[inter/meta/trans] Dangerous Curve's "Is It Music?" Series July 13 & 15, 2007

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Dangerous Curve's "Is It Music?" Series July 13 & 15, 2007
$10, $9, $8, or $7 sliding scale


Friday, July 13, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
A-Tribute Ensemble http://ryangtanaka.com/atribute.htm
Danny Holt http://www.dannyholt.net
Kraig Grady http://www.anaphoria.com

Sunday, July 15, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Kaoru and GE Stinson http://codedsource.com
Anna Homler http://www.annahomler.com and Steuart Liebig http://stigsite.com
Rick Potts http://www.answers.com/topic/rick-potts?cat=entertainment and
Joseph Hammer http://www.josephhammer.com

(Programs subject to change.)


at Dangerous Curve
http://dangerouscurve.org

an Experimental Exhibition and
Live Art/Visual Art Performance Space

Voted 5th Most Popular Art Gallery
Best of Alternative L.A. Readers' Choice:
http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/best-of-la


Chinatown adjacent at:

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

Los Angeles, CA, July 3, 2007 - We're pulling a lot of the masters (both young and old) this week, with a triple-A-plus-rated weekend here at Dangerous Curve!  We are welcoming back many favorite folks from our not-so-distant past---people who have graciously supported us from our very beginnings.  We are also welcoming our new enthusiasts: masters who have done their utmost to spread the word about our wonderful New Music series.  "Is It Music?" is fast becoming one of the best opportunities to see and do New Music.  If you're curious to hear something new, come on by and meet the masters of new.  They aren't scary at all.  Ask them questions.  See up-close some of their strange and bewitching instruments.  They'll love seeing you.

The evening of Friday, July 13, 2007, starting at 8:00 p.m., we will present A-Tribute Ensemble http://ryangtanaka.com/atribute.htm, Danny Holt http://www.dannyholt.net, and Kraig Grady http://www.anaphoria.com.

The afternoon of Sunday, July 15, 2007, starting at 4:00 p.m., we will have Kaoru and GE Stinson http://codedsource.com, Anna Homler www.annahomler.com and Steuart Liebig http://stigsite.com, plus Rick Potts http://www.answers.com/topic/rick-potts?cat=entertainment and Joseph Hammer http://www.josephhammer.com.

As always, beverages will be served, and most of the times, a great art show will be up.

We're located two miles from Chinatown, 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 the Musicians

A-Tribute Ensemble http://ryangtanaka.com/atribute.htm was formed in 2005.  They performs in a wide variety of styles ranging from the old to the new, using improvisational forms from jazz, folk, world, and classical musics.  Since its conception, the ensemble has developed several unique skills in music, ranging from rhythmic phasing techniques, intuitive 12-tone harmonies, improvised forms (such as fugues and inventions), and improvisations based off of classical musical works.

Danny Holt http://www.dannyholt.net is one of "a new generation of innovative young musicians ushering classical music into the 21st Century."  As a pianist, he brings his boundless energy and wit to unique interpretations of new music, 20th Century music, plus obscure, unusual, and neglected repertoire.  His concerts are multimedia performance-compositions, where classical music meets rock-concert aesthetics and "performance-art sensibility."  Called "exceptional" by the Los Angeles Times, Holt has performed nationwide in venues as diverse as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (New York), REDCAT (Los Angeles), MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), Machineworks (Portland, OR), and Tonic (New York).

Kraig Grady http://www.anaphoria.com has presented his work at the Norton Simon Museum of Art, the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, the Pacific Asia Museum, the Chateau de la Napoule (France), California Institute of the Arts, Pomona College, Pierce College, Villa Aurora Foundation for European American Relations, the Schindler House, Beyond Baroque, the Brand Library, New Langton Arts, as well as numerous live performances on KPFK, KCRW, and KXLU.  His work was also presented as part of the LA Philharmonic's American Music Weekend, as well as New Music America. He has been nominated four times for the LA WEEKLY Music Award "best uncategorizable artist" and was chosen by BUZZ Magazine as one of the 100 coolest persons in Los Angeles.

GE Stinson http://codedsource.com was initially immersed in the gospel music of his family in Oklahoma.  Later in Chicago, he studied blues with the likes of Cash McCall, Hound Dog Taylor.  In 1972, he co-founded the seminal fusion/world music group, Shadowfax.  They toured extensively all over the world, including performances at Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center.  In 1988, they won a Grammy Award.  They then collaborated with Momix Dance Theater on a national tour.  In 1990, he formed The G.E. Stinson Group in Los Angeles.  He would soon become a prominent member of the Los Angeles New Music community.  He's collaborated with The Wayne Peet Trio, Adam Rudolph, Alex Cline and Jeff Gauthier, Unique Cheerful Events, and Nels Cline.  A Thousand Other Names is a Stinson-led group that recorded for Birdcage records in 1996. Stinson continues to compose for dance and has contributed to several motion picture soundtracks.

Kaoru is an amazing singer who works with GE Stinson.

Anna Homler http://www.annahomler.com work includes music, spoken word, and installation.  She has developed "alternative languages," making words musical and music like words.  Since 1982, she has collaborated with composers/musicians Steve Moshier, Davis Moss, Ethan James, Spastic Colon, The Voices of Kwahn, Steve Beresford, Peter Kowald, Richard Sanderson, Geert Waegeman, and Pavel Fajt. Homler has performed at well-known venues throughout the United States and Europe, including appearances at P.S. 122, the Kitchen, Dixon Place, and the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (L.A.C.E.); Supraclub in Prague; Klarinsky in Bratislava, Slovakia; Ketty Do in Bologna, Italy; the Stadgarten and the Loft in Koln, Germany; and the Melkweg and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Steuart Liebig http://stigsite.com at the age of 19 started playing rhythm guitar with soul-jazz pianist-singer Les McCann (playing on four albums).  He then returned to university to study classical contrabass, music history and composition.  Afterwards, he started a rock band (BLOC).  It died, but he'd already started self-study, which resulted in some 20 works, including a symphony, two string quartets, two string quintets, a piano quartet, and several pieces for large orchestral forces.  He decided to focus on playing improvised music and composing, still finding time to become a sideman for two promotional tours of singer-songwriter Michael Penn.  This led to Quartetto Stig, where he was first able to integrate his compositional ideas with the needs of an improvisational group.  He disbanded the quartet and embarked on three more or less parallel lines of compositional investigation: Stigtette, which elaborates on some of the compositional ideas and techniques first exp!
 lored in Quartetto Stig; The Mentones, which attempts to revisit American folk music through the prism of "avant-garde" jazz; and a free-jazz-based trio (with multi-reedist Vinny Golia and drummer Billy Mintz) that uses skeletal themes as compositional "way stations".  He has written material for an improvising chamber group, a "quasi-jazz" horn band, and an electric "jazz" group.  He is developing literature for solo contrabassguitar (AKA Steubig) and continues to conceptualize and write long-form pieces.
    
Rick Potts http://www.answers.com/topic/rick-potts?cat=entertainment (synthesizer/electronics/hingeneck mandobird/whatnots) is a multi-instrumentalist.  He was a founding member of cult influential experimenters Los Angeles Free Music Society in the mid-70s.  Potts has been active in the L.A. area since then, and his involvement in recording and performing with the LAFMS unit, Le Forte Four, lasted through the early 80s.  In Le Forte Four, he played electric guitar with an electric toothbrush and other implements, in addition to playing saxophone, xylophone, and musical saw.  In 1982, Potts and Joseph Hammer formed the experimental ensemble Dinosaurs with Horns. (Both later show up on Danny Cohen's 1999 Tzadik release.)  In the mid-80s, Potts also became involved in Steaming Coils (with Medicine's Brad Laner) and Debt of Nature. In 1992, he formed Solid Eye with Hammer and ex-Monitor Steve Thomsen.

Joseph Hammer http://www.josephhammer.com (tape loops/electronics) a sound artist from Los Angeles, has actively created experimental works since 1980.  His practice draws on the process of listening and playing, along with the role of the audience versus the performer.  In various collaborations, solo, and as a founding member of the trio Solid Eye, Hammer has performed widely (including a recent one month tour of Japan) and is an influential contributor to the Los Angeles underground scene.

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Dangerous Curve exhibits:

July 7--August 4: Marc Nimoy sound installations.
August 11--September 8: Winners of the Downtown Artists Grant.


Live Art Series:

Thursday, July 19, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m. (Live Art)
Lawrence Rengert
http://finearts.usc.edu/roskigallery_artists/index.cfm?gfa_id=91&imageid=2355


New Music Series:

Friday, July 13, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
A-Tribute Ensemble http://ryantanaka.com
Danny Holt http://www.dannyholt.net
Kraig Grady http://www.anaphoria.com

Sunday, July 15, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Kaoru and GE Stinson http://codedsource.com
Anna Homler http://www.annahomler.com and Steuart Liebig http://stigsite.com
Rick Potts http://www.answers.com/topic/rick-potts?cat=entertainment
and Joseph Hammer http://www.josephhammer.com

Friday, July 20, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
Kris Tiner http://www.kristiner, Jason Mears http://www.mtkjquartet.com, and Tom McNalley Tom McNalley http://www.myspace.com/tommcnalley
TBA

Sunday, July 22, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Duo of Michael Jon Fink  http://www.michaeljonfink.com/,
http://www.myspace.com/aguirrefink and Antony DiGennaro http://www.myspace.com/tonydmusic
Karl Montevirgen http://www.karlmontevirgen.com
Susan Allen http://music.calarts.edu/~susie and Andrew Kutchera http://www.akpossible.com

Friday, July 27, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
Ryan Tanaka http://ryangtanaka.com
Marc Nimoy http://www.digitanalog.net (tentative)

Sunday, July 29, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Ellen Burr http://www.ellenburr.com/eburrmusic.html
Susan Rawcliffe http://artawakening.com/soundworks
Liam Mooney http://www.calarts.edu/~lmooney/index.html

Friday, August 3, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
Jody Redhage www.jodyredhage.com, http://myspace.com/jodyredhageAu
KIOKU http://www.kiokugroup.com

Sunday, August 5, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
CTRL+ALT+REPEAT returns!

Sunday, August 12,  2007, 4:00 p.m.
OGOGO http://ogogo.org, http://www.myspace.com/ogogoigor plays "Swing Your OGOGO"
Andre LaFosse http://www.altruistmusic.com, http://www.myspace.com/andrelafosse
TBA

Thursday, August 16, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Johnny Chang

Sunday, August 26, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Rod Poole memorial concert

Friday, August 31, 2007, 8:00 p.m.
GE Stinson http://codedsource.com
Devin Sarno www.devinsarno.com

Sunday, September 2, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Albert Ortega http://resontropic.com and friends
Special guests TBA

Sunday, September 9, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Colter Frazier (Santa Barbara) http://www.myspace.com/colterfrazier)
TBA
TBA

Sunday, September 16, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
(Collaborations and solos:)
Killick (Georgia) myspace.com/iamkillick
Jessica Catron http://www.myspace.com/jessicacatron
Jeremy Drake http://www.jeremydrake.com
Sara Schoenbeck http://www.myspace.com/saraschoenbeck

Friday, October 12, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
Glatter/Hubbard http://www.castorandpolluxmusic.com/glatterhubbard/music/music.htm
TBA

Sunday, October 14, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Bonnie Barnett http://members.aol.com/ninewinds/BIOS/barnett.html
TBA
TBA


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

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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 and other art services.  Call 213 617 8483 for information on affordable pricing. We also can frame your art: museum-quality and archival.

Kathryn Hargreaves teaches a Live Body class, incorporating Kundalini Yoga and artmaking with body awareness, at Dangerous Curve for all types of artists and non-artists: visual artists, writers, performers, musicians, dancers, lawyers, you name it.  The current class is 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, and sometimes make event recommendations.

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.

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Dangerous Curve is a leading contemporary art space in the Arts District of Los Angeles.  It is a privately run venue for live art/visual art performance, experimental art and music, and installations.  The gallery supports visionary established and emerging artists of all ages, with live art residencies and one-person shows of high-quality, risky and intelligent work that's ahead of the curve.

We are always looking for submissions of live art and experimental music.

Visit our website at http://dangerouscurve.org.  Sign up for email announcements, see photos of past exhibits and events!  Support our vital art community by donating to our Events and Openings Fund!  Buy some art online, book parties in the space!  Rent Dangerous Curve for non-art-show events!  Have your wedding, private/corporate party, CD release party, you name it!  Call (213) 617-8483. 

A huge thank you to our supporters, The Dale and Edna Walsh Foundation, Kate Bartolo of The Kor Group, and others listed on our sponsor page. Because of their and your generous support, Dangerous Curve is able to make a difference by helping emerging artists and educating the community about high-quality art.

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