[inter/meta/trans] Dangerous Curve's "Is It Music?" Series August 3 & 5, 2007

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Dangerous Curve's "Is It Music?" Series August 3 & 5, 2007
$10, $9, $8, or $7 sliding scale


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

Sunday, August 5, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
(CTRL+ALT+REPEAT returns with:)
Robin Streb performing James Tenney's "Koan"
Marc Thomas http://www.madrasband.com
Substrate (Laura Thomas-Merino http://www.tonoi.org/lauratm.htm, M. Cera http://www.c3ra.com, RS-232 http://www.2-3-2.com, and Jen Boyd http://www.jenboyd.org)
Jeremy Drake http://www.jeremydrake.com
Steve Roden http://inbetweennoise.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
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Chinatown adjacent at:

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

Los Angeles, CA, July 26, 2007 - We have lots of out-of-town goodies for you this week, as two groups from the Providence, RI and the New York City area roll in to grace Dangerous Curve's space.  Local and nonlocal heros join them for a smashing lineup.  Some sweet, sweet sounds have been emanating from our triangular space with a curved wall lately, and if you haven't been down here in a while, you've been missing music history in the making.  We're not kidding!

The evening of Friday, August 3, 2007, starting at 8:00 p.m., we will present two solos: Jody Redhage http://www.jodyredhage.com, http://myspace.com/jodyredhage and KIOKU http://www.kiokugroup.com. 

The afternoon of Sunday, August 5, 2007, starting at 4:00 p.m., we will have a return of organizers CTRL+ALT+REPEAT, with Robin Streb performing James Tenney's "Koan," Marc Thomas http://www.madrasband.com, Substrate (Laura Thomas-Merino http://www.tonoi.org/lauratm.htm, M. Cera http://www.c3ra.com, RS-232 http://www.2-3-2.com, and Jen Boyd http://www.jenboyd.org), Jeremy Drake http://www.jeremydrake.com, and Steve Roden http://inbetweennoise.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

Jody Redhage http://www.jodyredhage.com, http://myspace.com/jodyredhage, a resident of Brooklyn, is a cellist, composer, and vocalist who performs a wide variety of musical genres.  She trained at Cleveland Institute of Music, University of California Berkeley, and Manhattan School of Music.  She has participated in many cutting-edge experimental chamber music projects.  She also has premiered many chamber-ensemble works of her own, along with those of others.  In the past several years, she has worked on simultaneously singing while playing cello. With the help of her 2005 Hertz Fellowship, Redhage commissioned a repertoire from some of New York's most talented emerging composers. The CD "All Summer in a Day" was the result.  She has worked with the likes of Pierre Boulez, Margaret Brouwer, George Crumb, Joshua Fried, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Julia Wolfe, and Evan Ziporyn.  She has collaborated with members of The Tokyo String Quartet, The Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Flux!
  Quartet, Sequiter, Tactus Contemporary Ensemble, Neil Diamond and his band, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Meatloaf, Clay Aiken, and Enya.  Currently she is the cellist for the Anechoic Chamber Ensemble, the ensemble Yes is a World, and the Composers' Collective, Inc. Band. She recently formed the Y Trio with Eileen Mack (clarinet) and Jonathan Shapiro (percussion).  Her work has been on TV and NPR.

KIOKU http://www.kiokugroup.com, from New York City, melds traditional Asian music and collaborative improvisation.  The trio consists of Wynn Yamami (taiko and percussion), Christopher Ariza (live electronics), and Ali Sakkal (saxophones).  While grounded in historical musical practices, KIOKU (Japanese for "memory") embraces the plasticity of tradition and freely employs improvisational and avant-garde musical techniques.


Robin Streb is a violinist who an active performer and teacher from Vancouver, BC, Canada.  She is the assistant principal viola with the Vancouver Island Symphony and has performed with the Victoria Symphony, Vancouver Opera Orchestra and the Kamloops Symphony.  She is a member of Melange Chamber Ensemble and the Vancouver Miniaturist Ensemble.  Streb has performed in the Los Angeles area with the Okiro Series, Tonoi Ensemble, CTRL+ALT+REPEAT,  New West Symphony, and various events at California Institute of the Arts.  Robin earned her BMus from the University of Victoria (1999) and her MMus from Rice University (2002).  In addition to her performing schedule, she also teaches at the Vancouver Waldorf School and the Vancouver Academy.

Marc Thomas http://www.madrasband.com is a guitarist who, after a year at Berklee College of Music, returned to his native Southern California to graduate from the Studio/Jazz Guitar program at USC.  He has since performed in all the major rock and jazz venues throughout Los Angeles, most recently at Walt Disney Hall with Burt Bacharach.  He is in the indie rock band Madras, which just completed their second full-length album.

Substrate is an ensemble made up of Laura Thomas-Merino on cello, M. Cera on electronics, RS-232 on electronics, and Jen Boyd with field recordings.  They created a piece for Long Beach's Soundwalk 2006 that was a 10-foot tape loop with sounds of cello/electronics, birds, and a plucked heater.  This will be their first live show together, with one member, Jen Boyd, playing through a live-feed webcast.

Laura Thomas-Merino http://www.tonoi.org/lauratm.htm is a professional cellist originally from Los Angeles, who currently residing in Providence, RI.  She graduated from the School of Music at Indiana University, then attained a cello position with the Graduate String Quartet at Wichita State University, where she received her graduate degree in Cello Performance.  She has since performed in the US, Canada, Mexico, Peru, and Italy.  She is an orchestral and chamber musician, cello teacher, electronic musician, and concert presenter. Her fellowship with Community MusicWorks in Providence resulted in a collaboration with Pamela Z in concert with the Robin Cox Ensemble, the world premiere of Andre Cormier's "Infections" with the group OXO at The Sonic Boom Festival in Vancouver, and a house concert of Mendelssohn's string octet with the Providence String Quartet. She is co-curator of the quarterly experimental music series CTRL+ALT+REPEAT, which features performances by local a!
 nd internationally recognized performers of experimental electronics and New Music. As a member of Mem1, an electroacoustic duo with media artist M. Cera, she has collaborated with the Penderecki String Quartet and performed at REDCAT (Walt Disney Hall), the Orange County Museum of Art, and at numerous galleries and festivals throughout Southern California and the East Coast.  Mem1 was awarded a 2007 artist residency at Harvestworks in New York City.  Their second full-length album "Alexipharmaca" was recently released by Interval Recordings.

M. Cera http://www.c3ra.com is a media artist who explores intuitive and experimental control systems.  He creates custom applications for live audio/visual performances.  

Jen Boyd http://www.jenboyd.org spends her free time collecting microscopic recordings of trees, plants, and other audible organic matter, using them to create layered compositions in real time using a portable mixer.  Working with contact microphones and a flash recorder, Boyd constructs stereo soundscapes that give depth to the delicate sounds of trees and plants alike.  Boyd has a BFA in music technology from CalArts and is currently working on her Masters in Electronic Music at Mills College.  At Mills, she is working on presenting natural sounds in live performance and sound installations.  She is trying out various means of releasing recorded works of natural sounds and continues to build an archive of phonographies and contact recordings.

Jeremy Drake http://www.jeremydrake.com is a Los Angeles-based guitarist who has performed in Australia, England, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Canada and throughout the United States.  He recently performed music for "Macbeth" at the Adelaide Festival in Australia, was the featured guitarist on the Fox Searchlight film "The Hills Have Eyes." He has released a set of improvised music, recorded live with guitarist Nels Cline, on EMR records. As cofounder of the much-missed LINE SPACE LINE improvised music series, he presented concerts featuring local and international musicians on a weekly basis from May, 2002 through August, 2005. He now serves on the board of directors of SASSAS (The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound). 

Steve Roden http://inbetweennoise.com is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles who works in painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, and performance.  He uses various forms of specific notation (words, musical scores, maps, etc.), translating them through self-invented systems into scores.  These, in turn, influence his visual art and sound composition.  Roden has been exhibiting his visual and sound works since the mid-1980s, with numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and arts spaces in the US, Italy, France, Japan, Bulgaria, Slovenia, England, etc.  He has shown at such places as Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York, Studio La Citta Gallery in Verona, San Francisco Art Institute's McBean Gallery, Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, and Gallery E/static in Torino.  He recently appeared in group exhibitions at The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, San Diego Museum of Contempora!
 ry Art, The Hammer Museum, Sculpture Center in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art EMST in Athens, and The Drawing Room in London.  Roden has performed his soundworks at various arts spaces and festivals worldwide, including Serpentine Gallery in London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MIT, The Walker Art Center, He has toured Brazil and Japan and released over 20 CDs of audio works on labels worldwide.  Roden received an MFA from Art Center College of Design in 1989 and a BFA from Otis Parsons in 1986.

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Dangerous Curve exhibits:

July 7--August 4: Marc Nimoy sound installations "sound box and others."
August 11--September 8: Annual Downtown Artists Grants Exhibition, with Allan Barnes, Bumdog, Heather Carson, YaYa Chou, Jennifer Cunningham, Martin Durazo, Richard Godfrey, Jaime Scholnick

Live Art Series:

TBA


New Music Series:

Friday, August 10, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
Paul Bailey http://www.paulbaileyensemble.org
TBA

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


Friday, August 17, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
Leticia Castaneda
Josie Roth http://www.josieroth.com

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 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 Live Body and Kundalini Yoga sessions at Dangerous Curve for all types of artists and non-artists: visual artists, writers, performers, musicians, dancers, lawyers, you name it. The current sessions are 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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