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Feb. 21st at 8PM
The unnaturalness of natural. This is a night of field recordings with local composers
and sound artists. Also, a pre-concert talk with Michael Pisaro and Clay Chaplin on the history
of field recordings and a brief overview of the process of recording/playing the environment.
Performers and Pieces By:
Jen Boyd
Jen Boyd spends her free time collecting microscopic recordings
of trees, plants, and other audible organic matter; and creating layered compositions in real-time
with the use of a portable mixer. She captures natural sounds as they unfold. Working with contact
microphones and a flash recorder, Boyd constructs stereo soundscapes to give depth to the delicate
sounds of trees and plants alike.
Jen has a BFA in music technology from CalArts and is Currently working on her masters in electronic
music at Mills College. While at Mills Boyd plans to explore the depths of natural sound and their
presentation as art in the form of live performance and sound installations.
Jen is currently exploring various means of releasing her recorded works of natural sounds and plans
to continue to build an archive of Phonographies and contact recordings.
Clay Chaplin
Clay Chaplin is a composer, improviser, programmer, and video artist from Los Angeles. He has
worked on many projects throughout the US, Europe, and Japan involving experimental music, interactive
systems, video, improvisation, and custom electronics. Clay has given workshops on computer music and
digital media for various universities and electronic arts groups in California and has been composer-
in-residence at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College and at STEIM in Amsterdam. He is
currently the Technical Director for the Computer Music and Experimental Media Studios at The California
Institute of the Arts and a member of the music school's composition faculty. Clay's latest CD is
available on Artifact Recordings.
http://music.calarts.edu/~cchaplin
Michael Deragon
m. deragon, a former professor and practitioner of surrealism, has published poems, collages
and music under that gaze. his latest musical release under the name the great invisibles :
you left me haunted was sent into the world on broken sparrow records. currently deragon is
working on an interdisciplinary mfa at calarts. his latest work, both written and aural, deals
with the cacophonous sounds of los angeles.
Thadeus Frazier-Reed
Thadeus' work is concerned with the aesthetics and integration of different media in the
interdisciplinary artistic community. Although the process of his art almost always uses his
knowledge of the structure and timing of music, music is not always the medium. Thad's artwork
displays his background and interests in music performance, composition, ethnic instruments,
dance, sculpture, audio/visual systems, electronics, technical theater, 3D graphics, computer
programming, dynamical systems, bird flight and artificial life.
Michael Pisaro
Michael Pisaro was born in Buffalo in 1961. He is a composer and guitarist, a member of the Wandelweiser
Composers Ensemble and founder and director of the Experimental Music Workshop. His work is frequently performed
in the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues. It has been selected twice by the ISCM
jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of
festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991) and Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990,
1991). He has had extended composer residencies in Germany (Künstlerhof Schreyahn, Dortmund University), Switzerland
(Forumclaque/Baden), Israel (Miskenot Sha'ananmim), Greece (EarTalk) and in the U.S. (Birch Creek Music Festival/
Wisconsin). Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Vienna, Merano
(Italy), Brussels, New York, Curitiba (Brazil), Amsterdam, London, Tokyo, Berlin, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Cologne,
Aarau (Switzerland), and elsewhere. He is a Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2005 and 2006 Grant Recipient. Most of
his music of the last several years is published by Timescaper Music (Germany). Several CDs of his work have been
released by Edition Wandelweiser Records, most recently "transparent city, volumes 1 -- 4" and "harmony series (11 -- 16)".
His translation of poetry by Oswald Egger ("Room of Rumor") was published in 2004 by Green Integer. He is Co-Chair of
Music Composition at the California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles. He has performed many of his own works and
those of close associates Antoine Beuger, Kunsu Shim, Jürg Frey and Manfred Werder, and works from the experimental
tradition, especially John Cage, Christian Wolff, James Tenney and George Brecht.
Mark Trayle
Mark Trayle works in a variety of media including live electronic music, installations, improvisation, and compositions
for chamber ensembles. Recent venues for performances and exhibitions include t-u-b-e (Munich), DEAF '04 (Rotterdam), Resistance
Fluctuations (LA), net_condition (ZKM Karlsruhe), Pro Musica Nova, Format5 (Berlin), and Inventionen 2004 (Berlin). His music
has been performed by Champs D'Action, Ensemble Zwischentoene, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, and Ensemble Mosaik. Recent
collaborators include Muhal Richard Abrams, Boris Baltschun and Serge Baghdassarians, David Behrman, Toshi Nakamura, Wadada
Leo Smith, and The Hub. He teaches in the School of Music at CalArts.
and others..
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