[DowntownArtists] California Redemption Value: Some California Experimental Musicians

Sun Oct 15 03:47:21 MDT 2006

California Redemption Value:
Some California Experimental Musicians

Emily Hay, flutes and vocals <http://www.emilyhay.com/vita.html>
Carey Fosse, guitarist
<http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=11940580>
Brad Dutz, percussionist <http://braddutz.com>

Anna Homler, vocalist <http://www.annahomler.com>
Michael Intriere, cellist
Drew Lesso, harmonist <http://www.w3art.com/DrewLesso.html>

Rick Potts, multi-instrumentalist <http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rick+Potts>
Spencer Savage, naive player

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

Saturday, October 21, 2006
8:00 p.m.
$10.00

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

Los Angeles, CA, October 6, 2006 - California Redemption Value, on Saturday, October 21, 2006 at Dangerous Curve, features three shufflings of various local experimental musicians.  These Californians will give you real value, and maybe even a little redemption---well in line with our spiritual avant garde mission. Vocalist/flutist/pianist Emily Hay <http://www.emilyhay.com/vita.html> has been collaborating with "like minds" (the name of one of her albums) for quite a while now.  This time, she collaborates with guitarist Carey Fosse <http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=11940580> and percussionist Brad Dutz <http://braddutz.com>.  Legendary musical wordsmith Anna Homler and experimental cellist Michael Intriere have been a duo for at least as long as we've known them.  Our brilliant neighbor, harmonist Drew Lesso, will make a rare appearance playing piano with them them.  Finally, legendary Rick Potts <http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rick+!
 Potts> and Spencer Savage come together again, 20 years after first doing so.  The evening coincides with the last week of Sky Burchard's video game sculpture exhibit "No Point Takes Up Space."

The concert starts at 8:00 p.m. and costs $10.00.  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 details about the Performers:

Emily Hay (flutes and vocals) <http://www.emilyhay.com/vita.html> is a flutist, vocalist and pianist who pushes her instruments to their limits.  She has the chops of contemporary classical technique and the spontaneity for free improvisation.  She augments her unusual tone colors with electronic manipulation.  Her vocalizations range from primal to operatic, adding some intellectual scat.  She has played with avant garde, alternative art rock, free improvisation, electro-acoustical, and contemporary classical ensembles such as U Totem, The Motor Totemist Guild, The 5 UU's, Otherparts, I Am Umbrella, Adam Rudolph's Go Organic Orchestra, The Emily Hay Collective, The Rich West Ensemble, The Jeff Kaiser Okodektet, and The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble. She is a featured artist numerous record labels and performed extensively internationally.  She co-hosts the alternative college music radio program "Trilogy" on KXLU 88.9FM Los Angeles <www.kxlu.com>.  She is the former Music Prog!
 ram Director for the Beyond Baroque Foundation, with a BFA in music from Bard College and an MFA in music from California Institute of the Arts.

Carey Fosse (guitar) <http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=11940580> "grew up in household vibrant with showtunes, film music and hard rock, often playing simultaneously."  He studied music, anthropology, and journalism at USC, hinting at the electicism that would endure until today.  Focusing on just the music part of his life (in chronological order), he's been in the bands The Abe Lincoln Story, Possum Dixon (Interscope, as lead guitar).  He's recorded/performed with members of X, Los Lobos, Circle Jerks, and Lowell George and Bonnie Raitt's bands, jammed with Brother Wayne Kramer of MC5, performed with percussionist Danny "Professor" Frankel, performance artist The Dark Bob, gnarly improviser Eugene Chadbourne, nOT iN tHE hOUSE!!! (duo with mad percussionist Eric Gardner), and in Glenn Branca's stunning "Symphony for 100 Guitars."  Strongly influenced by Horace Tapscott, he's studied with Ron Berman, Bobby Bradford, and Malinke master!
 -drummer Mamady Keita.  He's been called a "wacko electric guitarist" by Guitar Player Magazine, and a "guitar iconoclast," "crazily imaginative," and "monster instrumentalist" by the LA Weekly.  Currently, he performs jazz, improv, alt-pop; works and teaches; composes commercial sound design with Freshly Squeezed Music.

Brad Dutz (percussion) <http://braddutz.com> plays many instruments: congas, berimbau, bata, bodhran, bones, pandiero, djembe, tabla, kanjira, doumbec, riq, and others.  He studied at Berklee School of Music and toured the country with Maynard Ferguson.  He has 10 solo CDs, has co-produced 12 others and played as a sideman for 210 titles. He tries to bring the strangest percussion instruments he has to recording sessions.  He has recorded CDs for artists Alanis Morrisette, KISS, Willie Nelson, Michael Wolff, Tribal Tech, David Benoit, Rick Braun, Vinny Golia, Lee Ann Ryhmes, Mitch Forman, Terence Trent Darby, Rickie Lee Jones, and Handsonsemble, plus actors Jeff Bridges and Ronny Cox. He can be heard on numerous TV shows and in several IMAX films.  A part-time faculty member at Cal State Long Beach, he's written three books on percussion.  In 2002, his Obliteration quartet was the subject of a documentary film.

Michael Intriere is one of the founding members of the legendary and now-defunct underground chamber group Fat & Fucked-Up.  A cellist, he has been strong note in the Los Angeles experimental music scene for over two decades. His nontraditional exploration of the limits of the violoncello has led him to collaborations with many of L.A.'s foremost improvisers, and participations in such unique musical configurations as the Salt Ensemble, the Miya Massoka Orchestra, the Emily Hay Collective, and Zebra*Logic.  His experimental video work has been shown internationally, including screenings at Lincoln Center, MOCA in Los Angeles, and the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Anna Homler uses music and her own made-up language, making words musical and music like words.  She has performed at top-notch venues such as P.S. 122, The Kitchen, Dixon Place, and L.A.C.E. in the U.S., and numerous venues and museums in Europe.  Since 1990, she has participated in numerous international festivals, including Sonic Disturbance (Cleveland), New Music America (Montreal), Voices Festival (Austria), and Spoken Word Festival (Brussels).  She has collaborated with composer/musicians Steve Moshier, Davis Moss, Ethan James, Spastic Colon, The Voices of Kwahn, Steve Beresford, Peter Kowald, Richard Sanderson, Geert Waegeman, and Pavel Fajt.  She first became known in the 1980s with her "Breadwoman" cassette (High Performance Audio; with Moshier).  In 1992, she released her debut CD "Do Ya Sa'di Do" (amf), followed by many others, ending with "House of Hands" (ND). Called "mesmerizing," "mischievous," "exotic," and "charming," Holmer is, because of her work's diversi!
 ty and emotional power, a true force in international performance.

Drew Lesso (piano) <http://www.w3art.com/DrewLesso.html> studied composition at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Cologne BRD, where he was a student of Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1972--1976.  In 1978, he a founding board member of Los Angeles' Independent Composers Association, serving as its president in 1989. His music has been performed primarily in Southern California, most notably, in New Music Los Angeles in 1987, and the SCREAM Festival at CalArts in 1989.  He has guest lectured on Hans Kayser Harmonics at the Otis Parsons School of Art and Design, and at the Visual Music Alliance in Los Angeles. Two of his works for chamber ensemble were performed by the Cologne Philharmonic, as part of the International Computer Music Conference in 1988. "Slow Down" was performed by BassoBongo at Brown Brandice University in 1995. Also that year, "Constellations Pt 1" was selected by the International Computer Music Association to be part of the World Wide Web Museum at ArtneT!
  IAMFREE.  Lesso has published articles in the SEAMUS Journal and Computer Music Journal. His compositions join harmonic proportions from the visual world with musical motives. He writes computer programs to generate the work.

Rick Potts <http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rick+Potts>, writes Joslyn Layne (All Music Guide at shopping.yahoo.com), is a multi-instrumentalist and "a founding member of cult influential experimenters Los Angeles Free Music Society in the mid-70s. Potts has been active in the L.A. area since then, and his involvement in recording and performing with LAFMS unit, Le Forte Four, lasted through the early '80s. In Le Forte Four, he played electric guitar with an electric toothbrush and other implements, in addition to playing saxophone, xylophone and musical saw. In 1982, Potts formed experimental ensemble Dinosaurs with Horns with analog synthesizer and samplist Joseph Hammer (both later show up on Danny Cohen's 1999 Tzadik release). In the mid-80s, Potts also became involved in Steaming Coils (with Medicine's Brad Laner) and Debt of Nature. In 1992, he formed Solid Eye with Hammer and ex-Monitor Steve Thomsen." He was in the bands Airway, Creatures' Lives, Dinosaurs With Horns, !
 Fine Arts Dumpsters, The, Gothic Hut, Human Hands, Le Forte Four, Monique Experience, Pablums, The, Paul Is Dead, Rick Potts Band, The, Solid Eye, Square Haircutts, The, Steaming Coils. 

Spencer Savage began playing live music with numerous groups in Los Angeles in 1983, primarily as a percussionist, vocalist, and noisemaker. He began using tape loops in 1984, when he started performing solo concerts.  Between 1985 and 1991, he participated in series produced by such organizations as Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), New Music America, the Independent Composers Association (ICA), and the Foundation for Art Resources (FAR).  During the past 10 years, he's appeared as a supporting player on CDs released by Amphinomics, Catasonic, Tzadik, Win Records, and the Cortical Foundation.  Savage first recorded and performed as an auxiliary member of Dinosaurs with Horns in 1987, and continues to work with the group in public performances. He categorizes himself as a "naive player." 

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Dangerous Curve related events:

October 28: Esperanza with TBA.

November 4: "Team Up" with Tatsuya Nakatani: Chris Heenan, reeds, Jeremy Drake, guitar, Tatsuya Nakatani, percussion.  Plus David Rothbaum, solo, on analog synthesizer, and Mitchell Brown, solo, on electronics.

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:

Kathryn Hargreaves teaches Body Awareness classes, incorporating Kundalini Yoga and actual artmaking, at Dangerous Curve for all types of art people.  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.

Sign up for Kathryn Hargreaves's Kundalini Yoga workshops, with an emphasis on using that physical technology to enhance creativity at Bashtet Movement Studio, 201 S. Santa Fe, Suite 200, Los Angeles, 90012. (213) 680-YOGA.

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