#2. 12/18/10: Lamb, Overton, Pisaro & So
The second concert in the Sound Series at Presents occurs Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 8pm. New Sounds from the West Coast features 3 composers from Southern California realized by musicians from New York.
Cat Lamb - nodes, various
Mark So - Color of the sound of waves [Ashbery series]
Michael Pisaro - fields have ears (4)
and something by Adam Overton.
Performers to include: G. Douglas Barrett, Barry Chabala, Tucker Dulin, John P. Hastings, Ben Owen, and Michael V. Waller.
Composer bios:
Catherine Lamb is a music composer and violist, working from the traditions of American Experimentalism, Just Intonation, and Indian Dhrupad. She is interested in delicate attention to layers of sound and their shadows. She intuitively works through mathematical forms, typically involving the opening from a centered pitch. Her most influential teachers have been James Tenney, Michael Pisaro, and Mani Kaul. She is currently living in Los Angeles, CA where she composes, performs, and teaches music.
Mark So grew up in Syracuse and has lived in Los Angeles for the past ten years. He has written hundreds of pieces exploring the nuances of ordinary situations, including a vast cycle of work around the poetry of John Ashbery, and performs frequently in works from the experimental tradition. He has published a book, BANGS, chronicling Manfred Werder’s ongoing performance of So’s piece BANGS [to Manfred Werder].
Michael Pisaro was born in Buffalo in 1961. He is a composer and guitarist, and a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble. He has composed over 80 works for a great variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues. It has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991) and Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990, 1991). He has had extended composer residencies in Germany (Künstlerhof Schreyahn), Switzerland (Forumclaque/Baden), Israel (Miskenot Sha’ananmim), Greece (EarTalk) and in the U.S. (Birch Creek Music Festival/ Wisconsin). Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Vienna, Brussels, Curitiba (Brazil), Berlin, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Cologne, Aarau and elsewhere. He is Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Musical Composition and the Co-Chair, Composition Program at the Herb Alpert School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts.
Adam Overton is a living artist, composer and performer of experimental action and music, a teacher of various subjects, and massage therapist based in Los Angeles. Through experiments in rhythm, presence, and contact, his work plumbs the depths and abilities of the bodymindperson, and playfully maps the intimate distance between individuals. He is continually fascinated with and fueled by the transformative practices and radical challenges of awareness, acknowledgment, and [co]existence.
