12/11 wild Up

with andrew tholl at beyond baroque

Great news all around this winter season. I’ve been working with a local modern music collective here in LA called wild Up as a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and member of the creative team (helping to drive the group with programming, and concept with a sound art perspective on things). We recently got a review in the Los Angeles Times, and wonderful write up from Out West Arts for a program of music by Clarence Barlow, player piano, and punk rock covers. The group plays a lot of fun and loud music, but also spends quite a bit of time talking about models of creativity and how the group can engender an experience for the performers and audience alike. wild Up’s next performance is on January 14, 2012 at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA.

In other news, I’ve been given an Artist in Residence Award from the Headlands Center for the Arts. I will be spending a month in the fall of 2012 in the Marin Headlands doing field recordings, and developing a series of indoor and outdoor installation works. This may or may not involve workshopping a trumpet recording project in the incredible, monolithic, concrete military structures dotting the pacific coast.

Happy New Years: for vertical space at MCA Denver as part of a sound installation created to accompany their 2011 exhibition on Fred Sandback. (helium filled balloons turned into floating speakers w/ field recordings and sine tones)