events
Last modified: September 1, 2010September 5, 2010 // 5pm
@ Machine Project
Music for a Shipwreck: Sea Nymph
Colin Woodford and I will be performing on amplified instruments within Sea Nymph, the new installation at Machine Project.
September 25, 2010 // 8pm to 3am
Glow Festival at the Santa Monica Pier
Carousel Concerts: I’m curating 8 hours of concerts on a carousel for Machine Project’s role in this year’s Glow Festival. I am also creating an installation piece on the carousel involving 5 channel sound, and field recordings of the carousel, and sonic life of the pier.
August – November
Little William Theater Festival of New Music
The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 97 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum. All works have been commissioned for this festival, and are under two minutes in length. Concerts are every Saturday from August through November from 1:00 to 4:00pm at the Hammer Museum starting on August 7.
Past Events
July 17, 2010 all day [saturday]
Hammer Museum // everybody in a place,
On July 17, 2010, his installation piece, “everyone in a place” will be featured at the Hammer Museum, giving free admission to anyone who would like to visit the museum, wear a bell, and consider their surroundings. With bell performance by Elizabeth McMullin and her Bell Santa Gamelan, Colin Woodford and his amplified cymbal, and African Bell Quartets.
June 2010
Goldwell Open Air Museum // Residency with Matt Sargent
Living outside Death Valley, Matt and I are using the desert as source material and composing a work for field recordings, guitar, trumpet, and instruments created from mining camp trash. We are here on an artist residency at by the Goldwell Open Air Museum sponsored by the Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Performances:
Saturday, July 26, 2010 //7pm // at the Goldwell Barn in Rhyolite, NV
Off Rte 374, follow signs to Rhyolite and look for the red barn on your left.
Thursday, July 1, 2010 // 7-9pm // at Place Gallery in Las Vegas, NV
1054 Main Street, in The Arts District of Las Vegas, NV
Saturday, July 3, 2010 // 8pm // at the Machine Project in Los Angeles, CA
1200 D North Alvarado St. Los Angeles, CA 90026
http://www.goldwellmuseum.org/
May 16, 2010 [sunday] // Machine Project
FERMENT[cheese] // with Sue Conley of the Cowgirl Creamery
Sue Conley, cheese-maker and founder of the Cowgirl Creamery and sound artist Chris Kallmyer have developed a multi-media collaboration based on their mutual love of cheese and the fermented arts.
At this event, Sue will speak on art of cheese making, the sustainable qualities of artisan and farmstead agriculture, and share tastes of fresh milk, young curd, and aged Mt Tam. During the lecture/tasting/concert, Chris will provide music to eat cheese by: Incorporating field recordings of John Taverna’s Dairy and the Cowgirl’s facilities with trumpet, harmonium, and cowbells.
Register Here: http://machineproject.com/events/2010/05/16/cheesefest-2010/
May 1, 2010 7:30pm [Saturday] // ASTO Museum // Highland Park
“Enjoy an evening of new, original works exploring the intersection of contemporary music and dance. Repeat collaborators Robert and Natalie have joined forces again to engulf you into a dark world where insanity entangles, sex detaches, and God judges.” Wow. I’ll be performing Bob’s piece for solo trumpet, as well as collaborating in a improvised piece with dancers and office chairs!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110911278948480&ref=ts
April 29, 2010 6-9pm [thursday] // Hammer Museum // Permanent Collection
I’ve been curating a project in which museum patrons receive a Live Museum Soundtrack from our resident guitarist. Now with two guitarists! Through a set of headphones, Eric Klerks and Dylan McKenzie will walk visitors through their time in the collection improvising music to the art they view. Soundtracks are live, improvised, and completely personal.
http://machineproject.com/projects/hammer/museum-soundtrack/
April 8, 2010 7-9pm [thursday] // Hammer Museum // Permanent Collection
I’ve been curating a project in which museum patrons receive a Live Museum Soundtrack from our resident guitarist. Through a set of headphones, our musician walks visitors through their time in the collection improvising music to the art they view. Soundtracks are live, improvised, and completely personal.
http://machineproject.com/projects/hammer/museum-soundtrack/
April 3, 2010 // 1-4pm [saturday]
two-minute concerts in Little William Theater // Hammer Museum
Chris presents his project FERMENT; a precursor to his collaboration with cheese-maker, Sue Conley of the Cowgirl Creamery. Incorporating field recordings of John Taverna’s Dairy and the Cowgirl’s facilities, Chris examines the process of cheese-making from agriculture to affinage. Spatialized sound in the Little William Theater with samples of artisanal cheese. [Mt. Tam to be featured.]
