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e|i magazine West Coast launch party with Kit Clayton + SueCostabile, Steve Roden, Akira Rabelais, j.frede



Title: e|i magazine West Coast launch party with Kit Clayton
American Composers Forum/LA  - Green Galactic - Current Recordings present:

The e|i magazine West Coast Launch Party
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.

e|i magazine ÷ storming the studio
÷ On newsstands March 31 ÷


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Daytime activities - March 30, 2003

acf/LA Technology Workshop with Joshua Kit Clayton on Max/MSP/Jitter

March 30th, 11 AM - 4 PM 

American Film Institute, 2021 North Western Avenue, Los Angeles

$20 for ACF members and students/$35 for non-members (discount on evening event with workshop ticket)

RSVP (818) 788-2202 or e-mail <tekWorX@composers.la>

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. 
 
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.

For more info about both applications visit www.cycling74.com
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Evening Activities - March 30th, 2003

Live performances by
Kit Clayton + Sue Costabile [scape/orthlorng musork]

Audio/Visual Theater performing "Interruption"

Steve Roden [trente oiseaux/12k]

Akira Rabelais [mille plateaux/fallt]

j.frede [current recordings/doctsect]

 
Location:
The Derby
4500 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 

www.the-derby.com  
 
Admission - $10 (21+)
presale tickets available at
Sea Level Records. 1716 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026
or online at www.wantickets.com

 
[Biographies]

Joshua 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 electronic 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
www.musork.com/interruption

[related links: www.musork.com   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 cd's 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, usa. 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. [related links: 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 Arge•phontes 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', '...bŽnŽdiction, draw.' And 'Spellwaveringshard'.
[related links: www.akirarabelais.com   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. [related links: www.ritualdocument.com 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
 
For more info please contact
Lynn Hasty at lynn@greengalactic.com or
j.frede at j.frede@ritualdocument.com

Green Galactic - www.greengalactic.com


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