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Flora by Fauna
Feb. 7th at 8PM
Friendly things to do with plants. Works written for or by plants including Proposition by
Alison Knowles, Branches and Child of Tree by John Cage, Sticks
by Christian Wolff, Village Array by Albert Ortega, and WOOD PIECE by
Yoko Ono
Performers Include:
Lara Bank
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.
http://music.calarts.edu/~cchaplin
Aaron Drake
Aaron Drake is a composer based in Los Angeles, California and a recent graduate of the California Institute of
the Arts (CalArts). At CalArts, with the aid of Mark Trayle, Michael Pisaro, and David Rosenboom (et al), Drake
experimented with sociological principles and their application in his compositional/artistic strategies. His
works for radio as well as those for performers have been featured at many festivals and institutions such as
ProvFlux, the International Computer Music Conference, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, SoundWalk, ZKM, Orange County
Museum of Art, and the Andrew Kreps Gallery (NYC). Currently, Drake is working with a group of artists on Norman
Klein's interactive novella and installation "The Imaginary 20th Century" which is touring internationally.
www.aarondrake.org
Albert Ortega
presents Village Array
Albert Ortega is a sound artist hailing from Los Angeles. His
"performed installations" often explore interface dynamics
(input-center-output) between chosen sonic elements that resonate and
dissolve over time eventually signaling a closure when an entropy state
is achieved or possible failure occurs.
His practice initially began within his immediate surroundings then later
shared among friends, eventually spreading sporadically if not culturally
around areas of potential growth.
Michael Pisaro
Michael Pisaro was born in Buffalo in 1961. He 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) and Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990, 1991). He has had extended
composer residencies in Germany (Kuenstlerhof 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, Berlin, Chicago, Duesseldorf, Zuerich, 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, most recently "transparent city,
volumes 1 - 4" and "harmony series (11 - 16)". 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. He has
performed many of his own works and those of close associates Antoine Beuger, Kunsu Shim, Juerg Frey and Manfred Werder, and
works from the experimental tradition, especially John Cage, Christian Wolff, James Tenney and George Brecht.
Mark So
and others..
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