This event is a part of the wulf.'s third annual Open Source electronic music series. Each event in the series is dedicated to presenting new works by artists working with technologies in unique and innovative ways. Open Source is made possible in part by a generous grant from the DCA Los Angeles.
Free admission! Please RSVP to the event post on Eventbrite.
Liam Mooney and Speaker Ackbar Abbas, Ph.D.
Liam Mooney’s Flatland (2019) is a work loosely patterned after Edwin Abbott's novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Abbott's examination of humanity—and the natural and constructed categories contained therein—still seems to have the sting of relevance, and the listener might not find it at all difficult to connect Abbott's observations to features of present-day societies.
An aficionado of fakes, Ackbar Abbas is the author of some of the most influential texts on Hong Kong culture and literature, and on culture, literature, film, art, architecture, and critical theory more generally. A professor of comparative literature and film at the University of California, Irvine, Abbas was born, raised, and—as he puts it—corrupted in Hong Kong. He insists on thinking with whatever is at hand, materially and ideationally, on finding the deeply revealing in the obvious, significance amidst desolation, possibility in vulnerability, a map of culture in the design it authorizes.
This event was planned in collaboration with the wulf. & Coaxial. Compose LA is a new city-wide new music, new ideas festival planned in conjunction with Department of Cultural Affairs – City of Los Angeles, American Composers Forum of Los Angeles, University of California Humanities Research Institute, and the Center for Music Innovation – UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. For information about the full roster of events, go to the DCA website: https://culturela.org/programs-and-initiatives/compose-la-2019/.
Performer composer Ingrid Lee presents a one night event that explores ideas of sympathetic resonance; the amalgamation of vibrations from different sources, shared experience between foreign bodies, and the filtration of information.
Ingrid Lee - Of Monsters (for accordion and piano; Lucie Vítková, accordion)
Aidan Reynolds - resonance piece for ingrid (for piano and field recording)
Alvin Lucier - Music for Piano With One or More Snare Drums
801 East 4th Place
Los Angeles CA 90013
For three years running, the wulf. has been participating in the Los Angeles Winterfest, which celebrates arts in downtown Los Angeles. This year we have been given a night exclusively to present work at ArtShare.
installations
Casey Anderson - valley - an installation for radios
Michael Winter - quieting rooms - an installation for self-quieting room
audience participation (of sorts...)
Scott Cazan - Ear Swap - participants trade auditory environments and listen to the sonic space of another. this piece is roaming, no set location.
Aidan Reynolds - whistling piece for audience - for each exhale, whistle for the duration of no more than a second. try to keep your pitch consistent.
Liam Mooney - floortet - for metal objects dropped on the floor
live performances
Todd Lerew - 30 Notes for Drum - performed by the composer
James Klopfleisch - 326 Breaths - performed by Christine Tavolacci
Cornelius Cardew - Triad from Schooltime Compositions - performed by Matt Barbier, Eric KM Clark and Christine Tavolacci
Corey Fogel - performing various percussion elements
Liam Mooney - 180° - performers tba
Matt Barbier - for Lee
Colin Wambsgans - Good Night Noises, Everywhere
Andrew Tholl - music for sleeping
(last three works commissioned and performed by Colin Wambsgans)
exact schedule tba
Soft songs - Michael Winter, Eric KM Clark, Aidan Reynolds, Todd Lerew, Christoffer Schunk, Matt Barbier - whistling
Reflections - Lucie Vítková - accordion, Jules Gimbrone - performer
Brass Trio - Matt Barbier - trombone, Zara Teicher - french horn, Paul Rivera - bass trombone
Youth (arrangement for brass sextet) - Matt Barbier - trombone, Zara Teicher - french horn, Anne Lemieux - trumpet, Aaron Kahn - trumpet/piccolo trumpet, Evan Spacht - trombone, Paul Rivera - trombone
In Memoriam... - Lucie Vítková - guitar
Cellists Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann perform the full series of string duets by composer Tashi Wada.
For I have seen love
and his face is choice Heart of Hearts,
a flesh of pure fire, fusing from the center
where all Motion is one.
–John Wieners, "Cocaine"
Duets:
September '06
March '07
April '07
February '08
Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann, cello
Bryan Eubanks for accordion (2012) Daniel Corral, accordion
Catherine Lamb noise/tone variations Christine Tavolacci, flute; Eric km Clark, violin; Cassia Streb, viola
Funded in part through New Music USA's MetLife Creative Connections program.
UploadDownloadPerform.net celebrates its 4th birthday this October 2012, now featuring over 2000 scores from over 100 composers, artists, writers, performers, and others. Join us as we perform a randomly selected program of scores from the site.
This evening's performers will include John Burtle, Andrew Choate, Alison D’Amato, Alison O'Daniel, and Adam Overton.
Program TBA.
double portrait (2012) Bryan Eubanks; saxophone, field recordings, feedback, and white noise
shade/gradient (2012) Catherine Lamb; viola, voice, formant/filtered oscillators
(test) spectral pattern (2012) Bryan Eubanks; saxophone, viola, feedback, tuned pulse, white noise
over the course of several hours, projections of a selection of new 35mm slides from an expanding collection of thousands of images, using 1, 2, and 3 projectors.
Daniel Corral presents 3 new pieces:
• "Chimes and Casios" performed by Daniel Corral
• "Diasporic Music #6: Histories" for solo flute, performed by Christine Tavolacci
• "LA Canon" performed on as many suspended cymbals as possible
3320 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, CA 90503
Eric KM Clark and Mike Winter (co-founders and co-directors of the wulf.) have been invited to participate in this exhibition that features the artists who run artist spaces in Los Angeles. We will each have a drawing and a sound installation exhibited through November 3rd and we will be performing on the opening night.
!!! this event is not at the wulf. !!!
in situ electronics and analog artifacts from khalija records and the wulf. berlin-based sound artist pierce warnecke makes a rare california appearance in support of his new khalija c30 + vhs box set "textures", composed and assembled in residency at ausland. joining him are the duo of scott cazan &wyatt penn keusch, a solo performance by casey anderson and a trio of casey anderson, scott cazan and mike winter.
Mantra Percussion presents Eric KM Clark's Hummingbird Sheet Metal, Deprivation Music No. 7, and Michael Gordon's Timbe
Eric KM Clark has written many works exploring hearing and sight deprivation. Deprivation Music No. 7 was written for Mantra Percussion in 2009, and explores singing, slight movement, and the following of instructions over headphones. Snare drums will be used. And possibly, a short composition involving sheet metal and bows.
Michael Gordon's work Timber is an evening-length tour de force. Scored for six graduated wooden Simantras — Greek liturgical percussion instruments used by French composer Iannis Xenakis — the work brings the physicality, endurance and technique of percussion performance to a new level. In this new work, Gordon shapes the music in both polyrhythmic and dynamic waves of textures — often each players' hands are in separate rhythmic 'worlds', each traversing a different dynamic contour from loud to soft to loud, similar in some respects to his solo for percussion, XY.
Much of Gordon's music demonstrates a deep exploration into the extreme possibilities and stunning nature of rhythm, as well as the enriching, yet disturbing, multidimensionality of polyrhythmic layers — what has been termed in his music to be, "glorious confusion." Many of Gordon's works, including Trance, Gotham, Decasia, and his most recent orchestral work, Dystopia, point to Gordon's interest in complex rhythmic and textural territory. Gordon's percussion sextet takes these elements and explores the extreme possibilities of rhythm and texture to a beautifully intense degree. The new evening-length work is indeed a unique and exciting addition to the world of percussion.
Timber was co-commissioned by the Dutch dance company, Club Guy and Roni, Slagwerk den Haag, Mantra Percussion, with support from the Nief-Norf project.
Circular Music, Jürg Frey
Trio Kobayashi:
Zara Teicher, Matt Barbier, Luke Storm
For Anne LeBaron - with Eric KM Clark, Orin Hildestad, Stephanie Smith, and Matt Barbier. For one trombone and three violins, For Anne LeBaron compresses the melody from the jazz standard 'nature boy' into a series of occasional chords interspersed with atmospheric "ghost notes" from the violins. The piece draws its inspiration from a conversation with LeBaron addressing the question: "Can a single melody be stretched over an extended period of time, and still be audible as a memory?"
Juniper Foam: performed by Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, and James Klopfleisch. Sound for a portrait of Chris Marker considers the trace contours of an artist whose own near-absence was a continuing thread in both his films and public persona. By and large, this portrait navigates various collections of audio sampled from films, not of his own making, but of others', lying just beyond his overall body of work. Section 1, however, unfolds the soundtrack from a watermark in Marker's career, which is the 1982 filmic essay, Sans Soleil.
And finally AlmostEveryNamePieceMarkSoHasEverWritten is an attempt to realize all of So's name pieces, synchronously, quietly, and in a most(ly) private way. Performed (over several weeks) by James Klopfleisch.
3x, Veld and Nov., Dante Boon
Cageana, Juan Cristóbal Cerrillo
delayGraph pre-alpha 1, Mike Winter
performers:
Matt Barbier, Paul Fraser, James Klopfleisch, Michael Pisaro,
Christine Tavolacci, Brian Walsh, Mike Winter
template with alterations, James Saunders
Symphony, Tim Parkinson
Eric km Clark, violin, auxiliary
April Guthrie, cello
Cassia Streb, viola
Christine Tavolacci, flute, auxiliary
Brian Walsh, clarinet
New works, for no instrumentation or objects, organized around almanacs. Performed by various persons. All information will be announced at the show. Instigated by Casey Anderson for Dog Star 8.
Liam Mooney presents music for brass chimes, assorted triangles, dry ice, plastic bottles, and electric fan.
Performed by Mike Winter, Christine Tavolacci, Mark So, Alan Nakagawa, Mari, Liam Mooney, and Casey Anderson.
This is also the last show of our faux season before a summer break. Join us to celebrate 4 years of musical exploration with a grillout featuring Dr. Hildestad as chef.
plus live film / sound by paul clipson and rene hell.
Sigils is a small audio-visual computer piece that processes images of the installation space. The data is used to generate blocks of linked sound and image pairs. The changes to the space should be revealed through the sequence of blocks.
The Los Angeles Trombone Collective performs an all trombone concert of new works including four compositions by members of the ensemble: Kevin Austin, Matt Barbier, Adam Dippre, and Tyler Jordan; John Cage's Solo for Sliding Trombone in 4.0 stereo; a piece for trombone quartet and electronics by Julian Valdivieso; and Tommy Pederson's unpublished masterpiece, Cogent Caprice (1971), featuring James Miller (jamestmiller.net), principal trombonist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The Los Angeles Trombone Collective performs a wide repertoire of many arrangements of compositions never intended for trombone choir, or even trombones; ranging from the Renaissance era to today. Along with that, the group also ha s a growing library of original compositions written by fellow members. The Los Angeles Trombone Collective's main mission is to pursue new levels of trombone ensemble performance, while also establishing strong networks and ties within the community.
Program:
Kevin Austin: Pale Blue Dot (2011) tentet
John Cage: Solo for Sliding Trombone (1960) quartet
Tommy Pederson: Cogent Caprice (1971) solo with sextet
Tyler Jordan: "...and the tide will call us back to the sea with a recklessabandon" (2012) eleven trombones
Julian Valdivieso: Untitled Time Liquids (2012) quartet with electronics
Matt Barbier: #146 A. #3 (2011) eleven trombones
Adam Dippre: Cup 'O' Joe (2007) sextet
This record release event for the vinyl/publication "COME ON YOU FUCKERS" brings together performances of new and existing works by L.A. artists dealing with the themes of protest, translation, and the commodification of rebellious gestures. "COME ON YOU FUCKERS" is a solo piano transcription of a guitar smashing which critiques the contemporary climate of commodified rebellion and looks at translation as a generative methodology. Works and performances by: Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, Paul Fraser, Odeya Nini, The Joshua Trio, KREation, Matt Broach, Max Gualtieri, Julian Valdivieso, Alex Sramek, Ingrid Lee, Taylor Brizendine, Richard Valitutto, Kate Hall, Evan Burrows, Adeline, Max Kutner, and The Buddy HollyCo$t.
Screening of some new music videos - Julia Holter/Rick Bahto - "Marienbad", Julia Holter/Yelena Zhelezov - "Moni Mon Amie", Heather Lockie/Susanna Battin - "When You're Young"...
followed by: Rick Bahto, Julia Holter, and Mark So inhabiting studies in topiary (Bahto), some keyboard miscellany (Christian Wolff, Morton Feldman), and a 3-tape reading of John Ashbery's poem "As You Came from the Holy Land" [readings 39] (So)
More information about the films:
"Marienbad"
I wanted to make something that would serve as a visual accompaniment to Julia Holter's song "Marienbad", but would not be strictly tied to it. I utilized multiple film projections interacting and interfering with one another in a single composition. The material seen in this video was made with Kodak Tri-X regular 8 mm motion picture film and Kodak Plus-X 35 mm still film, all of it processed by hand. The video is a single take documenting a live performance using two 8 mm projectors and a single 35 mm projector all aimed at the same space on a screen; there is no digital manipulation of the images, and no edits have been made to the recording. Rick Bahto - January, 2012
Film / photography / projector performance by Rick Bahto.
Many thanks to Walter Vargas for digital documentation
"Moni Mon Amie"
The video for "Moni Mon Amie" interprets the song as a lyrical appeal to the unattainable other, and a conversation that's being had with oneself. The longing transforms the perception of the everyday, turning each moment into a poetic landscape in which the miniature and the gigantic become interchangeable. Julia plays the subject and the object of desire in this video. Yelena Zhelezov - March 2012
'When You're Young'
The video is a series of portraits of people caught in a closed circuit loop of bodily and facial expressions formed by yarn and a game of telephone. Within the song is a parallel story of homemaking; it directs the people to an abandoned suburban development in the Mojave Desert called California City. Here they play the game of imitation and amplification without making eye contact - they are both alone and tied to each other, forming the estranged new desert culture of the video.
The New York-based Toomai String Quintet will perform James Tenney's "Quintext (Five Textures for String Quartet and Bass)", "The Garden of Forked Paths" by Vincent Raikhel, and "Outliers" by Scott Cazan. Formed in 2007, Toomai has premiered numerous new works for bass quintet and continues to expand the repertoire through collaborations, commissions, and original arrangements.
A selection of instrumental Songs and Five Piano Pieces by Anastassis Philippakopoulos. Performed by Mark So, William Powell, Kathy Pisaro and Christine Tavolacci. Also Michael Pisaro will play "24 petits préludes pour la guitare" by Antoine Beuger .
New York guitarist James Moore will perform new music for National steel string resonator guitar, featuring transcriptions of Lou Harrison's music from the original manuscripts, premieres from Larry Polansky and Molly Thompson, and selections from John Zorn's Book of Heads.
in collaboration with collage ensemble for their final event
for one afternoon, we will activate this historic civic center by charles luckman with sound and visual-based works and performances by casey anderson, matt barbier, daniel corral, corey fogel, mona kasra, james klopfleisch, heather lockie, jeffrey james mohr, liam mooney, alan nakagawa, steve roden, christine tavolacci, rick bahto, madison brookshire, eric km clark and mike winter.
This event is at:
Inglewood Main Library
101 West Manchester
Inglewood, CA 90301
Tentative Schedule:
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1030am: John Cage's "Royanji" with Matt Barbier and Joseph Beribak
1040am: James Klopfleish's "The Collapsible Institution" with Liam Mooney, Casey Anderson, Christine Tavolacci
1050am: Heather Lockie's "Dryads" in the auditorium with Heather Lockie, Betsy Rettig, Ezra Buchla, Eric KM Clark, Jake Rosenzweig and Stephanie Smith
11am: Casey Anderson's "possible dust" with Christine Tavolacci and James Klopfleisch
1115am: Liam Mooney's "Floortet" with as many people as possible
1130am: Heather Lockie's "Dryads" in the auditorium with Heather Lockie, Betsy Rettig, Ezra Buchla, Eric KM Clark, Jake Rosenzweig and Stephanie Smith
1140am a recording by Corey Fogel
1145am: a duet by Matt Barbier with Evan Spacht
12pm: John Cage's "Royanji" with Matt Barbier Eric and Eric KM Clark
1215pm: James Klopfleisch"The Collapsible Institution" with Liam Mooney, Casey Anderson, Christine Tavolacci
1230pm: Casey Anderson "the argument" with Christine Tavolacci and James Klopfleisch
1245pm: Daniel Corral's "solo for Casio keyboards, accordion, and chimes"
1255pm: Cornelius Cardew's "Treatise" with Christine Tavolacci and Eric KM Clark
110pm: Liam Mooney's "Floortet" with as many people as possible
***throughout, 1030am-130pm: films of Rick Bahto and Madison Brookshire in the auditorium***
***throughout, michael winter's "one|two|one"***
A new color and sound installation for two 16mm projectors. One night only, before it heads to Gallery 400 in Chicago for its first exhibition.
mark so, piano
A presentation of manipulated field recordings both prepared and randomly exchanged. Featuring Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, Chris Kallmyer, and Colin Wambsgans.
Giacomo Fiore will present a night of recent music for classical and just intonation guitar, with and without live electronics and other trickeries. Works by Lou Harrison, Larry Polansky, Ron Nagorcka, and Toshio Hosokawa. Born in Italy in 1983, Giacomo has been playing and studying music in the U.S. since 2003. He lives in San Francisco and looks forward to his debut at the wulf.
Solo, Many, All
Two new pieces (solo live electronics, the other participatory) concluding with an open discussion based on a prompt. The event will shift from an exclusive format (solo) to one in which everyone present is placed on an equal playing field (all).
The live electronics piece is rooted around Anderson's current interest in instrument design for/around chaotic data networks, while the participatory piece is based on a poem about a poem about a painting owned by a poet, and will feature something like writing, breathing, tearing paper (etc.). Concluding the event will be an open discussion on exclusivity.
A concert of five works by three composers, curated by Christine Tavolacci. Featuring Eric km Clark, Rory Cowal, Corey Fogel, April Guthrie, Cassia Streb, Christine Tavolacci, Brian Walsh, Tara Boyle, Matt Barbier and Orin Hildestad.
A tribute concert dedicated to all the victims and sufferers of 3.11 earthquake/tsunami in Japan. Performed by: Michael Pisaro, Sara Roberts, Ulrich Krieger, Adam Overton, Mark So, Julia Holter, Alex Sramek, Christine Tavalocci, Ezra Buchla, Alan Nakagawa, Carmina Escober, Archie Carey, Paul Fraser, Colin Wambsgans, Chaz Underriner, Stephen Touchton, James Klopfleisch, Ingrid Lee, Donald Gialanella, Kristin Thora Haraldsdottir, Justin Asher, John Hagen-Brenner, Eric Mayron, Mari and more...
What will be the next move? Those who know him might expect a knight's jump...but then they know he won't do the expected. How about a king's stately step this time? Or the bishop's stealthy sneak-through?
Next time it might be: sound poetry (his own works and maybe an occasional 'classic' from this tradition); songs in invented languages, for instance in "Onderlands" (the language of the Underlands, a synonym for Netherlands), in "GeenKrimpian" or in his personal English, "IngleTwist"; phonetic processes, acoustic as well as electronic; live animation generated by sound and the opposite (live sound generated by animation); snippets of lecturing about odd topics, for instance "The User Manual"; some Solos for Voice by John Cage; soundscapes; quotations from Final Letters; improvisations and more...
http://www.jaapblonk.com/
James Tenney's Swell Piece
Christian Wolff's For 1,2, or 3 people
James Klopfleisch's Living Underground
Michael Finnissy's Keroiylu
John Cage's Four6
An evening of experimental solo voice and new instrumental music. Performed by Tara Boyle - flute, Elaine Cho - flute, Clarie Chenette - oboe, Christin Hablewitz - clarinet, Derek Stein - cello, Archie Carey - bassoon, Cassia Streb - viola, Nic Salas - violin, Betsy Rettig - cello.
Legendary Tokyo guitarist and composer Taku Sugimoto joins Michael Pisaro and the Dog Star Orchestra for two concerts and a grillout.
At 5pm, a group of 16 musicians will premiere a new, 50-minute piece co-written by Sugimoto and Pisaro.
At 8pm, Sugimoto and Pisaro will take turns playing each other's guitar solos (Pisaro's melody, silence and a new piece written by Sugimoto).
with grillout in between concerts courtesy of Dr. Hildestad as chef.
Taku Sugimoto, guitar
Michael Pisaro, guitar
Dog Star Orchestra (Winter, 2012)
Casey Anderson, computer; Matt Barbier, trombone; Eric KM Clark, violin; Devin Disanto, clarinet; Paul Fraser, trumpet; Kristin Haraldsdottir, viola; Stefan Kac, tuba, Ingrid Lee piano; Daniel Letourneau, guitar; Heather Lockie, viola; Sepand Shahab, keyboard; Cassia Streb, viola; Christine Tavolacci, flute; Chaz Underriner, guitar
An evening of solo and small chamber compositions from the 1960s and 70s about break-ups and make-ups. Curated by April Guthrie. This concert will feature music by Karl H. Berger, Luciano Berio, David Koblitz, Barbara Kolb, and Elisabeth Lutyens; and includes interludes of peculiar arrangements of Tammy Wynette songs. Performed by Stephanie Aston, April Guthrie, Moira Smiley, and Christine Tavolacci.