[inter/meta/trans] Week of January 8-14, 2007 at Dangerous Curve during Bob Bellerue/halfnormal's Live Artist Residency

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Week of January 8-14, 2007 at Dangerous Curve

January 2 through 14, 2007
Wednesday through Saturday, 1:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Bob Bellerue/halfnormal, Artist in Residence
Performances Saturdays, January 6 and 13, 2007, 8:00 p.m.



Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Body Awareness for Artists of All Types
incorporating Kundalini Yoga
8:00 p.m.
$11.00 (free for first-timers!)
Kathryn Hargreaves/Nirmal Kaur, IKYTA

Friday, January 12, 2007
Experimental Rock Night
8:30 p.m.  
$5.00
The Deathday Party http://www.myspace.com/deathdayparty
Atomik Kangaroo http://www.myspace.com/atomikkangaroo
and TBA

Saturday, January 13, 2007
Live Artist Residency Series Performance
8:00 p.m.
$5.00
Bob Bellerue/halfnormal "The Beast and Friends" http://halfnormal.com/bio.html
Raven Chacon http://music.calarts.edu/~rchacon
Johnny Chang http://www.johnnychchang.net

Sunday, January 14, 2007
New Music Series Performance
4:00 p.m.
$5-10.00 sliding scale
Phil Curtis http://www.philcurtis.org
Jim McAuley http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/mcauley.html


at Dangerous Curve
http://dangerouscurve.org

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


Los Angeles, CA, January 6, 2006 - It's going to be a wild second week of Bob Bellerue/halfnormal's live artist residency at Dangerous Curve. His residence has been running since January 2 and will go to 14, 2007, with his second attendant performance on Saturday, January 13, 2007, at 8:00 p.m.  This performance features Raven Chacon http://music.calarts.edu/~rchacon and Johnny Chang http://www.johnnychchang.net.  If you missed Bob's first performance, don't miss this one!  It's a truly exhilarating experience!  You'll be shaken to your very bone marrow with (ironically) healing sound generated from a piano sounding board and a huge sheet of metal.  If you did see the last one, this week's performance will be even better than the last!  The rest of this week is filled with artist yoga on Wednesday, January 10 at 8:00 p.m., experimental rock with The Deathday Party http://www.myspace.com/deathdayparty, Atomik Kangaroo http://www.myspace.com/atomikkangaroo, and TBA on Friday, !
 January 12 at 8:30 p.m., and new music with Phil Curtis http://www.philcurtis.org, and Jim McAuley http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/mcauley.html on Sunday, January 14 at 4:00 p.m.

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 (on the LA River side of downtown) two on/off ramps.  See our website http://dangerouscurve.org for directions, pictures, and updates.


More about Bob Bellerue/halfnormal

During his residency, Bob Bellerue/halfnormal will be developing and recording "The Beast and Friends," giving demonstrations about it specifically, and giving discussions on noise/feedback systems in general.  Bellerue sets up a dialogue with acoustic and amplified sound. "The Beast and Friends" consists of large metal objects and small wind instruments (horns, hunting calls, whistles, voice) that he plays within a feedback environment.

The first of the metal objects is The Beast, a 10'x 4' sheet of stainless steel that Bellerue semi-precariously balances on its long edge.  He bows, beats, and uses other physical "aggression" to reveal its incredible acoustic power.  The heart of the show, The F*cking Piano, is a piano sound board Bellerue plays from within using inaudible speaker drivers, "as well as rage with the electronic fury of Zeus." Finally, there is Old Faithful, an industrial gong-floor drain that doubles as primal-dance floor.  Bellerue also uses area microphones to pick up various acoustic noise sources, such as horns, whistles, hunting calls, and vocal extrema.  For all the above objects, he uses a lot of feedback, placing various-sized speakers throughout the the room for acoustic articulation.

Bob Bellerue/halfnormal is a noise artist, theater designer, writer, and curator, from Los Angeles of late. He uses electronics and custom programming for live performance, sound installation, and prepared ambient (public and private) field recordings. With a background in punk/acid rock, Balinese and Javanese gamelan, and Tibetan Buddhism, he explores the ways extreme sonic experiences affect awareness, along with subtle techniques for focusing and modulating energy.

Bellerue has created original sound scores for dozens of performance art, dance, theater and film pieces, and performs regularly as Redglaer (solo), KILT (with Raven Chacon), and Feed the Dragon (with Albert Ortega).  He's presented his work in Indonesia, Spain, and across the United States, including the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Beyond Music Sound Festival, CEAIT Festival, NorCal Noise Festival, Olympia Experimental Music Festival, PDX Noise Festival, Highways Performance Space, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Living Arts of Tulsa New Genre Festival, Dairy Center for the Arts, Crazyspace, DIVA, monkeymania, 7Hz, 21Grand, the Il Corral, the Smell, KXLU, KFJC, KSPC, KGNU, KDVS, Kill Radio, Stanford University, UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles, Naropa University (BA in Writing and Poetics, 1995), and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA in New Media, 2003).

Last year, LA City Beat named one of Bellerue's Il Corral events "Concert of the Year" and LA Alternative Press named him "10 of the People Making Things Happen in LA."  This year, LA Alternative numbered him #6 in their Readers Poll "Trendsetter" list.

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Upcoming Dangerous Curve events:

Congratulations to NOW Ensemble, who started off our experimental music series when we reopened in Summer 2006, for their mention as "a deft young group gaining attention" in Alex Ross' November 13, 2006 New Yorker piece "Fascinating Rhythm, Celebrating Steve Reich."


January 25-28: Dangerous Curve at artLA: http://www.artfairsinc.com/artla/2007


Every Friday in February: ing and TBAs.

February 18: New Music: Drew Schnurr, Alan Lechusza Quartet, and TBA.

February 25: Sonu, Karl Montevirgen, and Igor Grigoriev.


More good things being added by the moment.  Check http://dangerouscurve.org for updates/changes and subscribe to our email list to get announcements.


Also:

Dangerous Curve can print your wide-format (up to 44") archival prints for you.  We print on canvas, too.  We also do museum-quality framing.  Call 213 617 8483 for information on affordable pricing. We also can frame your art: museum-quality and archival.

Kathryn Hargreaves teaches Body Awareness classes, incorporating Kundalini Yoga and actual artmaking, at Dangerous Curve for all types of artists: visual artists, writers, performers, musicians, dancers, you name it.  A new class is starting up on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m., just after the Arts District neighborhood walk.  Call (213) 617-8483 if you need more information.

Take a look at our column, Dangerous Blurb, on http://eyespyla.com, where we write occasionally about art collecting and other things art-related.

Artists, submit your art for art-in-windows installations in Los Angeles County.  Dangerous Curve sometimes curates for Phantom Galleries LA http://phantomgalleriesla.com.  See the website for submission information.  This is an ongoing open call for installation art, sculpture, video or new media, 2D visual art, and even live art/visual art performance.

Check out the new free newspaper, The Arts District Citizen http://theartsdistrictcitizen.com, published in The Arts District and distributed throughout the city.  Tim Quinn and Kathryn Hargreaves contribute writings on art and other things. 

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