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American
Composers Forum/LA – Green Galactic – Current Recordings
present:
The e|i magazine West Coast Launch Party
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Featuring live
performances by
- Kit
Clayton
+ Sue Costabile [orthlorng musork]
- Audio/Visual Theater
performing “Interruption”
- Steve
Roden
[trente oiseaux/12k]
- Akira
Rabelais
[mille plateaux/fallt]
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j.frede
[current recordings/doctsect]
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(see full press release below)
Also daytime
workshop
11:00am – 4:00pm:
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- acf/LA
Technology Workshop with
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Joshua Kit Clayton
on Max/MSP and Jitter
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- $20
for ACF members and students/$35 for non-members (discount
on evening event with workshop ticket)
About e|i:
There’s no denying the impact technology has
had on music, as its effect on aural design over the course of
the 20th century has been nothing if not profound. The
cut-and-paste tape editors and analogue pioneers of
yesteryear, the continuing evolution of instrumentation and
media, and a rich history of experimentation and daring have
ushered in the contemporary era of the digital sound wrinkle.
e|i spans the continuum of electronica, experimentalism
and the avant-garde, shattering genre margins to encompass the
past, the present and the future, as presented to the reader
by artists who challenge the very notions of sound and vision.
As the true enthusiast’s publication documenting a broad
spectrum of sonic textures, tastes and motifs, each issue of
e|i features provocative interviews, historical
overviews, enlightening reviews and bracing new views.
On newsstands March 31, 2003
e|i magazine — storming the studio
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Daytime activity: 3/30/03 - 11:00am
- 4:00pm
- acf/LA
Technology Workshop with
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Joshua Kit Clayton
on Max/MSP and Jitter
- $20 for
ACF members and students/$35 for non-members
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Location:
- AFI 2021 North Western
Avenue, Los Angeles 90027
Please
RSVP to 818-788-2202 or e-mail
tekWorX@composers.la
| www.composers.la
(discount on evening event with workshop
ticket)
Composer and Programmer Joshua Kit Clayton will
walk you through Max/MSP and Jitter, from his perspective as a
creator and performer of electronic music and visual media.
Clayton is a programmer for Cycling 74 and a principal
developer of Jitter; he will demonstrate the power of both of
these limitless applications.
About Max/Msp
Max/MSP combines the Max graphical programming
environment with MSP audio extensions. Together you'll have
close to 400 objects, the building blocks of a complete audio
application development environment.
In Max, you build programs by connecting
graphical objects together. Some of these objects perform
calculations and others make up the user interface of your
program. MSP adds a large set of objects that you connect
together to make audio patches where signals flow from one
object to the next. The concept may be familiar to you from
modular synthesizers, either the real ones or the software
imitations. But MSP lets you work at a level of detail that is
unmatched by other software synthesizers. At the same time,
its intuitive interface is far easier to learn than text-based
software synthesis programs. For instance, the filtergraph~
object shown below allows you to design seven different types
of filters graphically.
About Jitter
Jitter is a set of 133 brilliant new video, matrix, and 3D
graphics objects for the Max graphical programming
environment. The Jitter objects extend the functionality of
Max4/MSP2 with flexible means to generate and manipulate
matrix data -- any data that can be expressed in rows
and columns, such as video and still images, 3D geometry, as
well as text, spreadsheet data, particle systems, voxels, or
audio. Jitter is useful to anyone interested in real-time
video processing, custom effects, 2D/3D graphics, audio/visual
interaction, data visualization, and analysis.
For more info about both applications visit
www.cycling74.com
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Evening Activity: 3/30/03 - 9:00pm - 1:00am
- Live
performances by
- Steve
Roden
[trente oiseaux/12k]
- Akira
Rabelais
[mille plateaux/fallt]
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j.frede
[current recordings/doctsect]
- with “Interruption” an
Audio/Visual Theater performance piece by
- Kit
Clayton
+ Sue Costabile [orthlorng musork]
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www.musork.com/interruption
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Location:
- The
Derby
- 4500
Los Feliz Blvd
- Los
Angeles, CA
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www.the-derby.com
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Admission: $10.00
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Ages:
21+
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presale tickets available at:
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Sea Level Records.
1716 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026
(just East of Alvarado)
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Or online at
www.wantickets.com
[biographies]
Joshua Kit Clayton
Kit Clayton is a San Francisco based computer programmer and
electronic musician. Born in Evanston, Illinois in 1974, he
went on to study computer science and electonic music at
Wesleyan University and has since released various musical
compositions on record labels such as Cytrax, Vertical Form, ~scape,
Mille Plateaux, and Orthlorng Musork. In addition to his
musical work, Joshua is a programmer for Cycling '74, where he
is responsible for further development of the Max/MSP
MIDI/audio programming environment. Recent work has focused on
"Jitter", a multi-dimensional dataset processing and
visualization architecture with applications in audio, video,
and 3d graphics.
Sue Costabile
is a photographer and video artist working with a combination
of analog and digital processes, both as a solo artist and in
collaboration with various musicians. Born in Long Island, New
York in 1974, she has resided in San Francisco since 1996.
With academic training largely focused on both the natural and
built environments (first studying ecology and then
architectural engineering) themes of the organic and the
inorganic are often explored. Her live video performances
focus on improvisational techniques involving various media
including photographs, negatives, drawings and tiny objects,
set in motion and digitized in real-time, then processed in
the Max/MSP/Jitter software environment.
About their Audio/Visual Performance;
“Interruption”
Interruption explores the relationship between
the concrete world of the everyday and the fantasies we
project upon it. During the performance, the artists are
laying down, each with a video camera and a microphone
suspended close to their faces. The microphones are connected
to a custom built audio/video processing system which takes
direction from the sounds heard by the microphones and the
images seen by the cameras. The theme of "interruption" is
explored in the interaction between the live, narrative
audio/video stream and a concurrent, pre-recorded audio/video
stream. What is projected on the screen depends upon the
artists actions and vocal expressions
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www.musork.com/interruption
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www.musork.com
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www.scape-music.de
Steve Roden
is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles. His work
includes painting, drawing, sculpture, films, and sound
installation. the works are a combination of conceptual
strategies and intuitive movements. Found structures and
systems are lifted from their original intentions and used as
the basis for improvisation and abstraction. In the
visual works, printed language, graphic design, maps, and
other forms of specific visual notation are lifted from their
original intentions and abstracted to create open readings.
In the sound works; objects, architectural spaces, and field
recordings, are abstracted through electronics to create audio
new spaces, or 'possible landscapes'. The sound works
present themselves with an aesthetic Roden describes as "lower
case'' - sound concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity
of listening. The LA Weekly recently called Roden "the
most idiosyncratic abstract painter to emerge from l.a. in the
90's"; while the wire magazine recently referred to
Roden's CD 'the radio' as "a particularly modest form of
genius."
Roden has released several CDs of his sound
works under his own name, as well as under the name 'in be
tween noise'. Labels include trente oiseaux, Germany;
sonoris, France; gmbh, France; digital narcis and meme from
Japan; and line, US. Roden's work has appeared on a
number of international compilations, including the tulpas
project on Selektion, Germany. In 1999, Roden co-edited
the publication 'site of sound ' an exploration of the
relationships between sound and architecture, with
contributions from various architects, sound artists and
critics including Christina Kubisch, Steve Peters, Tom Marioni,
and Pierre Koenig.
Steve
Roden has been exhibiting his visual and sound works since
1986. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions
internationally, including museums, galleries and arts spaces
in USA, Italy, France, Japan, Bulgaria, Slovenia, England,
etc.
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www.inbetweennoise.com
www.12k.com
Composer Akira Rabelais grew up on a
racehorse in South Texas and squandered his youth in the
sundry bars and houses of ill repute of Austin reading books
and writing music. BFA from Bennington College, composition
studies with Bill Dixon and Joel Chadabe. MFA from CalArts
under Mort Subotnick and Tom Erbe. Author of various software
including Argeïphontes Lyre (A set of time domain filters and
generators. Dynamic FM Synthesis, Evisceration Reanimation,
Time Domain Mutation, Morphological Disintegration and the
Lobster Quadrille). Releases include 'Elongated Pentagonal
Pyramid', 'Eisoptrophobia', 'Paysage', '...bénédiction, draw.'
And 'Spellwaveringshard'.
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www.akirarabelais.com
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www.fallt.com
j.frede
is an experimental music composer who works with sound ranging
from field recordings to electro-acoustic atmospheres,
microsound subtleties to ambient soundscapes, live
performances to audio installations. Currently Frede is
working with field recordings of both natural and urban
environments and digital compositions built using acoustic
sounds. When performing live j.frede utilizes a variety of PC
based software to write compositions in real time using found
sounds and digital manipulations.
Originating from New Mexico (usa), j.frede has
been working in the field of experimental audio and sound
design for over seven years. Frede has been working for the
last four years in Denver, CO and is now living in Los
Angeles. j.frede is currently working with field recordings of
both natural and urban environments, sine wave frequencies,
and digital compositions built using acoustic sounds. Frede's
live performance can vary depending on each event and the
acoustic space it is presented in.
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www.current-recordings.com
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www.doctsect.com
There will also be a DJ set from New
Mexico-based sound artist Inerex you can find out more
on his work at
http://ritualdocument.com/inerex
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For more info
please contact Lynn Hasty at Green Galactic
lynn@greengalactic.com
or 323-466-5141.
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