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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.
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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
Admission - $10 (21+)
presale tickets available at
Sea Level Records. 1716 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles,
CA 90026
[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
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'.
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]
For more info please contact
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