[inter/meta/trans] Dangerous Curve Dec. 3: Ghosts, Machines & Nomads

[Nicholas Chase]

For those who just received the posting with the subject:

Sonic Experiments at Dangerous Curve Dec. 3

Apologies for multiple postings: these are one and the same event -  
hope to see you all there!

Here is the press release direct from Dangerous Curve:
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"Ghosts, Machines, and Nomads"

Ghost Duo: Michael Jon Fink (e-guitar) and Marty Walker (woodwinds)
Karl Montevirgen (e-guitar) and Nicholas Frances Chase (laptop)
yek koo: Helga Fassonakis (tapes)

at Dangerous Curve http://dangerouscurve.org
an Experimental Exhibition and Performance/Live Art Space

Sunday, December 3, 2006
4:00 p.m.
$10

1020 East Fourth Place
(500 Molino Street #102)
Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.


Los Angeles, CA, November 17, 2006 - Ghostly liaisons, infernal  
electronic machines, and prodigal daughters grace our stagely gallery  
floor on a hazy Sunday afternoon, December 3, 2006, at 4:00 p.m.   
Ghost Duo (Michael Jon Fink and Marty Walker), another duo (Karl  
Montevirgen and Nicholas Frances Chase), and soloist yek koo (Helga  
Fassonakis) make up the bill of "Ghosts, Machines, and Nomads."  If  
you've not submerged yourself in the tangy aural soup of experimental  
music yet, come and try it.  If you already have, we won't preach to  
the converted. All this is couched in the spiritual sculpture-scape  
of Nancy Evans' "Keeping Body and Soul Together."

We're located at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and Mateo  
Streets, in the back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts, #102, between  
the Fourth Street Bridge's (the bridge on the LA River side of  
downtown) two on/off ramps.  See our website http:// 
dangerouscurve.org for directions, pictures, and updates.



More about the Performers


Ghost Duo

Formed by Marty Walker, bass clarinet (California Ear Unit, Some Over  
History, Gong Farmers) and Michael Jon Fink, electric guitar  
(Stillife, Musica Veneris Nocturnas, The Negative Band), Ghost Duo  
debuted at Berkeley's famed Maybeck Recital Hall, in Spring 1998, and  
has been performing ever since.  A "dynamic weaving of bass clarinet  
and electric guitar," the duo's sound world ranges from the delicate  
transformation of a single note to a roaring wall of sound.  They  
play spontaneous compositions, from short focused miniatures to more  
expansive soundscapes, drawing from the experimental and free jazz  
traditions.

Marty Walker has devoted himself to New Music and improvisation for  
over two decades.  He's premiered over 80 pieces written especially  
for him. He's been featured in over 50 venues, including the New  
Music America festivals (Houston and Miami), Mexico City's  
International Festival of New Music, Hartford's Real Art Ways, and in  
Los Angeles, the Monday Evening Concerts, LACE, Wires, and  
FaultLines.  He is a member of the California E.A.R. Unit, and  
performs regularly with Arthur Jarvinen's Some Over History and the  
Gong Farmers.  The LA Times says he plays "masterfully" and Option  
Magazine says he's "one of the finest new music clarinetists in the  
country."

Michael Jon Fink has had his instrumental and electronic music  
performed at numerous concerts and festivals throughout the United  
States, Europe, and Japan. He has composed concertos for soprano  
saxophone, bass clarinet, violin, and cello. His CD release "I Hear  
It in the Rain" (Cold Blue Music) was featured on National Public  
Radio's new music show "Echoes."  He has been a member of such  
experimental and new music groups as The Negative Band, Musica  
Veneris Nocturnas, Stillife.


Montevirgen and Chase

Karl Montevirgen is an electric guitarist, improviser, and composer  
whose works span a wide range of experimental practices.  His  
electric guitar works, which tend to sound either aggressively dense  
or silent, frequently explore the use of extended (noise) techniques,  
as well as other non-idiomatic approaches to electric guitar  
performance.  He earned his MFA in Music Composition and Critical  
Studies/Writing from the California Institute of the Arts.  He  
currently lives in Los Angeles.

Nicholas Frances Chase www.nicholaschase.net is an Alpert Award  
Nominee who earned his MFA in Composition/New Media and Integrated  
Media while studying with Morton Subotnick, Bunita Marcus, and  
Stephen L. Mosko. He also studied Arabic Classical under Ziad Bunni  
of the Aleppo Conservatory in Syria. Chase's solo and chamber works  
have been performed internationally, by ensembles and soloists  
alike.  His electro-acoustic works have been featured at Stanford  
University and as part of the Center for Electronic Art and  
Information Technology (CEAIT) Festivals. He's been commissioned by  
the California E.A.R. Unit, the Long Beach Opera, New-York-based  
choreographer Nazorine Paglia, as well as illustrious soloists from  
around the world. Chase is the founder of the contemporary performing  
arts organization, Musical Arts Sound Laboratory (www.mas-lab.org),  
is Composer in Residence to the newly founded Port au Prince Dance  
Company, and is one third of the audio/video improvising trio NIRUSU  
III (www.nirusuiii.com). He teaches composition privately and gives  
lectures on music, technology, and esotericism.


yek koo

yek koo ("one mountain" in Farsi) is Helga R. Fassonakis' http:// 
helgafassonaki.net recent solo project.  One thing---one flat tire,  
one wrong turn, one rainfall, one lost number, etc.---can alter the  
course of something drastically, hence the name.  Her compositions  
"may already begin as broken or eradicated sounds that then collapse  
into heavy drones."  She uses santurs (Persian dulcimers, which she  
hammers her own special way), sitars, electronic tape/growth  
machines, prepared laptops, ebows, children's toys, and melodicum.   
She's manipulated tape machines, sound-generating wind turbines, and  
noise to reveal the sonorous qualities of "otherwise commonplace  
sounds," allowing outside sounds and the audience to change the  
course of the performance.  Helga Fassonaki is a sound and intermedia  
artist, born in Southern California who works with sound,  
performance, film/video installation, and interactive art.  She has a  
BA from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and  
an MFA from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.  She's been in  
Auckland's Alleluya Noise and Transacoustic Festival and Long Beach's  
Soundwalk.  In 2004, she won first prize in Exposure04, a  
postgraduate research competition, with an interactive sound  
presentation, "[hafez] tracing."  She's used contact mics to reveal  
the internal vibrations and glitches of electronics.  She and New  
Zealand experimental musician Andrew Scott had a collaboration Mtal  
Rouge, where they passed (mixed/cut/layered/recorded) audiotapes back  
and forth along the Pacific Ocean.  She recently returned to LA,  
"bringing with her a handbag of noisy transpositions."
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Nicholas Chase
www.nicholaschase.net
Director
Musical Arts Sound Laboratory
www.mas-lab.org



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