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.

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…

more video to come from the show soon!

I am back from San Francisco, and while I am still waiting on video from the ATA show, here are two photos from the event. One of my overall setup, and a closeup of the result of my realization of Dicky Bahto’s “Bouquet (for Casey Anderson),” of which we performed two simultaneous, but separate, realizations.

July 3rd
the wulf. @ MOCA sunday studio presenting music and workshops
MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Schedule:

ROTHKO ROOM:
*Matt Barbier and Luke Storm – JUZ by Wolfgang von Schweinitz and a new work by Larry Polansky – 1:00 to 2:00 pm (trombone and tuba)
*Christine Tavolacci – performing Carlos Inderhees’ Buch fur Flöte – 2:00 to 2:55 pm (flute)

KLINE ROOM:
*Mark So – END ROAD WORK / NO PARKING / BOB LOVES BETTY (2011) for Liz – 1:00 to 3:30 (cassette playback)

STELLA ROOM:
*Harris Wulfson – LiveScore – 1:00 to 1:45 pm. (for mixed ensemble)
Performers: Ezra Buchla, Heather Lockie, Christine Tavolacci, Eric Clark, Casey Anderson
*Michael Winter – room and seams – 3:00 to 3:20 pm. (for chimes and strings)
Performers: Mark So, Scott Cazan, Liam Mooney, Corey Fogel, Ezra Buchla, Eric Clark, Laura Steenberge, Heather Lockie
*Corey Fogel – drums – 3:30 – 4:00 pm

RAUSCHENBERG ROOM:
*Casey Anderson – Whitespace – 1:50 to 2:30 pm (for radios)
Performers: Corey Fogel, Casey Anderson, Colin Woodford, Colin Wambsgans, Liam Mooney
*Tashi Wada – alignment – 3:00 to 3:30 pm

FRANK, RAUCHENBERG, ALTOON ROOMS:
*Eric KM Clark – Experiment in Memory and Pitch – from 2:30 to 3:00 pm (speaker playback)

RUSCHA, FRANCIS, WHITE ROOMS:
*Laura Steenberge – Folk Music for MOCA – from 2:20 to 2:50 pm (for three stringed instruments)
Performers: Ezra Buchla, Heather Lockie, Laura Steenberge

RUSCHA ROOM:
*Ezra Buchla – COMPRESSION OF THE CHEST CAVITY MIRACLE – 3:20 to 4:00 (for viola and live electronics)

READING ROOM:
*Daniel Corral – NEOTROPE – 1:00 to 1:30 pm (for six accordions)
*Dicky Bahto – Documents – 1:30 to 3:00 pm (film)

ARCO COURT:
*Alan Nakagawa – Isocube – 1:45 to 2:15 pm (home-brew electronics)

SCULPTURE PLAZA:
*Artmaking Activity – 1:00 to 3:45 pm
*Daniel Corral – Music Boxes & Card Pieces – 1:00 to 4:00 pm
*Scott Cazan – new piece – 1:15 to 2:20 pm (home-brew electronics)
*Liam Mooney – 180° – 2:20 to 2:50 pm (triangles and dry ice)
Performers: Mike Winter, Liam Mooney

John Cage – Number 6 – workshop – 2:50 to 3:30 pm
Led by Casey Anderson