This looks like it is going to be an incredible two nights of electronic music in downtown @ the Redcat. Carla Bozulich, Steve Roden, John Wiese, and Better Than Future (with fantastic Scott Cazan, Casey Anderson, & Beth McMullin), plus more! Surely not to be missed!
CEAIT Festival 2010
March 4 & 5 at 8:30pm
REDCAT
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA
CEAIT Festival
Featuring John Wiese, Maria Chavez, Marcus Schmickler, Better Than Future, Steve Roden, and Bloody Claws (Carla Bozulich)
World and U.S. premieres
“[Steve Roden’s work] is aural performance art... Simplicity and beauty, sparse and Zen…” Igloo
"Bozulich is following a muse that runs her ragged." Stylus
The genre-bending festival from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology returns with two concerts that each run from abstract reveries to flat-out sonic raucousness. John Wiese, founding member of the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek, opens the fest to crackling effect, followed by Peruvian-born avant-garde turntablist Maria Chavez, who uses new and broken needles (“pencils of sound”) and distressed vinyl to spin brooding webs of electroacoustic sound. The night concludes with composer Marcus Schmickler, of Pluramon pop fame, and two newly revised works of surround-sound computer music derived from astrophysical data. The second program kicks off with electronics and laptop interpenetrations by Better Than Future, comprising Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan and Elisabeth McMullin. Next up is a multimedia performance by Steve Roden that ruminates on desert landscapes outside Marfa, Tex., and the minimalist forms of Donald Judd through juxtapositions of field recordings, live improvisation, graphic notation, acoustic objects, electronics and video. The festival’s smashing finale arrives courtesy of Bloody Claws, aka Carla Bozulich, a sound artist who works in numerous impromptu formats and who has toured and recorded extensively with the Geraldine Fibbers, Scarnella and Evangelista. She appears alongside a very special guest.
John Wiese | Maria Chavez | Marcus Schmickler
Thurs Mar 4 | 8:30 pm
Better Than Future | Steve Roden | Bloody Claws (Carla Bozulich)
Fri Mar 5 | 8:30 pm
This should be a great concert. Billy Childs is one of the greatest pianists in LA, who always writes exciting music, and this looks like an interesting work that he is showing off. It also includes a stellar line-up of high-caliber, musicians. Highly recommended!
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