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poster design by Anna Mayer

the experimental meditation center of Los Angeles presents:

WORD THE WORD, Part 1: Meta Psych
A Guided Listening Session facilitated by Anna Mayer

Sunday August 22, 2010
7-9 pm

Join us for the first of three guided listening sessions intended to initiate and affirm the connections between exploration and language, consciousness and articulation. We will gather in a Lincoln Heights apartment for this approximately one-hour, non-silent meditation on the following: limitlessness myths, infectious sound, and editorialized flow. Facilitator Anna Mayer will present examples of psychedelic pop and rock that reference in their lyrics language and/or the experience of tripping itself. These songs, interspersed with lateral ruminations on observation, perspective, and awareness narratives, will serve as opportunities to rhythmically reflect and project on what role language serves in facilitating transformation. Please RSVP to annawmayer@gmail.com by Sunday morning for location and directions.

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August 21 – Sept 18, 2010
Collection of personal items and Opening August 21, 7–10pm
Performance and Closing Reception September 18, 7–10pm
Claire Cronin
Disquiet Objects

Disquiet Objects brings Claire Cronin’s psychic songwriting to the visitors of Monte Vista by inviting the public to share their personal items as source material for her work.  Based on a belief that the objects we live with are alive with an invisible charge, Cronin began to experiment with Psychometry – the intuitive art of reading the energy held in things.

For each week of her residency at Monte Vista, the artist will select one of the borrowed objects and channel a song based on the impressions she gathers.  At the end of the residency, on September 18th, there will be a performance of the four finished songs and a closing reception, when all items will be returned to their owners.

Parallels between the creative process and psychic channeling have been explored by many artists.  Cronin’s exploration of Psychometry began while staying at a haunted artist residency, Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, in North Carolina, where she wrote songs for the spirits residing in the space.  Cronin’s practice emphasizes channeling – rather than authoring – as a deliberate strategy to soften her mark as an individual and draw from a collective history.

Along with her songwriting residency at Monte Vista, Cronin will exhibit a series of portraits of deceased strangers in the gallery, painted from photographs found on internet memorial sites.  Each portrait is displayed with its “double” cut from black thrift store dresses, referencing the Victorian practice of covering mirrors with black cloth during times of mourning, so that the spirits of the departed won’t get trapped in the glass.  One mirror will be displayed alongside the paintings in this way, as part of an “energy installation” to contain energy that collects in the gallery.  Four quartz crystals will also be placed in the corners of the gallery, forming a “crystal matrix” that will protect and ritualize the space.

Claire Cronin is an artist and songwriter whose work blurs the boundaries between psychic and creative processes.  She recently composed a series of songs about the vibrations in the Hammer Museum as part of the Machine Project residency, and taught a class on “Art as a Magickal Practice” at Telic’s Public School.  Cronin practices her psychic skills in Asher Hartman’s experimental theatre group, Gawdafful, and in other small performances across Los Angeles.  Cronin was born in 1985 in Los Angeles, where she continues to live.  In her past life, she was an ascetic in a strict order of Catholic nuns.

Monte Vista
5442 Monte Vista St
Los Angeles, CA 90042
www.montevistaprojects.com
open Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 pm

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Incubator Arts Project, New York, August 20, 2010, 10PM.

Revolving loosely around the meeting of post-conceptual and discursive practices with those developed by the experimental music tradition, A Few Silence, A Place or Two, Some Applause is an evening-length program of performance works which considers the concert situation as technologically mediated site for embodied, social and institutionalized listening.  The program contains works by G. Douglas Barrett, John Cage, Bill Dietz and Adam Overton, performed by G. Douglas Barrett, Kara Feely, Francesco Gagliardi, David Kant, Aaron Meicht, Travis Just and Quentin Tolimieri.

Performance of A Few Museum-Goer Transcriptions (2010).  June 29, 2010, Milan.

Program:
Some Applause for Doug (2010), Dietz
A Few Silence (Incubator Arts Project, New York, August 20, 2010, 7PM) (2007), Barrett
Place Feed-forward (Spiegelgasse 14, Zürich, Switzerland) (2010), Barrett
A Few Museum-Goer Transcriptions (2010), Barrett
4’33” (1952), Cage / Touch ensemble petting zoo (no. 1) (2006), Overton

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Presented as part of the Incubator Arts Project Music Program,
Organized by Travis Just

Incubator Arts Project
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Ave.)
http://www.incubatorarts.org/music.html
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Program

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for more of Mariel and her work, visit http://marielcarranza.com

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new works by So and Bahto

the wulf. / 1026 S Santa Fe Ave #203, Los Angeles 90021

Rick Bahto will project three new Super 8 films:

Still Life for Charles Boone (2010)
For Bill Jenkins (2010)
Performing Marmarth (2010)

Mark So presents:

A little fretful calm is sweeter (wild city) – readings 34 [Ashbery series] (2010)
performed by Julia Holter, Mari, Christine Tavolacci, James Klopfleisch and Adam Overton

DICKY BAHTO (2010)
performed by Mark So

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Please join us for the next installment of the Eternal Telethon, under a blanket and over the internet.

Streaming Live on Sunday July 18th at www.eternaltelethon.com
1-4pm pst

From the comforts of your own home you can get intimate with a wide variety of exceptional artists. These artists will be performing from underneath a cozy blanket, as we try to get a little closer to acquiring a place to rest.

Participating Artists Include:
Adam Overton
Alexis Disselkoen
BYOFF
CamLab
Michael Decker
Miggie Wong
Stephen Van Dyke
And Super Special Surprise Guests!

The Eternal Telethon is a fundraiser for the creation of the Eternal Convalescent Home for Retired Artists, or ECHRA. A retreat for weary artists at the Salton Sea, ECHRA will be a free-form residency program open to all supporters of the Eternal Telethon.

Please Visit http://www.eternaltelethon.com/ to view the LIVE broadcast. Simply click on the "WATCH" tab located on the lower left hand corner of the screen.

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http://www.eternaltelethon.com

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John Lely: Symphony No. 5 (2009)
Tim Parkinson: new work (2010)

July 6, 8pm
Sam Sfirri: what is mine and what is not (2010)
Stefan Thut: drei, 1-21 (2009)

July 7, 8pm
Jason Brogan: metronomic irregularity (2009)
James Saunders: template (with alterations) (2010-)

July 8, 8pm
Douglas Barrett: A Few Silence (Zürich, 8.7.2010, 20:15 Uhr) (2008)
Manfred Werder: 2010(1)

In concurrent actualisation over the 4 evenings:
Adam Overton: Conspiracy Piece (2009)

incidental music
Julia Eckhardt, viola and varia
Normisa Pereira da Silva, flutes and varia
Stefan Thut, violoncello and varia
Manfred Werder, varia

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for more of Mariel and her work, visit http://marielcarranza.com

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There are the details, now let's see what it feels like.

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Mark So and I will be performing pieces from posture series, and In To / Out Of (for Francesco Gagliardi)

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Torrance Art Museum is pleased to present this second incarnation of the Zoom series: ZOOM 2. For three consecutive Saturdays, beginning on June 26, the entire museum will be host to experimental sound installations, performance works, and light/video projects.

SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 12pm - 5pm

VOLUME is pleased to present "Presence," an afternoon of immersive sound, video, and durational performance work. Presence plays with multiple meanings of the title to contextualize divergent practices by a unique selection of artists all working across a spectrum of time based media, whether it is video, sound, performance, or installation. There will be a collection of gestures, words spoken, interplay of light and sound, moments of silence, focus, transgressions, layered meanings and experiences, noises, the sound of breathing and bodies performing tasks, a deeper awareness of the passage of time.

Artists include Jen Boyd, Frank Bretschneider (screening), Jeff Cain & Mark Steger, Heather Cassils & Kadet Kuhne, Richard Chartier (sound dispersion), i8u and Cédrick Eymenier, Monique Jenkinson (screening), Marc Manning, Mem1, A.B. Miner (screening), Yann Novak, Adam Overton, Taisha Paggett, Semiconductor (screening), and Sublamp.

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mark so
Was ever anything so delectable floated across the crescent moon's transparent bay?
the fuchsia, the orange, and the dahlia

gerhard schultz
on the arc of travels that have no beginning
patterns that would travel

adam overton
out of thin air
for any stolen instrument

free admission

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mp3 | for any stolen instrument, performed/premiered by Gerhard Schultz
(the windows were open, and if you listen closely you can hear Germany winning a World Cup game in the background)

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W 6/2, 2pm, The Wild Beast (Calarts)
Th 6/3, 8pm, The Wild Beast
Sa 6/5, 8pm, the wulf.
Su 6/6, 3pm, The Compound
Tu 6/8, 8pm, The Wild Beast
W 6/9, 9am, Vasquez Rocks
Th 6/10, 2pm, The Wild Beast
Sa 6/12, 6pm, the wulf.

poster: pdf

1: Wednesday, June 2, 2pm, The Wild Beast
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: Happy (Un)Birthday Party

2: Thursday, June 3, 8pm, The Wild Beast
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 (a collection of 5 pieces performed by the orchestra)

3: Saturday, June 5, 8pm, the wulf.
Singing by Numbers Ensemble
Jessica Basta, Jessica Catron, Mari Garrett, Sascha Goldhor, Julia Holter, Emily Lacy, Catherine Lamb, Heather Lockie, Laura Steenberge, Cassia Streb, Christine Tavolacci, Adrian Tenney, Lisa Tremain

4: Sunday, June 6th, 3pm, The Compound
John Lely: Symphony in e
James Klopfleisch: Landscape #3
Samuel Vriezen: 10 readers
Adam Overton: general impression piece
Adam Overton: get just a little bit closer piece (a surprise performance, occurring during general impression piece)
evening finale: Wolfgang von Schweinitz: JUZ / Matt Barbier, trombone

5: Tuesday, June 8th, 8pm, The Wild Beast
Sam Sfirri: for Dan Flavin
Travis Just: Fabric for Jim
Jason Brogan: sheet music
Derek Bailey: Carpal Tunnel (after 12 weeks) / Eric Klerks, guitar
John P. Hastings: Vibrations
Carolyn Chen:  Walk for 3n legs / Eric KM Clark, Christine Tavolacci

6: Wednesday, June 9th, 9am, Vasquez Rocks
Mark So's Landscapes (a collection of 6 works performed by the ensemble)
includes also: Adam Overton: instead piece

7: Thursday, June 10th, 2pm, The Wild Beast
Morton Feldman: Palais de Mari / Katie Clark, piano
Manfred Werder: 2009(4)
Elisabeth McMullin: Polarity
Michael Pisaro: fields have ears (2) / Katie Clark, piano + Cazan, Anderson, McMullin and Hastings

8: Saturday, June 12th, 6pm, the wulf.
20 microscores / Jessica Catron, cello, Orin Hildestad, violin
Music by: Chiyoko Szlavnics, Greg Rosenthal, Kathy Pisaro, Andre Cormier, Pauline Oliveros, Zachary Watkins, Matt Davignon, Carol Sawyer, Johnny Chang, Leung Xiao-Lan, Jonathan Zorn, Kraig Grady,Phillip Brownlee, Eric KM Clark, Raven Chacon, Sean Clute, Matthew Lee Knowles, Michael Pisaro, Zachary Scott, Jennifer Butler

Jonathan Marmor: Dog Star Music / Clark, Klopfleisch, Tavolacci, So, Winter, Nilsson, Fraser
Mike Winter: approximating omega (performed by The Orchestra)

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The Orchestra (2010): Adam Overton, April Guthrie, Beth McMullin, C.T. Anderson, Cassia Streb, Cat Lamb, Christine Tavolacci, Colin Wambsgans, Danny Holt, Dicky Bahto, Emma Nilsson, Eric KM Clark, Eric Klerks, James Klopfleisch, Jason Grier, Jessica Catron, John Hastings, Julia Holter, Katie Clark, Laura Cetilia, Laura Steenberge, Lisa Tolentino, Mari, Mark So, Matt Barbier, Michael Pisaro, Michael Winter, Nathan Brown, Ori Barel, Orin Hildestad, Paul Fraser, Paul West, Rob Esler, Ronit Kirchman, Scott Cazan, Sepand Shahab, Tashi Wada

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locations:
The Wild Beast, CalArts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355

the wulf.
1026 South Santa Fe Avenue #203
Los Angeles, CA 90021

The Compound
33628 Lancaster Road - Hwy 138
Lancaster, CA 93536

Vasquez Rocks
10700 Escondido Canyon Road
Santa Clarita, CA 91390-4896

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Program:

Only, Michael Pisaro
To restore silence is the role of objects, Sam Sfirri
2008(6), Manfred Werder
Posture Series (of Michael Pisaro), Adam Overton
There is no space between the leaves, Mark So

Piotr Tkacz - radio, voice, stones, leaves

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