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Digital Meat
Feb. 14th at 8PM
Explorations of the ego through digital extensions.
This is a night of music with alternative controllers and new digital/analog instruments ranging
from DIY gloves, 3-d sensing microphones, and robots.
Works By:
Clay Chaplin
Clay Chaplin is a composer, improviser, programmer, and video artist from Los Angeles. He has worked
on many projects throughout the US, Europe, and Japan involving experimental music, interactive systems,
video, improvisation, and custom electronics. Clay has given workshops on computer music and digital
media for various universities and electronic arts groups in California and has been composer-in-residence
at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College and at STEIM in Amsterdam. He is currently the
Technical Director for the Computer Music and Experimental Media Studios at The California Institute of
the Arts and a member of the music school's composition faculty. Clay's latest CD is available on Artifact
Recordings.
http://music.calarts.edu/~cchaplin
Ulrich Krieger
presents Feeding Alien Space!
Ulrich Krieger is a saxophone player and composer. He has won several awards and residencies for:
New York, Los Angeles, Venice, Rome, Bologna, Darmstadt and others. His pieces are
widely performed by ensembles in Europe and the USA. Krieger's recent interest lies in
the experimental fringes of contemporary pop culture, the limbo between noise, metal,
ambient and silence. He transcribed and arranged Lou Reeds 'Metal Machine Music'
for classical instruments. Collaborations include: LaMonte Young, Phill Niblock, Christian
Marcley, Mario Bertoncini, Merzbow, Lou Reed, Lee Ranaldo, Michiko Hirayama, John
Duncan, Zbigniew Karkowski, DJ Olive, Kasper T Toeplitz, Radu Malfatti etc. He calls his
way of saxophone playing 'acoustic electronics' and often uses his instrument as
'analogue sampler' from which he can call his quasi-electronic sounds, which then get processed.
Matthew Setzer
Matthew Setzer is a Montana native where he attended the Composition and Music Technology program
at the University of Montana in Missoula. He studied composition with Prof. Patrick Williams and
Dr. Charles Nichols. He studied String Bass with Don Beller and classical guitar with Dr. Luis Millan.
The summer of 2003 Matthew attended the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) at Musicians Institute in
Hollywood California. Matthew returned to Musicians Institute after graduating UM in 2005 to attend
the Guitar Craft Academy. After GCA Matthew entered the music industry as a professional luthier at
Moser Custom Shop. Matthew is currently persuing his MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in
Experimental Sound Practices. At CalArts he has studied with Mark Trayle, Ulrigh Krieger, David Rosenboom,
and Morton Subotnick. Along with music he has studied interactive video techniques, custom software design,
costume design, animation, and welding/metalworking. He is expected to graduate in May 2008. Matthew is
also the guitarist for an LA based techno-industrial/performance art band called "OOZE." Recent performances
include Hollywood, Las Vegas, and Burning Man. Matthew has also worked with performance groups AMF (Aesthetic
Meat Front) and CORE (Constructs of Ritual Evolution).
Matthew's compositions include instrumental and electroacoustic music. In fall 2006 he developed an interactive
microphone with an accelerometer and force sensors. This enables the microphone to sense or "know" where you
are squeezing it, how hard it is being squeezed, and the movement of the unit. The concept is to capture
emotional/performance information from the singer that would otherwise be lost. This information is then sent
to a computer where it can do a number of things including: manipulate the voice of the singer or manipulate
interactive video projections in real time. Matthew is currently pursuing custom instrument design utilizing
robotics, and a piece where a performance artist generates feedback drone music via EEG.
Phil Stearns
presents Core Tissue
Phillip Stearns is a Los Angeles based sound and visual artist, composer and recent graduate of
the California Institute of the Arts music composition department. His more notable works are
centered around the notion of the circuit as a site for composition, performance, installation,
sculpture, interaction, corruption and social engagement. His installation and sound based works,
both as a solo artist and as a collaborator, address electronic technologies and their role in
shaping our notions of community, space, isolation and interconnectedness. The tools commonly
employed in these endeavours range from custom designed and handmade electronics, digital and
analog feedback, hacked and circuit bent electronics, custom designed software, corrupted commercial
programs and compositional processes inspired by the functions of modern computing systems.
univac
A consummate TechDweeb and novatone "musician," univac is constantly repurposing the detritus of trickle-down
technology and off-the-shelf toys in order to create horrible hybrids that cause the designers of the original
items to shudder in disbelief. univac is a MacTech and bent-circuit instrument-making audiovisual artist
living in Orange County (& itinerantly coexisting in the Bay Area). He has a degree in cinematography/
photography/writing; sound-designed for film/video, videogames/software, and early (mid-90's) web for such
diverse clients as SIGGRAPH, AOL, Microsoft, NTT, Alan Dean Foster, & Neal Stephenson; performed in
1995 one of the first live net-streamed electronic music concerts from San Francisco to an audience of 10,000
in Caracas, Venezuela (using an early beta of what became REALplayer on a 28.8 modem!); live-sound engineers
for culture-jammers Negativland; and is a co-conspirator of: Big City Orchestra, Daevid Allen (Gong), Wobbly,
Thomas DiMuzio, & The Legendary Pink Dots. In addition to univac, he also creates havoc under the names
The Univac Index, God's Grandparents, & AirSickBags Omnimedia. You can audiovisualize most of this and
hear sounds that no human was ever meant to at TechDweeb.com.
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