[DowntownArtists] [Dangerous Curve] Clearing Air: Team Up (Chris Heenan and Jeremy Drake) with Tatsuya Nakatani, plus David Rothbaum, and Mitchell Brown

Fri Oct 27 22:22:27 MDT 2006

Clearing Air

Team Up:
Chris Heenan: reeds
Jeremy Drake: guitar
with Tatsuya Nakatani: percussion

Solos:
David Rothbaum: analog synthesizer
Mitchell Brown: electronics

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

Saturday, November 4, 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 21, 2006 - Nothing clears the air like the instruments used by ancient traditional ritualists.  What if you took these and made New Music with them?  Well, come hear Tatsuya Nakatani, renowned percussionist from Japan.  He'll be at Dangerous Curve on Saturday, November 4, 2006, along with some other rad cats.  New to New Music?  Expand your idea of music by coming and giving it an ear. Hey, it's fun and it can make you more creative!  If you're old to New Music, then you've already heard of these guys.  Team Up (Chris Heenan and Jeremy Drake) team up with Tatsuya Nakatani, and then there's David Rothbaum going solo, and Mitchell Brown, the same.

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.

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Details on the Performers

Tatsuya Nakatani, joins Team Up: percussion

The music is clear... It will purify any space."
-- Eric Zinman, Improvisor Magazine

Internationally renowned percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani is from Kobe and Osaka, Japan.  He has performed in just about 80 cities and 10 countries.  He uses drumset, gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, sticks, and bows to collage traditional Japanese folk music with New Music.  His music defies category or genre, although you will hear a mix of improvised music, experimental music, jazz, free jazz, and rock.  He is a recent recipient of The Bronx Arts Council Individual Artist grant.  Nakatani heads H&H Production, an independent record label and recording studio based in Easton, Pennsylvania.  He has performed at such places as The Smithsonian Institute, The Knitting Factory, Krannert Art Museum, I.C.A. Boston, Wesleyan University, France's Musee d'art moderne et contemporaine, Ireland's Trinity College, and China's Jaotong University.

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Chris Heenan, Team Up: reeds

Chris Heenan is an improvising musician who lives in Los Angeles. He plays alto saxophone, bass clarinet, and contrabass clarinet. Some current projects include Team Up, a trio with guitarist Jeremy Drake, and percussionist Stephen Flinn, a duo with guitarist NYC-based Chris Forsyth, an improvising clarinet trio with David Rothbaum and Cory Wright, and a CD of large group improvisations co-organized by Heenan and Drake. He is also a member of Rich West's Bedouin Hornbook and Adam Rudolph's Go Organic Orchestra.

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Jeremy Drake, Team Up: guitar

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 co-founder 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).

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David Rothbaum, solo: analog synthesizer

David Rothbaum http://www.davidrothbaum.com is a Los Angeles-based composer and improviser.  He mostly performs on analog modular synthesizer, and contralto and Bb clarinets.  He attempts to blend the electronic and acoustic timbres using micro sounds and atmosphere. Recently, he's been combining these audio elements with digital and analog video synthesis, multiple speaker arrays, and Super-8 films and projectors.  He also improvises, mainly electro-acoustic music.  He has collaborated with Joseph Hammer, Bryan Eubanks, Jessica Catron, Mizzly, Cube of Force, Gort, DDD, and The Kentucky Knobs, and The Davids (yes, all the performers are named "David").  Rothbaum runs the record label named experimental musical research (emr).  For three years, he, along with Jeremy Drake and Chris Heenan, co-organized line space line, the much-missed weekly new-and-improvised-music series. He has seven recordings released, with many more to come on various record labels, including Reify, Ras!
 bliutto, emr, and Alienation.

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Mitchell Brown, solo: electronics

Mitchell Brown http://www.melonexpander.com doubles as Professor Cantaloupe while DJing on KXLU on Wednesday nights for a children's show, The Kids Are Alright, and Glossolalia, a sound-art show. He runs the Melon Expander record label, supporting humble hermits working in the field of head music.  He has performed and/or recorded analog electronic and/or electro-acoustic music with: Joseph Hammer, Rick Potts, Joe Potts, Damian Bisciglia, Trevor Wishart, Tom Recchion, Petra Haden, Leticia Castaneda, Jeremy Drake, John Weise, Ezra Buchla, Lionel Marchetti, Jerome Noetinger, Space Machine, Points of Friction, and Thomas Dimuzio, among others. --CTRL+ALT+REPEAT handout for DC show

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Dangerous Curve related events:

November 19: Esperanza with TBA.

November 25: "Transplanted Locations" with Jessica Catron, Johnny Chang, Marc Nimoy, Michael Pisaro, and Marc Sabat.

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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.

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