[microsound] CEAIT FESTIVAL!

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CEAIT FESTIVAL
Jan. 30 - Feb. 1, 2004

The Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology (CEAIT) is 
holding its 7th annual festival of electronic music and new media. The 
festival is student-organized and, over the past six years, has presented a 
wide range of performances and installations with a concentration in audio, 
also including dance, video, text and computer graphics.

January 30, 31 at REDCAT
8:30 p.m. both performances
$24 general admission
BUY TICKETS NOW: http://redcatweb.org/tickets/tickets.html

February 1 at Roy O. Disney Music Hall
CalArts Campus, Valencia
8:30 p.m.
Free of Charge

for more info::: http://ceait.calarts.edu/

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///Friday, January 30, 2004 - REDCAT in Los Angeles, CA

Greg Headley
Valet (Honey Owens & Jason Frank)
Michael Theodore & Glen Whitehead
Intermission Music: Raven Chacon, Raja Das & Jason Thomas
Tom Recchion
Georgina Lewis
Monique Buzzarté
Intermission Music: Raven Chacon, Raja Das & Jason Thomas
Joseph Lake
Xavier Charles & Marc Pichelin
Paul DeMarinis

///Saturday, January 31, 2004 - REDCAT in Los Angeles, CA

Nick Fox-Gieg & Sean Clute
Kanta Horio
Richard Chartier
Intermission Music: Raven Chacon, Raja Das & Jason Thomas
Richard Lerman
Maggi Payne
Chris Mann
Intermission Music: Raven Chacon, Raja Das & Jason Thomas
Brian Crabtree
Trevor Wishart
Laetitia Sonami

///Sunday, February 1, 2004 - CalArts ROD Hall in Valencia, CA

Roddy Schrock
Andy Ben, Derek Sajbel & Peter Jacobson
Adrian Fischer
Intermission
Brian Crabtree
Sarah Gorham
Jose Roque Ensemble (Leticia Castaneda, Jessica Catron, Sean Clute)
Intermission
Matthew Burtner
Aaron Ximm
Sunit Parekh

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bios & descriptions:::

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2004 - REDCAT IN LOS ANGELES, CA

1. Greg Headley

Drain

The goal is to build a finished composition written from moment to moment 
in the time and place it is played and heard. The whole work exists in 
those moments. When the performance is over the system will have no more 
potentiality. This idea is also influenced by the composer Karlheinz Essl 
who elucidated the notion of "a music which composes itself at the moment 
of its sounding."

Greg Headley is a composer and performing musician. In much of his work 
Greg uses modern technology, especially computer processing, in an aim to 
find new sounds and build new methods and structures for composing music. 
He tends to focus on the texture of sounds, attempting to impart a feeling 
of tactility in his music.

2. Valet (Honey Owens & Jason Frank)

Live audio/visual performance

Valet consists of Honey Owens and Jason Frank and special guest Adam 
Forkner. We have been exploring the emerging medium of live 
performance-based audio/visual manipulation and its ability to change the 
way in which humans interact with sound and images in a more fluid manner. 
Currently we have been creating multi-media performances that are 
improvisational and dynamic through the use of networked laptop computers 
that are used in the creating of music and manipulating projected video in 
a live setting.

3. Michael Theodore & Glen Whitehead

Trumpetspeak is a collaboration between composer Michael Theodore and 
trumpeter Glen Whitehead. A series of structural landmarks guides the 
improvisatory traversal (on both trumpet and laptop) of the semi-composed 
material.

Michael Theodore was born and raised in New York City. In the past several 
years Theodore's music has been performed by the Sonor Ensemble, Speculum 
Musicae, the Steven Schick/Maya Beiser Duo, and The New Juilliard Ensemble, 
and has been featured in music and film festivals in the United States, 
Europe, Japan and Australia, as well as in experimental music venues such 
as Tonic (NYC).

Dr. Glen Whitehead is a Senior Instructor of Music at the University of 
Colorado, Denver, and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He 
received his D.M.A. in Contemporary Music Performance and Practice from the 
University of California, San Diego where he studied with Edwin Harkins, 
George Lewis, and Anthony Davis, and received his Bachelor's degree in 
Trumpet Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music where he 
studied with Timothy Morrison.

Intermission: Raven Chacon, Raja Das & Jason Thomas

CD playback of Three Beatles Remixes: Manipulated and remixed samples and 
sound bites from Beatles songs.

Raven Chacon is currently a student at California Institute of the Arts 
where he studies composition with James Tenney and Wadada Leo Smith. He is 
from the Navajo Reservation where he learned all about music.

Raja was born to do this, that, and then some.

Jason Thomas is an M.F.A. candidate at CalArts. More info and mp3s at 
http://www.jason-thomas.org.

4. Tom Recchion

Sound Bath is a piece for 3 tapeloops mixed utilizing 3 - 5 CD players and 
records in a quasi-improvisation construction.

Tom Recchion has been a sound artist/composer in Southern California since 
the 1970s as co-creator of the legendary L.A. Free Music Society. His early 
explorations in low-tech sonic exploration presaged many of the genre's 
exciting developments of the last quarter century: record manipulation, 
live tape loops, free improvisation, found and invented instruments, and 
more. He currently plays with his group Extended Organ (Paul McCarthy, Joe 
Potts, Fredrik Nilsen and Mike Kelley) and has collaborated with musicians 
David Toop, Mark Trayle, Oren Ambarchi, Keiji Haino, Christian Marclay, 
Carl Stone, Jad Fair to name a few. In development is a collaboration with 
monologist David Greenberger and another with sound artist John Duncan. 
Recchion has designed CDs for Robert Wyatt, Terry Riley, David Lynch, 
Hermann Nitsch, TamTam Books and many others.

5. Georgina Lewis

Tape piece Cordelia to Lear (2003)

An exploration of the building blocks of speech, which serve as analogues 
for the simple sine and sawtooth waves which form the bedrock of electronic 
music and which are used frequently in the composition.

Georgina Lewis is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in sound, 
sculpture, and video, addressing issues such as language and symbols, 
nature, and childhood. Her work has been presented at the University of 
Toledo, the Visual Studies Workshop, and Georgia State University among 
others, and is featured in the Winter 2003/4 issue of The Diagram. She has 
been fortunate to study with many wonderful people, including Douglas 
Henderson, John Mallia, Richard Teitelbaum, and Maryanne Amacher.

6. Monique Buzzarté

Black Hole (2003) by Monique Buzzarté & Pauline Oliveros
Black Hole is an expanded section of a music/video solo excerpted from Big 
Room (2003), an evening-length collaborative dance score by Pauline 
Oliveros and Monique Buzzarté commissioned by Morgan Thorson with video by 
Eleanor Savage of Morgan Thorson and Company.

Monique Buzzarté, trombonist, is an avid proponent of contemporary music, 
commissioning and premiering many new works for trombone alone, with 
electronics, and in chamber ensembles. In addition to solo appearances, Ms. 
Buzzarté performs with New Circle Five with Pauline Oliveros; Zanana, a 
collaborative duo with Kristin Norderval performing improvised music 
blending acoustic sounds, electronics and live processing; and Ekko!, a 
contemporary music quartet of mixed instrumentation. Her own compositions 
include solo, chamber, and electronic works for a variety of forces.

Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer and humanitarian is about 
opening her own and others' sensibilities to the many facets of sound. 
Since the 1960s she has influenced American music profoundly through her 
work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual, and 
as the founder of Deep Listening.

7. Joseph Lake

Untitled is a Max/MSP improvisation for four speakers and is concerned with 
the perception of space and overlapping spaces, non-gestural use of 
surround sound, noise, and the phenomenological effects of exposure to a 
continuous, static texture.

Joseph Lake received his B.A. from Harvard University in Music and Classics 
and is currently a Masters student in the Composition/New Media program at 
the California Institute of the Arts. His pieces have been performed in Los 
Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, and most recently Reykjavik, Iceland.

8. Xavier Charles & Marc Pichelin

Electro-acoustic/ instrumental performance

The work of clarinetist Xavier Charles ranges from noise to 
electro-acoustic via sound poetry. He has played in numerous new music 
festivals in France and abroad. Currently his musical research ranges from 
performance on the clarinet and bass to the installation of vibrating 
speakers, at the edge of improvised music, noisy rock and electro-acoustic 
sound.

Marc Pichelin is interested in electro-acoustic applications in widely 
diverse situations: live shows, sound exhibitions and improvisational 
concerts. Member of Ouïe Dire Production, he works to invent unique CD 
objects such as the sound art post card, and participates regularly in the 
activities of the Groupe de Musique Electroacoustique d'Albi.

9. Paul DeMarinis

Paul DeMarinis has been working as a multimedia electronic artist since 
1971 and has created numerous performance works, sound and computer 
installations and interactive electronic inventions. Recent public artworks 
include large-scale interactive installations at Park Tower Hall in Tokyo, 
at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and Expo 1998 in Lisbon.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2004 - REDCAT IN LOS ANGELES, CA

1. Nick Fox-Gieg & Sean Clute

After Supremacy is a live music and video performance inspired by 
Malevich's "Supremacy" paintings.

Nick Fox-Gieg is a video artist and theatrical designer. His short works 
have been shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, at the Carnegie Museum in 
Pittsburgh, and on television in Canada, Israel, and the Netherlands. His 
theatrical video design has been featured in the Festival d'Avignon 
production Boxed In.

Sean Clute is an inventor of sound, installation, and performance. He has 
built and performed in geodesic domes, suspended pods, and interactive 
sonic environments. Sean works with his computer, NOGGIN, and a variety of 
sensors to connect the physical world with electronically generated sounds.

2. Kanta Horio

suspapView: a live performance in which visual movements and sounds 
generated by various actions are caught by a video camera and contact 
microphones. A computer puts in time-based reconstructions to this 
audio/visual stream.

Kanta Horio was born in 1978 in Hiroshima, Japan. Studied Acoustics and 
Sound Art at the Kyushu Institute of Design and works with sound/visual 
performance using various junk gadgets, contraptions and a computer. url: 
http://k.adin4.com/

3. Richard Chartier

Live, minimal laptop performance

Richard Chartier (b.1971), minimal sound/installation artist and designer, 
has produced critically acclaimed solo recordings for labels including 
Trente Oiseaux (Germany), LINE (USA), Meme (Japan), and Fallt (Ireland), as 
well collaborative works with Nosei Sakata (*0), Taylor Deupree, and Kim 
Cascone on 12k (USA) and has appeared on numerous international 
compilations. His minimalist work explores the relationship between sound, 
silence, focus, and the act of listening.

4. Richard Lerman

Changing States 7 is the newest version of this piece-the first was 
performed in 1984 and was improvised. CS 7 is carefully scored. The metal 
is highly amplified using piezo disks and a self-built mixer. It is a 
percussion piece in which nothing is ever struck
except by the flame and plasma of the small butane torch. No audio effects 
are used.

Sound Artist Richard Lerman works in Performance, Installation, and Media. 
Using self-made transducers, he often constructs functional microphones 
from diverse materials, and then uses these to amplify and record sounds of 
the environment. http://www.west.asu.edu/rlerman

5. Maggi Payne

Distant Thunder -CD playback
My original intention was to use the sounds of a resonant floor furnace and 
various adhesive tapes slowly unrolling as the primary sound sources, but 
after recording the furnace, I boiled water for tea, and could not resist 
recording the sonic patterns that emerged.

Maggi Payne is Co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills 
College, teaching recording engineering, composition and electronic music. 
She also freelances as a recording engineer/editor and historical 
remastering engineer. She received honorable mentions in Bourges (3X) and 
Prix Ars Electronica Festivals, two Composer's Grants and an 
Interdisciplinary Arts Grant from the NEA, and video grants from the Mellon 
Foundation and the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships Program.

6. Chris Mann

The Plato Songs: Live performance: F is always in speaker 5, A is always 
speaker 7, T is always 2.... the performance space as larynx: 8 speakers, 
42 phonemes, 1 voice, real-time spectral analysis software solution by 
Holland Hopson and R. Luke DuBois, text by Chris Mann.

BIO: Language is the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking 
better than I do (where 'I' is defined by those changes for which I is 
required).

7. Brian Crabtree

mlr is a live performance employing custom interfaces which control 
computer sound machines. Samples are mapped onto a large matrix of press 
inputs and indicators which achieve a real-time cutting technique.

Brian Crabtree (tehn) works in various disciplines. He often thinks about 
dead technology, interface, paper products, linear algebra, broken harmonic 
voicings, and minimalism, among a multitude of potentially irrelevant subjects.

8. Trevor Wishart

Imago, 16-channel, live diffused playback of piece that explores sound 
metamorphosis in which the single clink of two wine-glasses is used to 
generate a whole world of other sounds, from instruments to suggestions of 
birdsong, a strange gamelan, the sea and the human voice itself.

Trevor Wishart (b. 1946) (www.trevorwishart.co.uk) is an independent 
composer living and working in the North of England. He is currently an 
Honorary Professor at the University of York. Committed to new approaches 
to music making, he has developed many new instruments (as signal 
processing software) for musical composition, is a founder member of the 
"Composer's Desktop Project", a composers' cooperative, and author of On 
Sonic Art and Audible Design.

9. Laetitia Sonami

Live performance with sensor-based "Lady's Glove."

Laetitia Sonami is a composer, performer and sound installation artist who 
designs and builds her own instruments. Her lady's glove allows her to 
control sounds, mechanical devices, and lights in real time.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2004 - CALARTS ROY O. DISNEY HALL IN VALENCIA, CA

1. Roddy Schrock with L:P

Joey's Song: Tape piece: Joey's Song is the result of play, both in the 
childish sense, and maybe in the Derridaian sense as well. The piece is 
simply a ballad in that it is a song written with another person in mind. I 
am equally interested in sound art as pure surface as I am in work that is 
deeply concerned with intensely conceptual issues. My music is intensely 
subjective and personal, self-revealing, intimate, and hopefully always 
poetic. In this age wherein perfection and flawlessness is the norm that is 
expected of us, making a piece, like Joey's Song, that is a subjective 
rendering of one's own life and musical experience, in its imperfections as 
well, becomes a nearly political act.

Video: Please contact L:P at the above address for further information on 
his work in this piece.

 From 1999-2001 Roddy Schrock worked in the digital improvisation duo Tog, 
based in Japan. From 2001-2003 he lived and worked in San Francisco. While 
there he developed his solo computer performance with live work at the MATA 
Festival NYC, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Sonic 
Circuits Festival at the Kennedy Center, among other places. Schrock 
received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Mills College, primary studies 
with Alvin Curran. Now he is based in Holland and continuing studies at the 
Institute of Sonology in The Hague. http://www.thing.net/~roddys

2. Brian Crabtree

gather is a live performance that explores subtle interactions with a 
fuzzy, familiar entity whose insides consist of circuits confused by 
feedback and archaic sensors.

Brian Crabtree (tehn) works in various disciplines. He often thinks about 
dead technology, interface, paper products, linear algebra, broken harmonic 
voicings, and minimalism, among a multitude of potentially irrelevant subjects.

3. Adrian Fischer

Washing Machine: tape piece

The piece, which is entitled Washing Machine, owes its name to the single 
sample of my washing machine from which the entirety of the piece was then 
created. It is an experiment in which sound processing is the essential 
ingredient to then develop a composition. I wanted the piece to reflect the 
attitude of my washer in its agressiveness and awkward spurts of intensity 
and calm and random outbursts of colorful klangs.

I was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela in 1980. Studying with several 
different classical and jazz teachers before and throughout high school in 
Caracas and the US provided a great foundation for what I always felt more 
connected to: free improvisation. In the fall of 2000 I began using the 
computer for music while I studied at Rollins College in Florida, before 
moving on to CalArts in the fall of 2002 where I am currently studying and 
working on composition, improvisation and music technology.

4. Andy Ben, Derek Sajbel, Peter Jacobson

Live instrumental/performance with cello vs. circuit bending in 3 movements

Andy, Peter & Derek have been performing together since April of 2003. They 
performed under the name exaxes at the group art show Humanitarian 
Superpower (humanitariansuperpower.com) in May of 2003. They continued to 
perform at the monthly Infinite Complexity series under the names exaxes, 
FacePlant and the Bureaucracy.

5. Sarah Gorham

Molly the Beta
The whole idea behind this track started when I went to the fish store one 
day and bought a Siamese Fighting Fish, or a beta. Even though I had aimed 
for a down-tempo track, it turned out to be a floor-poundin' dance tune.

Bio: My name is Sarah Suzanne Gorham, I am 16 years old and currently 
attend Miramonte High School in Orinda, California (Bay Area). I have been 
composing music ever since my parents bought me Propellerhead's Reason, 
which was about three years ago. I also play bassoon and contrabassoon in 
YPSO (Young People's Symphony Orchestra) and upright/electric bass in the 
school jazz band.

6. Jose Roque Ensemble (Leticia Castaneda, Jessica Catron, Sean Clute)

Live performance/instrumental piece

The Jose Roque ensemble is a trio of cello and multiple analog and digital 
electronic sources and processing. The ensemble's sound has been compared 
to that of a sinking ship from the perspective of a poor 
son-of-a-biscuit-eater shoveling coal in the bottom of the vessel.

7. Sunit Parekh

Plaything: Live performance/video within which the dancer can affect 
various parts of a musical composition, as well as trigger visual effects.

With a background in painting and installation art (from the University of 
Rochester), Sunit has worked in the visual effects industry since 1998, in 
New York, Paris, Sydney, and San Francisco. He is interested in public 
spaces, and creating work that enacts relationships with the accidental 
spectator through interactive technology in public urban environments.

L:P is a multi-media artist based in Tokyo. He is using both new media 
tools such as computers or video and more traditional mediums such as 
painting or tabla percussions to develop his own "intensity" language in 
his quest to unearth what's behind. Mixing different media which 
inter-influence themselves, as well collaborating with other artists, 
allows him to constantly reinvent new ways of expression.
http://www.xasdera.com/lp

8. Aaron Ximm

Serendipity Machines: "The Machine you hear tonight combines recordings I 
have made around the world with slightly modulated sine waves. I did not 
compose what you will hear, but I did predispose this Machine to a certain 
mood."

Sound artist Aaron Ximm works with field recordings. Since 1998, his Quiet 
American project has focused on constructing new soundscapes from the 
intimate recordings he collects during travel. Ximm also curates and hosts 
the award-winning Field Effects concert series. http://www.quietamerican.org

9. Matthew Burtner

(dis)Appearances (2003), for a trio of amplified acoustic violin, electric 
violin, and computer violin/multicontroller, explores the nature of 
disembodiment and physical acoustic reality through the use of computer 
controllers and physical modeling synthesis.

Matthew Burtner's music has been described by The Wire as "some of the most 
eerily effective electroacoustic music I've heard," and 21st Century Music 
writes "There is a horror and beauty in this music that is most 
impressive." His work regularly combines instrumental ensembles, computer 
technology, interactive acoustics and multimedia.

-- 
albert ortega
lopeysnapes@xxxxxxxxxx - email


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