casey anderson

February 25th
THE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC YEARBOOK
Issue Project Room, New York, NY
7:30pm
$?

Now entering its 4th year, The Experimental Music Yearbook is a repository for composers, performers, and the public to glean the methods and styles of various artists working in the experimental music tradition. As the modes of experimentation in the arts change from year to year, the Experimental Music Yearbook’s annual issues will build into a comprehensive, and varied, database of experimentation in music/sound.

For this concert, the editors (Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, and John Hastings) will select highlights from the first three years to spotlight the different methods composers use to create their music. Differing in concept and execution, the compositions display the full range given to performers in realizing works in the experimental tradition. Composers include Peter Ablinger, Casey Anderson, Olivia Block, John P. Hastings, Hans W. Koch, and Christian Wolff.

More info here.

March 2nd
Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, Tim Perkis, Mark Trayle
BETALEVEL, Los Angeles, CA
8:30pm
$FREE

Live electronic music by Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, Tim Perkis, and Mark Trayle in various combinations (and/or solo).

March 25th
Casey Anderson: Solo, Many, All
the wulf., Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm
$FREE

Two new pieces (solo live electronics, the other participatory) concluding with an open discussion based on a prompt. The event will shift from an exclusive format (solo) to one in which everyone present is placed on an equal playing field (all).

March 30th
Anderson, Cazan, Kallmyer, Wambsgans
the wulf., Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm
$FREE

New work based on, or utilizing, field recordings.

issue 2011 has been added! click here to see scores/listen to recordings/view video/download all from the 2011 edition of the experimental music yearbook. curated by Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, and John P. Hastings, the performances for the 2011 edition took place at various locations in New York and Los Angeles.

issue 2011 features contributions from Casey Anderson, John Bischoff, Scott Cazan, Bill Dietz, John P. Hastings, Travis Just, James Klopfleisch, Hans W. Koch, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Jessi Marino, Albert Ortega, Mark Trayle, Tashi Wada/Paul Clipson, and C. Spencer Yeh.

upcoming shows:

December 8th
storefront + scope, circuits [intervention, investigation]
Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm
Free

Various prompts will invite the audience to listen to a wide range of chaotic circuits (inside) through Machine’s recessed storefront window/plaza (outside) via contact microphones and portable amplifiers. The audience will be encouraged to interact with the already present ambient sounds of the environment, as well as thoroughly investigate the resonance(s) of the window and the possible interference caused by moving throughout the plaza.

More information about “storefront” here.

December 15th-16th
INTERPRETATIONS: Wadada Leo Smith’s 70th Birthday Celebration
Roulette, New York, NY
8:00pm
$15/10

A Two-day celebration for innovative composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith in honor of his 70th Birthday. December 15th features Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet (with Angelica Sanchez, piano, John Lindberg, bass and Pheeroan AkLaff, drums), Mbira (with Min Xiao Fen, pipa, and Pheeroan AkLaff, drums) and his String Quartet plus Thomas Buckner, voice, and Smith on trumpet. December 16th features Leo Smith’s Golden Quintet (adding Susie Ibarra on drums), Silver Orchestra, & Organic.

The 2011 issue of the experimental music yearbook festival began last night (10/14) with a beautiful performance by Hans W. Koch. Here is information about the events:

Concert 1, 10/15, 8pm (Presents Gallery, Brooklyn, NY): Jessie Marino/On Structure

Concert 2, 10/15, 8pm (the wulf., Los Angeles, CA): Hans W. Koch

Concert 3, 10/21, 8pm (BETALEVEL, Los Angeles, CA): John Bischoff, Scott Cazan, GX Jupitter Larsen, and Mark Trayle

Concert 4, 10/22, 8pm (the wulf., Los Angeles, CA): Casey Anderson, John P. Hastings, Albert Ortega, and C. Spencer Yeh

Concert 5, 10/29, 8pm (Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA): Tashi Wada with Paul Clipson

More information, and documentation, can be found here.

A lot of recent work has been added to the site here (see the “recent work” tab on the sidebar), including my contribution to the recent khalija compilation, a recent live set at BETALEVEL, and my contribution to devin sarno’s absence of wax netlabel.

I also recently accepted a teaching position in the Graduate Media Design program at Art Center College of Design

upcoming events
9/22-23 with Jason Kahn at CalArts, BETALEVEL
10/12 with Vic Rawlings and Tim Feeney at Human Resources
10/21-22, 29 the third annual experimental music yearbook festival

September 23rd
Applied Materials
BETALEVEL, Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm
Free

Casey Anderson/Jason Kahn – duo set
Casey Anderson/Jason Kahn/Scott Cazan – trio set
Casey Anderson/Jason Kahn/Ulrich Krieger – trio set

September 22nd
Jason Kahn, Casey Anderson
ROD, CalArts, Valencia, CA
8:00pm
Free

Solo sets by Jason and I, followed by a duo performance.

Here is a bit of a post-show indication of a recent performance I did at BETALEVEL, as well as some pictures (linked below).

Hi Fi/Lo Noise, Scott Cazan, Casey Anderson
FRIDAY, August 12th
8:30pm
Free
BETALEVEL

photos (thanks for these, Sean!).

I have also put up the recording from the concert here.

QUARTERS(clapping) + (tone) were both performed today at the Walker Art Center (MN) as part of Machine Project’s residency. This was all part of Chris Kallmyer’s “Music for Parking Garages.” Recordings are forthcoming…

Devin Sarno’s netlabel, Absence of Wax, is currently featuring a new piece of mine. Check out “unflowered,” for radios and laptop, here.

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