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02.29.08April Guthrie and Cassia Streb will premiere standing still a 66,486.7 miles per hour on February 29th at 7:30 PM at the Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 9110302.14.08 - 02.16.08 & 02.21.06Two of my installation pieces, Lufkins and new piece for the axion oscillator called slowStream are showing at Sea and Space 4755 York Blvd, LA, CA 90042 . A recording of program 4, pump on...go will be played on the 21st with other pieces using field recordings. 02.09.08 - 02.10.08My new piece Lufkins will be showing as part of The Hugely Tiny Festival February 9th and 10th, 10:30 AM to 7:00 PM at 680 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA. Admission is Free. 08.04.07I have been really bad at keeping up with these updates. I'm not sure that anyone reads them anyway. For those that do I have an installation from October 13th through December 30th at the Pasadena Armory Northwest as part of the SKIN show. The opening reception is on October 12th from 6 - 10 PM. More info is here 04.09.07 - 04.21.07I will be tour managing and audio engineering for Lura, a singer from Cape Verde. 04.11.07 - 04.22.07I just completed some sound design for Donizetti's Opera The Elixir of Love at the Orange County Performing Arts Center performed by Opera Pacific. 04.07The Long Christams Ride Home by Paula Vogel at Theatre Tribe earned the LA Times Critic's Choice as well as acclaim from several other reviewers. You can read the reviews here. 03.07The Long Christams Ride Home by Paula Vogel will premier at Theatre Tribe in North Hollywood. I am doing the sound design, original music and performing shamisen on stage. 02.21.07Rounding Home, a feature film for which I did production sound, sound design and mix, will have it's first screening for the cast and crew. 01.28.07I just returned from and East Coast tour with Sara Tavares for whom I was the tour manager and audio engineer. She performed to extremely well attended and recieved shows at Berklee Performing Arts Center, Boston; globalFest, NYC; SOB's, NYC; and The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.. You can see the Kennedy Center performance here. 12.1.06, 12.2.06,12.15.06,12.16.06Doug Lowry and I are curating a new music series in association with Theatre Tribe in North Hollywood called Set Changes. The programs will include singer-songwriters and experimental classical music. For more info check out the Set Changes website. 9.20.06I will be premiering some new works on September 20th from 8 PM to 9:30 PM as part of the Cold Storage 2 series in 40,000 sq ft wharehouse.
FREE
Cold Storage
1168 E 5th St, Los Angeles, California 90013
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Program 4, Pump On... Go
For cello and computer user. Notes translated into colors. Colors translated into filters. Filters reveal the underlying sound. April Guthrie - Cello, Thadeus Frazier-Reed - ComputerQuartet of Hedgehogs **premiere**
A piece for four players performing on hand built electronic instruments. Each sound of the instrument affects the other sounds it makes and the sounds of the fellow performers, sometimes canceling each other out completely. April Guthrie, Cat Lamb, Lewis Keller, Thadeus Frazier-Reed - hedgehogsall of us friends, all of us enemies **premiere**
The performers struggle against themselves, each other and the blinking score. Written for the Guthrie&Streb ensemble. Cassia Streb, April Guthrie, Thadeus Frazier-Reed - undetermined instrumentsOne Thousand SuperBalls **premiere, site inspired**
Audience members will be free to throw 1000 superballs around this amazing open space. Bring your own eye protection.****************************************************
8.23.06A new instrument called frittilus and pics of the hedgehog numbers one through four of twelve being built. And... sometime next month, a performance with program 4, pump on...go, the hedgehogs and an oscillator powered by 1000 superballs at Cold Storage 7.31.06check out my new electronic instrument the hedgehog 4.24.06This was the fourth piece performed at MachineProject. A recording will be available soon.
program 4, pump on...go
Here is information on the new instrument (MIDI controller) I built and the piece it was built to perform. The performance will be on May 13th, 2006 in R.O.D. Hall at CalArts as part of an Earle Brown memorial concert.
Conde Marrón
Earle Brown's November '52
4.18.06Some of the pieces I performed at MachineProject are now documented.
simian
tolerances
viento armónico
3.4.06I will presenting three new pieces in a concert with Liam Mooney in the You too can play difficult music series at Machine Project in downtown Los Angeles. These pieces combine performance and installation art. Members of the audience will be called up to help perform.
Machine Project . 1200 D North Alvarado Street L.A., CA . 8PM . FREE