soundShoppe at the LACMA Artwalk / LAUNCH
Join SASSAS for a special soundShoppe on Saturday, June 12th at the LACMA Muse Artwalk 2010 as 6 groups of artists construct an evolving circuit of aural observations in response to the installation Accumulations by Meeson Pae Yang at LAUNCH.
Presented in collaboration with LAUNCH at the site of the former home of the Architecture and Design Museum across from LACMA, this 4 hour performance marks SASSAS's 2nd year of participation in the Artwalk. Los Angeles based sound artists and soundShoppe regulars Anna Homler, qqq (Shea Gauer, Scott Peter, Glenn Bach), Wild Don Lewis and William Harrington join SASSAS Board Members Joe Potts, Jorge Martin and Gregory Lenczycki and former Board Members Ron Russell and Gabie Strong in erecting a sonic meta-structure that intersects and interacts with Pae Yang's installation in this free event.
SASSAS soundShoppe at the LACMA Artwalk 2010: The Los Angeles Art and Music Festival
Date:
June 12th, 2010
Time:
5 - 9 PM
Admission:
FREE
Location:
LAUNCH
5900 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Electronic composer, keyboard and saxophonist, William C. Harrington was born in Yonkers, New York. At Cal State U Dominguez Hills, he studied composition, performance, and electronic music with Richard B. Evans, author of the classic book on John Cage, "The Well Prepared Piano". He was also influenced by seminars with several composers including Nicholas Slominsky.
After leaving college he worked in the wholesale record industry for two years before going on tour. He worked as a keyboard technician for several bands, including Gentle Giant, before beginning a three year working relationship with Frank Zappa. (This included three America tours, two European tours, spending several months in the studio working on the album "Baby Snakes" and making a brief, credited appearance in Zappa's movie, "Baby Snakes"). He was with Zappa in Paris when Pierre Boulez first visited.
Upon returning to LA, he attended the UCLA Extention Music Business course where he was awarded two NARAS scholarships. He studied record production with Nick Venet (producer of The Beach Boys, Creedence Clearwater and many others).
His first two CDs, Urban Electronic Music, and UEM Live received good reviews and airplay on NPR, college and indie radio stations. In 2006 The American Composers Forum awarded him a SUBITO grant to help defer the cost of his third studio CD, Nuclear Menace which was reviewed favorably in the fall/2007 issue of Signal to Noise Magazine. His current release, Science Can't Explain It, was released this year. He has recently performed at the REDCAT in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, ResBox at The Steve Allen Theater and the SASSAS presentation based on the Scratch Orchestra Draft Constitution.
Encompassing music, spoken word, and installation, intermedia artist Anna Homler's alternative languages extend the possibilities of meaning and communication. With a sensibility that is both ancient and post-modern, Homler makes words musical and music like words. Since 1982, she has collaborated in America with composers/musicians Steve Moshier, Davis Moss, Ethan James and Jorge Martin, and in Europe with the Voices of Kwahn, Steve Beresford, Peter Kowald, Richard Sanderson, Geert Waegeman, and Sylvia Hallett.
Homler has performed at well-known venues throughout the United States and Europe, including appearances at P.S. 122, the Kitchen, Dixon Place, and the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (L.A.C.E.); Supraclub in Prague; Klarinsky in Bratislava, Slovakia; Ketty Do in Bologna, Italy; the Stadgarten and the Loft in Koln, Germany; and the Melkweg and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. She has participated in such international festivals as Sonic Disturbance at the Cleveland Public Theare; New Music America in Montreal; the Tegentonen Festival at the Paradiso in Amsterdam; Milanopoesia in Milan; Primavera Jazz Festival in Sardinia;The International Treffen Innovatier Musikerinnen in Aachen; Het Vertel Festival in Ghent, Belgium; Voices Festival in Innsbruck, Austria; Spoken Word Festival in Brussels, Belgium; Dissidenten Festival in Rotterdam Holland; The Moers Festival in Moers, Germany; The Festival International des Musiques Actuelle in Nancy France; Musique Actuelle in Victoriaville, Quebec; Musik Triennale Koeln, Koeln, Germany; and the LMC Festival, the Purcell Room, South Bank, London.
Highlighting Homler's work is the performance/installation project PHARMACIA POETICA, which examines the symbolic and tonal qualities of words and objects. Having traveled nationwide as part of the exhibition 40 Years of California Assemblage, the installation has also been shown at Gracie Mansion in New York; the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe and Nonsequitur Music Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Gallery 400 in Chicago Illinois; the Melkfabriek in Den Bosch, Holland; and at Gallery Oko in Amsterdam. From 1994 to 1995 the PHARMACIA POETICA was part of the traveling exhibition Outsie the Frame: Performance and the Object, a survey of performance art in the U.S. from 1950 to the present. It was also exhibited at Karbon in Zurich, Switzerland; as part of the Santa Monica Festival, Santa Monica, California; and most recently at Gerlesborgsskolan, Gerlesborg Sweden.
Homler's music first became known in the 1980's with her Breadwoman cassette (High Performance Audio), a collaboration with Steve Moshier. Her debut CD, Do Ya Sa di Do (amf), was released in 1992. In 1994 she was featured on sugarconnection: alien cake (No Man's Land) and in 1995 on Macaronic Sines (Lowlands), a collaboration with Geert Waegeman and Pavel Fajt. In the mid-1990's, she released two CD's with the Voices of Kwahn in the U.K.: Silver Bowl Transmission (North/South) and peninsular enclosure (Swarf Finger). In 1997 a recording of her live performance with Waegeman and Fajt was released as Corne de Vache (Victo). House of Hands (ND) was released in 2000. Her most recent cds are Kelpland Serenades (pfMentum) with Steuart Liebig and Piewacket (PNT), with Stephanie Payne.
Gregory Lenczycki (b. Greenwich, CT 1965)
Lenczycki received his MFA from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College where he studied composition with Alvin Curran and Maryanne Amacher. He has presented in North America and Europe, most recently in the Los Angeles area at EarMeal, ResBox, Highways Performance Space, Las Cienegas Projects, Eighth Veil, SASSAS's 10th anniversary Mapping Sound festival, 11th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and has accompanied Fluxus artist Jeff Perkins’ light show in Echo Park and at the Eighth Veil as Still Life with Bomb, a collaboration with drummer Ted Byrnes and accordionist Ari DeSano. In 2006 he staged the "The Grotto Concert" at High Desert Test Sites No. 5 in Joshua Tree, CA for a small chamber ensemble and over the years has worked with Curran, Amacher, Naut Humon, and Eliane Radigue among others. Selected film scores include David Anthony Tattu’s Lost Without You (2009), Michael Unger’s Gravity (2005), Michael Gibson’s Numb (2000), and a soundtrack for Andrea Zittel's exhibition Small Liberties (2006) at the Whitney Museum (NYC). His work with Zittel and Giovanni Jance includes projects at the Trapholt Museum, Denmark (2001) and Little Lamb, Los Angeles (2007). With his group Citizen Band, he was selected as part of New Langton Art's Bay Area Awards Show acknowledging new and emerging artists (1996). His work has received support through Meet the Composer and the NEA and he was the recipient of the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Composition Prize (1993). Described as “…hypnotically oscillating between conscious and subconscious sound worlds….”,“always poetic” and “twittering with excitable circuitry,” Lenczycki’s music is available on Asphodel Records. Lenczycki is currently a member of the board of directors for SASSAS, the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound – a Los Angeles-based non-profit in its eleventh year of presenting new music.
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Don Lewis has been creating music for the past 38 years. His long journey has led to the realization that all music emanated from one tone, sort of like a sonic "big bang". He explores the territory opened up by this realization, using all means available. For the LACMA performance with Joe Potts, he will play electric guitar.
His solo project uses bowed bass guitar, analog synthesizer and voice to bring out the resonant frequencies from a low fundamenal tone. This gradually creates a panorama of swirling overtones that enables the mind to be more directly in touch with universal structure and a sense of order beyond what one sees in daily life.
He is on a mission to raise this awareness, and help humanity turn to a more healing path.
Jorge Martin (pictured on left with Anna Homler) is one-half of the duo Spastic Colon. His sounds originate from sine-waves, pulses, feedback, and from people with whom he collaborates. To make his parents proud, he works as a scientist at the University of CA, Irvine.
Joe Potts (pictured on left with Rick Potts) is a founding member of The Los Angeles Free Music Society, a seminal experimental music collective which is responsible for over two dozen releases over the past 30 years. He is also the “man behind the curtain” in Airway. An Art/Sound collective that combines walls of sound with subliminal treatments, and treats live musicians as electronic signals which are processed and manipulated. For the past 10 years he has been composing for the “Chopped Optigan” a Seventies optical sampling consol organ that has been customized and rewired in order to create dense undulating chords of up to 64 notes at a time.
Potts has created Art/Sound installations in the U.S., Italy, Japan and Norway. Recordings of his music can be found on LAFMS, Birdman, Cause and Effect, CTI, Staalplaat, organ of Corti, Boudisque, Harbinger Sound, Slowscan, Nettwerk. Staalplaat and other labels. Musical collaborations include those with Chris and Cosey, John Duncan, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Tom Recchion, Joseph Hammer, Yoshide Otomo, Don Preston, and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto.
With their new trio, qqq (pronounced "cues"), Glenn Bach, shea M gauer, and scott A peterson explore the quieter realms of live improvisation. The three perform together in Double Blind and Intense Situations of Peril, while gauer and peterson perform under the moniker smgsap and as adopted members of Soon.
Glenn Bach (guitar, laptop)
shea M gauer (laptop, electronics)
scott A peterson (electronics)
Ron Russell is a musician living and working in Los Angeles.
Born 1971, Denver, Colorado
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Informed by feminist theory, 20th century folklore, psychedelic and hardcore music, Gabie Strong applies research in the built environment to her art practice to form a dark, conceptual tableau of Californiana. Through photography, film, drawing, installation and sound, she reveals a poetic yet damaged impression of the Southland as dissonant state of nature, technology, power and resistance. Strong received her MFA in Studio Art from UC Irvine (2008), holds a Master of Architecture degree from SCIArc (Southern California Institute of Architecture, 2006), and a BA in Art from UCLA (1993).
Strongʼs work has been exhibited at Pitzer Art Galleries, LAXArt, Gallery Five Thirty Three, and the Torrance Art Museum, among others. She has performed and recorded sound works with Ur, Joe Potts (LAFMS), The Boredoms (Boadrum 080808), Tom Watson and the Best of All, as PSR 01, and was a cast member in Nirvana’s 1991 “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video. She has performed at venues including Human Resources, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Las Cienegas Projects, The Mak Center for Art and Architecture, and The Art Swap Meet at High Desert Test Sites. Strong lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Art History department at Woodbury University, Burbank, and is a member of the Cultural Studies faculty at SCI-Arc.
Image:
Meeson Pae Yang
"Geodes" (detail)
2010, silicone, cement, mirrored plexiglas
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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