#11. 5/22/11, 8pm: Eric KM Clark & Christine Tavolacci
The Sound Series at Presents Gallery is pleased to present Eric km Clark (violin) and Christine Tavolacci (flutes) performing a series of experimental solos and duos, from Tenney to Steenberge.
The program will include:
Anastassis Philippakopoulos: song 2
Eric KM Clark: duo for bass flute and voices
James Tenney: Koan
Laura Steenberge: Sheep
Anastassis Philippakopoulos: Tragoudi
—pause—
Antoine Beuger: Dedekind Duos
http://www.erickmclark.com/
http://christinetavolacci.com/
Also on view will be Madison Brookshire’s THIS GOES OUT featuring drawings, audio recordings and “The Casual Drift” by Mark So, a slide projection.
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Accomplished violinist, composer, and improviser Eric KM Clark is a devout interpreter of new and experimental music. He has worked with many of the world’s most innovative artists and ensembles, including James Tenney, Jurg Frey, Michael Gordon, Antoine Beuger, Guy Maddin, Wadada Leo Smith, Christian Kesten, Michael Pisaro, and Butch Morris. Mr. Clark is a member of the genre setting new music ensemble California E.A.R. Unit, Tavolacci/Clark duo, and the Kadima String Quartet. His playing has been released on Innova, New World, Tonehole Music, and Sundialtech. The New York-based electric guitar quartet Dither recently released his work exPAT on Henceforth records. Mr. Clark also co-founded and co-directs “the wulf.”, a 501(c)3 non-profit experimental performance venue located in downtown LA, that provides free experimental concerts to the general public.
Christine Tavolacci is a flutist who has devoted much of her time and study to the performance of contemporary and experimental music. Christine has traveled across the United States and Europe to study and perform, and has had the pleasure of working with many great 20th and 21st century composers, such as Christian Wolff, James Tenney, Steve Reich, Michael Finnissy, Clarence Barlow, Jurg Frey, Larry Polansky, Stefano Scodanibbio and Gavin Bryars. She has been involved in the premieres of many new works, including those by James Saunders, Michael Pisaro, Chiyoko Slavnics, Catherine Lamb, Eva Maria Houben, Michael Winter and Mark So. Christine has performed with the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, the Cold Storage project in 2006, and the Difficult Music series at Machine Project.
Currently she is actively involved with the Dogstar Orchestra, the Tavolacci/Clark duo and The New Brutalists, an experimental noise group of which she is a founding member. Additionally, Christine has given many performances at California Institute of the Arts, where she received her BFA in flute performance in 2006. In June of 2008, Christine received her Diplôme de Specialisation with ‘mention trés bien’ from the Conservatoire National de Region Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France, where she studied flute with Mario Caroli. She currently lives and performs in Los Angeles, CA while simultaneously pursuing her doctorate in contemporary flute performance at the University of California, San Diego.
