festival of New American Music
Sacramento State University
Sacramento, CA 95819
8pm
FREE


I will be performing in the ensemble "Tempwerks" alongside Casey Anderson, Isaac Shankler, and Andrew Tholl. A program of new works by the late Arthur Jarvinen:

BLINDED BY ENLIGHTENMENT (AGAIN) - for four amplified strobe lights
NUCLEAR HOEDOWN - Geiger counter, violin, and digital signal procession (four players)
THREE SHORT WAVES (And A Long Board) - for three or four performers, short wave radios, and optional signal processing
SLIDE SHOW - for four channels of audio playback, four players
3 FIELD GUIDES (Plus 1) No. 1 - for three or four performers playing field recordings

 

10/20/2010

EAR MEAL WEBCAST
Downtown Artist Space
http://www.laartstream.com/ear-meal/scott-cazan/
Los Angeles and the internet
8:30pm


I am being featured on Alan Nakagawa's weekly webcast about artists in Los Angeles. I will be performing two newer solo works for live electronics. Please tune in! The performance will also be archived on the website for future viewing.

http://www.laartstream.com/ear-meal/
http://www.laartstream.com/ear-meal/scott-cazan/

 

10/9/2010

SPECTRAL JAM
CalArts 40th Reunion
24700 McBean Pkwy
Valencia, CA 91355
3pm
FREE


CAROLE KIM video installation/Spectral* & JESSE GILBERT software design/Spectral*
invite you to a 2-hour improvisational multi-media jam

MOTOKO HONDA (keyboard/electronics), SCOTT CAZAN (electronics), WOODY APLANALP (electric guitar), EVAN CONWAY (bass)

Dancers: STEPHANIE NUGENT, KATHY CARBONE, SUSAN GOLDBERG, LEXIE YALJ, TOM TSAI, NATHAN BROBERG
Live-feed Video: MOSES HACMON, ADAM LEVINE

NB: You may join us whether you are attending the reunion or not

 

9/30/2010

LE COLLECTIF ONZE HEURES ONZE INVITE SCOTT CAZAN
"Le Bab-Ilo"
Paris, France
9 Rue du Baigneur - 75018
21h30


.scott cazan solo
.richard comte (guitar) + makoto ozo (drums)
.scott cazan + julien pontvianne (tenor sax) + alexandre herer (fender rhodes) + julien loutelier (drums)

 

 

9/28/2010

TRASHVORTEX INVITE 11H11
"Kobe"
29 Rue Maurice Berteaux - 94200 Ivry

Paris, France
21h (9pm)


A show of improvised music with:
scott cazan (solo) and
crippled symmetry (richard comte, guitar, julien pontvianne, sax tenor) + guests

 

9/23/2010

SUPERCOLLIDER SYMPOSIUM 2010
Ausland
Lychener Str. 60 10437 Berlin
8pm


Performing a new work involving live electronics in collaboration with Jana Papenbroock.

 

9/6/2010

MKM, CASEY ANDERSON, MARK TRAYLE, AND SCOTT CAZAN
Betalevel
Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA 90012
8:00pm


A show of live electronic music featuring:

1. Scott Cazan
2. Casey Anderson and Jason Kahn
3. MKM (Norbert Moslang, Jason Kahn, Gunter Müller)
4. MKM + Casey Anderson and Mark Trayle

http://betalevel.com/
http://mkm.jasonkahn.net/
http://music.calarts.edu/~met/
http://www.caseythomasanderson.com/

 

6/19/2010

ENSEMBLE 303
5x4 - Works for quartet
The Pescadrome, 101 S. Quarantina Ave
Santa Barbara, CA
8pm


Ensemble 303 presents a concert of wildly varying approaches to the sonic possibilities of the quartet. Featuring John Cage’s Four6, as well as "rails" by Casey Thomas Anderson, "Outliers" by Scott Cazan, "noise / tone / pulse / metal" by John P. Hastings, and “room and seams” by Mike Winter. Each work takes the elemental simplicity seen in Cage’s number pieces to varying extremes, yielding an elegant series of sound works that prove that the quartet is an orchestra of potentials.

www.thewulf.org
www.ensemble303.com

 

6/17/2010

ENSEMBLE 303
5x4 - Works for quartet

The Wulf
1026 South Santa Fe Ave. #203, Los Angeles, CA 90021
8pm


Ensemble 303 presents a concert of wildly varying approaches to the sonic possibilities of the quartet. Featuring John Cage’s Four6, as well as "rails" by Casey Thomas Anderson, "Outliers" by Scott Cazan, "noise / tone / pulse / metal" by John P. Hastings, and “room and seams” by Mike Winter. Each work takes the elemental simplicity seen in Cage’s number pieces to varying extremes, yielding an elegant series of sound works that prove that the quartet is an orchestra of potentials.

www.thewulf.org
www.ensemble303.com

 

6/5/2010

DECAYFEST
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291
8pm


Playing new works with Casey Anderson, Wyatt Keusch, Giant Gong, and The Nocturnes.

 

6/2/2010 - 6/12/2010

THE DOG STAR ORCHESTRA (VOLUME 6)
June 2 – 12, 2010, Los Angeles, CA


1: Wednesday, June 2, 2pm, The Wild Beast
Casey Thomas Anderson: processional/Danny Holt, piano/percussion
André Cormier: marabout de ficelle/Laura Cetilia, Jessica Catron, cellos
Joe Lake: This is one small stone in an entire city of monuments I am building for you/Katie Clark, piano
Jessica Catron, Michael Pisaro (improvisation)
Antoine Beuger: coelinblau/Michael Pisaro, guitar
Mari: Happy (Un)Birthday Party

2: Thursday, June 3, 8pm, The Wild Beast
Ronit Kirchman: Seven String Suites
Michael Pisaro: new tombstones/Voices: L. Tolentino, J. Holter, L. Steenberge, Ensemble: Pisaro, Esler, Lamb, Tavolacci, Eric KM Clark., K. Clark, Klopfleisch, So
Laura Steenberge: Lucifer in the Shadowland (a collection of 5 pieces performed by the orchestra)

3: Saturday, June 5, 8pm, the wulf.
Singing by Numbers Ensemble
Jessica Basta, Jessica Catron, Mari Garrett, Sascha Goldhor, Julia Holter, Emily Lacy, Catherine Lamb, Heather Lockie, Laura Steenberge, Cassia Streb, Christine Tavolacci, Adrian Tenney, Lisa Tremain

4: Sunday, June 6th, 3pm, The Compound
John Lely: Symphony in e
James Klopfleisch: Landscape #3
Samuel Vriezen: 10 readers
Adam Overton: general impression piece
evening finale: Wolfgang von Schweinitz: JUZ/Matt Barbier, trombone
5: Tuesday, June 8th, 8pm, The Wild Beast
Sam Sfirri: for Dan Flavin
Travis Just: Fabric for Jim
Jason Brogan: sheet music
Derek Bailey: Carpal Tunnel (after 12 weeks)/Eric Klerks, guitar
John P. Hastings: Vibrations
Carolyn Chen:  Walk for 3n legs/Eric KM Clark, Christine Tavolacci

6: Wednesday, June 9th, 9am, Vasquez Rocks
Mark So's Landscapes (a collection of 6 works performed by the ensemble)
includes also: Adam Overton: instead piece

7: Thursday, June 10th, 2pm, The Wild Beast
Morton Feldman: Palais de Mari/Katie Clark, piano
Manfred Werder: 2009(4)
Elisabeth McMullin: Polarity
Michael Pisaro: fields have ears (2) /Katie Clark, piano + Cazan, Anderson, McMullin and Hastings

8: Saturday, June 12th, 6pm, the wulf.
20 microscores/Jessica Catron, cello, Orin Hildestad, violin
Music by: Chiyoko Szlavnics, Greg Rosenthal, Kathy Pisaro, Andre Cormier, Pauline Oliveros, Zachary Watkins, Matt Davignon, Carol Sawyer, Johnny Chang, Leung Xiao-Lan, Jonathan Zorn, Kraig Grady,Phillip Brownlee, Eric KM Clark, Raven Chacon, Sean Clute, Matthew Lee Knowles, Michael Pisaro, Zachary Scott, Jennifer Butler

Jonathan Marmor: Dog Star Music/Clark, Klopfleisch, Tavolacci, So, Winter, Nilsson, Fraser
Mike Winter: approximating omega (performed by The Orchestra)
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The Orchestra (2010): Adam Overton, April Guthrie, Beth McMullin, C.T. Anderson, Cassia Streb, Cat Lamb, Christine Tavolacci, Colin Wambsgans, Danny Holt, Dicky Bahto, Emma Nilsson, Eric KM Clark, Eric Klerks, James Klopfleisch, Jason Grier, Jessica Catron, John Hastings, Julia Holter, Katie Clark, Laura Cetilia, Laura Steenberge, Lisa Tolentino, Mari, Mark So, Matt Barbier, Michael Pisaro, Michael Winter, Nathan Brown, Ori Barel, Orin Hildestad, Paul Fraser, Paul West, Rob Esler, Ronit Kirchman, Scott Cazan, Sepand Shahab, Tashi Wada

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Locations:
The Wild Beast, CalArts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355

the wulf.
1026 South Santa Fe Avenue #203
Los Angeles, CA 90021

The Compound
33628 Lancaster Road - Hwy 138
Lancaster, CA 93536

Vasquez Rocks
10700 Escondido Canyon Road
Santa Clarita, CA 91390-4896

 

 

5/16/10

RING FESTIVAL LA: CONSIDERING WAGNER
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
8pm

 


Performing Ginnungagap & 3 Nornen for sine tones and saxophone by Ulrich Krieger alongside the composer.

 

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Act I
Peter Rappmund: Firedays (2008), film
Peter Ablinger: ohne titel (1993); James Sullivan and Brian Walsh, clarinets

Act II
Marc Sabat, composed jointly with Martin Arnold, John Oswald, and Richard Wagner: Idylilly (2000); Mark Menzies and CalArts Strings
Marko Ciciliani and Jeff Kowalkowski: Bosch tapped the gas pedal and the Caprice moved forward..., Sections: “Vorspiel”,”Day Book”, “Numbers” (1996–2000); CD playback

Act III
Meason Wiley: Vorspiel Umgestaltet (Wagner), ensemble w/ film (1853–2009); Meason Wiley, laptop; Aniela Perry, cello; Matt Barbier, trombone; Philippe Brunet, trumpet
Wolfgang von Schweinitz: Plainsound Brass Trio 1, op. 50 (2008): Trio Kobayashi: Anna Robinson, French horn; Matt Barbier, trombone; Luke Storm, tuba

Act IV
Mark Menzies: Piwakawaka (fantail) (2009); Mark Menzies, violin; Richard Valitutto, piano
Ulrich Krieger: Ginnungagap & 3 Nornen (2006); Scott Cazan, laptop; Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone

 

5/1/2010

A HAMMER DREAM-IN
The Hammer
10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024
7pm


I will be performing laptop alongside Julia Holter and Casey Anderson (Moon).

On May 1st, 2010, artSpa and Machine Project will host an overnight Dream-In at the Hammer Museum. Dreamers are invited to camp out in the Hammer courtyard and collect any dreams that occur during their stay. The evening will feature experimental dreaming workshops, concerts, and bedtime stories, followed by a waking concert in the morning, all facilitated by a dreamy batch of local artist-psychonauts. The following day museum patrons may encounter dream reenactments, workshops, and napping music during their visit.

More Info at: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/496

 

4/30/2010

REDBLACK - PRIMAVERA FESTIVAL
The Hub
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
8pm


A performance of the piece, "Chipper" off of my recent album, Interference.

RedBlack is an avant-garde concert event that will highlight emerging trends in crushed electronica music and new media art blended with dance and "flash mob" dance.  Directed by Ron Sedgwick, it features work by composers Ron Sedgwick, Salman Bakht, Tim Beutler, Scott Cazan, and Luke Thomas Taylor; composer-dancer Alysia Michelle James; artist Elizabeth Folk; movement artist Rachel B. Lindt and choreographer Abigail M. Linton, among others.

More info here: http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/primavera/RedBlack

 

4/10/2010

FAHRENHEIT 451
Palo Alto Children's Theater
1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301
8pm


I will be performing a new work for tabletop violin, microphone feedback, and laptop.

The night will also be featuring new electronic works by Christopher Jette and Bjorn Erlich a part of Fahrenheit 451.

 

4/4/2010

KING OF KINGS
Cinefamily Silent Film Theater
611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
8pm


Performing a live film score on laptop with the Cabeza de Vaca Arcestra for Cecille B. DeMille's classic, "King of Kings."