[DowntownArtists] Natural Anthems: five experimental groups sing and play at Dangerous Curve

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Natural Anthems: five experimental groups sing and play anthems


(in order of appearance)

Missincinatti (Jessica Catron and Jeremy Drake)
Anni Rossi (voice and viola)
Alessandro Bosetti (voice and laptop; from Berlin)
Non Credo (Joe Berardi and Kira Vollman)
Esperanza (voice, accompanied by Jesse Berent and Sammy K)

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

Saturday, September 30, 2006
8:00 p.m.
$10.00

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



Los Angeles, CA, September 16, 2006 - Take these five soloists/groups and have them play music and sing anthems for actual and/or imagined places.  That's the idea Jerry Drake (of the legendary experimental music series line space line) had for this eclectic lineup of musicians: Missincinatti (Jessica Catron and Jeremy Drake) Anni Rossi (voice and viola), Berlin's Alessandro Bosetti (voice and laptop), Non Credo (Joe Berardi and Kira Vollman), and Esperanza (voice, accompanied by Jesse Berent and Sammy K).  As conceptual glue, during intermissions, we will play national anthems from around the world in full MIDI glory.  All this happens amongst the sculptures in Sky Burchard's exhibit "No Point Takes Up Space," from a wonderful world of video games.

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.



Details on the performers:


Missincinatti

Missincinatti (Jessica Catron + Jeremy Drake) makes sounds you'd hear at that place down the street from your house, past which you walk sometimes---that place behind a chain link fence, that's covered bits of trash and overgrown fennel and clumps of dirt, and where a family of mice lives.

Jessica Catron <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, the pop!
  band Dreaming Ferns, the vocal quintet VOCO, and Missincinatti with guitarist Jeremy Drake. 

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).



Anni Rossi

Anni Rossi (voice and viola) studied violin and piano as a toddler, thanks to her grandmother.  After 15 years of classical violin training, she happened upon a viola, causing her departure from the traditional symphony towards her untamed song project. She attended Cal Arts for one year, studying with the likes of Mark Menzies, Vinny Golia, and Susan Allen. She has toured her compositions since early 2005, over the United States, Canada, Japan and, most recently, Europe. She released her debut album, "Scandia" in the Summer of 2004. Her next album, "Afton," is due in early 2007.

"Viola player gone mad from beautiful melodies to abrupt squeals, Anni Rossi has been astonishing audiences all over the U.S. and now Europe. At the age of 21, she has toured with acts such as The Gowns, Gang Wizard, and most recently The Dead Science and Carla Bozulich...She is a solo performer who coaxes her own odd sounds both from her instrument and her voice.  Whimsically strange and poppy, Anni Rossi performs her craft of improvisational ballads." --Art Prostitute Magazine



Alessandro Bosetti

Alessandro Bosetti (voice and laptop) does things "roughly reminiscent of songs, kind of almost spoken, abstract songs."  He says, "Maybe it's just their duration that make them song-like, maybe they are just 'pieces.' Maybe they are not songs at all."  He is "an untrained, passionate singer" who makes music out of conversations. 

He usually uses his voice and a laptop, projecting the sound produced around the audience.  He wears headphones, through which he receives signals to which he reacts.  "Often I misunderstand them [the audience]," he says, "Often I can't really control what I sing, because the headphones separate me from the environment."

He sees as his themes voice, language, misunderstandings, sound-anthropology, aesthetics, tone languages, conversations, headphones, geography, relational unspoken languages, feedback (in behavior and physics), no-control, handicap, and imitation or mimetic behaviour.

"Italian-born Alessandro Bosetti is the modern-day musical eclectic-eccentric. Through field research and interviews, Bosetti crafts abstract compositions rich in context and harmony." --Flavorpill/Chicago

"... idiosyncratic and radical in its dislocation of the physical instrument from familiar musical contexts."  --Julian Cowley, The Wire

"...he really knows to capture my attention. Great stuff." --Vital Weekly




Non Credo

Non Credo <http://www.myspace.com/noncredo> is the duo consisting of Kira Vollman and Joseph Berardi. She's a singer, he's a drummer, but their musical palette extends well beyond the scope of their primary instruments.  Their unique sound falls solidly into the RIO (Rock In Opposition) camp.  Utilizing Kira's remarkable vocal range and a musical landscape of bass clarinet, percussion, and unusual samples, they lead the listener on a journey with many detours and dark alleys along the way. Be prepared to get seasick, beaten up, thrown in jail, fall in love, contract an STD, have your heart broken, your wallet stolen, get shanghaied, hog tied and crucified.

Kira Vollman is a breathtaking vocalist with the voice of a fallen angel. "My patience threshold is pretty low", she reveals. Perhaps this explains her tendency to jump from style to style and sound to sound. Never without an absurdist's dark sense of humor, she is an ace at role-playing. Vollman also plays bass guitar, clarinets, keyboards, and other assorted devices, and supplies the lyrics for Non Credo's evocative textures.  Aside from Non Credo, Vollman has been involved in several musical projects and bands in her home town of Los Angeles. She was a member of the improvising chamber ensemble Fat and Fucked Up, she toured and recorded with Kid Congo Powers band, Congo Norvell, performed frequently with musical scavengers Stay Home, recorded with slop-rockers Thelonious Monster, and sang with microtonalist Kraig Grady. She is active in the LA improv scene, having worked the likes of violinist Jeff Gauthier.  She is also in a vocal duet with Kaoru, called Punishment Cooki!
 es.

Joe Berardi began life as a member of the ground-breaking avant-pop band The Fibonaccis. Since then, he has been involved in a wide assortment of projects and bands. As a drummer, his unique style and use of miscellaneous percussive objects and found sounds within the traditional drum kit have made him a fixture on the Los Angeles music scene. He is a member of surf-spy experimentalists Double Naught Spy Car, the metal/found-objects-percussion group The Obliteration Quartet, the bent blues band The Mentones, Megan Mullally's Supreme Music Program.  He also plays keyboards with Weill/Eisler worshipers, the Eastside Sinfonietta. Berardi has been the drummer/percussionist of choice for a diverse group of notorious performers, including recordings, tours and collaborations with such notables as: Stan Ridgway, Rufus Wainwright, Ann Magnuson, Lydia Lunch, James White and the Blacks, Congo Norvell, Donovan, Pixies' Frank Black and Joey Santiago, Algerian vocalist Rimitti (with Robe!
 rt Fripp and Flea), Kristian Hoffman, Stew, The Velvet Hammer Burlesque, Motor Totemist Guild, Nels Cline, and microtonalist Kraig Grady. 


Esperanza

Esperanza (voice), who will sing songs with music and lyrics by experimental bassist Drew Schnurr and herself, has the evolved soul of an artist that can channel something way larger than herself.  That's the best thing we can say about any artist.  She is a long-time favorite who sounds especially good in Dangerous Curve's boomy space. When she takes the mic away from her mouth and just resonates the room, she can make grown men cry.  (We've seen it!) You'd never know she once broke her neck in a car accident.  Her vocal coach Ron Anderson allowed the woman who sang worse after studying at the best opera school in the country to find her real voice. 

Jesse Berent (guitar) is a recent graduate of USC's Studio/Jazz guitar program.  He plays wide variety of rock, blues, jazz, and folk styles, performing throughout the Los Angeles area with various jazz and rock bands.  He has also performed on numerous film and television soundtracks and is a featured performer on the Fox Channel reality show "The Princes of Malibu."  He helps run Hollywood's House of Blues' acclaimed outreach and education program.

Sammy K <http://www.slamminsammyk.com/index.html> is a Grammy nominated musician who's played internationally with The United States Air Force Band of Flight, The Walt Disney Company, Dolphin and Sea Wind Cruise Lines, Show Choir Camps of America, and Cedar Point.  He's led his own band to three consecutive Best Band awards in the Down Beat Magazine international competition.  Currently based in Los Angeles, Sammy K has performed with the best of the best: Bob Hope, The Coasters, The Stars of the Lawrence Welk Show, Jon Hendricks, The Platters, Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Steve Turre, The Mills Brothers, David Pomeranz, Kate Miner, Dave Brubeck, The Ink Spots, and The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra.  He has appeared on the Emmy-Award-winning "Wayne Brady Show," on "Ally McBeal" with KC and the Sunshine Band, and in the film "The Fast and the Furious."  His clients include: The Walt Disney Company, Ferrari, NBC, The Hal Leonard Publishing Company, Much Music Television, the Six Flags Co!
 rporation, Daimler-Chrysler, ABC, the international Toys for Tots campaign, and CBS.  He is in high demand by songwriters in Los Angeles and New York, and he can be seen on stage or heard in the studio with a wide variety of pop, country, contemporary Christian and Jazz artists. If you listen closely to your television or radio, you can hear him driving the world-famous Los Angeles Laker Band. 

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Dangerous Curve related events:

September 23: Surrealestate <www.soundcommons.org/Members/JeffSchwartz>, a long-running improvising group of variable membership.  Performing: Phil Curtis (electronics), Bruce Friedman (trumpet), Jonathon Grasse (guitar), Ken Luey (winds), and David Martinelli (percussion) and Jeff Schwartz (double bass).

October 21: Emily Hay with Carrie Fosse, and others 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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