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SFEMF 2006
SFEMF 2006
Artists:
Alog (Norway)
Elise Baldwin (California)
Joe Colley (California)
Matt Davignon (California)
Barbara Golden (California)
Brenda Hutchinson (New York/California)
Dafna Naphtali (New York)
Manuel Rocha (Mexico)
Maxime De La Rochefoucauld (Canada)
Steve Roden (California)
Semiconductor (UK)
SHUDDER (Lance Grabmiller, Kyle Bruckman, and Philip Greenlief) (California)
James Tenney (California) with William Winant
Elise Baldwin
Raised on a farm in Idaho, Elise Baldwin now resides in San Francisco, where she recently completed her MFA in Electronic Music at Mills College. When not indulging her interest in pyrokenesis or reading compulsively in the bath, E can be found cooking up aurally hazardous byproducts in her studio or building software instruments for video manipulation. She focuses on solo and collaborative intermedia performance, appearing recently at ARTSfest 2004, E.S.P. Media Lounge, CalArts CEAIT Festival 2003 and the National Queer Arts Festival. She is a 2006 Harvestworks Artist in Residence and recipient of the 2004 Frogs Peak Award for Experimental Music.
Manuel Rocha
Born in 1963 in Mexico City, Manuel Rocha Iturbide studied composition at the Escuela Nacional de Música at UNAM. He finished an MFA in electronic music and composition at Mills College. In Paris, he finished a PHD in computer music at the University of Paris VIII in 1999. He has received prizes and honorable mentions from different international contests like Bourges, Russolo and the Schaeffer Prize. His music has been performed all around the world. He is also a sound artist and his work has been shown at important galleries and museums as ”Artist Space NY 1997”, “Sydney Biennale 1998”, “ARCO 1999”. He currently lives in Mexico City working as a composer and sound artist.
Brenda Hutchinson
Brenda Hutchinson performs on a “Long Tube Instrument” (literally, a long tube) combined with a gestural interface and a computer. Brenda is a composer and sound artist whose work has been presented at international festivals in New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and Canada. Venues in the United States include performances at Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall and The Kitchen in New York, and "Soundprint" on NPR. Since 2002, Brenda has been on the faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She has been an artist in residence at San Quentin Prison, Headlands Center for the Arts, Harvestworks, the Exploratorium and the Djerassi Foundation.
Barbara Golden
Barbara Golden, an older gal (but still extremely cute) is a multimedia artist living in the Bay Area and Sutton Quebec. Born in Montreal, the escaped housewife/schoolteacher studied at Mills with Terry Riley, Bob Ashley and Maggi Payne. For the last two decades she's been occupied with politically incorrect raunch (WIGband), Balinese music (Gamelan Sekar Jaya), and radio production/hosting (KPFA). DVDs and videos with Helen Prince, Johanna Poethig and Bill Thibault have been shown in US, Canada, and Europe. Her cookbook/cd/poetry published by Burning Books is in its second edition.
Steve Roden
Steve Roden is a Los Angeles based artist whose work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, and sound. in the sound works, source materials such as objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings are abstracted and activated through humble electronics. The performances are generally quiet and reflective, directing the activity of listening towards the creation of a kind of audio architectural space, or "possible landscape". Since 1994 Roden has performed in arts spaces and in festivals worldwide. In September he will create a sound work for James Turrell's skyspace at the Henry museum in Seattle.
James Tenney
James Tenney was born in 1934 in Silver City, New Mexico, and grew up in Arizona and Colorado, where he received his early training as a pianist and composer. He attended the University of Denver, the Juilliard School of Music, Bennington College (B.A. 1958) and the University of Illinois (M.A. 1961). A performer as well as a composer and theorist, he was co-founder and conductor of the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble in New York City (1963-70). He has long been active in the field of electronic and computer music, working with Max Mathews and others at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in the early 1960s to develop programs for computer sound-generation and composition. He is currently Professor of Music at York University in Toronto, where he was named Distinguished Research Professor.
William Winant
William Winant "one of the best avant-garde percussionists working today" according to music critic Mark Swed (Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal), has performed with some of the most innovative and creative musicians of our time, including John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Keith Jarrett, Anthony Braxton, James Tenney, Cecil Taylor, George Lewis, Steve Reich and Musicians, Jean-Philippe Collard, Frederic Rzewski, Ursula Oppens, Joan LaBarbara, Oingo Boingo, and the Kronos String Quartet. For eight years Mr. Winant was Artist-in-Residence at Mills College with the critically acclaimed Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio, and he is principal percussionist with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and the John Zorn Chamber Ensemble.
Matt Davignon
Matt Davignon is an experimental musician living in Oakland, California. Since 1993, the self-taught musician has sought to make instrumental music as personal and unique as possible - focusing largely on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections. For the past few years he has been working primarily with a drum machine. Instead of using it as a rhythm device, he plays the pads manually while processing the sounds through an array of effects devices and samplers, improvising music made of biotic tapestries, hums, gurgles and crackles. www.ribosomemusic.com
Joe Colley
Joe Colley (b.1972 Ft. Lauderdale) is a self taught artist concerned primarily with the phenomena of sound and its unique ability to activate a consciousness set apart from rational understanding in a way very different from visual or verbal means. This consuming interest has led to extensive experimentation with results occasionally made public through performances, installations, and commercially available recordings. Growing up in California's central valley, Colley has traveled widely making field recordings and researching various cultures with a focus on ritual music and the art of the insane. His performances have been seen as part of numerous international festivals. His recording “Psychic Stress Soundtracks” (Antifrost CD) received an award of distinction at Ars Electronica 2006.
Alog
Alog is the brainchild of Espen Sommer Eide and Dag-Are Haugan. One dark and snow-stormy day in the winter of 1997, the band was born in a basement of a Kindergarten in Tromsoe - a city located in the far north of Norway. This day a string of happy coincidences led them to meet up for a session of tablas and guitar, of which they had no idea would evolve into a creative burst of ideas, involving all kinds of found instruments and collected sounds. The set of 4-track recordings of these winter constellations eventually made it onto Alog's debut release on Rune Grammofon, entitled Red ShiftSwing. In 2001 they followed up with the critically acclaimed Duck-Rabbit CD. The record showcases Alog’s unique combination of genres, often described as "listener friendly" electronica meets avant-garde jazz and contemporary composition.
Semiconductor
Semiconductor are UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt. They make films out of sound using abstract landscapes and architecture as a means to describe aural and visual interpretations of the world. Finely crafted digital work is combined with analogue processes that tailor the randomness and errors within computer systems as co-conductor. Their music can be described as a contradiction where 'musique concrete' becomes simultaneously hypnotic and violent, minimal and maximal. Live digital performance is one strand of Semiconductor’s output; they also produce surround sound installations and single screen sound films which are exhibited at galleries, festivals and biennials worldwide.
shudder
Formed in 2004 for the purpose of playing for a Matt Gonzales for Mayor fundraising event, shudder works with compositions and improvisation to explore and develop a language for acoustic instruments that can exist easily in the realm of electronic music. shudder features Kyle Bruckmann and Phillip Greenlief on wind instruments; Lance Grabmiller performs on laptop/Audiomulch. Electro-acoustic innovation, deep listening-informed group communication and an ear for dynamics and austere details, shudder provides one of more rewarding listening experiences available to San Francisco Bay Area audiences.
Maxime De La Rochefoucauld
Maxime De La Rochefoucauld is a Montreal-based musician who builds orchestras out of automatons. Usually, these are collections of up to 20 percussion and string instruments, placed nearspeaker cones modified into striking mechanisms. By sending inaudibile audio signals to the speakers, he can create surprisingly intricate compositions. He has presented this work in Canada, USA, South Africa and Japan.
Dafna Naphtali
Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist/improviser-composer from an eclectic background of music-making. A singer/guitarist/electronic-musician she performs and composes using her custom Max/MSP/Jitter programs for sound processing of voice and other instruments that she has been writing since 1992. Besides her composing and improvised projects, she co-leads the digital chamber punk ensemble, What is it Like to be a Bat? with Kitty Brazelton, and has collaborated/performed with Lukas Ligeti, David First, Joshua Fried, Ras Moshe, Kathleen Supová and Hans Tammen. She teaches and has given workshops at universities in the US (especially New York University) and in Europe.
