AD HOC
Since its founding over ten years ago SASSAS (The Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound) has presented the best experimental music to Los Angeles audiences through the sound. series of concerts. While sound. requires months of advance planning, all to often SASSAS is approached by national and international touring musicians looking for venues to perform in Los Angeles with little advance notice. Ad Hoc was founded out of the belief that it benefits the greater Los Angeles community and the reputation of LA in the international sound community if these musicians are able to add Los Angeles to their tour schedule.
Originally developed in collaboration with the Chinatown-based collective Human Resources, Ad Hoc is designed to accommodate short term requests by national and international touring musicians wanting to perform in Los Angeles. SASSAS and Human Resources collaborate to find lodging for the musicians and transportation as needed. All Ad Hoc concerts are volunteer run and low cost with tickets sold on a first come, first serve basis the night of the show. The majority of door proceeds go directly to the touring musicians.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
AD HOC #5: DAN CLUCAS, TIM PERKIS, CHRISTIAN PINCOCK
Presented by SASSAS and Atwater Crossing
Valve trombonist Christian Pincock of Albuquerque, New Mexico interfaces his
instrument to a laptop and transforms all sonic expectations while the
pairing of live computer music legend Tim Perkis, teaching at CalArts
for the semester, and LA local and trumpet innovator Dan Clucas
explores the inner workings of totally free improvisation.
Come early and
dine at the Atwater Crossing Kitchen
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Doors open at 8:30; concert begins at 9:00.
Atwater Crossing
3245 Casitas Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90039
Purchase tickets
Ticket price: $7 advance; $5 for SASSAS members.
$10 at the door.
Christian Pincock
Christian Pincock performs improvised and composed music on valve
trombone and a computer-based instrument of his own creation with
MAX/MSP. Using a keyboard controller and a system of sensors attached
to his trombone he is able to control sampled sounds and integrate
them expressively and musically. His work is both dynamic and subtle,
drawing from diverse styles such as improvised experimental music,
contemporary classical, avant-garde jazz, noise, and electronica.
He has performed internationally in events such as the 9th, 10th and 11th Soundpainting Think-tank in Woodstock, Sweden, and France, the Music Omi International Arts Residency in 2007, the Banff Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music in Banff, Canada in 2006, as well as venues such as The Stone (NYC), Roulette (NYC), Le Petit Faucheux (Tours, FR).
Dan Clucas
Dan Clucas is a trumpet player and composer living and working in Los
Angeles. Born in Anaheim, California in 1966, he began playing trumpet
at age ten, soon thereafter discovering the music of Dizzy Gillespie,
which in turn led to a lifelong study of and respect for the African
American music known as jazz. While he strives for individual
statement in his music, Clucas also strives to acknowledge the imprint
of past masters, from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Ornette
Coleman and Sun Ra. He has studied with Bobby Bradford and Wadada Leo
Smith, and has performed and recorded over the last two decades with
such L.A. luminaries as Nels Cline, Alex Cline, Steuart Liebig, Vinny
Golia, Joe Baiza, Rich West, and Michael Vlatkovich, to name a few.
Tim Perkis
Tim Perkis has been working in the medium of live electronic and
computer sound for many years, performing, exhibiting installation
works and recording in North America,Europe and Japan. His work has
largely been concerned with exploring the emergence of life-like
properties in complex systems of interaction.
In addition, he is a well known performer in the world of improvised music, having performed on his electronic improvisation instruments with hundreds of artists and groups, including Chris Brown, John Butcher, Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Frith, Gianni Gebbia, Frank Gratkowski, Luc Houtkamp, Yoshi Ichiraku, Matt Ingalls, Joelle Leandre, Gino Robair, ROVA saxophone quartet, Elliott Sharp, Leo Wadada Smith and John Zorn. Ongoing groups he has founded or played in include the League of Automatic Music Composers and the Hub -- pioneering live computer network bands -- and Rotodoti, the Natto Quartet, Fuzzybunny, All Tomorrow's Zombies and Wobbly/Perkis/Antimatter.
PAST CONCERTS
AD HOC #4: FRED FRITH
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Presented in collaboration with the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock.
As a songwriter, composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist best known for the reinvention of the electric guitar, "Frith makes music that must count amongst the most powerful and original of the present time" Liberation (France)
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AD HOC #3: Tim Feeney, Vic Rawlings and Casey Anderson
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Presented in collaboration with
Human Resources
Tim Feeney and Vic Rawlings
Tim Feeney and Vic Rawlings have performed together as a duo since meeting within Boston's "lowercase" improvising community in 2005. Their music explores an unpredictable relationship with making sounds, achieved by elaborate preparation and extension of acoustic soundboxes, such as drums or cello, and expanded via original electronic instruments, ranging from naked circuitboards to amplified kitchen objects. They focus on the metamusical potential of unstable sounds and silences, exploring austere combinations of sound and the otherworldy ripple effects that pulse through a silent space or alert ears. The group has toured throughout the United States, and released its first CD, In Six Parts, on the Sedimental label in fall 2007. Upcoming releases include Ithaca Recordings, for The Watchful Ear, and Fairchild Chapel for Homophoni.
Casey Anderson
Casey Anderson is an artist working in a number of media, including composition, improvisation, electronic music, saxophone, text, and installations. He has performed with Jason Kahn, Ulrich Krieger, MKM, Fomoudou Don Moye, Michael Pisaro, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Trayle, and the Dog Star Orchestra. Performances, exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA -- Los Angeles (CA), ISSUE Project Room (NY), STEIM (NL), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), and Mass MOCA (MA). He currently lives and teaches in Los Angeles, California, and works with Machine Project.
AD HOC #2: DAVID WATSON & DAVID GRUBBS
With guests STEVE RODEN, JOE POTTS, WILLIAM ROPER and more.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Presented in collaboration with:
Beacon Arts
>>PHOTOS
DAVID WATSON
Described by the Los Angeles Times as completely unconventional, highly original and relentlessly inventive, David Watson's use of the Highland Bagpipes has been an ongoing project since the early '90s, with Watson remaking this traditional instrument into a vehicle for contemporary sound. Originally from New Zealand, Watson has been a key player in New York's downtown scene since 1987. Watson's unique body of work knits together experimental improvisation, 20th century guitar playing, and vernacular music. He has made the bagpipe an ideal instrument to explore particular spatial nuances of performance.
DAVID GRUBBS
Associate professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and director of the graduate programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA), Grubbs has released eleven solo albums and appeared on more than 150 commercially-released recordings. He is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with writers such as Susan Howe and Rick Moody, and with visual artists such as Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch, Cosima von Bonin, and Stephen Prina. Grubbs was a founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has been known to play in The Red Krayola. He directs the Blue Chopsticks record label. He is currently completing the book Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, The Sixties, and Sound Recording for Duke University Press.
AD HOC #1: KIM MYHR & JIM DENLEY
Friday, October 22nd, 2010 at 8:30pm
Jim Denley is considered one of Australia’s foremost improvisers of new music with a career spanning over three decades. An emphasis on spontaneity, site-specific work and collaboration has been central to his work. He was recently awarded a Fellowship by the Australia Council and is currently working towards a paradigm shift in the notion and perception of the saxophone; to establish its relevance to ancient and current traditions in Australian music, and to extend its range with the addition of innovative electronics and miking. Denley also runs the record label Splitrec. In Mural, Jim plays flute and saxophone. (website)
Kim Myhr is a guitarist and composer based in Oslo, Norway. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston and has since had an active performance schedule with concerts throughout Europe, Australia, Asia and North-America. In 2008, he received the JazZtipend at the Molde International Jazz Festival which included a commission for Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, a large ensemble consisting of thirteen handpicked improvisers from Norway and Australia; the one hour piece received wide critical acclaim. Myhr is also the co-director of the Fri Resonans festival, which has been presenting cutting-edge and innovative music in Trondheim, Norway since 2005. (website)
The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) is supported in part through grants from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, a special donation from Amoeba Music and the generous contributions of our members. For further information on SASSAS: www.sassas.org or contact us at 323.960.5723.
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