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Adam Overton... is a living composer of experimental music, a performance artist, a teacher of performance, sound art & multimedia, and a certified massage therapist based in Los Angeles. Through experiments in rhythm, presence, and contact, my work plumbs the depths and abilities of the bodymindperson, and playfully maps the intimate distance between individuals. I am continually fascinated with and fueled by the transformative practices and radical challenges of awareness, acknowledgment, and [co]existence.
Some ongoing projects and community involvements include:
... the subtle bodies series, an ongoing series of investigations featuring subtle, barely-noticed experiments in sound, movement, action, and energy within public spaces, led by artists, performers, choreographers, and sound artists ...
... the maintenance of and contribution to Upload .. Download .. Perform . net (http://uploaddownloadperform.net), an online wiki-repository for artists, composers, choreographers, et al, to share contemporary experimental performance scores (est. Oct 2008) ...
... artSpa, a sporadic public interface for art-and-then-somes - artists living double-lives as bodyworkers, yoga teachers, psychics, healers, and new age dabblers - involving artist-run walk-in clinics, workshops, experimental meditation groups, new age aesthetics panels, touchy-feely music events, and more, plus the creation of the artPlus list-serv (since May 2007) ...
... the collaborative, traveling experimental music & massage series, that combines traditional chair massage with "therapeutic" experimental music performances by local and visiting composer/performers ...
Some upcoming projects include:
... an overnight Dream-In at the Hammer Museum (Spring 2010), involving artist-led workshops in various dream modalities, evening and morning concerts, dream re-enactments, and more ...
... the opening of the experimental meditation center of los angeles (early Spring 2010) ...
Recent projects and performances have included:
... a musical minimum festival at the wulf. in Los Angeles (28 Feb 2010), featuring minimal interpretations of experimental music & performance with indeterminate elements ...
... the production of an artSpa energy assessment for the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (Fall 2009), in partnership with Machine Project during a year-long engagement at the Hammer; the assessment will employ several artist-psychics, -intuitives, -channelers, -ghost-hunters, et al, in order to energetically map the institution, and to provide actionable suggestions for improving the energetic interface for all visitors, spirits, and museum administrators ...
... I was recently a board member of the gallery and project space Sea and Space Explorations in Highland Park (2008-2009), and a part of the advisory committee for the interdisciplinary body-based residency program Genesis Project LA (2007-2009) ...
... experimental music performances as part of the Dogstar Orchestra, an annual Summer festival at CalArts (June 2009) ... artSpa workshops for artists at FOCA as part of the exhibition Performing Economies (Summer 2009) ... experimental music & massage at LACE, as part of the Resonant Forms Festival of electronic music (April 2009) ... performances of several works at the John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium at UNM in Albuquerque (March-April 2009) ... participation in the ridiculously massive, one-day happening, A Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA (LACMA, Nov 2008) ... participation in Elana Mann's election-based performance project, Exchange Rate: 2008 (Oct & Nov 2008) ... two days and one night of moonshot meditation, lunar warlock ritual, and spring tide syzygetics at artSpa Resort & artSpa atNight (Sea and Space Explorations, July 2008) ... as well as live performances in festivals and events in Beijing, Bergen, Berlin, and London (2004-present).
Many of my text-scores, as well as images from my performances, have been published in:
. Natural Born Fluxus (Nov 2008), an anthology of childhood-related scores, ed. Cecil Touchon
. i left this here for you to read #7 (Fall 2008), a randomly distributed 'zine, ed. Tim Devin
. Possibilities of Action: The Life of the Score, an exhibition of scores at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (June-Oct 2008), curated by Barbara Held & Pilar Subira
. maulwerker performing music (Berlin, July 2008), in performance and on notecard
. invisible performances pamphlets, a series of free pamphlets composed for Machine Project interventions at an art-faire, craft-faire, book-faire, and LACMA-happening (2007-2008).
. Other scores and writings have also appeared over the years in FOARM Journal of Arts & Research, Ratsalad Deluxe, Leonardo Journal, Contemporary Music Review, and UCLA's Extensions Journal.
Teaching
I'm currently an adjunct instructor covering a variety of subjects at colleges around Los Angeles, including OTIS College of Art (performance art, sound art, electronics and superpowers), College of the Canyons (graphic design, Photoshop, web design), and ITT Technical Institute (3D modeling, game design, project & portfolio development, etc), and have guest lectured/workshopped at UCSD, USC, OTIS, CCA, and Columbia College Hollywood.
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I'm an MFA graduate of the Experimental Sound Practices (ESP) program at the California Institute of the Arts (2005).
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