Sandy Yang

Previous Artists

• Professor Jessica Recorded live: 03/30/2016
• Jimena Sarno Jimena Sarno is a multidisciplinary artist and organizer. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. She works across a range of media including installation, sound, video, text and sculpture. She is the organizer of analog dissident, a monthly discussion gathering that features work and work-in-progress by two invited[…] Recorded live: 03/23/2016
• Nisa Karnsomport Sunday to Naples is a collaboration between Nisa Karnsomport and Louis Waters. Using sounds and images collected during a partially planned Sunday trip, the 30 minute video explores the relationship between sound, image and the differences in a shared/re-constructed experience. Nisa Karnsomport is a Los Angeles based visual artist, she received her B.A. in Studio[…]
• Spectral Dawn Spirits Spectral Dawn Spirits plays hierophanic, slightly metallic, post-psychedelic ambient instrumental music. They are Michael Jon Fink, electric guitar / Antony DiGennaro, various electric guitars / Derek Stein, electric bass. Michael Jon Fink has been a composer/improviser with experimental and new music groups that have included the Negative Band, Musica Veneris Nocturnus, Stillife and Ghost Duo;[…] Recorded live: 03/09/2023
• Max Markowitz Max Markowitz Is a composer born and raised in Los Angeles. Ultimately, his goal is to find the ever–changing, ever–moving, unapologetic truth in sound. Moon Loops is a ninety-minute piece in nine movements written for keyboards. Max will be joined by John Wood and Jason Golday The composition employs phrasal repetition to chronicle the life[…]
• Solarc Solarc is Archie Carey and Saul Alpert-Abrams. Two guys who make experimental music and experimental beer. In their sound practices they draw inspiration from the everyday noises of their brewery working environment, lending their instruments to be pneumatic capping machines, air compressors, clanking kegs, and microtonally tuned bottles and glasses.   Recorded live: 02/24/2016
• Kylee Kennedy Kylee Kennedy will perform a 30 minute modular performance book-ended with tone poems. Utilizing vintage analog and modern modular synthesizers. This performance will explore integration of a few original designs and simple DIY musical hacks. Most recently included in the Serge Synthesizer 40th Anniversary Concert in San Francisco and the Church of the Super Serge.[…] Recorded live: 02/10/2023
• Logan Hone’s Similar Fashion Logan Hone is a Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. He is a member of Bright Whistles, Logan Hone’s Similar Fashion, FunCoffin (with Christian Asplund), and Desert Magic. For this special EarMeal performance, Logan debuts a new group called CEILING DWELLER featuring Lauren Baba, Garrett Hickman, Booker Stardrum, and Jesse Quebbeman-Turley. Recorded live: 02/03/2024
• Cat Museum Cat Museum is an improvisational, electronic, experimental band that defies normal labeling as such. The group is uncompromising in its music and lyrics, to be sure, sometimes espousing a bleakness and primitivism that may well inspire alienated musicians of future generations. But the band’s colorful and often grim soundscapes are firmly grounded in seemingly strong,[…] Recorded live: 01/27/2016
• Leah Purse Leah Purse (aka- Leah Peah) moved to Los Angeles from Virginia in 2010 where she spent 5 years booking noise shows, curating events at The Church of Crystal Light (2009) and The Ratward 2­Lil Baghdad (2009­-2010) co­​running noise label A.E.N. (2006­​-2010) recording, touring and performing with her group Head Molt and subsequently as a solo[…] Recorded live: 01/20/2016
• Garrett Hickman Garrett Hickman is an emergent voice in the Los Angeles improvised music scene whose music is marked by its sense of curiosity, determination, and wonder. His solo trumpet improvisation filters through invented techniques to distill a music that gives unique structural forms to timbre and texture, and their emotive and narrative components. He also forms[…] Recorded live: 12/16/2015
• Sean Duffy Sculptor, instrument builder and audio artist, Sean Duffy talks about his work and shows videos of some of his projects. Recorded live: 12/09/2023
• Diamond Pulses Diamond Pulses is a 32-minute musical experience combining just-tuned harmonies, driving minimalist rhythms, noisy ambiance, and electronic timbres. Daniel Corral is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Eagle River, Alaska. His music is a rich collusion of styles, constantly blurring the boundaries between the familiar and foreign, mirroring the diasporic evolution of cultural[…]
• Adrienne Adar Adrienne Adar is a Los Angeles artist working predominantly in Photography and Sound. Inspired from natural forms and structures, her work addresses issues of visual and audio language, and technology’s influence on our perception and sensory experiences of everyday life. adrienneadar.com Recorded live: 11/18/2015
• Thinh Nguyen Thinh Nguyen’s work is a complex contemporary look at a few converging issues investigating the personal, social, cultural and historical while innovatively engaging the public in the process. He explores formal and conceptual processes in different media as a strategy to continue the development of cirtical exchange and aesthetic innovation. He received a BFA from[…]
• White Boy Scream Soprano, sound artist, and teacher Micaela Tobin is a Los Angeles native currently studying contemporary opera and new music as a graduate student at the California Institute of the Arts. She is also currently a vocalist with the Los Angeles-based experimental opera company, The Industry, and their groundbreaking production of Hopscotch, a mobile opera for 24[…] Recorded live: 11/04/2024
• Joe Baiza Joe Baiza is one of the most noteworthy guitarists to emerge from the Southern California punk rock milieu. Baiza is a founding member of the bands Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of, and The Mecolodiacs. Currently, he is in the reunited Saccharine Trust as well as the improvisational unit Unknown Instructors with former Minutemen Mike Watt[…] Recorded live: 10/28/2015
• Bitter Party Bitter Party is a Los-Angeles-based ghost pop band inspired by war-era music and the melancholy of life. Immersing ourselves in the rich repertoire of folk, pop, and obscure tunes from Asia, our performance references the music in each of our pasts through dusty tapes, songbooks, vinyls, and YouTube channels. We re-animate these transmigrated sounds with[…] Recorded live: 10/21/2015
• Jacob Rosenzweig Bass Quartet Bass Quartet Number 1 is a 35-minute, four movement piece for four upright basses composed by Los Angeles-bassed musician Jacob Rosenzweig. Lead and supporting voices are non-existent, favoring a group sound in which no single part is extricable from the whole. Each movement is made unique by it’s own specific set of sounds, scattered through[…] Recorded live: 10/14/2015
• Jorge Espinosa Jorge Espinosa M. is a Los Angeles based artist, musician, educator and designer. He has carried out solo exhibitions in Ecuador and has also participated in collective art shows in Ecuador, USA, Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru. Alongside his visual and audio artwork, he composes soundtracks for dance pieces, drama plays and frequently participates in[…] Recorded live: 10/07/2023
• Desert Magic Desert Magic is an L.A.-based trio that specializes in writing rounds/songs about nature and the cosmos. They are releasing their debut album piecemeal on the solstices and equinoxes of the year 2015 on ww.a-round-the-sun.com . Desert Magic is Alex Wand, Steven Van Betten and Logan Hone. desertmagicmusic Recorded live: 09/23/2015
• Patrick Shiroishi Patrick Shiroishi is a Los Angeles based saxophone player. current bands include the progressive instrumental quintet Upsilon Acrux, zehul band Corima, long standing duo In The Womb (with Dylan Fujioka), duo Oort Smog with drummer Mark Kimbrell, improvisation duo Nakata (with Francisco Casanova), free jazz unit Sewing Circle, as well as performing in a solo[…] Recorded live: 09/30/2015
• Electric Sound Bath ELECTRIC SOUND BATH is a duo comprised of Ang Wilson and Brian Griffith, based in Los Angeles, California. They are a familiar fixture at many of LA’s prominent meditation gatherings, from the Sunday Sit at 365 Mission to Jessica Snow’s Sonic Meditations. Inspired by the fertile meditation community of LA, the peace that comes with[…] Recorded live: 09/16/2015
• LIKES Corey Fogel is relentless. His musical magic derives from patiently waiting, finding and preserving moments of serenity and infectious rhythm, then skeptically smashing that symmetry as soon as he gets a whiff of any magical complacency. He is against mythology’s illusions and desires a blunter Now: honest, bare and pre-teen. He “says” what other musicians[…] Recorded live: 06/03/2024
• Isabel Avila Ms. Avila currently works as a freelance photographer and videographer while concurrently pursuing personal projects. She has exhibited at Vincent Price Art Museum, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Jean Deleage Gallery, Compact Space Gallery, The Hive Gallery and Studios, M.J.Higgins Fine Arts, and Art Center College of Design. She is a recipient of the First[…] Recorded live: 05/27/2015
• Daniel Eaton & Maxwell Gualtieri Los Angeles-based guitarist/composer/improviser Maxwell Gualtieri is a mainstay in the local creative music scene, regularly performing his own original music and the music of others. He is involved with notable bands and ensembles that include Stupid Man Suit, The Michael Mull Octet, The Matty Harris Double Septet, Saturn’s Rival, The Anthropic Ensemble and Sophocles Steve,[…] Recorded live: 05/20/2015
• Stephanie Cheng Smith Stephanie Cheng Smith is a multiple-media artist, composer and violinist who often works and performs with massive textures, small motors, tactile objects, and light. She studied composition at the University of Chicago with Kotoka Suzuki and has earned an MFA in Experimental Sound Practices and Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts, studying[…] Recorded live: 05/13/2015
• David Schafer David Schafer is a visual artist who works in multiple forms of production, including sculpture, sound, performance, and works on paper. His work is concerned with the structure, translation, and intelligibility of language, and the combining of sculpture, sound, and text. His discursive projects embody subjects from cultural memory that are both theoretical and idiosyncratic.[…] Recorded live: 05/06/2023
• SheKhan SheKhan is the musical duo of Kelly Coats and Kathleen Kim, drawing upon their years of collaborative experimental composition and improvisation, to create beat driven interlocking harmonies of flute, violin, vocals, mandocaster, synth, effects and more. The duo experiments with the oscillation of structure and improvisation, harmony and dissonance. Electronic bass lines and beats, interlocked[…] Recorded live: 04/08/2023
• D/P/I D/P/I is the alias of L.A.-based Alexander Gray; a main component in Sun Araw’s live sector, producer for Duppy Gun, DJ and visual artist. D/P/I releases, beginning in 2012, defined an era in the way that YouTube rabbit holes, forgotten SoundCloud accounts, and digital trash were utilized to make new, exciting music. Gray developed this[…] Recorded live: 04/29/2015
• Brandon Ralph Brandon Ralph is a Fullerton, CA based experimentalist incorporating elements of drone, harsh noise and found sound to construct dense, guttural sonic structures. Utilizing a blend of analog and digital hardware, feedback loops and samples, his meditative brand of noise refuses to be easily defined. To hear more, visit his Bandcamp here. Recorded live: 04/22/2015
• Carl Stone & Tom Recchion
• Dinosaurs with Horns Legendary LA-Based noise ensemble featuring Joseph Hammer and Rick Potts. This is footage of their performance this year at Jancar Gallery in LA’s Chinatown.
• Eva Aguila Eva Aguila is a well known Noise artist who has been performing since 2005. She is an alumni of Calarts, has toured across the U.S. and Europe. Has collaborated with Thurston Moore. Huge influence of mine. She currently co-produces: experimentalhalfhour.com. Recorded live: 03/25/2015
• PRESENT PRESENT is a Los Angeles based quintet performing femininely heavy experimental music since 2012. Their atonal compositions abandon guitars and lyrical form in favor the angular dissonances of saxophone, synthesizer, and vocals seated atop a hectic percussive intensity and warming power electronics. Non-traditional linear song gives way to free form and free meter passages, often[…] Recorded live: 03/18/2015
• Telecaves Telecaves is Juliette Amoroso and Elaine Carey, a recording engineer and costume designer, respectively. both have struggled with depression and generalized anxiety. telecaves.com Recorded live: 03/11/2023
• Hangar Quartet the Hangar Quartet (Vetza, Rick Potts, Dennis Duck & Ace Farren Ford) are an ensemble pulled from the ranks of the Los Angeles Free Music Society randomly for a performance at a Hangar in Santa Monica (hence the name Hangar Quartet) on January 27, 2013. The Quartet enjoyed the sound they had and decided to[…] Recorded live: 03/04/2024
• Paul Stapleton I’m an improviser, sound artist, inventor and writer originally from Southern California, currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I design and perform with a variety of modular metallic sound sculptures, custom made electronics, found objects and electric guitars in locations ranging from experimental music clubs in Berlin to remote beaches on Vancouver Island. Since 2007,[…] Recorded live: 02/25/2015
• Jeff Boynton Jeff is a DIY artist/musician living in Los Angeles. Jeff’s artistically inclined parents exposed him to the arts and classical music and nurtured his interest in ‘cello. They purchased an LP entitled “Columbia-Princeton Electronic Center” around 1964. His early fascination with this music would prove to be significant much later, when Jeff finally gained hands-on[…] Recorded live: 02/18/2015
• Women VS Children You can learn more about a community by its breads and soups than its museums and concert halls -Roy and Edna Eames The grammatological structure as a tool of description is that structure which forever eludes answering the question “what is…?” - the basis of objective description. Even as it remains legible as a structure,[…] Recorded live: 02/11/2023
• Jim Ovelmen Jim Ovelmen is an internationally recognized artist living in Los Angeles. His mixed-media work has been shown all over the world. Most recently, his multi-media shows at museums and venues in Asia, include the Chung Shan Creative Hub in Taipei in 2012. His work was featured in the 2010 Aichi Triennale in Japan, as well[…]
• Vehicle Reversing Systems VRS/ Vehicle Reversing Systems is Ellen Phan and Bryan Schuessler Recorded live: 01/28/2015
• Susan Joseph Sound artist Susan Joseph performs a work in progress, BRAID. In addition to being the curator of Groundspace, the seminal art gallery in Downtown Los Angeles, Susan has been working with digital manipulations of sound using shareware in what are undulating waves of modulations that are both organically spatial and pragmatically composed. Ear Meal Webast[…]
• Krystal Krunch We’re KRYSTAL KRUNCH, a.k.a. Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka, a duo of artist intuitives who see and respond to energy in the body, the psyche, architectural spaces, and artworks. We are dedicated to using intuitive reading to help people come in contact with their highest and best potential, discovering who they really are so that[…]
• Dewey Ambrosino Ambrosino’s artistic practice examines the relationship between aesthetic phenomena and cultural conditioning through a wide variety of media. The examinations and responses take the form of: installation, sculpture, sound system, listening room, performance, vinyl record releases, video, cymatics and sound poetry. Recorded live: 12/10/2023
• Remainderless Steve Touchton, S.R. Cano and Matt Purse recording and performing project: Remainderless. Three Los Angeles rooted performers/composers converging regularly to compose, record, case and sift sounds. Equal blasting, squeak and rasp + uncommon and unsettling squelch frequencies comprise the aggregate sum of their output. Documented over three tracks on their debut EP 12″ available July[…] Recorded live: 12/03/2024
• Carl Stone This is a performance by Carl Stone we recorded earlier this year. It is mixed with live video from the LA Artstream Studio on October 29, 2023 Recorded live: 10/29/2014
• Bryn MacKinnon Bryn MacKinnon is one of the co-hosts of a Window to the Magic, a fan podcast that takes listeners on weekly binaural audio adventures in the Disney parks, now in its 10th year.
• Ear Meal with Don Lewis Small Drone Orchestra is Don Lewis on bowed bass guitar and analog synth. This project has been performing since 2008. Prior to that, he played with Leticia Castaneda in electronic duo Hsuan. When Don purchased an analog synthesizer in 1980, he immediately discovered its potential as a drone instrument. A series of revelatory performances by[…] Recorded live: 11/19/2014
• Doug Harvey AS WITH HIS PARALLEL AND OVERLAPPING CAREERS IN VISUAL ART, ART WRITING, AND CURATION, DOUG HARVEY’S ACTIVITIES IN SOUND DISREGARD CATEGORIES AND SPECIALIZATION IN FAVOR OF A BROAD INCLUSIVENESS THAT ENCOMPASSES SOLO RECORDINGS, PERFORMANCES, ARTIFACTS (SOUND SCULPTURE, VISUAL SCORES, ETC.), AND INSTALLATIONS. HIS SOLO WORK BEGAN IN HIS TEEN YEARS WITH TAPE LOOP EXPERIMENTS AND[…]
• Susan Rawcliffe “I make both traditional and innovative flute forms in clay, many in highly unconventional shapes. By studying and cultivating their peculiar acoustic systems, I can generate extraordinary sounds. My work evolves through a circular process of making acoustical copies of ancient and contemporary specimens, learning to play them, and investing new insights into the creation[…]
• Elana Mann Elana Mann is an artist based in Los Angeles, CA, who makes visible the unseen power of sound and listening. She has presented her work in city parks, buses, museums, empty lots and galleries all over the world, including the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles; REDCAT, Los Angeles; Apex[…]
• balkh balkh is a practice in divination, extracting both from our personal acousma and the more recognizable tangents of life unfolding around us: two people weaving auditory fables spun from the yarn of humanity and its myriad voices. balkh is a collaboration of Doriandra Smith and Eriijk Rêssler; a culmination of over two decades of experimental[…] Recorded live: 09/17/2014
• Rick Bahto & Casey Anderson Rick Bahto lives in Los Angeles. He has exhibited work utilizing still and motion picture photography, sound, and performance at a variety of museums, galleries, microcinemas, film festivals, conferences, alternative spaces, and scenic locations spanning the Northern Hemisphere. His interest in music has led him to both collaborate with and perform works by various composers,[…] Recorded live: 11/12/2023
• Pure Shit Pure Shit is Francisco Marin, Alexandria Jessica Sloate, and Thomas Jefferson Walter. Themes explored: punk, jazz, the absence of meaning/presence of all meaning, government as God, the modern city as prison, absolute reality. “God is on our side.” pureshithc.tumblr.com Recorded live: 10/15/2014
• Field Recording Suites I incorporate field recordings into my sound work. Although I’ve used them for a long time, it wasn’t until Glenn Bach invited me to join the field recording group, Southern California Soundscape Ensemble, several years ago that field recordings became a major part of my work. I have recently had unique opportunities to conduct field[…]
• Michael Brewster A typical Acoustic Sculpture is a mix of electronic tones emitted into a bare room by a single loudspeaker. The sounds echoing through each other produce a field of sound populated by places of differing loudness and tonal content. To see an Acoustic Sculpture, we must shift our sculpture viewing habits from the “stand and[…]
• Andre Woodward Andre Woodward is a sculptor who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Born in Newport Beach, Woodward received a BA in Studio Art from UC Irvine and an MFA in Sculpture from CSU Long Beach. His work has been shown in alternative and traditional sites around California, including many Southern California galleries, the Torrance[…] Recorded live: 07/02/2024
• Decision Party On June 1, Ear Meal Webcast paid a visit to Carole Kim’s mega collaborative, multi-media installation/performance at the Loft/ Sidewalk Café, part of the Altadena Open Studio event. This is only a half hour excerpt of a seven and a half hour continuous presentation, that included a great collection of artists. Carole was on Ear[…]
• Ted Byrnes Ted Byrnes is a drummer/percussionist living in Los Angeles. An alumnus of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, he comes from a jazz background and has since made his home in the worlds of free improvisation, new music, electro-acoustic music, and noise. Ted primarily works in ad hoc improvisational settings, but has standing[…] Recorded live: 06/18/2014
• Katie Loughmiller Katie Loughmiller is a writer, artist, and educator, originally from Boston and now lives in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. She graduated summa cum laude from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University and is currently completing her Master of Fine Arts degree in the Public Practice program at Otis[…]
• Vintage Modernists Formed in 2009, The Vintage Modernists have spent the past five years collecting, composing, and improvising a soundtrack without a movie. The plot winds through empty plains and silent mountains, emerges in the urban delta of the coastal cities, and returns. Wordless and ever-evolving, the ebb and flow carries with it impressions of journeys re-lived[…]
• Andre Woodward Andre Woodward is a sculptor who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Born in Newport Beach, Woodward received a BA in Studio Art from UC Irvine and an MFA in Sculpture from CSU Long Beach. His work has been shown in alternative and traditional sites around California, including many Southern California galleries, the Torrance[…] Recorded live: 07/02/2024
• Robert Wilhite Robert Wilhite’s practice is marked by a continual battle between the serendipitous and the calculated, the conceptual and the tangible. His work displays a readiness to freely move amongst mediums and disciplines, from sculpture, to music, to performance to the design of flatware. Wilhite: “A painting is an object and a coffee pot is an[…]
• Daniel J. French Hi, I’m Daniel Jesus French, and I’m in love with the sounds of life & transformation. I’m a multi-disciplinary artist based in LA working at intersections of sound, music, narrative, theater, pedagogy, cultural organizing & social art practice. My work is a hybrid of forms informed by over a decade of community & cultural organizing[…] Recorded live: 05/21/2014
• MATA Harsh noise performances & related visual arts. Los Angeles, CA. No Drums. No DJs. No Saturdays. We are a small venue & gallery space located in mid-city Los Angeles, CA, dedicated to the cultivation and propagation of harsh noise & dark sound through live performance & the exhibition of related visual arts of those who[…]
• Byer & Byrnes Alicia Byer is a composer-improviser in the LA area, performing primarily on clarinet and related instruments. She holds a degree in experimental music from Mills College. Her work explores nature, culture, and everything in-between. Alicia Byer and Ted Byrnes perform as Byer-Byrnes, a duo the exploring the unique textures of percussion and clarinet.
• Yuval Sharon Director and Producer Yuval Sharon, named a “Face to Watch in 2012” by the Los Angeles Times, has been creating an unconventional body of work that explores the boundaries of music, visual art, and concert theater. His productions have been described as “dizzyingly spectacular” (New York Magazine), “magical” (The Village Voice), “ingenious” (San Francisco Chronicle)[…] Recorded live: 04/30/2014
• Gil Kuno Through careful social conditioning, the mind is guided to think within certain patterns. Gil tries to redirect the flow of the mind outside of the set patterns we are taught by society to construct. In his work, he attempts to displace natural activity from its context, revealing an otherwise hidden level of metaphorical absurdity within[…] Recorded live: 04/23/2014
• Vivian Sming Vivian Sming uses new genres to engage with posthuman discourse. viviansming.com Recorded live: 04/16/2014
• Time - Memory Exhibit Installation based art at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,
 Jan 25–Feb 22, 2014. This group show will consist of installation work around the concepts of time and memory. The work will be made through the construction of spaces with wood, dry‐wall, and other construction materials, as well as the use of found materials,[…] Recorded live: 04/09/2023
• Creative Underground LA In a way unlike anywhere else in the world, artists in Los Angeles directly confront — work in, around, and against — the mainstream entertainment industry, and thus are unavoidably affected by its reach. This fuels some of the most interesting creative work on the planet, flourishing between the cracks of the “official Hollywood”, its[…] Recorded live: 04/02/2024
• Kio Griffith Kio Griffith is a Los Angeles‑based visual and sound artist, independent curator, and producer. His work includes drawing, painting, sound, video, performance, electronics, language, sculpture and installation. He has exhibited in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Turkey, Belgium and the U.S. Griffith’s work is based in his research into the visual and sonic possibilities of the[…] Recorded live: 03/26/2014
• Mitchell Brown When Mitchell Brown isn’t DJ Prof Cantaloupe on radio stations KXLU or Dublab, releasing albums of various sound artists on his melon expander imprint, organizing events or working with developmentally disabled children, he’s slowly nurturing many of his own sound experiments and projects. Recorded live: 03/23/2011
• Pulsating Cyst Pulsating Cyst crawls from one portal to another across time and space to emit toxic fumes and low frequency oscillations. Recorded live: 03/19/2014
• NK-Riot “An imaginative, electric orchestration of reverberating synth pop” is how listeners best describe downtown LA’s latest electronic project, Conjured and critiqued throughout the Winter of 2013, NK-Riot has evolved to what can only be referred to as dark and revolutionary cyber-grind music. By combining dance-punk, and chip-tune noise such as, computer glitches, dial tones, and[…] Recorded live: 03/12/2023
• Jackass Flats April Guthrie holds a Master’s Degree in Multi-Focus Cello Performance from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA in cello performance and environmental studies from Illinois Wesleyan University. Her focus on contemporary music, performance art, and improvisation has brought her to work directly with Louis Andriessen (La voce), Muhal Richard Abrams, Vinny Golia,[…] Recorded live: 03/05/2023
• Martin Herman Martin Herman is a composer whose acoustic and electronic works have been performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He is the Artistic Director of Bentstrings Productions, which supports the creation and production of new media and sound art works. He was Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Downtown Opera, which commissioned and performed new[…] Recorded live: 02/26/2014
• Barry Markowitz Artist Barry Markowitz talks about whistles, whales, and other stuff. See his art at bzmarkowitz.com Recorded live: 02/19/2014
• Jesus is Dead Jesus is Dead, formed in 2009, is the solo project of one person, using a plethora of effects pedals of which generated sound input comes from: An Hiwatt echo theremin, korg kaossilator, korg kaos pad, live radio, mood prodigy, and electric guitar Jesus IS: Dead, Alive, a Myth, Human, Angry, Sick, Fake, A Liar, Love,[…] Recorded live: 02/12/2023
• Borderline Entigany Borderline Entigany is a philosopher with a specialty in film; a writer with an interest in landscape and conceptual and social practice arts; a voise (voice + noise) artist and sonifier with training and practice in poetry and visual art. Antigone and the other plays in the Oedipus cycle are the pivot around which conversations,[…] Recorded live: 02/05/2023
• Virons dungmummyradio theinvisiblepath theinvisiblepath Recorded live: 01/29/2014
• Insuu Bunkai Insuu Bunkai, translated from Japanese as “factorization”, is the conception of Kobe, Japan based guitarist Moe Yamashita. Now residing in Los Angeles, Insuu Bunkai combines many genres such as ambient sound, industrial noise, free-jazz, and rock with the traditional Japanese musical of concept “Ma.” “Ma” is temporal and spatial emptiness, and when combined with rhythm,[…] Recorded live: 01/22/2014
• Joe Newlin Joe Newlin is a Los Angeles-based musician focused on the possibilities of the digitally extended guitar in song form. He is an advocate of open source software and uses the Pure Data programming environment to create custom audio software to cut and splice live solo guitar and vocal performances into commanding soundscapes. He has performed[…] Recorded live: 01/15/2014
• Tamaki Ueda “Banetoriko is my solo noise project, seeking dreamy, anxious noise-scape using loops and a self-made metal instrument, Banetek. “Most of Banetoriko’s solo work is metal noise inspired by yokai. Yokai is Japanese term for supernatural creatures, including monster, demon, ghost, and spirit. “Yokai story and drawing/painting appears in old history in Japan. They have been[…] Recorded live: 11/27/2013
• Jeremy “Ustad” Morelock The Ustad is a founding member of the Los Angeles-area music agglomerate The Hop-Frog Kollectiv. Through various incarnations the group has placed emphasis on a gritty experimental style with Eastern mystical influence. After years of hosting live music gatherings around LA and in the Mojave Desert, the Ustad hosts the weekly live music program Dung[…] Recorded live: 11/20/2013
• Slanguage Founded in 2002 by Karla Diaz and Mario Ybarra, Jr., Slanguage is an artist group headquartered in Wilmington, California, a harbor area of Los Angeles. Currently, members make artwork, curate exhibitions, coordinate events, and lead art-education workshops. A diverse group at various points in their careers, Slanguage includes teenagers, street artists, and established mid –[…] Recorded live: 11/13/2013
• Carole Kim Carole has been a major supporter of the LA experimental sound scene for a long time now. I thought it was essential to have her in our collection/ archive. Without her in the Ear Meal collection, it would be incomplete, for sure. She has collaborated with a very wide-range of the genre’s queen and kingpins[…] Recorded live: 11/06/2023
• Kraig Grady Kraig Grady is a US-Australian composer/sound artist. He has composed and performed with an ensemble of microtonal instruments of his own design and also worked as a shadow puppeteer, tuning theorist, filmmaker, world music radio DJ and concert promoter. His works feature his own ensembles of acoustic instruments, including metallophones, marimbas, hammered dulcimers and reed[…] Recorded live: 10/23/2013
• Ace Farren Ford & John Wiese Ace Farren Ford & John Wiese are a duo who have been performing together for a couple of years now, they met through their common performing band Smegma. Ace is an original member of Smegma, joining in 1974, John Wiese is a little younger, and has been playing with Smegma for approximately 5 years. Both[…] Recorded live: 10/16/13
• Chris Reilly On August 31, a host of installation artists and those in the more performative genres culminated in Joshua Tree to participate in a lively however temporary art festival titled Burrito Deluxe at Shangrila, organized by Steven Bankhead and Jesse Benson. One of the many performances was a text based work by Bret Nicely, captured here[…] Recorded live: 10/09/2023
• Carmina Escobar Vocalist, sound, and intermedia artist, born in Mexico City, whose work focuses primarily on sound,the voice, the body,and their lives in the imaginary/integrating/interdisciplinary and multi media elements, to cause situationsand generate divergent routes through free improvisation, experimentation, and different forms of music. All of this as a means to explore the areasin which intuition and[…] Recorded live: 10/02/2024
• Brett Nicely On August 31, a host of installation artists and those in the more performative genres culminated in Joshua Tree to participate in a lively however temporary art festival titled Burrito Deluxe at Shangrila, organized by Steven Bankhead and Jesse Benson. One of the many performances was a text based work by Bret Nicely, captured here[…] Recorded live: 09/18/2013
• Sean Griffin Sean Griffin lives and works in Los Angeles. Encompassing many languages, styles, media and forms, Griffin’s unique compositional works rely on interdisciplinary incongruities positioned at the intersection of sound, image, performance and the archive. His works manifest as music, large and small-scale operas, collaborative installations, complex numeric choreographies and historically weighted musical/performance works. seangriffin.org Recorded live: 09/11/2023
• Kristy Baltezore “My work exposes hidden stereotypes and subconsciously held social and cultural beliefs by examining consumer objects, packaging, and detritus. Currently, I am focused on examining Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, the food pyramid, and my interests in food politics, food production, foodyism, and in turn, lack of food, hunger, and homelessness. The key action of completion[…] Recorded live: 07/03/2024
• Alan Nakagawa and Glenn Bach Alan Nakagawa and Glenn Bach The last show of the season is a performance by Ear Meal producer Alan Nakagawa and his friend Glenn Bach. Recorded live: 07/03/2024
• Ted Byrnes, Michael Foster and Nicholas Deyoe Ted Byrnes is a drummer/percussionist living in Los Angeles. An alumna of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he comes from a jazz background and has since made his home in the worlds of free improvisation, electro-acoustic music, and noise. Byrnes’ playing is often viewed as more textural or even melodic than rhythmic, and[…] Recorded live: 06/26/2013
• Sesshu Foster Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 25 years. He’s also taught writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, Naropa’s Summer Writing Program and the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Language for a[…] Recorded live: 06/19/2013
• Joshua Carro Joshua Carro is a sound artist, composer, percussionist, teacher, and record producer based in Los Angeles, California. carro has performed in countless recitals and concerts in U.S.A. and Canada and is known for his electro-acoustic drumset improvisations using an original setup which he has developed after recent research in the medium of electro-acoustic music during[…] Recorded live: 06/12/2023
• Christine Tavolacci Christine Tavolacci is a flutist who has devoted much of her time and study to the performance of contemporary and experimental music. Christine has traveled across the United States and Europe to study and perform, and has had the pleasure of working with many great 20th and 21st century composers, such as Christian Wolff, James[…] Recorded live: 06/05/2023
• Gloria Alvarez About Gloria Enedina Alvarez: Chicana poet/intermedia artist, playwright, librettist, literary translator and curator, presently teaches creative writing and works as a consultant in public schools, universities, libraries, museums, and art centers. Her literary/artistic efforts have been recognized by the CAC, National Endowment for the Arts, Cultural Affairs Department, City of L.A., COLA Award, Poets &[…] Recorded live: 05/29/2013
• Ear Meal - Experimental Venues A little stroll through the internet, introducing LA venues that are friendly to the genre of art we all know and love! We invite the audience to submit venues we may have overlooked on the comment page once the show is archived so we can benefit the community. Please, submit other sites that might be[…] Recorded live: 05/22/2013
• Jennifer Moon “What I love and find the most potent about art is its ability to transform the way we perceive and interpret information and, hence, the ability to transform how we interact with the world and with ourselves. For me, great art is when it expands beyond its physical form or occupation of a particular space[…] Recorded live: 05/15/2013
• KCHUNG Radio Between Sunday and Thursday of each week, over 40 online radio shows are presented live, mainly from their Chinatown headquarters but on occasion, remote, on location i.e. from MOCA or For Your Arts or…. Not only is KCHUNG an eclectic roster of shows ranging from conceptual performance to NBA updates, DJing to skateboarding tips but[…] Recorded live: 05/08/2023
• Brad Dutz and Chris Wabich The duo of BRAD DUTZ and CHRIS WABICH is known as the end all of sonic possibilities for two percussionists. They blend composition, improvisation, high art and comedy to create a “total percussion” rounded program. The duo also incorporates world rhythms from their real experiences as performers with artists they perform with. The Dutz /[…] Recorded live: 05/01/2024
• Lucky Dragons Lucky Dragons is an ongoing collaboration between Los Angeles-based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. Active as a band since 2000, they are known for their participatory approach to making music, radically inclusive live shows, and playful, humanistic use of digital tools. Fischbeck and Rara have presented collaborative work in a wide variety of contexts,[…] Recorded live: 04/24/2013
• Ian James Ian James was born in 1981 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BA from The Ohio State University. He has participated in recent exhibitions and performances in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Marfa, Texas. He is an adjunct[…] Recorded live: 04/17/2013
• Mike the Poet Mike Sonksen, also known as, Mike the Poet, is a 3rd-generation LA native acclaimed for poetry performances, published articles & legendary city tours. Poet, journalist, historian, tour guide, and teacher, he graduated from the University of California Los Angeles and is currently pursuing an advanced degree at California State University Los Angeles. Sonksen has lectured[…] Recorded live: 04/10/2023
• Philip Mantione Philip Mantione’s music has been described as “austerely impressive” (Paris Transatlantic Monthly) and Innova Recordings calls his Sinusoidal Tendencies, “a searing study in form and color.” Zane Fischer, of the Santa Fe Reporter, called his interactive sound sculpture, “…a satisfying, interactive rabbit hole, in which tactility becomes sound.” He has written music for multimedia performance,[…] Recorded live: 04/03/2024
• John Galvin & Dan Kapelovitz John Galvin has been a researcher at the House Research Institute in Los Angeles (formerly the House Ear Institute) for more than 15 years, where he has studied speech, music, and psychophysical perception with cochlear implant patients. He has also recorded and played music with various Los Angeles musicians, including members of the Supreme Dicks,[…] Recorded live: 03/27/2013
• Hi My Name Is Ryan Hi, My Name Is Ryan (Ryan Avery) This vehicle for Avery’s work runs the gamut between monologue, improv, spoken word, and stand-up comedy, with the first performance being set up like a talk show (which led to the creation of Grand Avenue Tonight), and subsequent performances including wrapping the audience in crime scene tape. Performance[…] Recorded live: 03/20/2013
• Andrew Choate Andrew Choate was born and raised in South Carolina and studied music and literature at Northwestern University and the California Institute of the Arts. His first book, Langquage Makes Plastic of the Body, was published by Palm Press in 2006. His most recent book is Stingray Clapping, published in 2012 by Insert Blanc Press. He[…] Recorded live: 03/13/2013
• Los Angeles Road Concerts Los Angeles Road Concerts presents a showing of site-specific projects from over 110 Los Angeles artists in unused public outdoor spaces along the entire length of Mulholland Drive’s 21 miles, starting at its east end, at Cahuenga Pass, and resulting with a reception party near the Nike Missile Site in the Santa Monica Mountains. For[…] Recorded live: 02/27/2013
• William Basinski William Basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 25 years in NYC. His haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life, resounding with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time. His epic 4-disc masterwork, The Disintegration Loops, received international critical acclaim[…] Recorded live: 02/20/2013
• Wetpower Wetpower plays experimental, video game, instrumental, freedom paradise music. Michael Beltran plays electric bass he goes to school for the trombone. Sarah Beltran she plays casio and yamaha keyboards and is 20 years old and Max Markowitz plays drums and teaches five year olds how to do stuff. Have fun. Recorded live: 02/13/2013
• Alexis Disselkoen Alexis Disselkoen is a native Angelino born to parents of Mexican and Anglo descent. She explores notions of race, ethnicity, and belonging, and the effects these ideas have on bodies. Using objects as vehicles for interaction, Disselkoen proposes social encounters and spaces for negotiation that are participatory, yet directed by the people that are involved.[…] Recorded live: 02/06/2023
• MLuMsemble Sublating the Pierrot Ensemble, Pierrot Lunaireaoke: Sieben von Dreimal Seiben aus Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire is both riff and trope. The Pierrot Ensemble, a permutation of the old-school cabaret orchestra, atavistically functions as karaoke, the musical accompaniment of bar and lounge. As the “empty orchestra”( kara 空 “empty”, and ōkesutora オーケストラ “orchestra”) verbs indistinctly, electronically[…] Recorded live: 01/30/2013
• Joanna Demers Joanna Demers, associate professor of musicology. PhD in musicology (Princeton, 2002); DMA in contemporary flute performance (UC San Diego, 2002). Research interests include aesthetics and the philosophy of art, post-1945 popular and concert music, and sound art. Monographs: Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity (University of Georgia Press, 2002); Listening Through[…] Recorded live: 01/23/2013
• Raquel Gutierrez Raquel Gutierrez is a community based performance writer and cultural activist. She is a co-founding member of the queer performance art ensemble, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, and has written their first play currently in production called The Barber of East L.A., commissioned by a humanities initiative at USC that enabled the troupe to work with Luis[…] Recorded live: 01/16/2013
• Alex Wand Alex Wand with Odeya Nini, Heather Lockie, Brendan Byrnes and Jake Rosenzweig “I’ll be doing a half hour performance on LA’s Ear Meal webcast. It will feature most of the things on the banner above: me + 4 great musicians, an ostrich, Woody Guthrie, and the Lou Harrison National Steel Guitar (well, maybe not the[…] Recorded live: 11/28/2012
• Jim Fox Jim Fox’s music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles and soloists throughout the U.S. and presented at the Monday Evening Concerts, New Music America, Real Art Ways, Wires, the SCREAM Festival, the Ventura Chamber Music Festival, the CalArts Contemporary Music Festival, Podewil (Berlin), the Schindler House/SASSAS, REDCAT, the Ear Inn, L.A.C.E., and many similar[…] Recorded live: 11/21/2012
• Eric Potter .. psonic psorcery – ambient and chaotic electric guitar – urban cycling – trying to get lost in the desert – moonwatching – hot springs – surprises – improvisation – jumbo rocks – intuition .. .. .. Recorded live: 11/14/2012
• Antony DiGennaro Antony DiGennaro is a composer and multi-instrumentalist, currently roaming the hills on the outskirts of the Los Angeles area. His songs and compositions draw from experiences and influences ranging from early Americana to techniques culled from the 20th/21st century experimental tradition. To date, he has released several albums as a soloist, leader and sideman as[…] Recorded live: 11/07/2023
• Mika Soma and Shinichi Ono Mika Soma is a Japanese mixed media artist. She graduated from Otis College of Art and Design in 2007 with a BFA in New Genres, and has been showing her works both in the states and Japan. was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1974. He graduated from Claremont Graduate University with a MFA in New[…] Recorded live: 10/31/2012
• Michael Pisaro Michael Pisaro was born in Buffalo in 1961. He is a composer and guitarist, and a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble. He has composed over 80 works for a great variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. A particularly large category of his works is solo works, notably a series of[…] Recorded live: 10/24/2012
• Robert Crouch & Yann Novak Yann Novak (b. 1979 Madison, WI) is a sound, video and installation artist living and working in Los Angeles. His work utilizes different forms of digital documentation as a point of departure. Through the digital manipulation of these sound and image files, his works serve as a translation from documents of personal experiences into an[…] Recorded live: 10/17/2012
• William Leavitt & Paul Tzanetopoulos William Leavitt is an artist and musician who has been working in Los Angeles since the early 1970’s. His art work was the subject of a recent retrospective titled Theater Objects at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2011. As a cellist he has played in several L.A. groups with Paul Tzanetopoulos, including[…] Recorded live: 10/10/2023
• Lauren Pratt and the James Tenney Archive Lauren Pratt was kind enough to give us a tour of her late husbands archives, composer James Tenney. This is a rare and wonderful glimpse into the history of Tenney and Ms. Pratt’s dedication in organizing decades of composition, history and life. We are absolutely honored to feature this half hour segment and appreciate Lauren[…] Recorded live: 10/03/2024
• Micol Hebron & Michael Hanson Micol Hebron is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles and is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Chapman University in Orange, CA. She has been engaged in individual and collaborative projects in Los Angeles since 1992. Her work frequently explores the artist’s relationship to art-making, art history and modernism in particular. Her[…] Recorded live: 09/26/2012
• Steven Speciale Steven Speciale is a pianist, conductor, and educator. He currently teaches Electronic Music, AP Music Theory, and Choir at Loyola High School of Los Angeles while also serving as Director of Music for St. Andrew’s in Fullerton. He holds a Bachelors of Music in Piano Performance from U.C. Irvine where he also did graduate work[…] Recorded live: 09/19/2012
• Urban Indian Soundscape Four members of Long Beach Community Drum, John Dawson, Craig Stone, Les Peters and Larry Smith, will discuss the development of Urban American Indian Singing in the Los Angeles area while sharing songs associated with Intertribal Pow Wow Celebrations in Southern California. Recorded live: 09/12/2023
• Calif. Indian Soundscape Cindi Alvitre is the mother of four children and grandmother of two. She is a weaver, writer, storyteller and traditional singer. She is a Tongva descendant of the Moompetam (Salt Water) Clan, the original people of Los Angeles and the southern Channel Islands. She has been Director of Ti’at Society, the Tongva maritime organization, since[…] Recorded live: 09/05/2023
• Royal Pain Nakagawa has been studying and using elements of scientist Royal Rife’s experiments utilizing frequencies to allegedly destroy pathogens. ROYAL PAIN 3.0 is an original sound and video work that juxtaposes images and sounds from Rife’s studies and the examines the tactile relationship of frequencies and dreams. Alan Nakagawa, sound artist based in Los Angeles. He[…] Recorded live: 07/11/2023
• The Royal Us Heather Lockie and Max Kutner began working together while studying at the California Institute of the Arts. Both realized they shared a passion for starkly arranged melodies and devastating though sometimes charming stories covering unrequited love, sudden death and lingering regret. As a result, The Royal US was formed in the fall of 2011 as[…] Recorded live: 07/04/2024
• Grampus Grampus is an improvising, interface driven trio based in Los Angeles. Using the signal processing program Max/MSP both trumpet player Louis Lopez and trombone player Daniel Eaton create elaborate ways of modifying their acoustic instruments. In developing these new digital instruments, the search for integrating acoustic and processed sound through improvisation let them to the[…] Recorded live: 06/27/2012
• Sam Lopez Sam Lopez has played the guitar with the most unlikely of items; butcher knives, crowbars, and even a human skull . A self proclaimed “noiseician”, Sam Lopez has been unleashing frightening torrents of black feedback under the name, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Sam’s motto is “more is more” and exemplifies this through aural exorcisms of deafening[…] Recorded live: 06/13/2012
• Devin Hoff “I play contrabass (bass violin, double bass, string bass, dog house, etc), bass guitar, write songs, sing a little, and play some guitar. I have been doing these things for 20 plus years, over half my life, and love music more every day. I have been fortunate to play with so many great musicians of[…] Recorded live: 06/20/2012
• Chobraty Veteran brass players of the L.A. improvising scene, Michael Vlatkovich (trombone) and William Roper (tuba), have finally done what everyone has been telling them to do for years – document their zany antics. “Chobraty” is a co-led project with compositions by Vlatkovich and Roper. The written material provides a jump-off point for the duo to[…] Recorded live: 06/06/2023
• FINALE @ Inglewood Main Library (part 2) On April 7, 2012, Collage Ensemble Inc. coordinated its last project. The event took place at the iconic Inglewood Main Library designed by Charles Luckman. The event included three components. One was a visual arts exhibit in the main library hall including works by Steve Roden, Mona Kasra, Jeffrey James Mohr and Alan Nakagawa. Two,[…] Recorded live: 05/23/2012
• Paul Stapleton and Ted Byrnes PAUL STAPLETON is a sound artist, improviser and writer originally from Southern California, currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Paul designs and performs with a variety of modular metallic sound sculptures, custom made electronics, found objects and electric guitars in locations ranging from experimental music clubs in Berlin to remote beaches on Vancouver Island. He[…] Recorded live: 05/16/2012
• Weba Garretson and Ralph Gorodetsky “What Must the Hummingbird See?” is a backyard song cycle: 15 short songs (2:30 mins or less) each based on the daily occurrences in an urban wilderness where skunks, possums, owls, hawks and cats manage to thrive. The music evokes a multitude of influences — from Folk to Eisler, from Stravinsky to Webern. Concise lyrics[…] Recorded live: 05/09/2023
• Jake Rosenzweig & Lumber Party Jake Rosenzweig is a musician primarily concerned with structured improvisation and surreal juxtapositions of musical materials. He holds an MFA in Jazz Bass from the California Institute of the Arts and currently lives in Los Angeles. Other projects include Stupid Man Suit, The Sogo Takeover, The Storytelling Band, Lumber Party, and Rosie Cromwell. Archie Carey[…] Recorded live: 05/30/2012
• FINALE @ Inglewood Main Library (part 1) On April 7, 2012, Collage Ensemble Inc. coordinated its last project. The event took place at the iconic Inglewood Main Library designed by Charles Luckman. The event included three components. One was a visual arts exhibit in the main library hall including works by Steve Roden, Mona Kasra, Jeffrey James Mohr and Alan Nakagawa. Two,[…] Recorded live: 05/02/2024
• Toomai String Quintet The Toomai String Quintet Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin; Pala Garcia, violin; Erin Wight, viola; John Popham, cello; Andrew Roitstein, double bass They will be playing a movement of James Tenney’s “Quintext: Five Textures for String Quartet and Bass”, Scott Cazan’s “Outliers”, and a movement from Vincent Raikhel’s “The Garden of Forked Paths” The Toomai String Quintet[…] Recorded live: 04/25/2012
• Alex Sramek “A common thread among much of my music is the fleeting moment of “wouldn’t it be cool, awesome, horrible, or hilarious if” – moments that might come about when bored, idle, frustrated, or inebriated, and that would give the average musician a quick, short-lived chuckle. The difference with me is that I write them down[…] Recorded live: 04/18/2012
• Vetza Vetza is a multi-talented artist who has full control over a range of disciplines including classical instrumentation, experimental sound improvisation, voice and theater. She is an innovator representing the LA Arts community in the international art world. Vetza is an original member of the the LA Free Music Society. She is a writer, composer and[…] Recorded live: 04/11/2023
• Tom Recchion Tom Recchion has been a sound and visual artist/composer/art director & graphic designer in California since the 1970’s. He is the co-creator of the legendary Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS). At the time he discarded object making (though he employs it now) and concentrated on the ephemeral nature of sound. His early practice in[…] Recorded live: 04/04/2024
• Casey Anderson Casey Anderson is an artist working in a number of media, including composition, improvisation, electronic music, saxophone, text, and installations. He has performed with Jason Kahn, Ulrich Krieger, MKM, Fomoudou Don Moye, Michael Pisaro, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Trayle, and the Dog Star Orchestra. Performances, exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA – Los Angeles (CA),[…] Recorded live: 03/28/2012
• Trio Kobayashi Founded in 2008 to perform the music of Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Trio Kobayashi has gone on to explore a wide repertoire stretching from vocal music of the renaissance to the game music of Iannis Xenakis. Kobayashi continues to explore the possibilities of its instrumentation through collaborations with living composers such as Marc Sabat, Larry Polansky,[…] Recorded live: 03/21/2012
• Stephanie Smith Stephanie Cheng Smith is a multiple-media sound artist, composer and performer who enjoys creating environments that move and influence the mind and body. She often works with massive sounds and textures, tactile objects, and choreography. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and is currently earning an MFA in Experimental Sound Practices at[…] Recorded live: 03/14/2012
• Odeya Nini Odeya Nini is a composer/ vocalist/ experimentator and performance artist. Her work is an investigation of inner dialogue, polarization, cohabitation and the meaning of validity. As both a composer and soloist, her music acknowledges the arch from silence to noise and all its variant sonic exposures. odeyanini.com Recorded live: 03/07/2023
• Daniel Eaton Through out the last few years Daniel Eaton has been part of collaborative projects and scored many films and animations. He is currently a member of GRAMPUS, DINOSAUR ANGEL (A duo specializing in sonic explorations and viral videos for the internet), Orkestar Meze’ (a bulgarian brass band), and is working on many side projects. It[…] Recorded live: 02/29/2012
• Lesli Ross Bassoonist, composer, and instrument-maker Leslie Ross gives a performance of her multi-channel bassoon endeavors and demonstrates other instruments that she has built. Ross brings her experience as an instrument builder and restorer in her concept and approach to her compositional and performance practice, integrating and enhancing the physical attributes of the bassoon with multichannel signal[…] Recorded live: 02/22/2012
• Nicholas Deyoe Nicholas Deyoe is a composer, conductor, and guitarist born in Colorado and currently living in Southern California. He is a Ph.D. candidate in composition at UC San Diego and studies with Roger Reynolds. Compositionally, Nicholas strives to bring together noise, delicacy, drama, fantasy, brutality, and flexibility of intonation. Some of his pieces focus on all[…] Recorded live: 02/15/2012
• Douglas Goodwin Douglas Goodwin is a creative programmer. His interest in information theory has taken him from low-level video manipulation to natural language programming. His videos and installations have shown from Athens to Zagreb. He has taught classes in media theory and production at Emerson College, CalArts School of Critical Studies, and MassArt’s Studio for Interrelated Media.[…] Recorded live: 02/08/2023
• The Tenses at the LAFMS/PST at The Box Tenses are the duo of Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia. Ju Suk Reet Meate: …”like a one person tank filled with a million whacked-out sounds but driven by one maniac….I think after hearing [his solo lp] you can make more sense to the human racket of knucklehead sound of the Smegma camp. …. A[…] Recorded live: 02/01/2024
• Roxanne Varzi The Whole World Blind is a self-contained sound performance for SoundWalk 2011 by: Roxanne Varzi, Narrator, text, research and concept Vincent Olivieri, Sound Design. This work is a self-contained sound performance that involves the audience member blindfolding him or herself, then putting on headphones connected to an mp3 player and listening to the narrative loop[…]
• Inouk Demers Inouk Demers is a sound artist, media artist and composer living in Los Angeles. His work has been shown or heard throughout Europe and North America, and commercially recorded. His recent work includes multimedia collaborations, documentary film, experimental video, field recordings, and aesthetic journalism. Currently Inouk is producing Conveyance, an interactive, multimedia information kit on[…] Recorded live: 01/18/2012
• Eric Clark Accomplished violinist, composer, and improviser Eric KM Clark has performed throughout the world, with the majority of his shows taking place in Los Angeles, Toronto, and New York City. Originally from Victoria, BC, Mr. Clark first moved to the US in 2004 to study at the California Institute of the Arts with James Tenney. He[…] Recorded live: 01/11/2023
• Brad Dutz Brad started to study music at age seven. After high school he studied at the University of North Texas and Berkley college of music. In 1982 he moved to Los Angeles and began free-lancing until 1984 when he joined Maynard Ferguson and toured around the country. Beside his ten solo c.d.s – NINE NEDS, KRIN,[…] Recorded live: 01/04/2024
• Claire Chenette Claire Chenette is an oboist, songwriter, improviser, baroque, contemporary, and orchestral musician, teacher, sometimes dancer, and often multi-instrumentalist originally from the Midwest, but now based in Los Angeles. Her work combines an array of interests (language, folk music, Bach, books, counterpoint), which overlap colorfully in oboe-based songs. Alex Wand, guitar Linnea Sablosky, ukulele Heather Lockie,[…] Recorded live: 12/14/2011
• Daniel Rothman & Ashley Walters Daniel Rothman is a Los Angeles-based composer whose piano music is recorded by Eric Huebner for Albany; his video chamber opera, Cézanne’s Doubt, commissioned by the Stierischer Herbst, is on New World Records; Two Figures in Dense Violet Light is available on Zeitklang by Beate Zelinsky & David Smeyers, the later who had also recorded[…] Recorded live: 12/07/2023
• Archie Cary Archie Carey is a musician living in the Los Angeles area. As a composer Archie aims to magnify sound, pitch, timbre, and environment to make the subtlest details a point of focus, achieved by using long durations, minimal pitch content, and contrasts between extremely high volumes and silence. Recorded live: 11/30/2011
• Danielle Adair Danielle Adair is an artist born in northern Michigan and based in Los Angeles, California. She earned a BA with Honors from The University of Chicago (’03), and an MFA in Visual Arts and in Writing from California Institute of the Arts (’07). She is the recipient of the 2010 California Community Foundation Visual Arts[…] Recorded live: 11/16/2011
• Impossible Moon Artist group, Impossible Moon, explore the unknown. Christine Nguyen and Michael Wysong, from Southern California, are fascinated by the diverse ecologies in their surrounding habitats as well as the imagined ones of beyond… Uncovering mysterious worlds, they share their record of making, looking, and play through personal visceral experiences. The universe agrees. www.impossiblemoon.com
• Vinny Golia As a composer Vinny Golia fuses the rich heritage of Jazz, contemporary classical and world music into his own unique compositions. Also a bandleader, Golia has presented his music to concert audiences in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States in ensembles varying dramatically in size and instrumentation. A multi-woodwind performer,[…] Recorded live: 11/09/2023
• Southern California Soundscape Ensemble The Southern California Soundscape Ensemble (SCSE) seeks to foster a more personal and intimate engagement with our sonic environment by performing unrehearsed, completely improvised soundscapes using only unprocessed field recordings gathered from places all over the world. The flexible membership of SCSE includes: Glenn Bach, J.Frede, Shea M Gauer, Jorge Martin, Alan Nakagawa, Joseph Richard[…] Recorded live: 11/02/2024
• Marty Walker & Erik Leckrone Marty Walker, is a clarinetist who specializes in the performance new music. (He has premiered more than 80 works written especially for him.) Among the labels for which he has recorded are CRI, O.O.Discs, Tzadik, Cold Blue, Grenadilla, Echograph, New World, and Rastacan. Walker has toured and recorded with various new-music ensembles, including the California[…] Recorded live: 10/26/2011
• Matt Barbier Matt Barbier (CIM-BM/CalArts- MFA) is an LA based trombonist and composer focused primarily in the field of experimental intonation and noise music. Working collaboratively with composers such as Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Ulrich Krieger and Douglas Wadle, he eagerly engages with the emerging field of just intonation for brass instruments. Trio Kobayashi, of which he is[…] Recorded live: 10/19/2011
• Rick Bahto Rick Bahto lives in Los Angeles and works primarily with 8 mm film, photography, sound, and performance. He has presented his work at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), San Francisco Cinematheque, Monday Evening Concerts, Millennium Film Workshop, Cinefamily (with Los Angeles Filmforum), and the wulf., among others. Recorded live: 10/12/2023
• William Roper In the beginning I was a straight classical guy. The glory of the orchestra kind of guy. That seemed to last forever. To be honest there are still traces of it. More than anything these days, I’m an off the page kind of guy. There are all types of strategies to get off the page.[…] Recorded live: 10/05/2023
• Daniel Corral Daniel Corral is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Eagle River, AK. Currently residing in the L.A. area, his unique voice has found a diverse range of outlets. He has accompanied avante-garde puppetry all across the USA, had his music performed by an orchestra riding the Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel, been featured[…] Recorded live: 09/28/2011
• Haruko Tanaka Haruko Tanaka was born in Queens, New York in 1974 and grew up in England and Japan. She arrived in Los Angeles in August of 1992 to go to college and has stayed ever since. Haruko is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography, film/video, and installation. She is also one half of the artist intuitive[…] Recorded live: 08/10/2023
• Ear Diorama Ear A blend of Japanese and English lyrics written and sung by Kaoru Mansour are melded with loops, samples and processing. Alan Nakagawa improvises using his invention, the Iso Cube; an insulated box that has two holes where he can reach in and play micro percussion like a hair comb, leaves, sheets of paper or tiny[…] Recorded live: 08/03/2024
• Heather Lockie Heather Lockie is a violist, composer and teaching artist based in Los Angeles. She writes songs, plays viola, banjo, and teaches music and English. Playing with her on the webcast will be Archie Carey on bassoon and percussion, Claire Chenette on bassoon and guitar, Julia Holter singing and Alex Stramek on contrabass clarinet and other[…] Recorded live: 07/27/2011
• Julia Holter & Mari Mari is a Los Angeles-based composer/performer from Tokushima, Japan. Her work is an exploration, experimentation, and translation of her everyday life experience and cultural reflection with a touch of her curiosity. Her scores offer each and every performer an opportunity to sensibly seek unlimited possibilities within themselves, and to allow each performance to become its[…] Recorded live: 07/20/2011
• Steve Gregoropoulos & Petra Haden Steve Gregoropoulos, composer/musician from Los Angeles, irrascible, militantly unlistenable unless playing pop in which case aspires to be beautiful wallpaper for the all-permeating media throughout the universe, member of Lavender Diamond, The Grabs, W.A.C.O., The Wild Stares, Daylong Valleys of the Nile, etc., believes in language, puts classical music into high-school auditoriums and bars and[…] Recorded live: 07/13/2011
• Dan Clucas Dan Clucas is a trumpet player and composer living and working in Los Angeles. Born in Anaheim, California in 1966, he began playing trumpet at age ten, soon thereafter discovering the music of Dizzy Gillespie, which in turn led to a lifelong study of and respect for the African American music known as jazz. While[…] Recorded live: 07/06/2023
• Brian Walsh Brian Walsh performs with the Industrial Jazz Group, Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, Doug McDonald Brass and Woodwind Coalition, and Chamber Music Ensembles the Night Wanderers, Inauthentica, and Kairos Ensemble. Brian is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts (MFA & BFA) and the Los Angeles High School for the Arts. He has studied clarinet[…] Recorded live: 06/29/2011
• William Harrington William studied record production with Nick Venet (producer of The Beach Boys, Creedence Clearwater and many others). His first two CDs, Urban Electronic Music, and UEM Live have received good reviews and airplay on NPR, college and indie radio stations. In 2006 The American Composers Forum awarded him a SUBITO grant to help defer the[…] Recorded live: 06/22/2011
• Andrew Pask & Jim McAuley Jim plays the ‘marxophone’ a real-time audio processing device developed by Andrew and operated via a footpedal. Andrew plays bass clarinet. JIM McAULEY is an acoustic guitarist whose passion for jazz, blues and experimental music is evident in his eclectic approach to improvisation. In addition to solo performances, he has had the pleasure of collaborating[…] Recorded live: 06/15/2011
• Scott Vance & Dave Tohir The Backbone (short for “feedback trombone”) is the creation of Dave Tohir and Scott Vance, both members of the Anything Goes Orchestra. The sound of the Backbone is reminiscent of guitar feedback but with the pitch range and slipperiness of the trombone. It’s also unpredictable, noisy, and sometimes downright deliciously ugly! Recorded live: 06/08/2023
• Steuart Liebig Contrabassguitarist/composer Steuart Liebig has played in several bands during his long career in music including Kammerstig, Meninas Quartet, Minim, Quartetto Stig and Stigtette. www.stigsite.com Recorded live: 06/01/2024
• Antony DiGennaro is a composer and multi-instrumentalist, currently roaming the hills on the outskirts of the Los Angeles area. His songs and compositions draw from experiences and influences ranging from early Americana to techniques culled from the 20th/21st century experimental tradition. To date, he has released several albums as a soloist, leader and sideman as well as[…] Recorded live: 05/25/2011
• James Klopfleisch James Klopfleisch is a composer/performer currently living in LA. His work lies on the line between music + performance event, presenting itself somewhere between, framing of sound in time & the relations between ever blurring historical genres + contemporary listening habitats. His work focuses on processes focusing on sound, but often draw in situational &[…] Recorded live: 05/18/2011
• Catherine Lamb Catherine Lamb is a music composer and violist, working from the traditions of American Experimentalism, Just Intonation, and Indian Dhrupad. She is interested in delicate attention to layers of sound and their shadows. She intuitively works through mathematical forms, typically involving the opening from a centered pitch. Her most influential teachers have been James Tenney,[…] Recorded live: 05/11/2023
• GE Stinson Gregory E. Stinson, better known as G. E. Stinson (born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma), is an American guitarist and founding member of new age / electronic musical group Shadowfax. Inspired by blues masters such as Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters, Stinson experimented with blues, jazz and other musical genres before co-founding Shadowfax in 1974. He remained[…] Recorded live: 04/27/2011
• Lewis Keller Los Angeles based artist Lewis Keller manipulates frequency, timbre and amplitude via performance, installation, fabrication and digital media. His work combines sophisticated technology with crude humble structures, inviting listeners to question their relationships with time, technology, space, sound and silence. He received his BA from Colorado College and his MFA from CalArts. Recorded live: 04/20/2011
• Jessica Catron Jessica loves sound in just about any form/context and has a pretty erratic performance history because of her involvement with a colorful mix of music projects. She has performed with an array of eclectic musical entieites including Pauline Oliveros, James Tenney, Harold Budd, Rod Poole, Carla Bozulich, Evangelista, Linda Ronstadt, Nels Cline, Wilco, Nirvana (UK),[…] Recorded live: 04/13/2011
• MluM In addition to being a featured artist on National Public Radio programs throughout the U.S.A., MLuM, a Long Beach-based histriophonic ensemble, comprised of multi- national artists, has presented internationally (Musicacoustica, Beijing; NUS Arts Festival Singapore; etc.). With an intercultural and inter-media aesthetic and praxis that can be described as “Weltradau” (World Noise), Organic and inorganic[…] Recorded live: 04/06/2023
• Michael Jon Fink Michael Jon Fink has composed concertos for soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, violin and cello. Joining him are Brian Walsh and Alex Iles. Recorded live: 03/30/2011
• Gabie Strong Gabie Strong is an artist with a multidisciplinary approach to creating work about nature, technology, power and social resistance. Through her art, she seeks to tease out a feminist-dialectic between pure war and utopia, the state of entropy so indicative to Southern California. Recorded live: 03/16/2011
• Omayumi Osaka-based movement artist Omayumi, visual artist Steven M. Irvin, sound artist Alan Nakagawa will collaborate in a multi-media performance titled FLAT RED. Recorded live: 03/09/2023
• Laura Steenburge She currently works in music as a contrabassist, guitarist, pianist, singer, composer, and songwriter. Primarily creating & participating in experimental, instrumental, choral &amp folk music. Recorded live: 03/02/2024
• Ulrich Krieger Ulrich Krieger is a well known as a saxophone player in contemporary composed and free improvised music as well as a composer of chamber music and electronic music. Recorded live: 02/23/2011
• Liam Mooney Liam Mooney is a composer (+ performer) of experimental music, of noisy sounds, inventor of unwieldy musical instruments. webcast live on 02/16/2011 Recorded live: 02/16/2011
• Michael Winter Michael Winter is a composer, curator, music theorist, and software designer. He co-founded and co-directs (with fellow composer eric km clark) The Wulf., a non-profit arts organization that presents music free to the public in Los Angeles. Michael is a firm believer in music making as an experimental process and free information; e.g. open source[…] Recorded live: 02/09/2023
• Ezra Buchla Ezra Buchla has become a legendary figure in the sound art community. Currently the artist in residence at Machine Project, his never ending investigation into sound, history and sciences have captivated audiences. His ensemble the Mae Shi with Tim Byron have toured internationally. Ezra Buchla is son of the legendary synthesizer pioneer, Don Buchla. Recorded live: 02/02/2024
• Tom Watson Guitarist in bands : TOXIC SHOCK,Slovenly, Overpass, The Red Krayola, The Best of All w/ Mike Watt, the pair of pliers, The Jom and Terry Show and The Missingmen Recorded live: 01/26/2011
• Mooey Moobau & Alan Nakagawa “FIRST IN SPACE” was originally performed for John Burtle’s Eternal Telethon in 2010 at Machine Projects. It’s a “kamishibai” The work is about fictitious astronauts in space; incorporating original drawings, trombone, voice and iso cube. Recorded live: 01/19/2011
• Mark Trayle Mark Trayle is a California based musician and sound artist working in a variety of media including live electronic music, improvisation, installations, and compositions for chamber ensembles. Recorded live: 01/12/2023
• Scott Fraser Scott Fraser’s pieces utilize ‘musique concrete’ techniques combined with acoustic instruments and analog and digital synthesis, while recent work concentrates on extending the tonal vocabulary of the electric guitar. Recorded live: 12/15/2010
• Dorian Wood Los Angeles based singer/artist has held audiences captive for years on street corners, in concert halls and performance spaces throughout the US, Mexico and Europe. Recorded live: 12/08/2023
• Chris Kallmyer Chris Kallmyer is a performer/composer/sound artist living in Los Angeles, CA and is the Curator of Sound Programming for the Machine Project. Recorded live: 12/01/2024
• Eva Soltes at the Harrison House Filmmaker/Music Producer/Dancer Eva Soltes is a veteran of arts and media production. Eva studied Bharatanatyam, ancient temple dance of South India with T. Balasaraswati. Soltes has devoted her career to bringing the work of under-appreciated artists, art forms and cultures into the public eye. She lives in the Harrison House which was designed and created[…] Recorded live: 11/24/2010
• Corey Fogel a drummer and performance artist currently living in Los Angeles. His solo work is based around improvisational encounters with sounds, objects, personalities, textiles, foods, spanning the disciplines of performance art, video, dance, and installation. Recorded live: 11/17/2010
• Mooey Moobau “I have a song stuck in my throat. Please, friends… help me get it out!” says Mooey Moobau, aka Joseph Temperman, who is also a member of the sound-theater ensemble, Kill Sonic. Recorded live: 11/10/2023
• Rick Cox Rick Cox is a composer and skilled multi-instrumentalist, Cox was an early explorer/developer of “prepared electric guitar” Recorded live: 11/03/2024
• Midnight Ridazz The on going community bike ride phenomena “Midnight Ridazz” conducted an aural experiment inviting bicyclists to make sounds while collectively riding across Los Angeles. This was Midnight Ridazz’s The Worlds Longest Bike Song. Recorded live: 10/27/2010
• Scott Cazan Scott Cazan is a performer/composer and sound artist specializing in the performance of experimental electronic music where he explores human relations with technology, the act of listening and the physicality of sound. Recorded live: 10/20/2010
• smgsap Shea M Gauer and Scott A Peterson. They’ve been recording and playing live together for over 9 years. They are also help produce the annual experimental sound festival, Soundwalk in Long Beach Recorded live: 09/08/2023
• Andy Featherston Andy Featherston is a percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder. A former member of the confrontational art-rock band Candybox Violence and the folk-rock group The Hereafter. Recorded live: 09/01/2024
• Ian Hendersen He studied piano adding percussion, turntables, + computer-generated instruments to his vocabulary. He is a DJ, composer, performer, in an turntablist ensemble, the DJ for a hip-hop group, all before founding his band “Hers + His” Recorded live: 08/25/2010
• Integratron Integratron is the creation of George Van Tassel, and is based on the design of Moses’ Tabernacle, the writings of Nikola Tesla and telepathic directions from extraterrestrials. Located in Joshua Tree CA. Recorded live: 08/18/2010
• John Schneider Partch Ensemble’s director John Schneider let’s us in a rehearsal for an up coming performance at LACMA, which is the final performances of the annual Mircotonal Festival he directs. Recorded live: 08/11/2023
• Nowcloud A live performance with creator Max Markowitz’s Nowcloud. The latest of Max’s experimentation in music. Recorded live: 08/04/2024
• Motoko Honda and Joseph Berardi a pianist/composer/improviser who’s created a distinctive sound through her holistic approach to music. Her influences range from jazz, Indonesian, & contemporary piano. Joseph’s musicality, drumming style & use of percussion & found sounds within the traditional drum kit make him a fixture on the LA Music scene. Recorded live: 07/28/2010
• Chas Smith Chas is a LA based composer, performer, and instrument designer/builder who creates much of his music for his own instruments. His music, displays a fascination with the scientific & the sensual. A highly skilled aircraft welder, Chas created this instrument from titanium tubes. Recorded live: 07/21/2010
• Michael McMillen McMillen is an enduring Southern California artist best known for his intriguing constructions. Since the 1970s he has been creating installations with architectural references that deal with themes of time, change and illusion. Recorded live: 07/14/2010
• Glenn Bach As an artist who works with sound and music, Bach weaves field recordings, digital audio, and analog electronics into deep mediative soundscapes. He is also produces the annual Slow Music Festival Recorded live: 07/07/2023
• John Wood John Wood is a multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for Learning Music Monthly which is a “subscription-based album-a-month series.” Recorded live: 06/30/2010
• Devin Sarno Devin Sarno music has evolved from high volume feedback experimentation to a sonic examination of the meditative properties of low-end drone music. Recorded live: 06/23/2010
• Kaoru Mansour and Alan Nakagawa Ear Diorama Ear is an electronic sound duet including Kaoru Mansour and Alan Nakagawa Recorded live: 06/16/2010
• Albert Ortega Albert Ortega is a sound wizard who is connected to the most amazing angles of expansive music output in Los Angeles. Recorded live: 06/09/2023
• Emily Hay Emily Haya flutist, vocalist, pianist who extends the traditional roles & capabilities of her instruments by incorporating the complexity of contemporary classical technique with the spontaneity of free improvisation. Recorded live: 05/26/2010
• Rick Potts Rick Potts is a founding member of cult influential experimenters Los Angeles Free Music Society in the mid-70s. Recorded live: 05/19/2010
• Tatsuya Nakatani Tatsuya has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques, expanding the notion of percussion. Recorded live: 05/15/2010
• Alicia Vogl Saenz Alicia Vogl Saenz reads her poetry, accompanied by Peter Watkinson and Alan Nakagawa. Recorded live: 05/12/2023
• Anna Homler with Jorge Martin She sings in made-up languages that enable her to create remarkably expressive and exotic clusters of phonetics. His starting materials are sine waves, pulses, and sounds generated from the other person performing with him. Nakagawa joins the duet on his Iso Cube. Recorded live: 05/05/2023
• Gregory Lenczycki With his group Citizen Band he was selected as part of New Langton Art’s Bay Area Awards Show acknowledging new and emerging artists. Recorded live: 04/28/2010
• Robert Crouch As a visual artist, Robert has exhibited his work in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and London. He is releasing his first proper music tracks on U&A. He also curates sound performances at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Recorded live: 04/21/2010
• The Clouds A rock band from Long Beach Recorded live: 04/14/2010
• Paper Football Alan Nakagawa with Steven M. Irvin and Jeffrey James Mohr. Nakagawa’s tone poem about aging, the body and the mind. Recorded live: 04/07/2023
• Renee Petropoulos Renee Petropoulos with Marya Alford and Sojung Kwon performed live on March 24, 2024 She has exhibited her work extensively and produced temporary and permanent installations internationally. Her recent 2007 exhibition, Social Arrangements, featured five related ongoing projects encompassing painting, sculpture and audio. Recorded live: 03/24/2010
• Ronit Kirchman & Torsten Müller Ronit is a composer, songwriter, music producer and multi-instrumental performer based in Los Angeles. Torsten is a free improvising bassist based in Vancouver, Canada. He plays a 5 string double bass. Recorded live: 03/17/2010
• Steve and Jeffrey Roden Steve is a visual and sound artist. His working process uses various forms of specific notation and translates them through self invented systems; which then influence the process of painting, drawing, sculpture, and sound composition. Jeffrey is a experimental composer who is known primarily as a bass soloist. Recorded live: 03/10/2023
• Mark Wheaton Alan interviews Mark Wheaton. They show rare video clips from past performance collaborations with groups including the Shrimps. Recorded live: 03/03/2024
• Carl Stone He is one of the first contemporary composers to utilize sampling technology as a main form of sound production. Recorded live: 02/24/2010
• Department of Real Estate A noise-jazz trio featuring Peter Watkinson, Kio Griffith and Alan Nakagawa Recorded live: 02/17/2010
• Joe Potts He is a seminal figure in Noise Music history. He is a founding member of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, which generated international notoriety and help put LA on the Noise Music map starting in the late 1970’s. Recorded live: 02/10/2023
• Kyungmi Shin & Todd Gary Gray and Shin collaborate on an inter-disciplinary performance using African percussions and video created specifically for this webcast. Recorded live: 02/03/2024
• Michael Whitmore On this webcast, Whitmore performs solo on a ten string classical guitar. Recorded live: 01/27/2010
• Dwight Trible with Alan Nakagawa He is a singer who combines the best of vocal virtuosity with musicianship and improvisational skills to the delight of audiences and musicians alike. Recorded live: 01/20/2010
• Drew Lesso with Peter Watkinson and Alan Nakagawa Drew is a student of Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1971-1976. He was a member on the founding board of the Independent Composers Association. Peter primarily plays electric bass, effects, loops and Theremin. Alan is a multi-instrumentalist and inter-disciplinary artist. Recorded live: 01/13/2010
• Joseph Hammer His practice draws on the complexities of the process of listening and playing, reflecting on the role of the audience versus the performer, and uses music as it influences our notion of time, memory and intimacy as the basis for improvisation and abstraction. Recorded live: 01/06/2023