THE ELECTRIC ARTS ALLIANCE OF ATLANTA
presents
MEET THE ARTIST 1.0
Monday, May 20, 2002, 8 pm
Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery - www.eyedrum.org
RICHARD ZVONAR is a composer/performer of electroacoustic music and creator of large-scale intermedia performance works. His undergraduate work at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) led to an SB degree in Humanities and Engineering in 1970. In 1982 he received a PhD in Composition and Music Technology from University of California San Diego (UCSD). His teachers included Roger Reynolds, Bernard Rands, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Erickson, and F.R. Moore, and he was a Fellow at the Center for Music Experiment (CME) and a Research Assistant at the Computer Audio Research Laboratory (CARL). He has been an Artist-in-Residence at MIT's Art and Media Technology Lab, the Yellow Springs Institute in Pennsylvania, Real Art Ways in Hartford, Studio PASS in New York City, and at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta.
Zvonar's work has been performed at New Music America Festival '85 in Los Angeles and '86 in Houston, Real Art Ways in Hartford, N.A.M.E. Gallery in Chicago, the Painted Bride Center in Philadelphia, Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, EMAS in London, NEWCOMP in Boston, Kala Institute in Berkeley, Life on the Water in San Francisco, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Highways Performance Space and Electronic Cafe in Santa Monica, Diverse Works in Houston, the Banff Centre in Alberta, Bourges France, and the Ought-One Festival of Non-Pop in Montpelier Vermont. Much of his musical performance depends on the use of digital signal processors, and he has created his own control software using the Max programming language. Collaboration forms an important part of this work; significant projects include his ongoing musical partnership with bassist Robert Black, participation in the electroacoustic ensemble Cosmic Debris, work with the new music ensemble Relache, and several years recording and performing with Diamanda Galas. Recorded examples of this work is available on Robert Black's "State of the Bass" on O.O.Discs, the Canadian Electroacoustic Community compilation "Presence III," on the Alias Zone and Cosmic Debris CDs, and on several of Galas's earlier record albums.
Zvonar has worked as systems designer and creative advisor for such artists as Diamanda Galas, Pauline Oliveros, Jon Hassell, and the Grateful Dead and is a regular consultant for manufacturers of computer music hardware and software. During the early 1980s he toured extensively with Galas in North America and Europe. He was a Research Associate of the Good Sound Foundation and technical advisor for New Music Theatre and Sound Traffic Control in San Francisco, and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York. He has co-produced, with Electronic Cafe International and other organizations, networked music events wherein performers in widely separate locations are enabled to interact musically via telecommunications systems. Zvonar has taught computer music, composition, and sound design at the California Institute for the Arts and Max programming for music and multimedia at UCLA Extension. As a writer on performance technology he is a contributor to periodicals including Journal Leonardo, Electronic Musician, InterActivity, and Surround Professional.
In recent years Zvonar has been a consultant for Level Control Systems, a manufacturer of multichannel sound automation systems. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the International Computer Music Associateion (ICMA), the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Composers Forum (ACF-LA), and is a Composer/Songwriter member of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI).
Zvonar lives in Los Angeles with violist Pamela Goldsmith and five cats. He is also the proud uncle of four nieces and three nephews.
www.zvonar.com
JOHN DANIEL WALSH is a new media artist who lives in Atlanta. He has produced audio recordings, videos, audio / video installations, and custom audio / video software, most recently at Solomon Projects gallery. He is the winner of the 2000 Emerging Artist's Award from the City of Atlanta, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, and his work has been featured in exhibitions in Georgia and nationwide. He is currently the Visiting Artist in Residence at the Atlanta College of Art, in the video department. Walsh is currently working on the creation of audio and video software for display and performance in the Max/Nato programming environment.