Artist Bios
Elise Baldwin
Raised on a farm in Idaho, Elise Baldwin now resides in San Francisco. Harboring a historic multiplicity with regard to medium, she holds degrees
in Film & Video production from UCSC and Electronic Music from Mills College. When not indulging her interest in pyrokenesis or reading
compulsively in the bath, Elise can be found cooking up aurally hazardous byproducts in her studio or building software instruments for
video manipulation. She has spent much of the past fifteen years working as a sound designer, multimedia director, recording engineer,
and digital video editor onÊcommercial and educational projects. She has had the good fortune to collaborate with many talented filmmakers,
performers, dancers, and theater companies such as Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Sini Anderson of Sister Spit, Fresh Meat Productions,
and The Civilians.
Active in the Bay Area experimental music scene, Elise focuses on collaborative music ventures and solo intermedia performance, appearing
recently at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Edgetone Music Festival, the Brutal Sound FX Festival, E.S.P. Media Lounge,
CalArts CEAIT Festival and the National Queer Arts Festival. Her work has been featured on compilations Women Take Back The Noise,
Sound Migrations, and Aural Fixation I and II. She has received numerous awards, including a Harvestworks Artist in Residency in 2006,
the Frogs Peak Award for Experimental Music in 2004, and a Howard Scripps Award.
Kadet Kuhne
Kadet Kuhne is a media artist whose work includes video, installation and music composition. As an award-winning filmmaker she has numerous shorts that have screened worldwide including Infinite Delay, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and her most recent film, Fight or Flight, which will premiere at the Resonant Forms festival at LACE in April. Her installations involve a combination of motion detector sensors utilizing custom software in Jitter, single or multiple channels and online virtual space, often exploring themes of communication, control and confinement. Kadet's compositions twist signal processing, FM synthesis and neurological impulses into experimental electronic ambiences that aim to make your cilia vibrate in curious patterns.
Past exhibitions and performances include the Museum of Art Lucerne, LACMA, Musees de Strasbourg, REDCAT, Museum of Contemporary Art-LA, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, The LAB, The Weisman Art Museum, Highways Performance Gallery, CEAIT Festival and the New York Underground Film Festival.
The Pink Canoes
The Pink Canoes are an electro-acoustic improvisation quartet from Oakland, California. Their vocabulary is as varied as the instruments
they play, which includes, but is not limited to prepared guitars, saxophones and laptops to homemade analog synthesizers, circuit bent
toys and other salvaged electronics. As an ensemble, they run the gamut of texture and volume, turning on a dime from chunks of abrasive
noise to moments of barely audible sound inspection. Oftentimes they strive for the seamless integration of instruments, electronics and
electronic instruments. Other times the disjunction between the aforementioned instruments is so severe that it can only be described as
a chaotic splattering of electronics amidst a backdrop of sonic depravity. In many cases, these extremes occur just mere seconds apart,
which only adds to the quirky, unpredictable intrigue of each performance. With any luck, they'll tie your synapses in knots.
Hilary Reed
Hilary Reed is a musician and vocalist with over a decade of performing in and producing music events in the Bay Area. Her current solo and
group projects include live acoustic sets, experimental manipulation of traditional instrumentation and bluegrass jams. She is a graduate
of the Sound, Voice, and Music Healing program from the California Institute of Integral Studies where she studied with many revered
sonic legends such as Pauline Oliveros, John Beaulieu and Sylvia Nakkach. Currently she is in the teacher training program for Yoga
of the Voice and facilitates workshops on the Art of Listening. Inspired by her focused studies in classical Indian Raga and a longstanding
past in holistic healing, Hilary is launching a Sound Healing practice to share the transcendental and curative powers of sonic vibration.
Patrice Scanlon
Patrice Scanlon is an electronic musician, dancer, video artist and recovering clarinetist working in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As an undergraduate student, Patrice studied clarinet performance, composition and digital arts at Stetson University in Deland,
Florida. She later earned an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills where she focused her musical experiments with dancers, choreographers,
and other musicians. Currently the Technical Director of the Intermedia Arts Program at Mills College, Patrice also performs at local
Bay Area Venues, and develops interactive systems with Max/MSP and the Cyclops object.
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