live
september 6th, 2010
BETALEVEL, Los Angeles, CA
time TBA
1. Scott Cazan
2. Me and Jason Kahn
3. MKM (Norbert Moslang, Jason Kahn, Gunter Müller)
4. MKM + Me and Mark Trayle
july 31st, 2010
Amplified Party
Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm
free
An amplified party (contact mics affixed to tables of food/drinks/etc.) by Ensemble 303 (me and John Hastings).
july 17th, 2010
Música Mecánica: Casey Thomas Anderson, Cecilia Lopez, Jacob Wick
Pieter PASD, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm
suggested donation
new and recent music by me, Cecilia Lopez, and Jacob Wick. More information to follow.
june 19th, 2010
Ensemble 303
5×4
works for quartet
The Pescadrome, Santa Barbara, CA
8:00pm
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.
june 17th, 2010
Ensemble 303
5×4
works for quartet
the wulf, Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm
Free
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.
june 5th, 2010
Decay Fest VI
Beyond Baroque, Venice Beach, CA
Time TBA
$5 donation
Performances by The Nocturnes, Giant Gong, Void, and me. Curated by Wyatt Keusch.
The Dog Star Orchestra (Volume 6), June 2 – 12, 2010, Los Angeles
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
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
may 19th, 2010
Danny Holt
The Wild Beast, CalArts, Valencia, CA
time tba
Danny will be performing a concert of pieces commissioned for his Piano and Percussion project, including the premiere of my recent “processional.”
may 1st, 2010
Moon
The Hammer, Los Angeles, CA
time tba
Moon is a performing combination of Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, and Julia Holter. Many people don’t realize this when they look up into the sky every night, but it is true.
april 30th – may 1st, 2010
Les Espaces Acoustiques and Beyond: New Music after Grisey
Featuring the CalArts New Century Players and the CalArts Orchestra conducted by Mark Menzies
U.S. premieres
“Grisey stands among the foremost composers of his generation.” The New York Times
“We are musicians and our model is sound not literature, sound not mathematics, sound not theater, visual arts, quantum physics, geology, astrology or acupuncture.” Gérard Grisey
Exploring both the roots and enduring legacy of spectral music, this revelatory two-night showcase opens with the first-ever U.S. performance, in its entirety, of French iconoclast Gérard Grisey’s magnum opus, Les Espaces Acoustiques. The six-part cycle written between 1974 and 1985 became a touchstone for spectralism, a movement that sought to reconnect music with the full spectrum of sound, from consonance to noise. Pioneered by Grisey and Tristan Murail of the collective L’Itinéraire, this genre notably reconceived harmonic space in terms of sonic timbre and used electronic music techniques to manipulate live acoustic performance. Les Espaces Acoustiques begins with a viola solo and continues with sections for progressively larger ensembles, with the final two parts, for full orchestra, reaching Wagnerian heights of grandeur. The second concert follows up with works by younger generations of composers influenced by Grisey and spectralism, with recent compositions by Thierry Alla, Philippe Hurel, Kasper Toeplitz, Gérard Pesson (all from France), Rozalie Hirs (Netherlands), Andrew McIntosh (USA) and Wolfgang von Schweinitz (Germany/USA).
Gérard Grisey: Les Espaces Acoustiques
Fri Apr 30 | 8:30 pm
New Music after Grisey
Sat May 1 | 8:30 pm
march 31st, 2010
Architectures of Sound II
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Carlottesville, VA
Time TBA
A performance of my recent piece, “valley,” as part of the second installment of Architectures of Sound, curated by David Kant and Cameron Hu.
march 13th, 2010
casey anderson
little william theater, The Hammer, Los Angeles, CA
1:00-4:00pm
Machine Project invited me to play in the coatroom (and the hammer courtyard) as part of their year-long residency at The Hammer. i will be premiering a new piece/installation (”valley”), improvising in the coatroom on saxophone, and presenting an in progress (and currently untitled) laptop piece.
march 4th-5th, 2010
CEAIT Festival
REDCAT
Thursday and Friday, 8:30pm
$20/16
“[Steve Roden’s work] is aural performance art… Simplicity and beauty, sparse and Zen…” Igloo
“Bozulich is following a muse that runs her ragged.” Stylus
The genre-bending festival from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology returns with two concerts that each run from abstract reveries to flat-out sonic raucousness. John Wiese, founding member of the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek, opens the fest to crackling effect, followed by Peruvian-born avant-garde turntablist Maria Chavez, who uses new and broken needles (“pencils of sound”) and distressed vinyl to spin brooding webs of electroacoustic sound. The night concludes with composer Marcus Schmickler, of Pluramon pop fame, and two newly revised works of surround-sound computer music derived from astrophysical data. The second program kicks off with electronics and laptop interpenetrations by Better Than Future, comprising Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan and Elisabeth McMullin. Next up is a multimedia performance by Steve Roden that ruminates on desert landscapes outside Marfa, Tex., and the minimalist forms of Donald Judd through juxtapositions of field recordings, live improvisation, graphic notation, acoustic objects, electronics and video. The festival’s smashing finale arrives courtesy of Bloody Claws, aka Carla Bozulich, a sound artist who works in numerous impromptu formats and who has toured and recorded extensively with the Geraldine Fibbers, Scarnella and Evangelista. She appears alongside a very special guest.
John Wiese | Maria Chavez | Marcus Schmickler
Thurs Mar 4 | 8:30 pm
Better Than Future | Steve Roden | Bloody Claws (Carla Bozulich)
Fri Mar 5 | 8:30 pm
february 19th, 2010
new music by gary schultz
Sea and Space, Los Angeles, CA
9:00pm
performances of music by gary schultz and jib kidder, as part of the Aquarium installation and event series at Sea and Space.
february 13th, 2010
casey anderson/julia holter
little william theater, The Hammer, Los Angeles, CA
12:00-3:00pm
Machine Project invited julia and i to play in the coatroom as part of their year-long residency at The Hammer.
february 6th, 2010
the music of Larry Polansky
the wulf, Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm
the music of Larry Polansky. more information to follow
january 13th, 2010
architecture and music
ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
8:30pm
new work to be premiered at Issue Project Room, part of a concert relating architecture and music curated by David Kant, supported by MATA. also includes work by Charles Stankievech, Jacob Sudol and Doug Barrett.
January 8th, 2010
Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
8pm
led by Rory Cowal, Sara Roberts and Isaac Schankler
a performance of John Zorn’s “Cobra.”
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