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SFEMF 2007
SFEMF 2007
Artists:
David Behrman (with William Winant)
MaryClare Brzytwa
Leticia Castaneda
Fred Frith (with Patrice Scanlon)
Tim Hecker
Zoë Keating
Kadet Kuhne with Mem1
Lesser
Annea Lockwood (with William Winant)
Murcof
Nommo Ogo
.pig
Les Stuck
univac
Members of the press:
You can find print-quality images to download here: PressMaterials2007
David Behrman has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as compositions for performance in concerts. Most of his pieces feature flexible structures and the use of technology in personal ways; the compositions usually rely on interactive real-time relationships with imaginative performers.
Unforeseen Events, My Dear Siegfried, Leapday Night, QSRL, On the Other Ocean, Interspecies Smalltalk, Homemade Synthesizer Music with Sliding Pitches, Figure in a Clearing, Protests 1917—2004, Acoustica and Useful Information are among Behrman's works for soloists and small ensembles.
Recordings of his works are available on the XI, Lovely Music, Alga Marghen and Classic Masters labels.
MaryClare Brzytwa is a flutist, composer, aspiring rock star and ex catholic-school girl. Her music takes listeners through noise, salsa, improvisation, microtonality, rock guitar licks, and laptop manipulations. She is the queen of B-bands: Bolivar Zoar, Byznich, and Bebe Donkey, which span out kitchfolk, electronic minimalism, and pseudo Christianic loungcore. She is 1/3 of the legendary all female free improvisation outfit: Slow, Children and has toured internationally in clubs, music festivals, flute gatherings, academic institutions, and most recently completed a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. In 2006, MaryClare earned her BA in Composition / Electronic Media from Mills College.
Leticia is an audio engineer and sound artist living in Los Angeles, California. Recent compositional exhibitions have continued examining the ability to abandon personal inhibitions while simultaneously reacting to acoustical interference. The quality or the protean nature of the amplification system's effects have a direct affect upon the spontaneity of her composition. Notable performances have included; Wooden Octopus Festival, Seattle WA, An Audible Instigation Toward the Discovery of Instant Confession Ausland, Berlin, Beyond Music Festival Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA, Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology CEAIT Festival Cal Arts, Valencia, CA, Sound Shift, Big Sur, CA, American Composer's Forum Salon 15, Los Angeles, CA, Line Space Line Festival of Improvised and Experimental Music, Los Angeles, CA and SOLIDS present MOMENTUM-A Sculptural Arts Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA. Leticia's participation in these events include means by solo improvisation, solo composition exhibition, playback and discussion, audio environments to accompany sculpture, collaborative improvisation, direction of an audio drama with actors and site-specific installation. Collaborative partners in public or private settings have included, Lionel Marchetti, Jerome Noetinger, Jessica Catron, Mitchell Brown, Bob Bellerue, Aaron Ximm, Rick Potts, Joseph Hammer, Smegma, Bryan Eubanks, Reynols and Albert Ortega are some favorites. Association has been noted with the Los Angeles Free Music Society and Fluxus.
Fred Frith (with Patrice Scanlon)
Fred Frith is a songwriter, composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist best-known for the pioneering reinvention of the electric guitar that began with the seminal Guitar Solos in 1974. He learned his craft as both improviser and composer playing in rock bands and creating music in the recording studio. From that point of view, nothing much has changed. Fred also likes to work with filmmakers and choreographers. He teaches improvisation and composition at Mills College.
Tim Hecker is a Canadian-based musician and sound artist, born in Vancouver. Since 1996, he has produced a range of audio works for Mille Plateaux, Kranky, Alien8, Force Inc, Staalplaat, and Fat Cat. His works have been described as “structured ambient”, “tectonic color plates” and “cathedral electronic music”. More to the point, he has focused on exploring the intersection of noise, dissonance and melody, fostering an approach to songcraft which is both physical and emotive. The New York Times has described his work as “foreboding, abstract pieces in which static and sub-bass rumbles open up around slow moving notes and chords, like fissures in the earth waiting to swallow them whole”. His Radio Amor was recognized as a key recording of 2003 by Wire magazine. His work has also included commissions for contemporary dance, sound-art installations, and various writings. He is also an acclaimed producer of techno, having toured and produced under the name Jetone. Tim has presented his work in a live setting around the world, including performances at Sonar (Barcelona), Mutek (Montreal), Impakt Festival (Utrecht), Victoriaville in (Quebec), IDEAL (Nantes), Vancouver New Music Festival (Vancouver), and Transmediale (Berlin). He currently resides in Montreal
Born in Canada, Zoë began her musical education in England and went on to study at Sarah Lawrence College and the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. In 2002, following a blossoming career as an information architect, Zoë joined the cello-rock ensemble Rasputina, founded by the cellist of Nirvana. With Rasputina she recorded two albums and toured North America countless times. She left the group in 2006 and has since supported Grammy-nominated artist Imogen Heap on four international tours, recorded with Amanda Palmer and Ben Folds, played twice on NPR, and had her album reach #2 on the iTunes classical charts. Zoë's music has been heard recently in numerous films, dance productions and commercials, including an all-cello score written in March 2007 for Adam Mason's horror movie "The Devil's Chair".
Kadet Kuhne
Kadet Kuhne is a media artist whose work includes video, installation and music composition. Kadet's visual works often involve a combination of live processing, interactivity and customized software; themes explored are nonverbal communication and the nervous system. Kadet's music composition includes FM synthesis and an extensive library of field recordings which she manipulates into ambient and percussive textures. Her works have been exhibited and performed at the following select venues: LACMA, Museum of Art Lucerne, Sundance Film Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, Musees de Strasbourg, MOCA-LA, San Francisco Arts Commission, REDCAT, The LAB, Highways Performance Gallery, CEAIT Festival, The Weisman Art Museum, Not Still Art Festival and The Knitting Factory. (tektonicshift.com)
Being of sturdy German stock, J Lesser is a veteran of the Bay Area electronic music fight club. He has oft been mistaken as a techno producer, a metal guitarist, an olde-timey photographer and a drive-thru tree; with unfortunate results. His 2001 album, Gearhound, won an honorable mention for Digital Musics in the Prix Ars Electronica and subsequently went out of print. Having recently suffered two broken heels, Lesser will perform with the support of a cane. Oh yes, almost forgot Bjork, Matmos, Kid606, (husband of) bLevin bLectum, Sagan, DISC. Whew!
Annea Lockwood is known for her explorations of natural acoustic sounds and environments. Her work has been presented at the Whitney Museum, the Other Minds Festival, the Stadthaus, Ulm and other venues and festivals internationally. Recent projects include an installation, 'A Sound Map of the Danube'; 'Luminescence', for Thomas Buckner and the SEM Ensemble; and 'Jitterbug', commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
"Murcof's (Fernando Corona) music is sparse, minimalist, sample-based electronica. Although founded on complex, at times, abstract, glitchy electronics, Corona's recordings are more melodic and traditionally structured than many contemporary electronic musicians. Some tracks feature orchestral samples from recordings of works by modern composers such as Arvo Pärt or Giacinto Scelsi. He has a unique way of using silence, it fills his music with intense emotion. There is an obvious influence from film music on his work that can be heard in his use of samples and his dramatic production. This is also evident in the soundtracks he has performed for films."
Emerging from the Anchorage, Alaska psychedelic noise underground in1996, Nommo Ogo has continued as an acousmatic recording entity and a cult live act. Current operations are based out of Oakland, California.Recorded output since 1999 has been released through Isolate Records andKatabatik MetaCommunications Platform. Over the last decade, livemanifestations have occurred throughout Northern America and Europe,including an ongoing tradition of sonic rites performed in remote outdoo settings. The band finds inspiration in the depths of the unknown; from the ocean floor, outward to the stars and beyond.
.PIG is a Mexico City based duo formed by Andrés Solís and Rogelio Sosa which focuses on live sound experimentation. Its work relies on blending electronic and digital media with acoustic instruments or concrete sound sources. The project investigates the intrusive potential of sound by inducing the listener into a cathartic experience through complex sound material, performed in live situations. Improvisation and real time audio processing are the main creative axis of the project.
Leslie Stuck composed music for William Forsythe’s Impressing the Czar (Frankfurt Ballet) and behind the china dogs (New York City Ballet). He also composed works for David Parsons, Jiri Kylian (Tokyo Ballet), Alonzo King and Alex Ketley. In 1990 he was Pierre Boulez’s musical assistant for the premiere of ...explosante-fixe.... In 1998 Stuck created sound art for conFIGURING the CAVE, with Jeffrey Shaw, for the permanent collection of Tokyo’s ICC. His music is available on the Cycling ’74 CD Pas. With Japanese choreographer Hiroshi Koike (Pappa Tarahumara), in 2002 he created The Sound of Future SYNC for the Tokyo National Opera.
Univac is constantly searching out the detritus of trickle-down
technological toys, digging inside for the elusive never-before-heard
sounds that cause the designers of the original items to shudder. When
univac isn't turning electronic toys inside out, he is a frequent
collaborator with Big City Orchestra, the sound guy for Negativland, a
Macintosh tech and father of 2 boys under 4. He has been bending
circuits since 1995, and taking things apart since 1968. Univac's past
creative work includes professional photographer, sound designer,
musician, graphic designer, filmmaker, writer, performance artist,
sculptor, pizza delivery guy, event producer, technical director and
meat cutter. Univac is known by many other names including Prof.
Werner V. Slack, God's Grandparents, Hoyt Shrimpfinker, bumpermeat,
TechDweeb, AirSickBags and Tom Koch.
Patrice Scanlon
Patrice Scanlon is an electronic musician, dancer, and clarinetist. She received her Bachelor of Music from Stetson University, Florida where she focused on clarinet performance, composition, and digital arts. She later earned an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College where she concentrated on experiments with dancers, choreographers, and other musicians. Scanlon‚s musical improvisation aims to generate a fluid and poetic interplay between motion and sound.
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.
