[inter/meta/trans] Dangerous Curve's "Is It Music?" Series June 7, 8 & 10, 2007

Mon Jun 4 03:00:36 EDT 2007

Dangerous Curve's "Is It Music?" Series June 7, 8 & 10, 2007
Note different admission amounts for each day.

Thursday, June 7, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
$8, $7, $6, or $5 sliding scale
ing http://myspace.com/ingtree
TBA

Friday, June 8, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
$10, $9, $8, or $7 sliding scale
Marcos Fernandes http://www.marcosfernandes.com, http://www.myspace.com/marcosrfernandes and Robert Montoya http://www.myspace.com/robertm2006
Raven Chacon http://music.calarts.edu/~rchacon

Sunday, June 10, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
$10, $9, $8, or $7 sliding scale
Brad Dutz http://braddutz.com and T.J. Troy http://tjtroy.com
OGOGO http://igorogogo.com, http://www.myspace.com/ogogoigor
T.J. Troy http://tjtroy.com and Sayo Mitsuishi

(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, May 27, 2007 - From the innocent to the hypnotic, from quiet to noise, this week at Dangerous Curve we've got a lot of percussionists, a guitar player, and an ambidextrous drawer as part of our New Music series "Is It Music?"  The boundaries of music get pushed here, but in a good, expansive way.  If you've not experienced new music, or new music here, then it's time to do so.  Uplift your spirit! 

The evening of Thursday, June 7, 2007, starting at 8:00 p.m., we will present the delightful duo ing http://myspace.com/ingtree and their secret TBA co-act.  They will be doing quiet music (no drums here!).

The evening of Friday, June 8, 2007, starting at 8:00 p.m., we will present a duo of percussionists Marcos Fernandes http://www.marcosfernandes.com, http://www.myspace.com/marcosrfernandes and Robert Montoya http://www.myspace.com/robertm2006, plus a solo noise artist Raven Chacon http://music.calarts.edu/~rchacon.

The afternoon of Sunday, June 10, 2007, starting at 4:00 p.m., we will have percussionists Brad Dutz http://braddutz.com and T.J. Troy http://tjtroy.com, the group OGOGO http://igorogogo.com, and then T.J. Troy http://tjtroy.com with visual artist Sayo Mitsuishi.

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/Artists

ing http://myspace.com/ingtree, www.ingismaxandjohn.com are Max Markowitz and John Wood.  Innocence abounds with these two truly evolved spirits.  They raise yours by putting you at the doorstep of the gods. The Golden Years never left these guys, even though they went to Cal Arts.  They just ended a stint with their Origins of the Rainbow series at Machine Project http://www.machineproject.com/past.

Marcos Fernandes http://www.marcosfernandes.com, http://www.myspace.com/marcosrfernandes was born in Yokohama, Japan, Marcos Fernandes has long been active in San Diego as performer, producer and curator.  He has performed in Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. as a solo improviser, phonographer, and as a percussionist/sound artist with various ensembles. Fernandes runs the artist-based independent label Accretions, home to some of today's more innovative experimentalists.  He is a founding member of the Trummerflora collective, dedicated to creative music in Southern California.  He has performed and/or recorded with leading new music musicians and groups, including Alessandro Bosetti, Emily Hay, Hans Fjellestad, Mike Pride.  He has participated in various international festivals.  Fernandes was co-director of Spring Reverb 2003-2007, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and has curated events at numerous venues, including Spruce Street Forum, Casbah!
 , Galoka, The Space, and Voz Alta.  From 1993 to 1996, Fernandes curated weekly performances and presented concerts at the Wikiup Cafe and Intersection Gallery, an alternative visual and performing arts space in San Diego.  Fernandes is a recipient of a grant from Meet the Composer.

Robert Montoya http://www.myspace.com/robertm2006 has been active in the San Diego music scene for the past two decades, as a percussionist, improviser, and sound artist.  In recent years, his work has focused on sample-based electronic music, creating complex, subtly-evolving soundscapes.  His ensemble projects include Wormhole, with long-time collaborator Marcos Fernandes, and mrlectronic, with Lisle Ellis and Fernandes.  He is a founding member of Trummerflora, a musician's collective dedicated to creative music.  A Tijuana native, he has performed in Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, and the U.S.  He has performed and/or recorded with members of Trummerflora, the Nortec Collective, George Lewis, Le Quan Ninh, Mike Keneally, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Rent Romus, Eric Glick Rieman, Michael Dessen, David Gould, Scott R. Looney and Ultra 7.

Raven Chacon http://music.calarts.edu/~rchacon, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_Chacon is an American composer and artist. He is known for being a composer of chamber music, as well as being a solo performer of experimental noise music.  As an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, he is also one of the few American Indian classical composers and educators of "New Native Art." Chacon has recorded many works for classical and electronic instruments and ensembles and has had many performances and exhibits of his work across the U.S., as well as Europe and New Zealand.  He has received commissions from the University of Mary Washington and the ERGO Ensemble. Chacon also performs in the bands Cobra//group, KILT, and Dog Shit Taco. He was a student of James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, and Wadada Leo Smith. He lives in Los Angeles, California and is a member of the American Composers Forum.  He has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Native American Composers Apprenticeship P!
 roject.

Brad Dutz http://braddutz.com can play just about anything percussive, with the greatest intensity and performative presence.  A Berklee grad, he toured with Maynard Ferguson and has played with lots of folks, from KISS to Jeff Bridges.  We always welcome him, along with any of the multifarious groups to which he belongs.

T.J. Troy http://tjtroy.com combines an eclectic knowledge of percussion from around the world with his innate musicality to create a distinct and powerful voice in the world of contemporary percussion.  Known for his high-energy performance and broad range of disciplines, he performs in a number of ensembles, including MESTO, the Elvis Schoenberg Orchestra Surreal, Tabla Rasa, Freshly Squeezed, and Just Strings, an ensemble specializing in the music of Harry Partch.  He has taught at the California Institute of the Arts, La Sierra University, The Oakwood School, and (currently) Bethesda Christian University.  T.J. is also an active performer and composer for television and film.  He has a Bachelor of Music degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Fine Arts, specializing in Percussion, from the California Institute of the Arts.  His principle instructors have been Michael Udow, Julie Spencer, David Johnson, John Bergamo, Randy Gloss. !
  He continues his study of North Indian tabla with Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri.  Currently stationed in Los Angeles, T.J. has performed extensively throughout the United States.

OGOGO http://igorogogo.com, http://www.myspace.com/ogogoigor is all over the place and has been everywhere.  His guitar playing will take you out of your head, but not out of your mind, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

Sayo Mitsuishi is an artist/hypnotist who draws live using both hands simultaneously.  She creates a symmetry as gesture rather than representation, using drawing "as a way of recording the body's intricate dance with music."  She often performs with Joseph Hammer, in their duo The Swinging Chandeliers. 

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Dangerous Curve related events:

Dangerous Curve exhibits:

May 19--June 23: Anna Kim sculptures.
June 30--August 4: TBA
August 11--September 8: Winners of the Downtown Artists Grant.

New Music Series:

Thursday, June 14, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
ing http://myspace.com/ingtree, www.ingismaxandjohn.com
TBA

Friday, June 15, 2007, 8:00--10:00 p.m.
Jason E. Anderson/JEA (Seattle) http://www.pathoftheelk.com, http://www.makejetsilent.com
yek koo http://www.helgafassonaki.net

Sunday, June 17, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Trio http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=25533 of Emily Hay http://www.emilyhay.com,  Brad Dutz http://braddutz.com, and (tentatively) Wayne Peet http://www.pfmentum.com/wayne_peet_als.html
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Anthony Shadduck  http://www.myspace.com/jazzfreedom, Lynn Johnston (clarinets), Tom McNally http://www.myspace.com/tommcnalley, http://www.tommcnalley.com, TBA (drums)
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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.

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