Artist Bios
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.
Thadeus Frazier-Reed
Philadelphia born composer/performance artist Thadeus Frazier-Reed is involved with all aspects of interdisciplinary performance art.
He studied Double Bass performance at Eastman School of Music before leaving to pursue his composition career. At the University of
the Arts in Philadelphia Thadeus studied composition under Andrew Rudin . During this time his work was heavily influenced by
close work with Curtis Bahn and Dan Trueman of Interface and Dawn Stoppiello and Mark Coniglio of Troika Ranch. Thadeus went
on to become one of the founding members of ArcheDream, a blacklight multimedia dance theater company, based in Philadelphia.
He recently completed his degree at California Institute of the Arts under the tutelage of Mark Trayle, Michael Pisaro,
Tom Erbe, James Tenney and Sara Roberts.
rizorkestra
rizorkestra - myspace.com/rizorkestra - youtube.com/rizorkestra - one-man-folk-roots-blues-band: guitar, dobro, vocal, fife, kazoo,
with hi-hat and bass drum playing simultaneously. repertoire consists of early blues, jug band tunes, gospel music classics, instrumental
stomps, romps, jumps, and rags, early country music, early jazz, tin pan alley tunes, folk songs and novelty songs, with the additional
insertion of themes and motifs from sousa marches, european classical music composers, musical theater and film music, in original
compositions and improvisations. based in los angeles and currently roaming the california coast performing music. collecting
musical instruments, photographing and filming the california coast/pacific ocean, and planning cheap, sensible meals. also
plays: piano, jazz vibraphone, percussion, turkish oud, west african balafon
Ricky Lee Robinson
Special Feelings
Cassia Streb
Cassia Streb is a Los Angeles-based violist, improviser and composer. She
is active in the field of contemporary and experimental music, performs
regularly as a soloist and a chamber musician, and collaborates with a
variety of artists from many disciplines. She performs with the Vinny Golia
Large Ensemble, the California EAR Unit, Wadada Leo Smith's Silver
Orchestra and Guthrie & Streb. Cassia is also sought after as a soloist,
particularly for her interpretation of modern scores and microtonal works,
and she collaborates with many artists from the fields of electronic music,
western classical instruments and composes for theatre, dance and film. She
has commissioned and performed a number of works by both established
and emerging composers and she has worked closely with a range of artists
including Christian Wolff, James Tenney, Michael Pisaro Jurg Frey, John
Zorn, Morton Subotnik, Mark Trayle, Radu Malfatti and many others.
Cassia holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Victoria and a
Masters' degree from the California Institute of the Arts.
The Keith Walsh Experience
The Keith Walsh Experience (KWE) is a 12-piece kinetic punk-psychedelic-experimental O.M.B. from Los Angeles. Walsh sits behind a
big ergonomic kit, playing foot-driven drums, with hand-crashed percussion between the amped-up guitar and vocal work.
The KWE has performed at many art galleries and rock clubs in LA, and has recorded fourteen albums of original material
since 1995. Visit the KWE site: Myspace.com/thekeithwalshexperience
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