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The Dog Star Orchestra is an ensemble and a once-a-year festival of experimental music, started in 2005 by Michael Pisaro as a way of playing recent experimental music by young composers and classic pieces from the experimental tradition. Described as “messily exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times, Dog Star events happen throughout the Los Angeles area and often feature offbeat performances in out-of-the-way places, alongside more traditional concert settings. It is one of the main presenters fostering and documenting the strong local experimental music scene, as well as presenting work that would otherwise not be heard in the US. (Over the years, the orchestra has occasionally formed for single events like this one.)
The festival has also featured the US premieres of many works by the international Wandelweiser collective and presented seminal pieces from the American origins of the experimental school (Cage, Wolff, Feldman, Lucier, Oliveros, Tenney and so on). Initially curated by Pisaro alone, the summer festival grew from six concerts to, in its most recent incarnation in 2015, fifteen concerts. Beginning in 2011 the festival began to employ multiple curators drawn from people who had participated in previous years. In most years upwards of 60 musicians participate as composers and performers. The local following for the series has also grown substantially over the twelve years of its existence.
A small ensemble will treat the west-facing wall of the LA Valley College practice room building like a graphic score and Erik Carlson will begin his solo violin piece, "Dog Star Palindrome."
Join us for the 21st year of the Dog Star Orchestra, featuring works for large ensemble by composers from our experimental music community: Katie Eikam, Bryan Eubanks, Kory Reeder, and Cecyl Ruehlen.
readings and performances from "A Year of Deep Listening"
A 24-hour installation composed by Todd Moellenberg.
Matt Kline will perform a new one-hour work for solo double bass
Brandon Auger performs a proximity-based listening event
Compositions for Eric Heeps's 64 channel Wave Field Synthesis array by Faith Rawson, Eric Lennartson, Stephanie Cheng Smith, Liam Mooney, Cassia Streb, and Tim Feeney.
Composer and percussionist Bonnie Whiting presents Stages, a performance art piece centering music for singing, speaking, and moving percussionist, developed collaboratively with composer Wang Lu. Michael Jones opens with a piece by Scott Wollschleger.
Nev Wendell, Ethan Marks, āññā (Anqi Liu and Han Zhang)
The Los Angeles Woodwind Skill Share presents a new work by composer Carolyn Goodwin
A work by Jules Evans and the Dog Star Community Choir performs rounds from Larry Polansky’s Rounds Unbound
The L-Collective returns to Dog Star with a program of pieces recently composed for the ensemble.
Eric Heep performs a new piece by John Eagle with a mess of patch cables and speaker walls.
Compositions by Nat Evans, Jen Boyd, Anna Heflin, Ben Rempel, TJ Sclafani
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The Dog Star Orchestra is an ensemble and a once-a-year festival of experimental music, started in 2005 by Michael Pisaro as a way of playing recent experimental music by young composers and classic pieces from the experimental tradition. Described as “messily exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times, Dog Star events happen throughout the Los Angeles area and often feature offbeat performances in out-of-the-way places, alongside more traditional concert settings. It is one of the main presenters fostering and documenting the strong local experimental music scene, as well as presenting work that would otherwise not be heard in the US. (Over the years, the orchestra has occasionally formed for single events like this one.)
The festival has also featured the US premieres of many works by the international Wandelweiser collective and presented seminal pieces from the American origins of the experimental school (Cage, Wolff, Feldman, Lucier, Oliveros, Tenney and so on). Initially curated by Pisaro alone, the summer festival grew from six concerts to, in its most recent incarnation in 2015, fifteen concerts. Beginning in 2011 the festival began to employ multiple curators drawn from people who had participated in previous years. In most years upwards of 60 musicians participate as composers and performers. The local following for the series has also grown substantially over the twelve years of its existence.
Andrew Weathers, Luke Martin & Noah Ophoven-Baldwin, Georgia Bell
Automata Arts 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012
Ken Ueno & Karen Yu
Automata Arts 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012
Argenta Walther, Ian Power & Clint McCallum
Automata Arts 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012
A sound installation by Tim Feeney and Cassia Streb. Viewable from June 20-23 with a performance on June 22 at 7:30pm in the courtyard outside Automata.
Automata Arts 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012
Percussion duo DesoDuo (Kevin Good and Katie Eikam) present their project with composer Laura Steenberge, written for various instruments and materials and inspired by Emily Dickinson’s envelope poems.
Automata Arts 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012
Sivan Silver-Swartz, Sepand Shahab, Thadeus Frazier-Reed, Louis Couperin, Cassia Streb, Kari Rae Seekins, Lewis Keller, Michael Winter, Anqi Liu, Conor Hinfey
Automata Arts 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012
Mason Moy String Trio, and the Readers Chorus led by Sara Roberts
Automata Arts 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012
The Southland Ensemble plays selections from James Tenney's Postal Pieces as well as more recent works by Jennifer Bewerse that were inspired by Tenney's work.
2415 Eads St. Los Angeles, CA 90031
Admission is FREE, but RSVP required (click here)
Music for Your Inbox screening.
KillDry & Adam Rowe, Hsuan-Kuang Heish & Nailah Hunter, Squash & Biscuit & Mengxi Yang, and Brian Allen
Automata Arts 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012
Stephanie Cheng-Smith, Sepand Shahab, Clay Chaplin, Liam Mooney, Nat Evans
RSVP at info@casaberenicerecordings.com for address
The Dog Star Orchestra performs pieces by Nicki Chen, M Denney, John Eagle, Josh Gerowitz, Kevin Good, and Tim Parkinson.
The Wild Beast at CalArts 24700 McBean Parkway Valencia, CA 91355
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Send us your mailing address before June 22nd and Mark will send you a postcard
(Form for sending your address to Mark https://forms.gle/h9BSGZs7YVe69axE6)
Placeholder Trio (Margo Harms, Daniel Newman-Lessler, Eric Lennartson) perform a site-specific hour long piece called "in the belly" for upright piano, bells, and a water tank.
Performances and Composition by:
Madison Brookshire, Michael Pisaro, Nicki Chen, April Dawn Guthrie, Kenny Cotich and Jack Herscowitz
Performances and Compositions by:
Deso Duo, Katie Eikam and Kevin Good
Performances and Compositions by:
James Klopfleisch, Sivan Silver-Swartz, Nigel Deane, Ethan Marks, Alejandra Moreno and Nev Wendell
Santa Fe-based composer and performer Eric Heep presents Ladder Spectra, an installation and accompanying performance for six hanging metal plates, bricks, and electronics.
Performances and Compositions by:
House on Fire, Carolyn Chen and the Koan Quartet
Performances and Compositions by:
Laura Cetilia, John Eagle, Nigel Deane and Emily Call
The Double Bass, composed by Eva Maria Houben and performed by Matt Kline. This is a work for solo double bass that lasts between 75 - 90 minutes. The performance includes text projection.
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The Dog Star Orchestra is an ensemble and a once-a-year festival of experimental music, started in 2005 by Michael Pisaro as a way of playing recent experimental music by young composers and classic pieces from the experimental tradition. Described as “messily exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times, Dog Star events happen throughout the Los Angeles area and often feature offbeat performances in out-of-the-way places, alongside more traditional concert settings. It is one of the main presenters fostering and documenting the strong local experimental music scene, as well as presenting work that would otherwise not be heard in the US. (Over the years, the orchestra has occasionally formed for single events like this one.)
The festival has also featured the US premieres of many works by the international Wandelweiser collective and presented seminal pieces from the American origins of the experimental school (Cage, Wolff, Feldman, Lucier, Oliveros, Tenney and so on). Initially curated by Pisaro alone, the summer festival grew from six concerts to, in its most recent incarnation in 2015, fifteen concerts. Beginning in 2011 the festival began to employ multiple curators drawn from people who had participated in previous years. In most years upwards of 60 musicians participate as composers and performers. The local following for the series has also grown substantially over the twelve years of its existence.
Participate in this online piece by Zachary Kenefick. An editable document will be available starting on June 7 and for the remainder of the festival. (Open this event for link and instructions.)
8 new film works, available online through June 20. Streaming link will be available here. Works by: Christina C Nguyen, Dicky Bahto, Mike Stoltz, Ziyao Susan Xie, kevin corcoran, Qianyi Ma, Sam Gurry, Anna Kipervaser and Rhys Morgan.
A new situationally responsive sound installation by Tim Feeney that engages the dust, traffic and topography of the Whitney Canyon Park. Walk the path and listen to boxes activated by resonators in a piece designed specifically for this outdoor space.
Park at the Whitney Canyon Park and Ride. The installation is along the Whitney Canyon Falls Trail and opens at 7pm; optimal viewing time 7:45-8:30pm.
Join us on the grounds outside the Gamble House for a 45 minute performance of James Tenney's 'In a large, open space'.
Reservations are full. To join the waitlist, please fill out form on event page.
Masks and distancing required.
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The Dog Star Orchestra is an ensemble and a once-a-year festival of experimental music, started in 2005 by Michael Pisaro as a way of playing recent experimental music by young composers and classic pieces from the experimental tradition. Described as “messily exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times, Dog Star events happen throughout the Los Angeles area and often feature offbeat performances in out-of-the-way places, alongside more traditional concert settings. It is one of the main presenters fostering and documenting the strong local experimental music scene, as well as presenting work that would otherwise not be heard in the US. (Over the years, the orchestra has occasionally formed for single events like this one.)
The festival has also featured the US premieres of many works by the international Wandelweiser collective and presented seminal pieces from the American origins of the experimental school (Cage, Wolff, Feldman, Lucier, Oliveros, Tenney and so on). Initially curated by Pisaro alone, the summer festival grew from six concerts to, in its most recent incarnation in 2015, fifteen concerts. Beginning in 2011 the festival began to employ multiple curators drawn from people who had participated in previous years. In most years upwards of 60 musicians participate as composers and performers. The local following for the series has also grown substantially over the twelve years of its existence.
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The Dog Star Orchestra is an ensemble and a once-a-year festival of experimental music, started in 2005 by Michael Pisaro as a way of playing recent experimental music by young composers and classic pieces from the experimental tradition. Described as “messily exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times, Dog Star events happen throughout the Los Angeles area and often feature offbeat performances in out-of-the-way places, alongside more traditional concert settings. It is one of the main presenters fostering and documenting the strong local experimental music scene, as well as presenting work that would otherwise not be heard in the US. (Over the years, the orchestra has occasionally formed for single events like this one.)
The festival has also featured the US premieres of many works by the international Wandelweiser collective and presented seminal pieces from the American origins of the experimental school (Cage, Wolff, Feldman, Lucier, Oliveros, Tenney and so on). Initially curated by Pisaro alone, the summer festival grew from six concerts to, in its most recent incarnation in 2015, fifteen concerts. Beginning in 2011 the festival began to employ multiple curators drawn from people who had participated in previous years. In most years upwards of 60 musicians participate as composers and performers. The local following for the series has also grown substantially over the twelve years of its existence.
Come join us as we celebrate the arrival of the 15th (!) year of the Dog Star Orchestra Festival of Experimental Music, June 6-22 2019!
Featuring performances throughout the event, drinks, snacks, and a silent auction to benefit the festival.
2-5 PM at a private residence in Pasadena - RSVP for address - dogstarorchestra@gmail.com
"Slow, Silent, Singing", a concert length work (ca. 70 minutes long) for solo glockenspiel by LA-based composer Kevin Good.
A concert of scavenging for sound and paying ode to animals at Millard Falls. Suggested $5 Adventure Parking Pass.
Selections from the mountains: five years after Listen/Space moved to a remote cabin in Wanship, UT and started commissioning new works for experimental chamber ensemble, we release 3 volumes of scores and recordings on Frog Peak.
The Koan Quartet presents the premiere of 3 string quartets by Canadian composer, André Cormier with video design by Joshua Westerman.
Members of the Dog Star Orchestra present new works by Laura Cetilia, Daniel Corral, April Guthrie, and Ian Power at REC Center.
A concert of text and graphic scores that directly engage with nature and natural environments.
Works for voice and objects in and along the pedestrian tunnel linking the museum's elevator with Museum Drive.
New pieces performed in an outdoor, riverside setting by LCollective, Eugene Kim, and YoungEun Kim.
An event in three parts (45 minutes each): a sound installation by Scott Worthington; new works for Synthbees (curated by Davy Sumner); a performance by BitPanic. Come for one or all, one-time entrance fee, at Coaxial.
Dog Star Steel Orchestra presents new compositions for steel chamber ensemble. The concert is at a private residence. Please email dogstarorchestra@gmail.com for directions.
The Dog Star finale this year takes place mostly outdoors in the area around The Wild Beast on the CalArts campus in Valencia. The opening and closing works on the program are composed in reference to the sky positions on June 22nd.
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The Dog Star Orchestra is an ensemble and a once-a-year festival of experimental music, started in 2005 by Michael Pisaro as a way of playing recent experimental music by young composers and classic pieces from the experimental tradition. Described as “messily exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times, Dog Star events happen throughout the Los Angeles area and often feature offbeat performances in out-of-the-way places, alongside more traditional concert settings. It is one of the main presenters fostering and documenting the strong local experimental music scene, as well as presenting work that would otherwise not be heard in the US. (Over the years, the orchestra has occasionally formed for single events like this one.)
The festival has also featured the US premieres of many works by the international Wandelweiser collective and presented seminal pieces from the American origins of the experimental school (Cage, Wolff, Feldman, Lucier, Oliveros, Tenney and so on). Initially curated by Pisaro alone, the summer festival grew from six concerts to, in its most recent incarnation in 2015, fifteen concerts. Beginning in 2011 the festival began to employ multiple curators drawn from people who had participated in previous years. In most years upwards of 60 musicians participate as composers and performers. The local following for the series has also grown substantially over the twelve years of its existence.
Southland Ensemble presents a concert of twelve new pieces by Laura Steenberge composed for the ensemble.
Heather Lockie's site-specific work for vocal ensemble, Song to be Performed in a Tunnel in Your Town.
Premieres by Stephanie Smith, Cassia Streb, Sepand Shahab, Eric Heep, and John Eagle for the 8 channel modular sound system of Sound House, a collaborative project by Janie Geiser, John Eagle & Cassia Streb.
Pieces for music and movement: Ligeti tug-of-war; mimed instrument duo, Cervantes organ monologue, sonorous tai chi, and movement quartets for blindfolded struggle, hugs, and high-fives.
Ian Power and Carolyn Chen, with special guests Erika Bell and Liam Mooney.
Autoduplicity (Jennifer Bewerse and Rachel Beetz) presents Clothing by Carolyn Chen; Sanz cuer by Celeste Oram; frame/frames by Cat Lamb
This concert musically explores the idea of a frame. Throughout the performance, different forms of the frame emerge: the body as a structural frame, frames as thresholds for perceptual and physical transformation, and sonic frameworks that use pitch to create a lattice work of justly tuned harmonies.
John Cage's Concert for Piano & Orchestra Andrew Young : Pythagorean Study 1 Jennie Gottschalk : Also Nomi Epstein : Layers Jerry Hunt : Trapani
Reiner van Houdt, piano The Dog Star Orchestra
A complete performance of Kunsu Shim's four-hour percussion work performed by DesoDuo (Katie Eikam and Kevin Good)
'Beings, Heat and Cold' by Michael Pisaro
A new work by Sarah Pitan
http://betalevel.com/directions/
New work by Erika Bell, Eric Heep and Corey Fogel
Works by Sun Ra, William Roper, and Wadada Leo Smith.
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Being that 13 is a ripe age for a Dog, we're maturing our tactics and presenting a special launch party and preview. Please join us to celebrate the community of experimental performers that allow this kind of nonsense to thrive.
Announcement of the events by James Klopfleisch, Jürg Frey's 3rd String Quartet by the Koan Quartet, a performance by Liam Mooney, a live auction of experimental music goods and services with proceeds benefitting the festival, experimental beer from Solarc Brewing !!
The Readers Chorus led by Sara Roberts and Jordan Biren performs a set of pieces derived from artist manifestos, including James Tenney’s new discovered Valentine Manifesto.
Michael Pisaro leads a chorus performing new works written by Laura Steenberge, Carolyn Chen, Colin Wambsgans, Scott Cazan, and Michael Pisaro.
An outdoor, participatory performance with radios, led by Casey Anderson. Meet at 12:30 pm for a short hike to location in Debs Park. Lemonade provided.
RSVP at radios@caseyanderson.com for specific directions.
Presented in partnership with Clockshop, Air Out is a new site-specific performance by $3.33 (Celia Hollander), with three performers in three parked cars, featuring car stereos and a mobile audience.
http://betalevel.com/directions
Erik Carlson: T&I
An arrangement of Tristan & Isolde for solo violin, where each measure is mapped onto a beat.
Southland Ensemble and members of The Dog Star Orchestra present an evening of text scores by the late, pioneering composer Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016):
Ear Piece Pebble Music Papericity Arctic Air Rock Piece
http://betalevel.com/directions/
Radu Malfatti: wurzel lamapundus Antoine Beuger: carthamrosa
Los Angeles Saxophone Ensemble (LASE: Ulrich Krieger, Casey Anderson, Casey Butler, Marta Tiesenga)
A concert of Sonic Meditations by Pauline Oliveros performed by chorus, led by Nomi Epstein.
Jordan Dykstra: Pitch Gradient with Noise in D♮ John Eagle: tuning #3, I. Ascending
Jordan Dykstra and ensemble Emily Call, violin
Seven world premieres for harpsichord and ensemble:
Laura Steenberge: The Oracle at Delphi Michael Pisaro: Shadow Earth Antoine Beuger: méditations poétiques sur “ma mort future” James Saunders Eva-Maria Houben: Tasten Robert Holliday Mark So
Sepand Shahab and ensemble
John Cage: Empty Words
A complete performance of Cage's text piece (approximately 10 hours). Mushroom soup provided.
Performers: Tim Tsang, Amy Golden, Eric Heep, and Luke Martin.
George Brecht: water: coming from, staying, going to
Ulrich Krieger: Connect
Daniel Corral: DISLIKE
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At the LA River, entrance on the corner of Fletcher and Ripple St. in Frogtown
Michael Winter just above and/or below the waterline...
FILERA poetic sonic actions Wilfrido Terrazas, Flutes, Natalia Perez, Cello, Carmina Escobar, Voice
John Cage/Variations IV Manfred Werder/2012(1) Casey Anderson/SCRUM John Cage/0'00" Pauline Oliveros/From Unknown Silences Todd Lerew/Small Objects in the Weather
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Michael Winter/economy study
Samuel Vriezen/February Pieces; Ricercar
Site-specific pieces for voice, set in a TV, film, and commercial, post-production dialog recording studio
James Tenney/Chromatic Canon Guy Klucevek/Sevenths New Works by Schankler and Corral
Isaac Schankler and Daniel Corral, accordions
Peter Ablinger: Instrumente und Rauschen
Guillaume de Machaut: "Dame, ne regardez pas"
Autoduplicity Rachel Beetz, flute Jennifer Bewerse, cello
http://betalevel.com/directions/
Samuel Vriezen, composer and writer from Amsterdam whose work has been presented by the Dog Star at the wulf on the 6th, will present a brief talk on his series of book compositions, and present a new work written for this occasion: a composed literary panel. It will be a conversation between Vriezen and local artists on topics that are relevant for composition by means of books that everybody can bring to the show. Audiences are invited to contribute a book for the panel to read from and talk about as well!
The Voice Index (2015)
Andrea Young, Composition & Electronics
ILK Andrea Young, Micaela Tobin, Sharon Kim, & Sara Sinclair Gomez, voices
Antoine Beuger/Cantor Quartets
New works by Shawn Broukhim, Danny Clarke, Jordan Dykstra & Ben Finley
Danny Clarke, clarinet, Jordan Dykstra, viola, Ben Finley, bass, Michael Pisaro, guitar
Carmina Escobar & Emily Lacy voices
Tom Johnson/Formulas for String Quartet James Tenney/Arbor Vitae John Eagle/rhythm color #3
Isaura String Quartet: Emily Call, Madeline Falcone, violins, Melinda Rice, viola, Betsy Rettig, cello
The Koan Quartet: Eric Clark, Orin Hildestad, violins, Cassia Streb, viola, Jennifer Bewerse, cello
Michael Pisaro No key but a possible movement
Ryoko Akama: hermit
Scott Worthington, bass, electronic
11am - 7pm
recursive retent
luke martin, aaron foster bresley: composers and pianists
A concert of new field recording works from LA-based composers.
Scott Cazan, Clay Chaplin, Ryan Gaston, David Paha, Sepand Shahab, Stephanie Smith, and Colin Wambsgans
http://betalevel.com/directions/
Works for networked electronic music, written and performed by the members of bitpanic.
Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, Clay Chaplin, David Paha, and Stephanie Smith
John Cage/0'00" Cassia Streb/Drishti Christine Tavolacci/pale Michael Pisaro/Tombstones Colin Wambsgans/HIGH PRESS, LOW BLOW John Cage/Atlas Eclipticalis
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Curated by Archie Carey
reception 5:30pm, concert 7pm
Daniel Corral: L.A. Canon
Jules Gimbrone: A Thin Wall Sympathetically Maintained
Stephanie Smith: Crickets
Odeya Nini: Web Cast (Moon Canyon Variation)
James Klopfleisch: Sleep Tight
Southland Ensemble
Christian Wolff: Changing the System
Southland Ensemble is: James Klopfleisch, Christine Tavolacci, Eric KM Clark, Casey Anderson, Cassia Streb, Matt Barbier, Orin Hildestad, Jon Stehney
Curated by Katie Porter/Devin Maxwell/James Klopfleisch/Colin Wambsgans
Devin Maxwell: Ridgewood, NY
Didier Aschour: Katie and I
Daniel Goode: Long Distance (from Clarinet Songs)
Colin Wambsgans: music for Drunk Still Drinking (Dogs2, Coffee)
James Klopfleisch: Borrowed Methods of Photography
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August 28, 29, 30
Curated by Carmina Escobar
Pauline Oliveros: Sonic Meditations
John Cage: Litany for the whale
plus new works by Ensemble TRACTO:
Ricardo Butrón: Espiral
Carlos Alegría: Giongo Gitaig
Sergio Moreno: Las ventanas se abren de un lado las puertas de dos
Nabor Alvarado: La Leyenda de Nabor
Rolando Hernández: Mitote
Sergio Moreno: Viento y Fauna
Carmina Escobar: Linderos
Curated by Stephen Touchton
Seven new pieces, one appearing on each of the first seven days of DS8
John Dieterich
Corey Fogel
Ingrid Lee
Collin McKelvey
Evan Backer
James Klopfleisch
Stephen Touchton
Curated by Clay Chaplin
Sets by each of the following:
Archie Carey
Scott Cazan
Clay Chaplin
Stephanie Smith
Sepand Shahab
Curated by Casey Anderson
New works for no instrumentation or objects, organized around almanacs.
Performed by various persons.
All information will be announced at the show.
Curated by Archie Carey
Pauline Oliveros: Pebble Music
David Mahler: Singing Stones/Into the melting pot March
Odeya Nini: Rock Formation
Skip Laplante: Piece for Rocks and Water
William Hellerman: Rock Music I/Rock Music II
Jack Callahan: miniature (cadillac ranch)
Christian Wolff: Stones
Curated by Colin Wambsgans
Chaz Underriner: Soundwalk to the LA River
Colin Wambsgans: A River Through an Island on the Land
G Douglas Barrett: A Few Tones (or Car Sine)
Curated by Cassia Streb/Christine Tavolacci
James Saunders: template with alterations
Tim Parkinson: Symphony
Eric KM Clark, violin, auxiliary
April Guthrie, cello
Cassia Streb, viola
Christine Tavolacci, flute auxiliary
Brian Walsh, clarinet
Curated by Michael Pisaro/Mike Winter
Dante Boon: 3x, Veld and Nov. (Brian Walsh, clarinet; Michael Pisaro, piano)
Juan Cristóbal: Cageana (Matt Barbier, Paul Fraser, James Klopfleisch, Michael Pisaro, Christine Tavolacci, Brian Walsh)
Mike Winter: delayGraph pre-alpha 1 (Mike Winter)
Curated by James Klopfleisch
James Klopfleisch: For Anne LeBaron (Eric KM Clark, Orin Hildestad, Stephanie Smith, Matt Barbier)
Gary Schultz: Juniper Foam: Sound for a portrait of Chris Marker (Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, James Klopfleisch)
Mark So: AlmostEveryNamePieceMarkSoHasEverWritten
Curated by Matt Barbier
Jürg Frey: Circular Music
Trio Kobayashi: Zara Teicher, Matt Barbier, Luke Storm
Curated by Paul Fraser/Emi Tamura
Music by:
Brendan Byrnes, Alex Vassos, Sepand Shahab, Maxwell Gualtieri, Ladies & Gentlemen, Alex Wand, Paul Fraser, and Justin Asher, plus Red Arc Blue Veil by John Luther Adams
Performed by:
Emi Tamura, Tony Gennaro, Alex Wand, Brendan Byrnes, David Rhodes, Justin Asher, Max Gualtieri, and Sean Woodman
Film by Evan Pritts
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curated by Mike Winter
Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston
Rachel Beetz, flute
Dustin Donahue, percussion,
Martin Hiendl, piano, celeste
curated by Christine Tavolacci
Daniel Corral: diasporic music #4: distance (Orin Hildestad, violin)
Stephen L. Mosko: J4: Thea's Tune (Christine Tavolacci, flutes; Danny Holt, piano)
Morton Feldman: Projection IV (Orin Hildestad, violin; Brendan Nguyen, piano)
Daniel Corral: diasporic music #5: travel (Matt Barbier, trombone)
Stephen L. Mosko: Bow-Vine Song (Orin Hildestad, violin)
Morton Feldman: Straits of Magellan (Christine Tavolacci, flute; Anna Robinson, horn; Chris Kallmyer, trumpet; Michael Winter, guitar; Jillian Risigari-gai, harp; Brendan Nguyen, piano; Laura Steenberge, contrabass)
curated by Paul Fraser
audio destructinators, directed by Alex Sramek
LA stylophonic, directed by Ingrid Lee and Paul Fraser, pieces by:
Colin Wambsgans
Max Kutner
Brendan Byrnes
Ingrid Lee
Paul Fraser
Justin Asher
audio destructinators (featuring the carchestra)
curated by Eric KM Clark
John P. Hastings: proportions
Adam Fong: Organum Per Annum
Brent Miller: Collages
Lisa R. Coons: Infinity Studies
Denise Gilson: Frozen Shards
curated by Michael Pisaro
Michael Pisaro: here (1) (Charles Underriner, guitar)
Odeya Nini: idiomia (Odeya Nini, voice)
Taylan Susam: nocturnes (Michael Pisaro, piano)
Archibald Carey: advection fog (Archie Carey, bassoon)
Daniel Letourney: morning commute
Sam Sfirri: of mental arithmetic (Daniel Corral, Jessica Catron, Mark So, Mari)
Jack Callahan: modulations ii (Archie Carey, Daniel Corral, Jessica Catron, Mari)
Charles Underriner: life cycles (guitars: Brendan Byrnes, Archie Carey, Max Kutner, Dan Letourneau, Aidan Reynolds, Chaz Underriner)
curated by Clark/Tavolacci
Treatise
Cornelius Cardew
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curated by Michael Pisaro
Michael Pisaro: ascending series (5.2)
Manfred Werder: 2008.1
Christian Wolff: robert
Manfred Werder: 2008.1
Michael Pisaro: ascending series (5.3)
curated by Adam Overton/Laura Steenberge
4pm, on the hill (at the top of Thomas, in Lincoln Heights, meet at the Hildestate at 3:30 to walk up, or meet us there)
John Burtle: 36 exclamation points (2011) (the orchestra)
Jerry Hunt: Sur (Doctor) John Dee (1963) (Laura Steenberge, Ezra Buchla, Yasi Perera)
6pm, at the Hildestate (E Ave 28, Los Angeles, CA 90031)
Douglas Wadle: logos prior logos, no. 4
Catherine Lamb: periphery for two (2011)
Ezra Buchla: music for scaffolding (2011)
(John Burtle, Ezra Buchla, Julia Holter, Adam Overton, Yasi Perera, Laura Steenberge, and others)
ca. 12pm to 6pm (+), locations below
curated by Mark So
Mark So: into silence
Madison Brookshire: five lines
Jason Brogan: (untitled, 2011)
Rich Bahto: between here & there
Istvàn Zelenka: various pieces
curated by Scott Cazan/Sepand Shahab
Scott Cazan: still
Gary Schultz: quiet, taking place
Sepand Shahab: some flowers
Stephen Touchton: string quartet
Dog Star Orchestra + guests
curated by Mike Winter
Andrew McIntosh: symmetry etudes (Brian Walsh, Jim Sullivan, A. McIntosh)
Casey Anderson: QUARTERS (clapping)
Tom Johnson: Networks
Mike Winter: line and cypher
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Casey Thomas Anderson: processional (Danny Holt, piano/percussion)
André Cormier: marabout de ficelle (Laura Cetilia, Jessica Catron, cellos)
Joe Lake: This is one small stone in an entire city of monuments I am building for you (Katie Clark, piano)
Jessica Catron, Michael Pisaro: (improvisation)
Antoine Beuger: coelinblau (Michael Pisaro, guitar)
Mari: (Un)Birthday Party (ensemble)
Ronit Kirchman: Seven String Suites
Michael Pisaro: new tombstones (Voices: L. Tolentino, J. Holter, L. Steenberge; Ensemble: Pisaro, Esler, Lamb, Tavolacci, Eric KM Clark, K. Clark, Klopfleisch, So)
Laura Steenberge: Lucifer in the Shadowland
(1) Sheep (Eric KM Clark, violin, Christine Tavolacci, flute)
(2) Elevator Music (Steenberge, Mari, Holter, Lamb, voices)
(3) Two Notes at Once (Fraser, Pisaro, So, West)
(4) Lucifer in the Shadowland (McMullin, Anderson, Winter, K. Clark)
(5) Some Folk Songs (Holter, Lamb)
Singing by Numbers Ensemble
Jessica Basta, Jessica Catron, Mari Garrett, Sascha Goldhor, Julia Holter, Emily Lacey, Catherine Lamb, Heather Lockie, Laura Steenberge, Cassia Streb, Christine Tavolacci, Adrian Tenney, Lisa Tremain (voices)
at various points in the afternoon:
James Klopfleisch: Landscape #3
John Lely: Symphony in e
Samuel Vriezen: 10 readers
Adam Overton: general impression piece (ensemble)
evening finale:
Wolfgang von Schweinitz: JUZ (Matt Barbier, trombone)
Sam Sfirri: for Dan Flavin (Winter, Overton, Cazan)
Travis Just: Fabric for Jim (Klerks, Hastings, Pisaro, West, Winter, guitars)
Jason Brogan: sheet music (ensemble)
Derek Bailey: Carpal Tunnel (after 12 weeks) (Eric Klerks, guitar)
John P. Hastings: Vibrations (Winter, Overton, Cazan)
Carolyn Chen: Walk for 3n legs (Eric KM Clark, Christine Tavolacci)
Mark So's Landscapes:
Down among the plants and whatever insects
JASON GRIER
marmarth
only sometimes
TWO DOTS.
What difference
(includes also)
Adam Overton: instead piece
(ensemble)
Morton Feldman: Palais de Mari
Manfred Werder: 2009(4) (So, Fraser, Winter, Tavolacci)
Elisabeth McMullin: Polarity (ensemble)
Michael Pisaro: fields have ears (2) (Katie Clark, piano, Cazan, Anderson, sine tones, McMullin, Hastings, noises)
20 microscores:
Chiyoko Szlavnics, Greg Rosenthal, Kathy Pisaro, André Cormier, Pauline Oliveros, Zachary Watkins, Matt Davignon, Carol Sawyer, Johnny Chang, Leung Xiao-Lan, Jonathan Zorn, Kraig Grady, Phillip Brownlee, Eric KM Clark, Ravon Chacon, Sean Clute, Matthew Lee Knowles, Michael Pisaro, Zachary Scott, Jennifer Butler
(Jessica Catron, cello, Orin Hildestad, violin)
Jonathan Marmor: Dog Star Music (Nilsson, Fraser, Winter, So, K. Clark, Klopfleisch, Tavolacci)
Mike Winter: approximating omega (ensemble)
The
dog star orchestra 5
Christian Wolff: Peace March 1 (Stop Using Uranium) (1983/84) (Tara Boyle, Grace Lai, flutes)
John Cage: Song Books (1970) (orchestra)
Julia Holter: for one or more voices (2009) (Michael Pisaro, piano)
Mari: lost in translation - für stockhausen (K/VIII) (2005) (Danny Holt, piano)
Michael Pisaro: Tombstones (2007/9) (Tolentino, Clark, Tavolacci, Keller, Graf, Perry, Corral, Esler)
John Lely: Wall of Sound (2004) (orchestra)
Laurence Crane: Estonia (2001) (April Guthrie, Cassia Streb, Christine Tavolacci, Brian Walsh)
Craig Shepard: October (2001) (Katie Clark, piano)
Klaus Lang: der wind und das meer (trauermusik) (1995) (Cassia Streb, viola)
Jennie Gottschalk: enclosed III (2007) (Katie Clark, piano)
Jürg Frey: wen III (1999/2000) (Christa Graf, violin)
Morton Feldman: Piano Three Hands (1957), Piano Four Hands (1958) (Katie Clark, Michael Pisaro, piano)
Morton Feldman: Durations 1 (1960) (Katie Clark, April Guthrie, Cassia Streb, Christine Tavolacci)
Eric KM Clark: Deprivation Music No. 6 (2009) (orchestra)
Simultaneous Solos (Ulrich Krieger, concept): Yggdrasil-soli
Antoine Beuger: un feu qui n'est pas celui du soleil (2009) (Christine Tavolacci, flute)
Ulrich Krieger: 3 nornen (2006)
Radu Malfatti: Berlin solo (2006) (Douglas Wadle, trombone)
Aniela Perry: harts dáinn and dvalinn (2009) (Aniela Perry, violoncello)
C Williams: wieder ward zucker und milch vermischt (2009) (Christa Graf, violin)
Duo Improvisation (Lewis Keller, electronics, Michael Pisaro, guitar)
Mark So: amid mounting evidence (2008) (Katie Clark, Douglas Wadle)
George Brecht: Water Yam (1958/62)
Yoko Ono: selectrions from grapefruit (1970)
David Dunn: Purposeful Listening in Complex States of Time
Gary Schultz: untitled (reflections) (2009) (Michael Pisaro, Mark Trayle, instruments)
Douglas Wadle: sprechstimmung (2009) (Pisaro, Wadle)
Adam Overton: three [day]dreams for orin hildestad (2008) (Orin Hildestad, violin)
La Monte Young: Composition 1960, no. 7
going on simultaneously at the assigned times:
(10:30-11:00) James Tenny: Swell Piece No. 2 (1971)
(11:30-12:15) Ulrich Krieger: the void (2009)
(1:00-1:30) Michael Pisaro: Ascending Series no. 5 (2009)
(2:00-2:30) Casey Anderson: assembly (melody 2) (2009)
(3:00-3:20) John P. Hastings: bands (2009)
Toshiya Tsunoda: Air vibration in a bent pipe (1995)
James Tenney: Fabric for Ché (1967)
Travis Just: Fabric for Jim (2007) (Brookshire, Grier, Pisaro, Sfirri, Winter, guitars)
Jez Riley French: a next moment (the jdp, oxford) (2008)
Madison Brookshire: a dvd book of east hollywood (2008/9)
Michael Pisaro: A cloud drifting over the plain (2008) (Greg Stuart, recorded and live percussion)
Taku Unami: on absence (2009) (Overton, Pisaro, Sfirri)
Joseph Kudirka: Huddersfield Trio (2008) (Brookshire, Graf, Winter)
Jean-Luc Guionnet: ... dot/ted (2006) (Hildestad, Keller, So)
Mike Winter: For Sol Lewitt (2009) (Winter, Anderson, Graf, Eric KM Clark, Overton)
Sam Sfirri: piano piece (2009) (Sam Sfirri, Mark So, pianos)
Jason Brogan: piano piece (2) (2009) (Sam Sfirri, piano)
Taylan Susam: for maaike schoorel (2009)
The
dog star orchestra 4
Terry Jennings: Piano Piece (1960)
Jo Kondo: The Shape Follows Its Shadow (two pianos) (1986)
Stefan Thut: drei, 1-10 (version for three pianos) (2007)
Michael Pisaro: distance 4 (four pianos) (1996)
Mark So, Joseph Kudirka (ensemble) (2007)
James Tenney: Swell Piece for Alison Knowles (ensemble) (1967)
Manfred Werder, 2008³ (ensemble)
Tom Johnson: Arpeggios for guitar (2002)
Michael Winter: a chance happening... (piano) (2007)
Christian Wolff: Three Pieces (violin, viola) (1979/1980)
Morton Feldman: Vertical Thoughts 2 (violin, piano) (1963)
Kunsu Shim: 2 Songs (R. Creeley) (2005)
Tim Parkinson: Quartet (four percussionists) (2006)
Peter Ablinger: weiss/wisslich 5b (ensemble) (1997)
Adrian Tenney: (two songs)
John Cage: Two (flute, piano) (1987)
Laura Steenberge: (song set)
Anastassis Philippakopoulos: Syrna (oboe) (2000)
Eric Lindley: (song set)
Morton Feldman: For Aaron Copland (violin) (1981)
Julia Holter: (song set)
John Cage: Six (percussion) (1991)
Larry Polansky: Horse Turds and Roses (flute, piano) (1979)
Clay Chaplin: Pier to Pier (field recording) (2008)
Jason Brogan: fragments (ensemble) (2008)
Alvin Lucier: Still Lives (piano, sine tones) (1995)
Gavin Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (ensemble) (1971)
Alison Knowles: Chair Piece for George Brecht (1965)
Adam Overton: What Do We Do Now? Performance (2007)
George Brecht: Motor Vehicle Sundown (Event) (1960)
John Lely: Lazer Organ (2007)
James Orsher: This book is called Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2008)
Michael Pisaro: Long Time (tombstone) (2008)
Mark So: before the dark (a love poem) (2007)
Mari Garrett: Pleasure Cruise for ... (series) (2008)
István Zelenka: intact (2007)
Michael Pisaro: The rain of alphabets (Harmony Series, no. 19) (2005)
The
dog star orchestra 3
Christian Wolff: duo for violins (1950) (Christa Graf, Orin Hildestad)
Take Unami: stand (2006) (April Guthrie)
Michael Pisaro: zeit werden (harmony series no. 3) (2004) (Christa Graf, Orin Hildestad, Cassia Streb, April Guthrie)
Catherine Lamb: as one (2007) (Christa Graf, Orin Hildestad)
Christian Wolff: hölderlin marginalia (2004) (Orin Hildestad, Mark So, Aaron Drake, Michael Pisaro)
Tashi Wada: duet, third version (2007) (Christa Graf, Orin Hildestad)
Adam Overton: for performer and hidden object (2006/7) (Adam Overton, Michael Pisaro, Mark So, Cassia Streb)
Adam Overton: aura[l] studies (2006) (Michael Pisaro, Cassia Streb, Adam Overton, Rory Cowal)
Travis Just: buildings let you down, move out. (2003) (Mark So, Adam Overton, Michael Pisaro)
Markus Trunk: leaflet (1993) (Danny Holt)
Walter Zimmermann: geduld und gelegenheit: hypernos (1987) (Danny Holt, Shirley Hunt)
Morton Feldman: two pianos (1957) (Rory Cowal, Katie Clark)
Clay Chaplin: splay (2007) (Clay Chaplin, Adam Overton, Rory Cowal)
Laura Steenberge: contrabass étude (2007) (Laura Steenberge)
Mari Garrett: a pilgrimage to the sounds - 2 (with yasujiro) (2006) (Laura Steenberge)
Anastassis Philippakopoulos: syrna (2000) (Kathy Pisaro)
Taylan Susam: for blinky palermo (2006) (Lisa Tolentino, Tashi Wada, Madison Brookshire)
Carlo Inderhees: 7 stimmen¹ (2001) (Michael Pisaro, Mark So, Lisa Tolentino, Clay Chaplin, Adam Overton, Tashi Wada, Ori Barel)
Markus Trunk: four stills (2002/07) (April Guthrie)
James Saunders: #080607-2 (2007) (Christa Graf, Mark So)
Tim Parkinson: string quartet (2002) (Christa Graf, Orin Hildestad, Cassia Streb, April Guthrie)
Jürg Frey: ohne titel (2 violinen) (1995/96) (Christa Graf, Orin Hildestad)
Michael Pisaro: ils (harmony series no. 18) (2005) (Michael Pisaro, Madison Brookshire, Clay Chaplin, Cassia Streb, Tashi Wada, Christa Graf, April Guthrie, Orin Hildestad)
Hans W. Koch: present, tense (2007) (Kathy Pisaro, Hans W. Koch)
Bettina Wenzel: wood will be our only wheat (2007) (Bettina Wenzel)
Anne LeBaron: trio (2007) (Anne LeBaron, Hans W. Koch, Bettina Wenzel)
Morton Feldman: piece for four pianos (1957) (Danny Holt, Rory Cowal, Katie Clark, Mark So)
Michael Pisaro: pianos in the field (2007) (Danny Holt, Rory Cowal, Katie Clark, Mark So)
The
dog star orchestra 2
Music by Cassia Streb and Cat Lamb (Dog Star Ensemble)
Arthur Jarvinen: Am Saying It (Jarvinen, Kudirka, Pisaro, speakers)
Michael Pisaro: The Decomposition of the Real (1.2 and 2) (Cassia Streb, viola, Mark So, piano, Johnny Chang, violins)
Mark So: Un coup de dés (+ two note card pieces) (Dog Star Ensemble)
Christian Wolff: Tilbury 2 and 3 (Dortmund Quartet)
Christian Wolff: X for Peace Marches, Sticks (Dog Star Ensemble)
Yoko Ono: Wood Piece (Dog Star Ensemble)
Johnny Chang: Westphalian Fragments (Dortmund Coast)
James Orsher: Doublings (2)
Antoine Beuger: la part du peu (Johnny Chang, violin, Mark So, piano)
Arthur Jarvinen: Defrag 1 (arr. Kudirka)
Joseph Kudirka: brought to a quiet haven, orchestral fantasy at some time, Time and Harmony (for James Tenney)
Antoine Beuger: Ockeghem Octets
Michael Pisaro, piano
Heinrich Schenker: reductions from Der freie Satz
Christian Wolff: selections from Incidental Music
Michael Pisaro: tombstones + entre-moments (with Harmony Jiroudek, voice)
Doug Barrett: Derivation III (Mark So, piano)
James Tenney: Swell Piece/(night)/Swell Piece #2
The
dog star orchestra 1
Michael Pisaro, piano
Michael Pisaro: dérive (2.7)
Carlo Inderhees: 5 STIMMEN3
Mike Richard: Glove Variations on a Theme of Glove and German Lieder
Michael Pisaro: dérive (2.8)
The Dog Star Orchestra
Mark So: skins (D. Barrett, N. Brown, Chang, C. Graf, Just, Kudirka, Orsher, Pisaro, Rice, Shalla, Tavolacci)
Travis Just: The only way to reform modern lettering is to abolish it. (text: Kara Feely)
Dog Star Orchestra: chain: solo pieces for single sounds of unequal duration
recent music by Michael Pisaro
hinwaldeln (zwischen Himmel und Erd) (Chang, Kudirka, Pisaro)
So little to do (harmony series no. 6) (Dog Star Orchestra)
Kendall, Kudirka, Orsher
David Kendall: binaries
Joe Kudirka: the lowest notes
James Orsher: for X performers
Michael Pisaro, piano
Michael Pisaro: dérive (2.9)
Michael Parsons: december, 2000, february, 2001, april 2001, august, 2001
James Saunders: #300605
Laurence Crane: andrew renton becomes an international art critic; birthday piece for michael finnissy
Tim Parkinson: three pieces (2000)
Radu Malfatti: nonostante II (2002)
Michael Pisaro: dérive (2.10)