Artist Bios
303 Whatever
303 Whatever has grown out of a collaboration between Clay Chaplin, Aaron Drake, and Lewis Keller which started at CalArts in
2005. Each of these players brings their own set of instruments and more importantly their own aesthetic dispositions.
Ranging from granular systhesis, analog and digital feedback systems, real time analog samplers (tape decks) and Max/MSP
patches, the musical terrain that TAG can cover is as diverse as the conceptual inside which they perform.
Cooper Baker
Cooper Baker is a composer and sound artist whose work explores the science and technology of sound. His pieces
have been presented at the Los Angeles Bent Festival, the Spark Festival in Minnesota, the REDCAT theatre in Los
Angeles, California Institue of the Arts, and at several California Universities. Cooper was a recent faculty
member at California Institute of the Arts, where he also received his MFA and BFA degrees in experimental
composition and music technology respectively. While attending CalArts, he studied computer music, programming,
and electronics with Morton Subotnick, Mark Trayle, Barry Schrader, and Tom Erbe.
bavab bavab
bavab bavab is the experimental pop duo of stane hubert and christie scott. their first album 'fire petals in the sky' will
be out on the diy label love earth music for 2009. the album spans collaboration and improv, live shows and field recordings
from the los angeles venues il corral and zero-point that the pair were part of over the last four years. they love puppets,
found percussion objects, noise, their little dog boing puff and vegan chocolate cake. lotusalley.org has more delicious
sights and sounds to peruse, and they are at myspace.com/bavabbavab.
Jeff Kaiser
Jeff Kaiser is a trumpet player, electro-acoustic performer, composer, conductor, programmer and PhD. student in the Integrative Studies Program at
UCSD. He is the founder and owner of the pfMENTUM and Angry Vegan record labels. Jeff has released numerous albums as leader/co-leader, as well
as been a featured performing artist at festivals, universities, clubs and concert halls around the U.S. and abroad. His trumpet playing, and
use of extended trumpet techniques, has also been featured on films for the large and small screen. http://www.jeffkaiser.com/
Jonathan Snipes
Jonathan Snipes is a composer and sound designer for theater and film. On the screen, his music has been heard in NBC's The Office,
New Line Cinema's Snakes on a Plane, Bradford May's Mask of the Ninja for Larry Levinson productions, Mia Trachinger's Reversion
(Sundance 2008), and (collaborating with composer Bear McCreary) in 20th Century Fox's Wrong Turn 2 and Sony's The Sarah Connor
Chronicles. As "Captain Ahab" Snipes has released two full length albums and four EPs, on labels as diverse as Los Angeles'
Deathbomb Arc and Hatestate, and London's Irritant Records. Theater credits include Matt Shakman's production of Nocturne by
Adam Rapp at the Black Dahlia Theatre, Larry Biederman's production of Crumble by Sheila Callaghan at Moving Arts, and Michael
Hackett's production of Meditations on Virginity by Witold Gombrowicz, which was seen at the National Theatre in Warsaw, Poland.
In 2003,he was nominated for a Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for his work on Jose-Luis Valenzuela's production of
Evelina Fernandez' Dementia, with the Latino Theatre Company.
tik///tik
tik///tik is the solo aural output of L.A. Basin resident S.R. Cano. Utilizing elements of bastard pop and harsh noise,
tik///tik live usually consists of 3-15 min of awkward tantrums, microphone throating, and psychic cutting. Cano uses samplers,
synthesizers, and voice to create moments of teenage delusion and spittle realities. tik///tik has toured across the US and has
been in publications such as Flaunt and Totally Mag. - Recordings can be found on DIY labels Deathbomb Arc, Entropic Tarot,
and Hate State. http://entropictarot.com/tiktik.html - http://www.myspace.com/tikyoutik - "I'm slipping into the lava and I'm
tryin' to keep from going under" - Jonas Brothers
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