Artist Bios
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.
Steve Craig
Steve Craig is an artist based in Santa Monica. His favorite materials are found paper, photos, wood, metal, sound, and video. His work
addresses how technology has become such a part of who we are. It has made our lives easier and more complicated at the same time. He
is also interested in work that looks at what we discard. His work is ultimately about our technological advancement, the absurdity
that goes with it, and the beauty in all of it.
Michael Deragon
m. deragon, a former professor and practitioner of surrealism, has published poems, collages and music under
that gaze. his latest musical release under the name the great invisibles : you left me haunted was sent into
the world on broken sparrow records. currently deragon is working on an interdisciplinary mfa at calarts.
his latest work, both written and aural, deals with the cacophonous sounds of los angeles.
J. Frede
Since 1996 j.frede has been touring the United States and Europe exploring field recordings and
using them as his primary sound source in live performances. His recent european tour, the a/v tour 2004,
presented j.fredeÕs video series, Repetitions: a series of live performances that marked departure from
his previous focus on music. The Repetitions series is a repetitive motion video and film series that began
in 2002. These works concentrate on the slight inconsistencies in repetition from changes of light to subjects
entering view challenging your understanding of what the source may or may not be. Composed as abstract shots,
the videos inspect human perception of visual information and the hypnotic qualities of repetition. j.frede
organized and performed an abundant amount of live performances including the Denver Atonal Festival, The
Telluride Experimental Film Festival (Live Performances portion), Emerging Artists Performance Series (BMOCA),
MNML series (MCA Denver), OpenLate Series (MCA Denver), and the Visual Soundings Series (MCA Denver). Since
\moving to Los Angeles in 2002 j.frede has presented compositions and surround sound performances with myriad
events, such as the Beyond Music Festival (Beyond Baroque), A Day of Attention Festival (lowercase), LA Sounds
(Goethe Institute), FREEEARS (Highways Performance Space), Field Effects #17 (SF, CA), and SOUNDWALK (FLOOD)
and was featured as a speaker on the Microsound Music panel discussion, organized by Rhizome, LA
Lewis Keller
Lewis Keller is a sound artist based in Los Angeles. He is interested in the perception of time,
timbre and space and exploring how technology fits into and fights against life. Lewis builds
instruments from found objects, electronics and computer code. He also composes and performs
for and with people, computers and spaces.
Candice Lin
Candice Lin is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes drawings, animations, and sculptures. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art
Institute in 2004 and her BA from Brown University in 2001. She has exhibited throughout the United States, including the Los Angeles
Municipal Art Gallery Lisa Dent Gallery (SF), Armory Center for the Arts (LA), the New York Underground Film Festival, Lizabeth
Oliveria Gallery (LA), Hall Gallery (Portland, OR), and Vera List Art Gallery (Providence, RI). She has also exhibited internationally
at Milliken Gallery (Stockholm, Sweden), Valenzuela Y Klenner Arte Contemporaneo (Bogota, Columbia), Kino Lab at the Ujazdowski
Castle (Warsaw, Poland), Struts Gallery (New Brunswick, Canada), and was an artist in residence at CESTA (Tabor, Czech Republic).
Michael Pisaro
Michael Pisaro is a composer and guitarist, a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble and founder
and director of the Experimental Music Workshop. His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe,
in music festivals and in many smaller venues. It has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at
World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong
(ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991), London (Cutting Edge, 2007) and Chicago (New Music Chicago,
1990, 1991) and elsewhere. He has had extended composer residencies in Germany (KŸnstlerhof Schreyahn, Dortmund
University), Switzerland (Forumclaque/Baden), Israel (Miskenot Sha'ananmim), Greece (EarTalk) and in the U.S.
(Birch Creek Music Festival/ Wisconsin). Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Jerusalem,
Los Angeles, Vienna, Merano (Italy), Brussels, New York, Curitiba (Brazil), Amsterdam, London, Tokyo, Austin, Berlin,
Chicago, DŸsseldorf, ZŸrich, Cologne, Aarau (Switzerland), and elsewhere. He is a Foundation for Contemporary Arts,
2005 and 2006 Grant Recipient. Most of his music of the last several years is published by Timescaper Music (Germany).
Several CDs of his work have been released by Edition Wandelweiser Records, Compost and Height, Cathnor Records,Nine
Winds and others, including most recently Òan unrhymed chordÓ, Òhearing metalÓ, ÒA Wave and WavesÓ and "harmony series
(11Ð16)". His translation of poetry by Oswald Egger ("Room of Rumor") was published in 2004 by Green Integer. He is
Co-Chair of Music Composition at the California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles.
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