Metal singers battle it out in an amplified, unaccompianied, five minute freak out session. Singers will blow your brains out of your ears. If you would like to participate in this event, please send an email to sis09@music.calarts.edu

Judges for Metal Mouth

Howie Pyro

Susie Allen

Hillary Kapan

Participating Artists

Michael Deragon

Jeff Weber

Derrick Baseck

Joe Cantrell

and many many others!

Nicole Antebi presents Tilapia Jetty
2008
Video


The environmental art movement of the 1960Õs and 70Õs yielded a desire for land reclamation, although the practice of cutting pouring, filling, and burying ultimately sought to aestheticize what resembled the natural landscape. Robert Smithson left his legacy in the shape of a spiral at the edge of the Great Salt Lake. After watching the grainy reddish footage of a giddy Smithson running along the Jetty and reading SmithsonÕs writing about his initial search for the site and later revelation for the Spiral Jetty, I became convinced that he was indeed referring to California's troubled Salton Sea. This connection was the catalyst for Tilapia Jetty, a video depicting a disintegrating cardboard spiral, covered in dead Tilapia, and set at the edge of the Salton Sea.

Lara Bank presents The Portable Forest Travels the Sonic World
The Portable Forest is an offshoot of Tree and Space, treeandspace.org, a public art location designated by a tree at the top of a hill. The Portable Forest are potted trees that serve the same purpose, yet they can be moved. The trees can travel for events and happenings inside and outside. Anyone can do an artwork with the trees, just send an email to info@treeandspace.org with your idea. When they are not traveling, they are located behind Sea and Space Explorations, an exhibition space. The installation for Sound in Space at Sea and Space by Lara Bank allows the trees to experience audio from different locations and situations (the beach, the jungle, rainstorms, chainsaws and axes chopping trees, within a forest fire) every night of the week. So they can travel without leaving the site. The Portable Forest is a place artwork by Lara Bank.

Susie Allen
Susan Allen is a free improviser and interpreter of new compositions for harp. Her appearances have included concerts on the NBC Today Show, National Public Radio (with the Vermeer String Quartet), Gaudeamus International Music Week in Rotterdam, the Festival de Caracas, the London (Ontario) Regional Art Gallery, New York Philharmonic's "Horizons" concerts, the Ferienkurse fŸr Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, at the Kitchen Center in New York, Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, the Smithsonian Institute, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Los Angeles Festival, the nationwide Festival of Korea, Monday Evening Concerts, with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Speculum Musicae, SONOR from the University of California at San Diego, and in Boston with Composers in Red Sneakers, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Cambridge Chamber Players, and Musica Viva. Long-term collaborations with composers James Tenney, Earl Kim, Mel Powell, Harold Budd, Ruth Lomon, Morton Feldman, William Thomas McKinley and many others have yielded her premieres and recordings of major 20th and 21st century repertoire for harp. Of her solo concert debut featuring many new works, the New York Times wrote, "sheer physical virtuosity...sensitive, expertly played."

Nicole Antebi
Nicole Antebi is a Los Angelesbased artist and editor. Recent exhibits including California Scenariosat the Orange County Museum of Art, Urban Screens 08 Melbourne, Australia, The Salton Sea Projectsat Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles and other collaborations including the book Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices (co-edited with Colin Dickey and Robby Herbst) published by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press and is currently co-editing a forthcoming book with Enid Baxter Blader entitled, Water, CA.

Lara Bank
Lara Bank is an artist, professor, and gallery director working within the Los Angeles area. She produces primarily neo-conceptualist artwork in a variety of mediums. She situates her work into the category of place artwork (self-termed). Place artwork is art that creates and defines a spatial location to be occupied by the artwork, statements, and thoughts of others. Other projects operate as installation (painting, interactive, sculptural) and video art. Bank received an MFA in Studio Art from Cal Arts in 1998 and an MFA in Painting from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1996. She is the current director and founder of Sea and Space Explorations, a place artwork that operates as a gallery. She teaches Drawing, Three-Dimensional Design (sculpture), Two -Dimensional Design, and a portfolio development class at Otis College of Art & Design, Pierce College, and Moorpark College. Her work has been shown and collected within the following venues: Weingard Gallery at Occidental College, LA; Another Year In LA, LA; Monte Vista Projects, LA; Aurora Picture Show, TX; Hangar 1018, LA; Machine Gallery, LA; Foundation For Art Resources, LA;Crazy Space Gallery, Santa Monica; White Box Gallery, Marina Del Rey; ISEA2004 Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, Helsinki, Stockholm, and Tallinn; Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago; LA Municipal Art Gallery, LA; Barnsdall Art Park, LA; Fancyland, CA;Andrewshire Gallery, LA, Rhizome.org; Centro Nacional de Artes (National Center for the Arts) San Salvador, El Salvador; LA Freewaves, LA; Side Street Projects, LA; Huntington Beach Art Center, CA; Viridian Artist Inc., NYC; Bromfield Gallery Boston, MA.

Jordan Bartee
Jordan Bartee is a composer and sound artist living in the L.A. area. His work deals with issues surrounding memory, time, identity and technology. Recent works have involved hardware modification and hacking, musical artificial intelligence systems and robotic research, analogue and digital feedback systems, and video performances. Jordan holds a BFA in Music Technology and Related Arts from Oberlin College and is currently pursuing an MFA in Experimental Sound Practices at Cal Arts.

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.

Howie Pyro
Howie Pyro (born Howard Kusten) D.O.B 6-15-60 is a Queens, New York City based rock musician. At the age of 16, Kusten adopted the name Howie Pyro. Howie Pyro is also infamous for being an eyewitness to the death of his friend Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols. Howie had a brief stint working at the original Manic Panic on Saint Marks place and was their first employee. He formed the notorious NYC punk band The Blessed in the late 70s. Howie formed D Generation with Jesse Malin in 1991. Howie went on to join Danzig in the spring of 2000.