kit clayton + sue costabile, steve roden, akira rabelais, j.frede -- e|i magazine west coast launch party

["j.frede" <jfrede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

American Composers Forum/LA - Green Galactic - Current Recordings present:
The e|i magazine West Coast Launch Party

About e|i:
There's no denying the impact technology has had on music, as its effect on
aural design over the course of the 20th century has been nothing if not
profound. The cut-and-paste tape editors and analogue pioneers of
yesteryear, the continuing evolution of instrumentation and media, and a
rich history of experimentation and daring have ushered in the contemporary
era of the digital sound wrinkle.

e|i spans the continuum of electronica, experimentalism and the avant-garde,
shattering genre margins to encompass the past, the present and the future,
as presented to the reader by artists who challenge the very notions of
sound and vision.

As the true enthusiast's publication documenting a broad spectrum of sonic
textures, tastes and motifs, each issue of e|i features provocative
interviews, historical overviews, enlightening reviews and bracing new
views.

e|i magazine - storming the studio

- On newsstands March 31 -

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Daytime activities - March 30, 2003

acf/LA Technology Workshop with
Joshua Kit Clayton on Max/MSP and Jitter
March.30th - 11 AM -  4 PM
$20 for ACF members and students/$35 for non-members (discount on evening
event with workshop ticket)
at: The American Film Institute 2021 North Western Avenue, LA
For RSVP call (818) 788-2202 or e-mail <tekWorX@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Composer and Programmer Joshua Kit Clayton will walk you through Max/MSP and
Jitter, from his perspective as a creator and performer of electronic music
and visual media. Clayton is a programmer for Cycling 74 and a principal
developer of Jitter; he will demonstrate the power of both of these
limitless applications.

About Max/Msp

Max/MSP combines the Max graphical programming environment with MSP audio
extensions. Together you'll have close to 400 objects, the building blocks
of a complete audio application development environment.

In Max, you build programs by connecting graphical objects together. Some of
these objects perform calculations and others make up the user interface of
your program. MSP adds a large set of objects that you connect together to
make audio patches where signals flow from one object to the next. The
concept may be familiar to you from modular synthesizers, either the real
ones or the software imitations. But MSP lets you work at a level of detail
that is unmatched by other software synthesizers. At the same time, its
intuitive interface is far easier to learn than text-based software
synthesis programs. For instance, the filtergraph~ object shown below allows
you to design seven different types of filters graphically.

About Jitter

Jitter is a set of 133 brilliant new video, matrix, and 3D graphics objects
for the Max graphical programming environment. The Jitter objects extend the
functionality of Max4/MSP2 with flexible means to generate and manipulate
matrix data -- any data that can be expressed in rows and columns, such as
video and still images, 3D geometry, as well as text, spreadsheet data,
particle systems, voxels, or audio. Jitter is useful to anyone interested in
real-time video processing, custom effects, 2D/3D graphics, audio/visual
interaction, data visualization, and analysis.
For more info about both applications visit www.cycling74.com

Evening Activities - March 30th 2003

Live performances by
Kit Clayton + Sue Costabile [scape/orthlorng musork]
Audio/Visual Theater performing "Interruption"
Steve Roden [trente oiseaux/12k]
Akira Rabelais [mille plateaux/fallt]
j.frede [current recordings/doctsect]

location:
The Derby
4500 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA

www.the-derby.com

Admission - $10 (21+)
presale tickets available at
Sea Level Records. 1716 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026
Or online at www.wantickets.com

[biographies]

Joshua Kit Clayton Kit Clayton is a San Francisco based computer programmer
and electronic musician. Born in Evanston, Illinois in 1974, he went on to
study computer science and electonic music at Wesleyan University and has
since released various musical compositions on record labels such as Cytrax,
Vertical Form, ~scape, Mille Plateaux, and Orthlorng Musork. In addition to
his musical work, Joshua is a programmer for Cycling '74, where he is
responsible for further development of the Max/MSP MIDI/audio programming
environment. Recent work has focused on "Jitter", a multi-dimensional
dataset processing and visualization architecture with applications in
audio, video, and 3d graphics.

Sue Costabile is a photographer and video artist working with a combination
of analog and digital processes, both as a solo artist and in collaboration
with various musicians. Born in Long Island, New York in 1974, she has
resided in San Francisco since 1996. With academic training largely focused
on both the natural and built environments (first studying ecology and then
architectural engineering) themes of the organic and the inorganic are often
explored. Her live video performances focus on improvisational techniques
involving various media including photographs, negatives, drawings and tiny
objects, set in motion and digitized in real-time, then processed in the
Max/MSP/Jitter software environment.

About their Audio/Visual Performance; "Interruption"

Interruption explores the relationship between the concrete world of the
everyday and the fantasies we project upon it. During the performance, the
artists are laying down, each with a video camera and a microphone suspended
close to their faces. The microphones are connected to a custom built
audio/video processing system which takes direction from the sounds heard by
the microphones and the images seen by the cameras. The theme of
"interruption" is explored in the interaction between the live, narrative
audio/video stream and a concurrent, pre-recorded audio/video stream. What
is projected on the screen depends upon the artists actions and vocal
expressions

www.musork.com/interruption

[related links: www.musork.com   www.scape-music.de]

Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from los angeles. his work includes
painting, drawing, sculpture, films, and sound installation. the works are a
combination of conceptual strategies and intuitive movements. found
structures and systems are lifted from their original intentions and used as
the basis for improvisation and abstraction. in the visual works, printed
language, graphic design, maps, and other forms of specific visual notation
are lifted from their original intentions and abstracted to create open
readings. in the sound works; objects, architectural spaces, and field
recordings, are abstracted through electronics to create audio new spaces,
or 'possible landscapes'. the sound works present themselves with an
aesthetic roden describes as "lower case'' - sound concerned with subtlety
and the quiet activity of listening. the la weekly recently called roden
"the most idiosyncratic abstract painter to emerge from l.a. in the 90's";
while the wire magazine recently referred to roden's cd 'the radio' as "a
particularly modest form of genius".

roden has released several cd's of his sound works under his own name, as
well as under the name 'in be tween noise'. labels include trente oiseaux,
germany; sonoris, france; gmbh, france; digital narcis and meme from japan;
and line, usa. roden's work has appeared on a number of international
compilations, including the tulpas project on selektion, germany. in 1999,
roden co-edited the publication 'site of sound ' an exploration of the
relationships between sound and architecture, with contributions from
various architects, sound artists and critics including christina kubisch,
steve peters, tom marioni, and pierre koenig.

steve roden has been exhibiting his visual and sound works since 1986. he
has had numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including
museums, galleries and arts spaces in usa, italy, france, japan, bulgaria,
slovenia, england, etc. [related links: www.inbetweennoise.com  www.12k.com]

Composer Akira Rabelais grew up on a racehorse in South Texas and squandered
his youth in the sundry bars and houses of ill repute of Austin reading
books and writing music. BFA from Bennington College, composition studies
with Bill Dixon and Joel Chadabe. MFA from CalArts under Mort Subotnick and
Tom Erbe. Author of various software including Argeïphontes Lyre (A set of
time domain filters and generators. Dynamic FM Synthesis, Evisceration
Reanimation, Time Domain Mutation, Morphological Disintegration and the
Lobster Quadrille). Releases include 'Elongated Pentagonal Pyramid',
'Eisoptrophobia', 'Paysage', '...bénédiction, draw.' And
'Spellwaveringshard'.

[related links: www.akirarabelais.com   www.fallt.com]

j.frede is an experimental music composer who works with sound ranging from
field recordings to electro-acoustic atmospheres, microsound subtleties to
ambient soundscapes, live performances to audio installations. Currently
Frede is working with field recordings of both natural and urban
environments and digital compositions built using acoustic sounds. When
performing live j.frede utilizes a variety of PC based software to write
compositions in real time using found sounds and digital manipulations.

Originating from New Mexico (usa), j.frede has been working in the field of
experimental audio and sound design for over seven years. Frede has been
working for the last four years in Denver, CO and is now living in Los
Angeles. j.frede is currently working with field recordings of both natural
and urban environments, sine wave frequencies, and digital compositions
built using acoustic sounds. Frede's live performance can vary depending on
each event and the acoustic space it is presented in. [related links:
www.ritualdocument.com www.doctsect.com]

There will also be a DJ set from New Mexico based sound artist Inerex you
can find out more on his work at http://ritualdocument.com/inerex

For more info please contact

Lynn Hasty at lynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or
j.frede at j.frede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Green Galactic - www.greengalactic.com

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