June 3, Friday - 8pm
June 4, Saturday - 2pm
Sunday, June 5, 2-5pm
Trummerflora is collective in residence at Voz Alta where they curate Other Ideas, a forum for new independent music. "Trummerflora, or rubble plants and trees, are a special phenomenon unique to heavily bombed urban areas. The bomb acts as a plow, mixing rubble fragments with the earth which often contain seeds dormant for a century or more. These seeds come to light and those that can live in this new and special earth grow and flourish." - Helen and Newton Harrison
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Artist Bios
In 2003, Baiyon/Hans Fjellestad/Jusco Punk was released on Brain Escape Sandwich Rec. The album is composed by tracks of the session. And Baiyon's techno unit Conceal was released album on Brain Escape Sandwich Rec. it's create sounds after click /glitch strange techno or techno which passed hip-hop sound. In 2004, Baiyon contributed music for sound track of moog movie of the world opening to the public. It takes charge of a part of opening and ending. Latest album will be heard soon.
As a teenager she was heavily influenced by her family to explore the realms of jazz through the saxophone.Her own interests diverged however, when she beganworking with guitar.Her first guitar CD "Machine" is an exploration intotal abandon of form and process of sheer layerednoise. " ...solo guitar noise a la Lee Ranaldo, Caspar Brotzman. Fine layers of distortion, looping industrial machinery effects, hypnotic and droning mostly, like the sound of working in the bowels of a futuristic steel foundry on the planet moon Titan with robot drones standing guard, heavy artillery at their disposal."C. J. "Reaven Borosque is currently a sound artist, turntablist and noisician, living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has performed at the NorCal Noise fest, The Big Sur Experimental Music Festival (2003/04), and The Oakland Noise festival. She is the leader of the free-noise trio Hideous Dream. She also plays in Rent Romus's free-jazz quartet The Lords of Outland. She has played with Kaylee Koombs in the out-ambient duo Swoon Doll. She has also performed with many folks including John Berndt, Ellen Weller, and Ignaz Schick, and currently plays noise pedals, turntables, and detuned electric guitar. "She's also fond of noise, chaos, machine-like repetition, and songs that combine layers of sonic strata to create the sound of machines growing, expanding, and overtaking their surroundings until they collide and destroy each other in gear-stripping, paint-stripping sheets of sound."www.noisegoddess.com Coming from a visual art background, Rebecca Bryant has cultivated her dancing style by training in modern, post-modern, improvisation, contact improvisation, yoga, ballet and performance art. In addition to being a Lower Left core artist, Rebecca also creates and performs with percussionist Don Nichols as the Past)(Modern Performance Duo. She performs, choreographs and improvises in San Francisco with SHIFT>>>Physical Theater and in Los Angeles with Off the Hip, both of which are dance collectives she co-founded. Recognized for her intelligent dance-making, Rebecca received the Glorya Kaufman, Jean Irwin and Forti Family Awards while earning an MFA in Dance at UCLA. In addition to performing in the US and Mexico, she has spread her work internationally by performing in Germany, Sweden and Denmark and teaching contact improvisation in Italy. Rebecca recently performed in work by choreographers Wally Cardona and Victoria Marks while also crafting her own work on the performance collective GROUP. She teaches solo, ensemble and contact improvisation, as well as modern/postmodern technique at universities and in the community. Her recent travels include a stop in Philadelphia where she performed a percussion/theater piece in the Philly Fringe Festival. Jon Calzo is an eclectic turntable/electronic music artist from San Diego. In recent years, he has performed concerts in Los Angeles and San Diego's own Museum of Contemporary Art-Downtown, as well as collaborations with Curtis Glatter, Jason Robinson, Nathan Hubbard, Marcelo Radulovich and many others. Calzo is also a member of an electronic music duo called TENSHUN which has released several short-run 7" and CDrs in the last three years. Calzo's extensive background in DJing, coupled with his involvement with extended sound possibilities and modified turntables places him at an interesting vantange point, blurring the lines of musical genres with his extensively wide range of influences by mixing his own music with trip-hop, funk, polish jazz and scratch-dub. In addition to his music, Calzo's visual art will also be presented at Spring Reverb 2005.
He first made his mark in his home country when he co-formed the now-legendary indie label Dead Elvis in 1991. Converted to the emerging sound of techno and electronic music, he founded D1 Recordings 3 years later. An unprecedented platform to help push Irish producers, D1 Recordings has remained consistent in the quality of its output, and has featured releases from both Irish and international talent including Donnacha Costello, Dave Donohoe, Mark Broom, DJ Bone and Keith Tucker. 2004 saw Doyle establish D1ASPORA as a sister label to focus attention on the diversity of new talent emerging from within Ireland's electronic music scene. Doyle also established Model One - the longest running techno club in Ireland. Currently residing at Traffic in Dublin, the club has featured a wide variety of guests down through the years: from Auxmen, Octave One, and Laurent Garnier, to DJ Godfather, Peter Ford, and Underground Resistance. As resident DJ at Model One, Doyle has considerable experience behind the decks and has played numerous dates across Europe (his first Asian tour is coming up in Autumn 2005). Doyle also finds time to produce (as D1 for solo projects, and as Active Service Unit with Scott Logan), and he has released and remixed for D1 Recordings, Piranha, Traum and Fugato Technologies. Doyle has also made a significant and defining contribution to the development of electronic music in Ireland through his establishment of DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) in 2002 - an annual event designed to bring the electronic arts both into new environments and to new audiences. Since its inception, the festival has showcased an eclectic array of international artists (from Coil to 4Hero, Ulrich Schnauss and Mu-ziq) alongside their Irish counterparts.
Jeremy Drake has continuing projects with the following artists: Mitchell Brown, Jessica Catron, Alex Cline, Nels Cline, Harris Eisenstadt, Stephen Flinn, Vinny Golia, Chris Heenan, Kurt Heyl, David Kendall, Noah Phillips, David Rothbaum, G.E. Stinson, Kris Tiner, Ben Wright and has performed and/or recorded with many others. Releases can be found on the experimental musical research and Reify Recording labels.
Moving to NY in 1986, Dresser has recorded over one hundred cds, including those with John Zorn, Ray Anderson, Jane Ira Bloom, Tim Berne, Gerry Hemingway, Dave Douglas, Satoko Fujii's, Bob Ostertag and Joe Lovano. Under his own name he has a recorded twenty projects including his trio with pianist Denman Maroney and Swiss flautist Matthias Zieglier, a solo bass repertoire which pushes the technical limits of the instrument aided by custom made electronics that amplify normally unheard regions of the instrument, and chamber music which presses at the boundaries between improvised and composed music, modern classical, and jazz. A chapter on his extended techniques for contrabass, "A Personal Pedogogy," appears in the book, ARCANA. He received a 2003 Grammy nomination, two NYFA grants, Meet the Composer commissions, a McKim Fund commission at the Library of Congress, and commissions from sculptor Robert Taplin, flutist Matthias Ziegler, and tubist, David LeClair,. He has been a lecturer at Princeton University, faculty at the New School University, and Hampshire College. Currently in fall of 2004, Dresser joins the faculty of UCSD.
Finishing DMA in contemporary music at UCSD with Miller Puckette, Ed Harkins, and Charles Curtis. specializes in post-war solo and chamber repertoire for the trombone. premieres include Homiski, Finnissy, Malfatti. recently name-dropped Jerome Rothenberg, George Lewis, Bertram Turetzky, Steve Roden, Nick Hennies, Bhob Rainey, Nathaniel Clark, Sabine Vogel. the trio, IIBasspit, with Seth Cluett and Mike Bullock, has performed throughout New England and may never have an album. projects include: a commission by San Diego New Music for an interactive installation for computer and ambience, an 18-hour performance of unconventionally-notated scores, and a linux cluster sound war installation at NWEAMO. recent lectures at USCD on contemporary music and the sounds of anim. forthcoming: 3-night event using resonant qualities of Geisel library, UCSD, as structure.
In the sphere of Free Jazz, Ellis' distinct instrumental voice has been heard in the company of players such has Karen Borca, Raphe Malik, Paul Murphy, Rashid Bakr, Thurman Barker, Anthony Davis, Wadada Leo Smith, John Tchicai, Sonny Simmons, Dennis Charles, Andrew Cyrille and Joe McPhee, Fred Frith and Nels Cline among others. His unique expression, which critic Ben Watson described as "funky and free sensuality," can be found in Ellis' current projects: What We Live -- with Larwence Ochs and Donald Robinson -- Sound On Survival -- with Marco Eneidi and Peter Valsamis -- REV -- with Robinson and Swedish saxophonist Biggi Vinkeloe; Duos with pianists Paul Plimley and Mike Wofford -- Di Terra -- with Alberto Braida and Fabrizio Spera. Ellis is currently living in New York City. Another aspect to Ellis' recent work that is gaining more and more attention are his explorations into computer music including his electronic performances with George Lewis, Joelle Leandre, Gerry Hemingway and Pamela Z. and Haco and Mrlectronic. "Ellis' playing is truly remarkable in its beauty, intensity, and energy"www.lisleellis.com
Holzborn has presented his work in the US, Mexico and Japan, performing as a solo artist and with several ensembles, including Donkey (a decade-long collaboration with musician/filmmaker Hans Fjellestad) and Quibble (with Nathan Hubbard and Marcelo Radulovich). He has performed and/or recorded with Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Miya Masaoka, Lê Quan Ninh, Eugene Chadbourne, Matt Ingalls, Andrea Polli, DJ Marcus B, Scott Looney, Jason Robinson, Anthony Burr, Marcos Fernandes, Marcelo Radulovich, Scott Walton, Mike Keneally, Ellen Weller, Kristy Cheadle, Alan Lechusza, Nathan Hubbard, Robert Montoya, Joscha Oetz, Mike Khoury, Blaise Siwula, Nortec Collective, Jonathan Glasier and The San Diego Art Ensemble. Holzborn also regularly creates music for dance, often collaborating with innovative dance collective Lower Left, producing both custom compositions and improvised performances.
Alicia Marván is a performance artist, choreographer, improviser and set designer dedicated to innovative stage practices. Her work focuses on creating original movement vocabulary and often incorporates voice, media, unique environments and installation art. She was born in Mexico City and received her earliest training in Cunningham and Graham dance techniques. She became exposed to Postmodern Dance and Improvisation in 1996 and since then has been cultivating such forms with Lower Left, Anna Halprin, Ruth Zaporah and Mary Overlie, among others. She has also been influenced by the work of Pina Bausch, Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman and Trisha Brown. She co-directed Head On Off, a performance ensemble she co-founded in 2001, where she explored site-specific performance and dance for the camera. Other past performance ventures include performing with Heads On Fire, Sawako Nakayasu, Katsura Kan, and directing several shows of her own in Mexico and the United States. She has performed at renowned performance venues and festivals such as Highways, The Electric Lodge, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, Sledgehammer Theater, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, The 418 Project, and Celebrate Dance Festival. She was recently presented in Mexico as part of the first Festival of Feminist and Kitsch Art and is currently a core artist with Lower Left performance collective in San Diego, CA. Tracy McMullen is a performer, composer and scholar. She has a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University, and an M.M. (Jazz Performance) and M.A. (Music Composition) from the University of North Texas. She is currently a Humanities Fellow in the Critical Studies/Experimental Practices doctoral program at UCSD. Her current interests include: the corporeal logics of performance, i.e., the creation of knowledge, meaning and being in the act of performing/improvising; the connection between current Western theoretical models, such as post-structuralism, and the Eastern philosophy of Buddhism; and a general overarching interest in Heidegger, Derrida, post-structuralism, Buddhism, conceptual art/artists and the art of performance. She studied with David Murray and Dewey Redman and has performed and/or recorded with Scott Amendola, Jon Birdsong (Beck), David Borgo, Anthony Davis, Trevor Dunn, Jon Evans (Tori Amos), Rick Helzer, George Lewis, Bertram Turetsky and Victoria Williams among others and can be found on various independent label CDs. Her compositions have been performed throughout the United States and in Canada. Robert Montoya (improviser-percussionist-sound artist) is an Accretions recording artist, and has been active in the San Diego music scene since the early 1980's. He is a member of the organic-trance-groove improvisation ensemble, Wormhole Effect and a founding member of the Trummerflora Collective. He has recently released his first solo recording under the name of robert m. Montoya has performed and/or recorded with George Lewis, L Quan Ninh, Mike Keneally, Marcos Fernandes, Marcelo Radulovich, Jason Robinson, Nathan Hubbard, Damon Holzborn, Ellen Weller, Scott Looney, Hans Fjellestad, among others. Montoya has performed in Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, and throughout California. www.accretions.com/artists/robert.asp
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Marianthi has attended seminars and courses tutored by composers including Richard Barrett, C. Czernowin S. Takasugi and R. Barrett G. Aperghis & J. Shllhorn, M. Lindberg, P. Lindgren, B. Sorensen J. Harvey & T. de Mey Christina Kubisch, Her music has been performed and broadcasted in various festivals in Europe, Unites States and South America. Commissions include works for The Volharding Orchestra, Sur Plus, QNG, Corrado Canonici, rout, Ictus, Niklas Brommare, Scot Walton, The London Improvisers Orchestra, the Black jackets Company. Since 1999 she has performed and collaborates with Eddie Prevost. She has also performed among others with The Scratch orchestra, Steve Beresford, Charles Curtis.e.t.c "I see instruments as objects and objects as instruments," she said. "The question is, is it you who is touching the object or the object that is touching you? Objects and gestures have their own associations [and] histories. My intention is to create an illusion or moments that seem to appear as something with no name... fresh."
Performing artist Jessica Radulovich has been a core artist with Lower Left since 2003. Previously she co-directed Head On Off, a performance ensemble she co-founded in 2001. Jessica has performed her collaborative and solo works in renowned contemporary performance venues including Sushi Performance and Visual Art, Sledgehammer Theatre, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, and the 418 Project in Santa Cruz, CA. Jessica extends beyond the stage in Site Specific performances, highlighting enlivening opportunities dormant in our 'ordinary' environs. Inspired by postmodern, minimalist, and conceptual art, as well as transpersonal psychology, she engages in a two-fold contemplative and rigorously physical creative process. Jessica's performance training includes postmodern dance, performance art, Authentic Movement, Alexander Technique, ballet, yoga, and classical opera. She received a BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art. Jessica loves working with Lower Left, exploring all levels of the collaborative creative process with fascination. Chilean-born Marcelo Radulovich is an audio/visual artist residing in the U.S.
www.marceloradulovich.com
Setting up his own imprint in 2000, the Freestate releases teased with distilled epics and moved into more cinematic realms. Rowland is also one of the founders and directors of D.E.A.F. [Dublin Electronic Arts Festival] now heading into its fourth year it has been responsible for providing a platform for Irish electronic art and music. Of late live Rob has taken to laptop experimentation through new live sequencing/recording systems to explore new collaborations with other artists on the D1 roster. While still recording for D1 Recordings, Rowland now also records for Swiss label Adreenagroov, and he has taken his live show to the UK, Spain, Finland, Latvia and Estonia.
Rieman writes for piano and for ensembles, and his work for the 'prepared and extended Rhodes piano' has garnered quite a bit of attention lately. Focusing on improvisation based on lightly notated scores, Rieman forays into extended technique. Rieman manipulates his Rhodes to create otherworldly textures not normally associated with the instrument, using mallets, bones, rocks, screws, brushes, finger puppets, marbles, and other household objects. He elaborates, "The instrument which I'll use in this performance has been deconstructed and reassembled to enable new aspects of technique. I basically cut a Rhodes electric piano into pieces and reassembled it onto a smaller frame, separating its outputs. Then I added contact mics to the general pickup structure to let me amplify very small sounds. Each event can be spatialized in a stereo mix and effected through a mixer. " Rieman has recorded with Fred Frith (of Henry Cow, Naked City, Keep the Dog), Lesli Dalaba (Land, Carbon), Carla Kihlstedt (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat Trio, Two Foot Yard), and Stuart Dempster (Merce Cunningham Dance Troupe, Deep Listening Band).
Two Cds of Glick Rieman's prepared electric piano work are available (www.accretions.com). "Glick Rieman improvises slow, haunting music that passes well beyond Ambient agreeableness to offer the more substantial satisfactions of deep listening.....His prepared electric piano generates a refreshingly strange climate..."On the Prepared Rhodes: "It's funny how art follows extinction for so many electronic instruments of the 20th century... scratching vinyl becomes the axe du jour once digital audio becomes the reproduction norm, analog synthesis becomes the rage for a generation swimming in digital seas -- eric glick rieman's explorations of the venerable rhodes electric piano is part and parcel of the same pattern. no "quiet storm" here ...the tines sprout tentacles, sounding a forest of inharmonicity."On "Ten to the Googolplex", Accretions, San Diego, 2001: "Amazing record of manipulated Rhodes electric piano ambient tone paintings. One of the very best extended minimalist records of recent memory... If you like dark ambient minimalism, then this record will be your bliss. Highly recommended."On "DalabaFrithGlickRiemanKihlstedt" , Accretions, San Diego, 2003: "...an unusual and highly effective quartet..."www.accretions.com/artists/eric.asp
www.trummerflora.com/about/al.asp Skeleton Key Percussion Ensemble Skeleton Key Percussion Ensemble brings together San Diegos finest improvising percussionists into a working group situation. In keeping with the splinter group concept, the SKPE works to bring each members "language" to the group, and interaction of each members interests, background and instruments serves as the basis for the music performed. For Spring Reverb 2005, SKPE will present a new work by Nathan Hubbard for percussion quartet and dancer, entitled No. 12 (for Harry Smith) Nate Atwood combines his background in rock music with an interest in instrument building and electronically modified percussion to form a unique world where the push and pull between energy and silence meet. Atwood has collaborated with many improvisers, most notably Curtis Glatter and Nathan Hubbard, and has a long-standing duo with guitarist Jeff Podezwich.
www.castorandpolluxmusic.com/nmhubbard
Titicacaman
Adaptations, improvisation and allegory. Trio Maghreb is Tracy McMullen, Al Scholl and Marcos Fernandes who use saxophones, voice, guitars, green tea, percussion, field recordings and electronics to explore open and structured improvisation, minimalism and the blues. M.A., Music History, University of Hartford Contrabassist; Currently the senior professor of Music at UCSD, Turetzky has been a distinguished clinician and pedagogue for over three decades, giving master classes, seminars, and workshops nationally and internationally. His knowledge of repertoire, performance style, and his unique approach to technical, psychological, and physical problems has made him a highly sought-after teacher. His master classes have been referred to as "life-altering." Turetzky has been a featured contrabass soloist in the music centers of the United States, Europe, Latin America and Australia. The response to his many concerts, recordings, lectures, writings and his unique sonic vocabulary has taken the contrabass from it's traditional role to assume the position of a major solo instrument. More than 300 compositions have been written for, performed by, and recorded by Turetzky, making him one of the few performers, in all of music history, to have created a large and impressive repertoire of music for his instrument. He is is a prolific recording artist and has recorded for Nonesuch, Finnador, Son Nova, Desto, Music and Art, Incus, 9 winds, Advance, Vanguard, New World, and others as soloist, improvisor, chamber player, Jazz player, orchestra player, and Klezmer artist. He is also an acclaimed scholar/researcher in the fields of Jazz History, 18th Century Chamber Music and the author of many reviews, articles and the now classic book "The Contemporary Contrabass." After the success of his book, Turetzky was named co-editor of "The New Instrumentation Series" [UC Press]. He is also a published composer, editor, transcriber and arranger of music for his instrument. His compositions are published, reviewed and recorded. Turetzky has also received many awards for composition from ASCAP plus grants from the NEA and Meet the Composer as well as many commissions.
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Ellen received her Masters in Music Composition from Queens College of the City University of New York and the Ph.D. in music (Critical Studies and Experimental Practices) from the University of California San Diego. She has taught music at all levels, from kindergarten through college, currently teaching World Music courses and a course she designed entitled "The Music of War: Patriotism, Propaganda and Protest" at the University of California, San Diego. Her past research has focused on multicultural performance in San Diego, public arts funding and cultural tourism. Selected Discography
Ellen Weller - Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations [2004/Circumvention 041] |
