Aaron Drake
Aaron Drake is a composer living in Los Angeles, California and a recent graduate of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). At CalArts, with the aid of Mark Trayle, Michael Pisaro, and David Rosenboom (et al), Drake researched sociological principles and their application in his artistic work. His works for radio, installation and instrumental music have been featured at festivals nationally and internationally. Currently, Drake is working with a group of artists on Norman Klein's installation "The Imaginary 20th Century" which will tour internationally in 2008-10.
"Digital Reanimation Through the Corpse of James T. Russell" - discarded CDs and cd players
In audio recordings, the CD, invented by James T. Russell, is a great step away from recording's first born, the LP. Digitally encoded audio is abstractly expressed as a series of numbers (data) rather than physically expressed like the grooves of a record. This installation 'animates' the discs in a way reminiscent of Emile Berliner's invention, the Gramophone by scratching grooves into the them.
Adam Overton
Through experiments in rhythm, presence, and contact, his work plumbs the depths of the bodymindperson, maps the intimate distance between individuals, and encourages conscious experimentation with common and alternative avenues of interpersonal exchange. A fascination with the practices and challenges of awareness, acknowledgment, and [co]existence are currently fueling his investigations.
Adam Overton is a living composer and performer of experimental sound performance, a teacher of multimedia, and a certified massage therapist based in Los Angeles. Recent projects include Between People, a group exhibition at David Patton Gallery; a Valentine's Evening workshop of massage, cpr, movement, food and more at Machine Project Gallery; premieres of several speculative performances for Michael Pisaro's Dogstar Orchestra 3; and the publication of several essays and texts in UCLA's Extensions Journal, Contemporary Music Review, FOARM Journal of Arts & Research, Ratsalad Deluxe, and Leonardo Journal. He is currently nearing completion of a collection of texts and scores entitled i am sediment, set to be published with the help of Fifth Planet Press.
Allie Bogle and Mike Chang
Allie Bogle is an LA-based artist who received her B.A. from UCLA and is now working towards her M.FA at California Institute of the Arts. She recently did a project at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and participated in a group show at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Allie has taught for the Community Arts Partnership (CAP) and Art Share LA.
Mike HJ Chang received his B.A. from UCLA and is also working towards his M.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts. Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Chang now lives and works in Los Angeles. Recently Chang has been interested in working collaboratively with other artists since "sharing," he believes, is the essence of art making. He also loves his dog, Bacon, very much.
During the exhibition, Bogle will play a song on the piano which she learned as a young child. Despite the limited and tenuous nature of memory, Bogle will struggle to recall key combinations and play the song in its entirety. Meanwhile, Chang will take on the role of story teller about the girl playing the piano. The purpose of using "story telling" as a form of discourse is to explore the boundary between participants and viewers, and to see how myths travel in a closed circuit (e.g. The Art Event). Ultimately, the work explores the function of myth and the entropic nature of human communication and consciousness.
Andrew Bucksbarg and Charlie Hoyt
Andrew Bucksbarg is a media artist, experimental interaction designer, audio-visual performer and a professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University. Bucksbarg's work and interests reverberate in the space of creative new media practices, technology and theory. As an experimental interaction artist, Bucksbarg concerns himself with technologies and social systems that support tactics of ambiguous, autonomous play, social creativity and exchange. More information at organicode.net.
Charlie Hoyt is a sound designer and game maker from Indiana. Charlie is interested in creating fun experiences and new modes of awareness using mobile communication, control, and location technology. More information about Charlie and his work is available at humatar.charliehoyt.com.
Title: Group Shufflesition Walk (2007)
Group Shufflesition Walk is a mobile, participatory, playful and interactive sound and performance intervention. Up to six participants walk in a group, following instructions from an iPod Shuffle for how to interact and amplify audio from hand-held speakers.
ARCANUM
ARCANUM is an electro-acoustic based multi-media quartet which was born through the collaborative work of Ori Barel and Alan Lechusza in 2005/06. These two composer/performers were introduced through a chance meeting in Los Angeles as part of the Synchrony concert series. The two began to work close and realized that their collaborative work shared a common ground.
Incorporating the creative work of Gil Omry-Barel and Carolyn Lechusza Aquallo, ARCANUM found a strong position in the creative arts movement in Southern California.
In July 2007 ARCANUM moved into a new phase and direction of work. This multi-media art ensemble is now produced/hosted/curated by Alan Lechusza and will feature guest artists from different artistic disciplines in different settings and presentations.
Artistic Statement: ARCANUM is devoted to producing multi-media art works which blur the constructed lines of artistic demarcation solidified in a post-modern society.
Autumn Hays
Autumn Hays currently lives in San Diego, CA. She is an artist working primarily in sculpture Incorporated with sound and performance art. She is pursuing her B.A. in Studio arts at UCSD.
I make Art not to not be merely a visual occurrence, but an experience that shows you the psychological corporally. It is through this, that one can perceive the content, not just observe it. The reaction created is the force behind my goals of creating. My art is there to accumulate what reflection is created from the viewer. Many times confronting the viewer with something they may normally avoid. Each one of us sees the world in a different way depending on our experiences. I wish to give my viewers a new experience. It drives from ones societal differences and the rush to destroy those differences. Yet it is in that very rush that we cause the real deficit to ourselves. To see more please visit www.autumnhays.com
Bicycle Bell Ensemble
Statement:
Bicycle Bell Ensemble (BBE) is an open group of artists, cyclists, and musicians that ride and perform on bicycles with bells. The Bicycle Bell Ensemble is an outgrowth of the burgeoning Los Angeles bicycle culture and grass-roots bicycle organizations (such as Midnight Ridazz and Bicycle Kitchen) that have that have been flourishing in Los Angeles in the wake of worsening traffic, parking, gas prices, air quality, and oil wars. BBE seeks to channel the energy of urban bike culture into a mobile musical performance unit that plays in the streets; and anywhere else they can take their bikes.
Bio
BBE is working under the direction of Patrick Miller and composer/conductor, David Semien. Miller and Semien met at Otis College of Art and design in the mid-90s and have since collaborated on several projects; most recently Semien composed, performed, and recorded a 12-minute bass composition for Miller's 2006 audio-sculpture "The Gold Bar" a 600w down-facing bass speaker covered entirely in 23k gold leaf. BBE’s debut performance took place May 29, 2007 in Hollywood in conjunction with "Origin is the Goal" an exhibition presented at LACE and curated by Darin Klein. BBE’s Second performance was on July 1, 2007 in conjunction with the LA portion of the 7th annual International Bicycle Film Festival.
Carrie Yury, Lindsay Ljungkull and Marya Alford
LA artists Marya Alford, Lindsay Ljungkull, and Carrie Yury work in a variety of media including photography, drawing, film, sound and sculpture. Marya Alford's work creates a translation or transformation from the merging of different disciplines, forms and thoughts, evoking a kind of romantic conceptualism. Ljungkull's films and videos utilize the first-person narrative structure in order to directly address the viewer, choosing topics that reflect her exploration of time-based work: communication, translation, performance and narrative. Carrie Yury's work explores our fears about, interventions in, and connections between the body and the psyche.
What sounds scary changes in the context of time. Since our current political climate capitalizes on fear, Alford, Ljungkull, and Yury, have attempted to document what that fear sounds like. The limited-release album they have created identifies a range of sounds across natural, political, social, cultural and theatrical categories which describe our contemporary understanding of the sound of dread. Instructional and taxonomic in scope, Sounds of Dread is an aural portrait of our time.
Charles Erwin
Charles Erwin ( www.charleyten.com) is a media artist who currently resides in San Diego while pursuing his B.A. from UCSD in Computing in the Arts. He is also affiliated as a recording artist with Beretta Music ( www.berettamusic.com), an independent dance music record label based in Detroit, MI.
Much of his recent work utilizes sound or music along with a specific apparatus of communication as an integral component in order to augment the perception of the viewer/listener for various purposes. These purposes range from mapping specific emotional or mental connections to thing or place, to understanding our communication technology and the boundaries of their spheres of influence; creating, denying, and ultimately shaping our connections with others over distances. Within his work, Erwin strives toward a further comprehension of the sonic world around us and the ways in which it informs or reaffirms preexisting patterns of our thoughts and behaviors.
Christiaan Cruz
Christiaan Cruz is a Southern California based photographer by trade. Earliest studies in Complex Cinema and modern music generated simple sound, installation, video and computer pieces. Current scores, works and concerns have focused on human interaction, connectivity, sounds in relation to space, and appropriate design. Neoscenses, SCIARC, Mills College, and the Cold Storage Series encouraged this. Works have been presented globally live and direct or otherwise via various networks and streams. www.zurcnaaitsirhc.blogspot.com
The work presented in SoundWalk encourages collaboration with the audience and other indirect networks. Resonance in water and objects create new and exciting textures to sounds that most people are unaware of. By exposing people directly to this resonant phenomenon they come in direct contact with the substances that manipulate the sound waves. It's a means to enter and play with the sound as well as hear it.
Daniel Corral
Daniel Corral is a composer and performer from Eagle River, AK. In 2007 he received his MFA from CalArts, where his teachers included James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, Anne LeBaron, Wadada Leo Smith, and Stephen "Lucky" Mosko. Daniel has had his award winning chamber works premiered by ensembles such as the California EAR Unit, Aspen Academy Orchestra, and New Century Players. He also composes for theater, animation, dance, and film. He recently finished Emperor, a short silent film about Emperor Joshua Norton I, which he produced, wrote the story, and composed the soundtrack for. More information about Daniel Corral can be found at http://spinalfrog.com.
Requiem for Gyorgy Ligeti is a giant music box created in memory of the great composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who died last July. The piece was inspired by Ligeti's Poem Symphonique, which involved 100 wind-up metronomes being set off at once. Requiem for Gyorgy Ligeti is a 30"x30"x8" box with 100 unique music box movements inside it. All 100 movements can be set to play simultaneously, creating a ringing wave of micropolyphony.
David Drodge
David Drodge has been involved in music from an early age, giving his first piano recital at age six. In following years he became interested in contemporary art, and recently received a BA(Hons) degree in Music & Visual Art at the University of Brighton, England. His most recent projects and research are based on international travel and the relationship between linguistics and the arts. http://Saatchi-gallery.com/yourgallery/artist_profile/a/675
The Star Ferry Soundwalk took place on Hong Kong Island in February 2007. The Star Ferry is used by millions of people annually to travel between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. In four consecutive recordings I walked from the old Star Ferry terminal to the new terminal, which sits on land reclaimed from the harbor. The aural space experienced by millions of people has been altered, and the sounds of streets and people permeate where only the sounds of open water could previously be heard. From a tranquil to a noisy place of business and travel where people both pass through and congregate.
David Kendall
David Kendall is from Los Angeles. David Kendall's musical practice makes use of the logistics of collaboration, as well as digital and analog audio technology. The goal is to interface discrete components together to create organic systems, where each part feeds in to others to create an organic whole. The presented sound is monadic, but highly unstable and often unpredictable. Each discrete element tends to have the power to alter the sound dramatically, based on the normal changes of the discrete elements. Unlimited power on an infinitely small scale. David Kendall has released recordings in the United States and Japan, on the Set-Project, EMR, Bastardised, P-Tapes, Banned Productions, Helicopter, Gameboy and Alienation labels.
The primary material of Ghosts, Recompense consists of a large number of old junk vinyl LPs, covered with thin layers of glue in order to obscure the audio information contained in the records' grooves. The sound that is left is incomplete, partially erased, submerged beneath the glue. Viewers are invited to browse and play the records. The playback of these records activates a multifaceted, electro-acoustic sonic environment. Layers of sound obscure other layers. Moving around the presentation space reveals these hidden facets. Renewal arises from obfuscation; the irrelevance of past culture is transmuted in to something new, vital and mysterious.
Doug Pearsall
For SOUNDWALK 2007 San Pedro based artist Doug Pearsall changes direction from his 2006 presentation, and his year the performance is live, literally. Continuing the artist's fascination with being a storyteller, he presents "Divergence:A Tour d'Musiq Afroamerican Style." This piece, originally developed two decades ago is now updated with a contemporary reading and staging. Doug has previously presented in SOUNDWALK, as well as other venues on both coasts.
"Divergence" will combine live music, spoken word and movement to celebrate the beauty of Afro American music, in various styles and over several periods of history. In addition to re-reading the original piece, the work is a reaction to last year's "Talking Posters," the idea being that this year the viewer will "consume" the art, as is the nature of performance.
Elonda Billera
Elonda Billera recently graduated from Claremont Graduate University. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
My sound is a proposal to understand the density of space that exists between two people. Emotions shared between people have a physical volume, location, and duration. You can determine the density of any given relationship by a simple formula of displacement. The greater the compact weight of the relationship, the more space it will displace. Closer ties can displace more space. This sound is made by immersing dry clay in water. Reclaiming clay into a state of mud negotiates a horizon of sorts and erases the measure between objects. The sound has been slowed down to half speed, and made to move between the left and right speakers. Relationships vibrate with our desire for closeness and separateness. I believe a correlation exists between physical proximity and tenderness. Vulnerability resides in closeness. My sound is an attempt to contain and dissolve the edges. We create and hold volume between us. We are responsible for the form it makes.
elondabillera.com
ETEREUM
ETEREUM is the brainchild project of Flamenco Dancer & Choreographer Claudia de la Cruz and Mixed Media Artist & Graphic Designer Josue Meneses AKA XOSU3 introducing an experimental music project of extreme flamenco fusion and junk percussions performance. INKSURGENT a multimedia event that includes an array of different themes, poetry reading, installations and ground-breaking performances it's an ongoing project that back in 2003 started this odyssey of unknown fate that in one way or another had shaped ETEREUM as is today: a continuous metamorphosis act.
Claudia de la Cruz, Artistic Director & Graphic Designer established her own Flamenco Institute in 1999. She initiated her profession in the world of dance when she was only 5 years old. Josue Meneses launched GRAPHICSURGEONS.COM his own web development & graphic design studio at Orange California in 1999 and have created dozens of sites for artists, businesses, among other projects. XOSU3 graduated as professional graphic designer in 1995 with a Visual Arts Master Degree in 2002 is also founder, publisher, editor, writer and designer of ESPACIOALTERNATIVO.COM an underground bilingual magazine since 1997.
www.myspace.com/etereum_noises
Fluorescent Grey
Northern California based producer Robbie Martin began making and performing electronic music at age fifteen with nothing more than a 486 pc, visual basic programs, record players and a homemade acoustic drum machine utilizing toy car motors and pulleys. Since appearing on RRR, Ovenguard Records, and Wire Magazine compilations; his style has evolved over the years from what could be described as experimental noise to a more rhythmically cohesive, electro-acoustic collage of sounds. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Farmer's Manual, Zoviet France, Coil, Art of Noise and Bartok; Robbie's audio experimentation has expanded to include custom made software, surround sound field recording, composing songs with video clips used as samples, and tactile music.
As Fluorescent Grey, he has created an unclassifiable catalog of music, released online and on CD, as well as appearing in several collaborations on his own "Record Label Records". Currently, he teaches electronic music making techniques at schools in the Bay Area as well as in online tutorials.
Girl Charlie and Monica Ryan
GirlCharlie & Monica Ryan. Visual/Performance Artist GirlCharlie & Sound Artist Monica Ryan began working together on the live performance version of SecondPlace. Charlie's paintings and installations generally put the viewer or performer at the center of the piece visually and physically, requiring their presence or action to activate the images. Monica Ryan is interested in allowing her audience to explore and construct their own personal experience of the text based on their changing perceptions of the sonic objects which surround them. The combination brought sound, text and image together to offer audiences a unique perceptual experience.
SecondPlace is a text-based meditation on identity and displacement in motion. Weaving together ten voices, SecondPlace layers stories and quotes from mythology, poetry, refugee accounts, and science. It is about the journeys of the immigrant to the new place, the Hero to her destiny, and the act of moving on to the next moment. Originally a (mostly) live performance, SecondPlace was turned into an ambisonic sound installation by Monica Ryan.