Conceived in collaboration with Mark Allen.

Throughout Machine Project’s one year residency at the Hammer Museum, weekly micro-concerts and other brief performances took place in a small coatroom closet – dubbed the Little William Theater – under the stairs in the Hammer Museum lobby. Performances were of live music, but there was also a puppet show, a cheese tasting, a bilingual poetry reading, and other sundry events. Pieces were typically one to two minutes long and were performed for two guests at a time.

Aside from weekly programming, The Little William Theater organized its own  Festival of New Music which comprised four resident ensembles, 95 composers, 350+ new works – all commissioned for the festival and under two minutes in length. Works are available by request. For more information, check out the Machine Project page for the Little William Theater, here. 

Machine Project Artist in Residence at the Hammer Museum

January – Nov 2010

Festival of New Music

The festival offers a landscape view of experimental music in 2010 with 94 composers from USA, Canada, Argentina, England, Germany, Holland, and Slovakia. Included are Guggenheim Fellows, Ivy League Professors, young experimentalists, and pillars of the creative community in Los Angeles, New York, and Berlin.

Participating Composers:
Ablinger, Peter – Berlin, Germany
Anderson, Casey – Los Angeles, CA
Applebaum, Mark – Menlo Park, CA
Azaretto, Roberto – Buenos Aires, Argentina
Barrett, Douglas – Eugene, OR
Bellerue, Bob – Brooklyn, NY
Bischoff, John – Berkeley, CA
Block, Olivia – Chicago, IL
Brown, Greg – Montague, MA
Bucksbarg, Andrew – Bloomington, IN
Cazan, Scott – Los Angeles, CA
Chen, Carolyn – La Jolla, CA
Chen, Justine F – New York, NY
Clark, Eric KM – Los Angeles, CA
Coons, Lisa R – New York, NY
Corral, Daniel – Los Angeles, CA
Cowal, Rory – Los Angeles, CA
Davis, Greg – Burlington, VT
DeLuca, Erik – Charlottesville, VA
Deragon, Michael – Los Angeles, CA
Detrick, Douglas – Eugene, OR
Deyoe, Nicholas – La Jolla, CA
Didkovsky, Nick – New York, NY
Fefferman, Lainie – New York, NY
Fink, Michael Jon – Los Angeles, CA
Fong, Adam – San Francisco, CA
Golia, Vinny – Los Angeles, CA
Gottfried, Rama – Berkeley, CA
Gresham-Lancaster, Scot – Oakland, CA
Griffeath-Loeb, Brian – La Jolla, CA
Gurke, Charles – Oakland, CA
Harris, Yolande – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hastings, John – Los Angeles/Brooklyn
Hayward, Robin – Berlin, Germany
Helgeson, Aaron – Oberlin, OH
Hiendl, Martin – La Jolla, CA
Holt, Danny – Los Angeles, CA
Holter, Julia – Los Angeles, CA
Hough, Matthew – New York, NY
Iddon, Martin – Leeds, United Kingdom
Ignacio, Lem Jay – Los Angeles, CA
Johnston, Ben – Madison, WI
Kallmyer, Chris – Los Angeles, CA
Kant, David – Brooklyn, NY
Kasprzyk, Cory – Bowling Green, OH
Klopfleisch, James – Los Angeles, CA
koch, hans w. – Cologne, Germany
Kozik, Lona – Devon, United Kingdom
Krebs, Annette – Berlin, Germany
Krieger, Ulrich – The Desert, CA
Kudirka, Joseph – London, United Kingdom
Lamb, Cat – Los Angeles, CA
Lebaron, Anne – Los Angeles, CA
Lowenstein, Marc – Los Angeles, CA
Lyle, Jenna Marie – Cleveland, OH
Matej, Daniel – Bratislava, Slovakia
McIntosh, Andrew – Los Angeles, CA
McWhorter, Brian – Eugene, OR
Menzies, Mark – Los Angeles, CA
Narveson, Jascha – New York, NY
Orsher, James – Santa Barbara, CA
Overton, Adam – Los Angeles, CA
Pinkmountain, Scott – Oakland, CA
Pluta, Sam – New York, NY
Polansky, Larry – Hanover, NH
Pontvianne, Julien – Paris, France
Porter, Chris – Los Angeles, CA
Rowan, Andrew – Eugene, OR
Sabat, Marc – Berlin, Germany
Sargent, Matt – Hartford, CT
Schankler, Isaac – Los Angeles, CA
Schultz, Gerhard – Berlin, Germany
Sherman, Brandon – Los Angeles/New York
Smith, Linda Caitlin – Toronto, Canada
So, Mark – Los Angeles, CA
Soper, Kate – New York, NY
Steen, Ken – Glastonbury, CT
Steenberge, Laura – Los Angeles, CA
Sudol, Jacob – La Jolla, CA
Tanaka, Ryan – Los Angeles, CA
Tholl, Andrew – Los Angeles, CA
Tinkle, Adam -La Jolla, CA
Trayle, Mark – Ventura, CA
Trevino, Jeffrey – La Jolla, CA
Ulman, Erik – San Francisco, CA
von Schweinitz, Wolfgang – Gorman, CA
Vowinckel, Antje – Berlin, Germany
Wambsgans, Colin -Los Angeles, CA
Wadle, Douglas – Los Angeles, CA
Walsh, Brian – Los Angeles, CA
White, Liza – Berkeley, CA
Wolff, Christian – Hanover, NH
Woodford, Colin – Los Angeles, CA
Wooley, Nate – New Jersey City, NJ

Two tubas play experimental music for a small audience during the Little William Theater Festival of New Music.

Poets, Joshua Beckman and Anthony McCann read Carlos Oquendo de Amat’s seminal work of graphic poetry, Five Meters of Poems in Spanish and English to an audience of two.

DanRae Wilson and Miriam Jones create brief puppet shows exploring the ephemeral, transitory nature of a time-based event juxtaposed with the hearty tradition of vaudeville style puppetry a la Punch and Judy.