[inter/meta/trans] Dangerous Curve's Live Art Series and "Is It Music?" Series July 19--22, 2007

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Dangerous Curve's Live Art Series
Free!

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


Dangerous Curve's "Is It Music?" Series
$10, $9, $8, or $7 sliding scale

Friday, July 20, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
(Combinations and recombinations:)
Cory Beers (tabla) http://www.myspace.com/corybeers
Eric Clark (violin) http://www.erickmclark.com
Kraig Grady (microtonal pump organ) http://www.anaphoria.com
Motoko Honda (keyboard) http://www.myspace.com/motokohonda
Ivan Johnson (bass) http://www.ivanjohnson.com
Paul Kikuchi (percussion) http://www.myspace.com/kikuchism
Tom McNalley (guitar) http://www.myspace.com/tommcnalley
Jason Mears (woodwinds) http://www.mtkjquartet.com
Kris Tiner (trumpets) http://www.kristiner.com

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

(Programs subject to change.)


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

Los Angeles, CA, July 10, 2007 - This week, we have lots of good art stuff for you, including another in our live art series on Thursday. (If you've not seen any live art yet, you don't know what fun you're missing---because almost anything goes!  This one is going to have a lot of candles.)  Friday is a monster jam-up of nine New Music master musicians, and Sunday is the return of some of our favorite CalArts teachers (who are also New Music master musicians).  Join us for cutting edge music in an intimate setting with all the stops out and nothing to cloud our friendly atmosphere.

The evening of Thursday, July 19, 2007, starting at 8:00 p.m., we will present live artist Lawrence Rengert's "Iterator/Repeater/Autobiography" http://finearts.usc.edu/roskigallery_artists/index.cfm?gfa_id=91&imageid=2355.

The evening of Friday, July 20, 2007, starting at 8:00 p.m., we will present combinations and recombinations of Cory Beers (tabla) http://www.myspace.com/corybeers, Eric Clark (violin) http://www.erickmclark.com, Kraig Grady (microtonal pump organ) http://www.anaphoria.com, Motoko Honda (keyboard) http://www.myspace.com/motokohonda, Ivan Johnson (bass) http://www.ivanjohnson.com, Paul Kikuchi (percussion) http://www.myspace.com/kikuchism, Tom McNalley (guitar) http://www.myspace.com/tommcnalley, Jason Mears (woodwinds) http://www.mtkjquartet.com, and Kris Tiner (trumpets) http://www.kristiner.com.

The afternoon of Sunday, July 22, 2007, starting at 4:00 p.m., we will have a duo of Michael Jon Fink http://www.michaeljonfink.com, http://www.myspace.com/aguirrefink and Antony DiGennaro http://www.myspace.com/tonydmusic, a solo by Karl Montevirgen http://www.karlmontevirgen.com, plus the duo of Susan Allen http://music.calarts.edu/~susie and Andrew Kutchera http://www.akpossible.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 Live Artist

Lawrence Rengert http://finearts.usc.edu/roskigallery_artists/index.cfm?gfa_id=91&imageid=2355 presents "Iterator/Repeater/Autobiography." Rengert says that human relationships have always been important to him, especially the intense personal moments with friends or strangers.  He's a lot of time traveling alone on road trips, spontaneous quests, and spiritual journeys.  Some interactions he's had during these often had a heightened sense of intimacy.  He uses the term "experience" to mean "senses": what you feel in the different ways humans can: seeing, tasting, touching, smelling, hearing, and even intuiting.  It is also the additive memory of these things, and how it marks us.  Says he: "Experience leaves its mark on us. It changes us."  Getting people together reminds Rengert of being on a trip.  "Everything is so alive and fresh when you're somewhere new," he says.  "Even walking outside is such a sensory experience. Being somewhere new makes me feel alive. Getting peo!
 ple together creates the opportunity for new things to happen, but you have to have someone there that's excited. Who could that person be?"

Rengert is in the process of getting his MFA from USC.  He has a BA from UCLA and has shown his work in Amsterdam, Basel, Berlin, Utrecht and Rotterdam, and at the Hammer, M&A, Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Museum of Art, Breathing Space, Sundown Salon, Lost and Found, Beyond Baroque, The Living Room, The Smell, and Action Space.  He has lectured at Second City Council, UCLA, and in Paris and The Netherlands.  He studied with Joan Jonas and Marina Abrimovic.  His performances have all the innocence of a Boy Scout jamboree.  He accompanies his performances with his 8mm films, which in turn are elemental storytelling.


More about the Musicians

Cory Beers http://www.myspace.com/corybeers graduated from CalArts.

Eric Clark http://www.erickmclark.com a composer and violinist originally from Canada.  He studied with James Tenney, Charles Castleman, Dave Douglas, and Stefano Scodanibio, with master classes with The St. Lawrence String Quartet and, The Kronos Quartet, among many others.  He's collaborated with the likes of Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Julia Wolfe.  He recently played lead violin with Ensemble Sospeso for the live soundtrack to Guy Maddin's "Brand Upon the Brain!," with guest narrators including Laurie Anderson.  Eric has performed in many genres, most often in New Music, experimental, and improvisational.  He has performed throughout Canada, the U.S., Europe, and Australia and has also played with The California EAR Unit.  He's premiered with the New York band Passenger Fish, the 2006 Minimalist Jukebox festival in Walt Disney Concert Hall, Michael Gordon's new opera "What to Wear and Decasia," and the Creative Music Festival at REDCAT.  Eric just completed a recording!
  in LA of Anne LeBaron's opera "Pope Joan."  Eric is an extremely diverse composer, from writing for hearing-deprived musicians to improvisational works for his bands in New York and Europe. His music has been performed by numerous ensembles and soloists, such as ARRAYMUSIC, Bang on a Can, The California EAR Unit, and The ANAlog Arts Ensemble. 

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.

Motoko Honda http://www.myspace.com/motokohonda is a pianist/sound artist born in Japan.  She loves play the piano "inside and out."  Honda improvises with African and Indonesian influences, connecting electronics to pianos or keyboards, and collaborating with visual, video, light, or dance artists.  She is trained in hardcore classical solo and chamber piano repertoire, but is learning jazz now.  Honda has played in/at Line Space Line, REDCAT, The Ear Jam Music Festival, The Park City Music Festival, The Sienna Music Festival (Italy), The Sandzen Gallery Museum, Cafe Metropol, The Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Club Tropical, The Smell, and many venues in Europe, including Duomo in Sienna, Italy.  She has sung at Carnegie Hall.  Honda lives here in Downtown---yay!

Ivan Johnson http://www.ivanjohnson.com is head of the jazz program at Oakwood High School in Los Angeles.  He has worked as the Music Coordinator for the CAP program and co-founded the Academy of Creative Education.  He was recently the Assistant Music Director for the opera "The Peach Blossom Fan" and an Artist in Residence at Stanford University.  Mr. Johnson began his performance career on contrabass in 1998, winning multiple awards from IAJE and other festivals in California.  He has a BFA from California Institute of the Arts and has studied contrabass with Charlie Haden, Darek Oles, and Peter Rofe. Johnson has performed all over the United States with an eclectic group of ensembles.  He has premiered music by Marc Lowenstein, Vinny Golia, Mark Menzies, Anne LeBaron, Michael Pisaro, James Tenney, Kris Tiner, and Jason Mears.  Johnson's current projects include the MTKJ Quartet, Dark Wing, The Lian Ensemble, and The Nate Lapointe Band.

Paul Kikuchi http://www.myspace.com/kikuchism is from Seattle.

Tom McNalley http://www.myspace.com/tommcnalley, http://www.tommcnalley.com is a guitarist recently relocated to Los Angeles.  He has been recognized as a major force on the creative music scene, working as both a sideman and a leader.  He has performed (and can be seen) with a wide variety of musicians, including Rob Blakeslee, Michael Vlatkovich, Rich Halley, Nels Cline, Bert Turetzky, Mark Dresser, Jeff Kaiser, Alex Cline, Bert Wilson, Adam Diller, Tad Weed, John Stowell, John Gross, Jason Mears, and John Zorn, as well as with his own groups.

Jason Mears http://www.mtkjquartet.com is a saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, improviser, and educator currently living just outside of Tokyo, Japan.  He holds a BFA in Music Education from Boston University and a MFA in African-American Improvisational Music from California Institute of the Arts.  Jason has made frequent interdisciplinary collaborations with filmmaker Allen Glass and dancer Miyuki Kobayashi, and has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Frank Gratkowski, Phillip Greenlief, Jack Wright, Leroy Jenkins, Mark Trayle, Michael Vlatkovich, Jeb Bishop, Jason Roebke, Jeff Parker, Steuart Liebig, Harris Eisenstadt, and Damon Smith.

Kris Tiner http://www.kristiner.com is a trumpet player, composer, and improviser. His music has been described as "extraordinarily inventive" by Signal to Noise magazine.  LA Weekly jazz critic Greg Burk says of him: "Trumpeter Kris Tiner can turn barbed wire to beauty."  Kris has toured and performed his own music at concert venues and festivals throughout North America and in West Africa, including The Kennedy Center (Washington DC), LACMA, The Knitting Factory (Hollywood), Zeitgeist Gallery (Boston), The Goethe Institut (Los Angeles), REDCAT, the Schindler House, so.cal.sonic (Long Beach), and Earjam.  Kris holds an MFA in African-American Improvisational Music from California Institute of the Arts Kris has studied and performed in a wide variety of classical, jazz, and popular styles, as well as traditional music from Latin America, West Africa, Indonesia, and North India.

Michael Jon Fink http://www.michaeljonfink.com, http://www.myspace.com/aguirrefink has had his instrumental and electronic music performed at numerous concerts and festivals throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan.  His works appear on the Contagion, Cold Blue, Trance Port, Raptoria Caam, and Wire Tapper labels.  He has composed concertos for soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, violin, and cello, as well as incidental music for two plays by William Butler Yeats, and for the epic play "Forets" by Wajdi Mouawad.  A founding member of such experimental and New Music groups as The Negative Band, Musica Veneris Nocturnas, Stillife, and Ghost Duo, he continues to perform solo and in group situations, exploring new sounds and forms on the electric guitar.

Antony DiGennaro http://www.myspace.com/tonydmusic is a guitarist, composer and improvisor from Connecticut. He just finished his first solo guitar album, "The Dunes Thus Far" and is currently at work on a new CD to be released on pfMentum.  Besides solo and duo performances, he is also a member of the experimental rock group Tinhorn Justice, the improvising trio Ham on Rye, and a jazz/rock quartet titled A Probe Called Gnomes.  Antony is also currently composing scores for short films and teaching guitar.

Karl Montevirgen http://www.karlmontevirgen.com 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.

Susan Allen http://music.calarts.edu/~susie is well known throughout the Americas, Australia, Europe, Russia and Asia for her world premiere performances of new and improvised music for harp on television, radio and at major music festivals.  As a harpist, she has concertized on/at/with the NBC Today Show, National Public Radio, New York Philharmonic's "Horizons" concerts, The Kitchen Center in New York, Carnegie Recital Hall, The Smithsonian Institute, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Los Angeles Festival, Composers in Red Sneakers, The Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, The Cambridge Chamber Players, and Musica Viva.  Long-term collaborations with composers James Tenney, Earl Kim, Mel Powell, Harold Budd, Ruth Lomon, Morton Feldman, William Thomas McKinley, and many others have yielded her premieres and recordings of major the 20th and 21st century repertoire for harp.  Of her concert debut featuring many new works, the New York Times wrote, "sheer physical!
  virtuosity...sensitive, expertly played."

Andrew Kutchera http://www.akpossible.com art has degrees in history/Spanish, completed his MFA in graphic design from CalArts in 2001.  While at CalArts, he also studied alto saxophone and performed with a variety of free-improvisational ensembles. 

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Dangerous Curve exhibits:

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


New Music Series:

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

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 19, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Duo of Bruce Friedman http://www.brucefriedmanmusic.com and Scott Fraser http://www.artkitchen.com/Other/ScottFraser.html
TBA
TBA

Friday, August 24, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
Daren Burns http://www.darenburns.com
Motoko Honda http://www.myspace.com/motokohonda

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 http://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/Rob Wallace Duo (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, September 28, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
(The Dangerous Voice:)
Becky Allen http://www.beckyallenmusic.com
Julie Adler http://myspace.com/julieadler
Sylvia Desrochers
Kira Vollman  http://myspace.com/noncredo

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


Sunday, November 4, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Dottie Grossman http://home.pon.net/dottieg/Homepage.html and Michael Vlatkovich http://www.ninewinds.com/Artists/vlatkovich.html
Anna Homler http://www.annahomler.com
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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We are always looking for submissions of live art and experimental music.

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