[DowntownArtists] "Transplanted Locations": Cartridge Music (Berlin-Style) Los Angeles Edition

Sun Nov 19 00:13:45 MST 2006

"Transplanted Locations": Cartridge Music (Berlin-Style) Los Angeles Edition

Works:

"Just Another Bagatelle," full-length version, James Tenney
"Nokturne Underground always Never Are Good,"  world premiere, Istvan Zelenka
"Cartridge Music," John Cage
"Berlin Exercises," Christian Wolff

Performers:

Jessica Catron, cello
Johnny Chang, violin/cartridge operator
Jeremy Drake, guitar/cartridge operator
Cat Lamb, viola
Marc Nimoy, electronics/cartridge operator
Michael Pisaro, electric guitar
Felix Salazar, guitar

at Dangerous Curve http://dangerouscurve.org
an Experimental Exhibition and Performance/Live Art Space

Saturday, November 25, 2006
8:00 p.m.
$8--12.00 sliding scale

1020 East Fourth Place
(500 Molino Street #102)
Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Los Angeles, CA, November 11, 2006 - Music inspired by particular locations transports us to those locations or those locations to us. "Transplanted Locations" at Dangerous Curve on Saturday, November 25, 2006, is designed to take you places you've never gone.  Performers Jessica Catron (cello), Johnny Chang (violin/cartridge operator), Jeremy Drake (guitar/cartridge operator), Cat Lamb (viola), Marc Nimoy (electronics/cartridge operator), Michael Pisaro (electric guitar), and Felix Salazar (guitar), take you there.

Just before he died recently, James Tenney attended a performance of his "In a large, open space,"_at Cold Storage Project, just a block from Dangerous Curve.  It certainly was transportive, to places past and future.  As a tribute to him (amidst all the others), Jessica Catron and Johnny Change will play a full-length version of "Just Another Bagatelle," which he wrote for their Microscore Project.  We know he wanted to hear this sometime!  

Istvan Zelenka's "Nockturne Underground Always Never are Good," with text from Anthony Burgess' "The Piano Players," contains fragments from a another era: WWI British silent-film/music-hall piano accompanist's repertoire.

Christian Wolff's "Berlin Exercises" was obviously inspired by a specific location.

In "Cartridge Music," John Cage directed performers to insert---instead of a needle---pipe-cleaners, matches, feathers, wires, etc., into old phonograph pick-up cartridges.  There were many variations on this idea, including connecting contact microphones to furniture.  Strange things can happen when you amplify household objects!  

All this is couched in the spiritual sculpture-scape of Nancy Evans' "Keeping Body and Soul Together."  

We're located at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and Mateo Streets, in the back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts, #102, between the Fourth Street Bridge's (the bridge on the LA River side of downtown) two on/off ramps.  See our website http://dangerouscurve.org for directions, pictures, and updates.

More About the Performers

Jessica Catron http://www.myspace.com/jessicacatron is a freelance cellist based in Los Angeles, California.  Over the last seven years, she been devoted almost entirely to new music, composition, experimental sound, and improvisation.  She's performed around the world, most recently at the Seattle Improvised Music Festival, Vancouver's Sonic Boom Festival, the CEAIT Festival at REDCAT, the .sound. series at the Schindler House, the Indiana Lotus Festival, Boston's NEMO Festival, California WorldFest, the Getty's Friday Night Series and Summer Sessions, la Festival de Musica Contemporanea in Bogota, Colombia, and the Lincoln Center's Out-of-Doors Festival. She has also done many recordings and soundtracks, including original music for Paramount Classics' "Mean Creek," and Sony Pictures' "Levity" and "The Covenant."  Currently, she's working with Carla Bozulich on "The Night Porter."  She's also in The Microscore Project, an ongoing chamber-duo with violinist Johnny Chang, th!
 e pop band Dreaming Ferns, the vocal quintet VOCO, and Missincinatti with guitarist Jeremy Drake.

Johnny Chang http://www.johnnychchang.net, violinist and composer, is a passionate supporter of New Music.  Both a soloist and chamber musician, he has been involved for some time with New Zealand-based Stroma and 175 East.  He has performed at NYC's Weill Recital Hall in the Brian Ferneyhough Perspective Concert, at USC's Schoenberg Institute as a member of Pasadena's Southwest Chamber Music, and toured to NYC and Vienna with the same.  He was invited to perform John Cage's "19'37.988" for solo violin at LACMA's exhibition "Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940--70s."  Recently, he is focusing on composer collaborations, with new commissions from experimental composers such as the U.K.'s James Saunders.  He also co-produces The Microscore Project with cellist Jessica Catron, which commissions and premieres 30-second works from the US, Canada, New Zealand, England, Switzerland, and Germany.  Chang has an MFA in Composition (2006) and an MFA in Violin Performance (2002) f!
 rom the California Institute of the Arts, with a BM in Violin Performance (1999) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Jeremy Drake http://www.jeremydrake.com is a Los Angeles-based guitarist who has performed in Australia, England, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Canada and throughout the United States.  He recently performed music for "Macbeth" at the Adelaide Festival in Australia, was the featured guitarist on the Fox Searchlight film "The Hills Have Eyes." He has released a set of improvised music, recorded live with guitarist Nels Cline, on emr records. As cofounder of the much-missed LINE SPACE LINE improvised music series, he presented concerts featuring local and international musicians on a weekly basis from May, 2002 through August, 2005. He now serves on the board of directors of SASSAS (The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound). 

Cat Lamb http://catlamb.com wishes to make art "for personal communication that extracts the performer as creator, creator as performer, and the celebration of the personal that happens in that crossing."  She makes art for an ear to listen to, resulting in a better ear.  She responds to intervals as light, along with the contraction and expansion of rhythms that ultimately occur when those tones are coalescing.  She strives for interactions that become "so personal, there is shared breath happening."  Lamb grew up in Olympia, Washington "with a piano under her hands and water in her ears."  Ever since, she "has been crawling inside the tones and spurting out color sounds."  At age eight, she translated these "monstrosities" to her viola, discovering there were other pitches and resonances to be found.  She went to India. She swam around in the experimental improvisation scenes of Seattle, Olympia, and the Bay Area.  She now "breathes the pink Los Angeles sunsets."  In May 2!
 006, she graduated from CalArts, where she studied composition with James Tenney, Michael Pisaro, and Stephen Lucky Mosko.  She also worked with Sara Roberts, Christian Wolff, Jorg Frey, Mani Kaul, Rajeev Taranath, and Wadada Leo Smith.  She is now composing in Los Angeles.

Marc Nimoy is a Composition-Experimental Sound Practices MFA student at CalArts who received his B.A. in Music Performance from UCLA. He is a working musician, teacher, and programmer who likes building things such as electronic instruments and clean-looking software interfaces. He performs regularly in the Los Angeles area as a laptop rock star.  Only recently has he started focusing on sound sculptures and installations. See http://www.digitanalog.net and http://www.thenimoys.com>. 

Michael Pisaro was born in Buffalo, NY in 1961.  His work has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen, 1996 and Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern, 1997), Aspen (1991), Merano, Italy (2003), Dusseldorf (every year since 2000), Berlin (Akademie der Kunste, 2002) and Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990 and 1991).  Concert-length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, London, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Vienna, Brussels, Curitiba Brazil, Berlin, Chicago, Dusseldorf, Zurich, New York, Cologne, Aarau, and elsewhere.  He is a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant Recipient, 2005 and 2006.  Most of his music of the last several years has been published by in Germany's Timescaper Music. His CDs are available on Wandelweiser Records.  His translation of poetry by Oswald Egger ("Room of Rumor") was published in 2004 by Green Integer.  He is Co-Chair of Music Co!
 mposition at the California Institute of the Arts.

Felix Salazar: see http://www.felixsalazar.com/bio.html

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Dangerous Curve related events:

November 19: "Being Earnest" with Esperanza, William Harrington, and Cat Hair Ensemble.

December 3: Ghosts, Machines, and Nomads: Ghost Duo (Michael Jon Fink/Marty Walker), Karl Montevirgen/Nicholas Frances Chase, and yek koo.

December 10: Josie Roth/Drew Lesso, Glenn Bach, and TBA.

December 17: Emily Hay and TBA.

January: Brad Dutz Quartet and Stuart Leibig MINIM Quartet.

More good things being added by the moment.  Check http://dangerouscurve.org for updates/changes and subscribe to our email list to get announcements.

Also:

Dangerous Curve can print your wide-format (up to 44") archival prints for you.  We print on canvas, too.  We also do museum-quality framing.  Call 213 617 8483 for information on affordable pricing. We also can frame your art: museum-quality and archival.

Kathryn Hargreaves teaches Body Awareness classes, incorporating Kundalini Yoga and actual artmaking, at Dangerous Curve for all types of artists: visual artists, writers, performers, musicians, dancers, you name it.  A new class is starting up on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m., just after the Arts District neighborhood walk.  Call (213) 617-8483 if you need more information.

Take a look at our column, Dangerous Blurb, on http://eyespyla.com, where we write occasionally about art collecting and other things art-related.

Artists, submit your art for art-in-windows installations in Los Angeles County.  Dangerous Curve sometimes curates for Phantom Galleries LA http://phantomgalleriesla.com.  See the website for submission information.  This is an ongoing open call for installation art, sculpture, video or new media, 2D visual art, and even live art/visual art performance.

Check out the new free newspaper, The Arts District Citizen http://theartsdistrictcitizen.com, published in The Arts District and distributed throughout the city.  Tim Quinn and Kathryn Hargreaves contribute writings on art and other things. 

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Dangerous Curve is a leading contemporary art space in the Arts District of Los Angeles.  It is a privately run venue for live art/visual art performance, experimental art and music, and installations.  The gallery supports visionary established and emerging artists of all ages, with live art residencies and one-person shows of high-quality risky and intelligent work that's ahead of the curve.

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