casey anderson

shows (2010)

December 4th – 5th, 2010
David Tudor’s Rainforest IV
A sound installation workshop with Casey Anderson
Machine Project, Los Angeles
1-4pm
Public Exhibition: 4pm, Sunday, December 5th

Two-day workshop focusing on David Tudor’s seminal installation piece, Rainforest IV. Day 1: building necessary components for the piece. Day 2: discussing strategies for a successful realization of the piece and assembling a group installation at Machine Project. Go here to register, and for more information.

November 13th, 2010
new music by mike winter
the wulf, Los Angeles, CA
8:00 pm
Free

music of mike winter. some piano pieces and some pieces with sustained sounds punctuated every once in a while with other sounds. performed by casey anderson, matthew barber, eric clark, daniel corral, rory cowal, corey fogel, james klopfleisch, cat lamb, liam mooney, anna robinson, gary schultz, mark so, laura steenberge, christine tavolacci, and perhaps a few others.

November 7th, 2010
Electric Melon
as part of Let Them Eat LACMA, with Machine Project and Fallen Fruit
LACMA, Los Angeles

I will be teaching people how to build contact mics to be attached to melons. Once equipped with melons participants will join a drum circle. Later they will eat their melons (hopefully amplified).

November 5th, 2010
Festival of New American Music
Art Jarvinen’s Tempworks ensemble
Sacramento, CA

In loving memory of my former teacher, and good friend, Art Jarvinen, Scott Cazan, Andrew Tholl, Isaac Shankler, and I will present a concert of his recent music as part of the 33rd Annual Festival of New American Music. More information can be found here.

t h e e x p e r i m e n t a l m u s i c y e a r b o o k f e s t i v a l
October 22 – 24, 2010
Roy O. Disney Concert Hall, Valencia, CA
the wulf., Los Angeles, CA
The Wild Beast, Valencia, CA

The Herb Alpert School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts is pleased to announce the second annual new experimental music concert series the Experimental Music Yearbook. Taking place October 22 – 24, 2010, the Experimental Music Yearbook is a series of curated concerts highlighting some recent trends and ideas in the global experimental music community. The concerts showcase recent works from renowned composers Vinny Golia and Greg Davis, as well as premieres from Mark So, Olivia Block and many others. Comprised of three concerts over three days, the event will expose early career local composers to a wider audience. Faculty member and composer Sara Roberts, along with local experimentalists John P. Hastings and Casey Anderson, curated the concerts and have organized a team of Los Angeles’ finest experimental music performers in enacting the second iteration of this annual event.

f r i d a y , o c t o b e r 2 2 , 8 p m
Roy O. Disney Hall, Valencia, CA

shear (2009) olivia block
wattled and daub (2010) julia holter
shapes of 3 and 5 (2010) cat lamb
anemone battle! (2010) laura steenberge
stupid thing (2009) clay chaplin

s a t u r d a y , o c t o b e r 2 3 , 8 p m
the wulf., Los Angeles, CA

subset canon and scene++ (2010) michael winter
untitled (2010) casey anderson
windrows (2010) mark so

s u n d a y , o c t o b e r 2 5 , 5 p m

winter strengthens (2010) chris kallmyer
lethologica (2010) vinny golia
for barnett newman (2010) john p. hastings
a book of orchestras (2004) greg davis

Roy O. Disney Concert Hall and The Wild Beast Pavilion are on the campus of the California Institute of the Arts located at 24700 McBean Parkway Valencia, CA 91355.
The wulf. Is located at 1026 S. Santa Fe Ave. #203, Los Angeles, CA 90021.

October 9th, 2010
BETALEVEL
8:30PM
Free
963 N. Hill Street (behind Full House restaurant)
Los Angeles, CA, 90012

Performing a new work with Gary Schultz. Also on the bill: Daniel Corral and Thomas Helton.

September 25th, 2010
Glow, Santa Monica, CA
closing out the opening ceremony, intersection of colorado and ocean
7:00pm
Free

Casey Anderson, Brendan Carn, Mark So, and Mike Winter will premiere four new works by Anderson simultaneously while wandering the Glow festival: CARDINAL DIRECTIONS (for four), IDLE CHATTER (for speakers), VARIOUS IMPULSES (Drums or Metal), and RESTLESS PIECES (performed herein on four iPods). Starting from the intersection of Ocean and Colorado at the end of the Opening Ceremony.

September 19th, 2010
the wulf, Los Angeles, CA
8:00 pm
Free
new music by James Klopfleisch

Four new works by James Klopfleisch, performed by L.A. based musicians: John, Paul, And The Third World/The Gossamer Oxus; In Memoriam/Borrowed Methods of Photography/Landscape #1

September 6th – 7th, 2010
MKM (Norbert Möslang, Jason Kahn, Gunter Müller)
Mark Trayle
Scott Cazan
Casey Anderson

Swiss electronic musicians Norbert Möslang, Jason Kahn, and Gunter Müller join local artists Mark Trayle, Scott Cazan, and Casey Anderson for a rare night of genre-defying improvisation. Möslang, Kahn, and Müller, playing together as MKM, wield a sound palette that hovers between the harsh rhythmic noise of Norbert Möslang´s cracked everyday electronics and the rich sonorities of Günter Müller´s percussion-based samples and electronics. Jason Kahn´s work on analog synthesizer bridges both worlds, adding high frequency interference and processed piezo microphone and short wave radio input to the trio. MKM’s set is sure to be a sight to see, a rare opportunity to revel in three of electronic music’s most distinctive voices.

Scott Cazan kicks things off with a solo set of feedback and digital electronics. Up next is an improvised duo between Casey Anderson (laptop, radio, amplified metal) and Jason Kahn (analog synthesizer, piezo microphone, and short wave radio), improvising together for the first time. After MKM’s set, Mark Trayle and Anderson will join MKM for a large ensemble conclusion to the night – surely not to be missed.

September 6th
BETALEVEL
8:30PM
Free
963 N. Hill Street (behind Full House restaurant)
Los Angeles, CA, 90012

September 7th
Pieter
10:00PM
Free (with non-monetary donation to free bar/boutique)
Street parking only
420 West Avenue 33, Unit 10
Lincoln Heights, CA, 90031

august 29th, 2010
in memoriam harris wulfson
the wulf, Los Angeles, CA
8:00 pm
Free

harris wulfson – lost intuition, durations, LiveScore

august 28th, 2010
sound. at Kings Road Park Pavilion: Wadada Leo Smith
Kings Road Park Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA
5:00pm
tickets

Works by Wadada Leo Smith performed by Vinny Golia, Matt Harris, Casey Anderson, Casey Butler, and Stuart Fox. I will be performing in the “The Ma’ad-din,” for Saxophone Quartet.

august 14th, 2010
Little William Theater Festival of New Music, Week 2: Works for Accordion
Little William Theater, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1:00-4:00PM
FREE

Daniel Corral and Isaac Schankler will be performing a bunch of new music, commissioned by Machine project, for 2 Accordions. This will include the premiere of my recent “(4)duos.”

july 31st, 2010
Amplified Party
Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm
free

An amplified party (contact mics affixed to tables of food/drinks/etc.) by Ensemble 303 (me and John Hastings).

july 17th, 2010
Música Mecánica: Casey Thomas Anderson, Cecilia Lopez, Jacob Wick
Pieter PASD, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm
suggested donation

new and recent music by me, Cecilia Lopez, and Jacob Wick. More information to follow.

june 19th, 2010
Ensemble 303
5×4
works for quartet
The Pescadrome, Santa Barbara, CA
8:00pm

Ensemble 303 presents a concert of wildly varying approaches to the sonic possibilities of the quartet. Featuring John Cage’s Four6, as well as “rails” by Casey Thomas Anderson, “Outliers” by Scott Cazan, “noise / tone / pulse / metal” by John P. Hastings, and “room and seams” by Mike Winter. Each work takes the elemental simplicity seen in Cage’s number pieces to varying extremes, yielding an elegant series of sound works that prove that the quartet is an orchestra of potentials.

june 17th, 2010
Ensemble 303
5×4
works for quartet
the wulf, Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm
Free

Ensemble 303 presents a concert of wildly varying approaches to the sonic possibilities of the quartet. Featuring John Cage’s Four6, as well as “rails” by Casey Thomas Anderson, “Outliers” by Scott Cazan, “noise / tone / pulse / metal” by John P. Hastings, and “room and seams” by Mike Winter. Each work takes the elemental simplicity seen in Cage’s number pieces to varying extremes, yielding an elegant series of sound works that prove that the quartet is an orchestra of potentials.

june 5th, 2010
Decay Fest VI
Beyond Baroque, Venice Beach, CA
Time TBA
$5 donation

Performances by The Nocturnes, Giant Gong, Void, and me. Curated by Wyatt Keusch.

The Dog Star Orchestra (Volume 6), June 2 – 12, 2010, Los Angeles
1: Wednesday, June 2, 2pm, The Wild Beast
Casey Thomas Anderson: processional/Danny Holt, piano/percussion
André Cormier: marabout de ficelle/Laura Cetilia, Jessica Catron, cellos
Joe Lake: This is one small stone in an entire city of monuments I am building for you/Katie Clark, piano
Jessica Catron, Michael Pisaro (improvisation)
Antoine Beuger: coelinblau/Michael Pisaro, guitar
Mari: Happy (Un)Birthday Party

2: Thursday, June 3, 8pm, The Wild Beast
Ronit Kirchman: Seven String Suites
Michael Pisaro: new tombstones/Voices: L. Tolentino, J. Holter, L. Steenberge, Ensemble: Pisaro, Esler, Lamb, Tavolacci, Eric KM Clark., K. Clark, Klopfleisch, So
Laura Steenberge: Lucifer in the Shadowland (a collection of 5 pieces performed by the orchestra)

3: Saturday, June 5, 8pm, the wulf.
Singing by Numbers Ensemble
Jessica Basta, Jessica Catron, Mari Garrett, Sascha Goldhor, Julia Holter, Emily Lacy, Catherine Lamb, Heather Lockie, Laura Steenberge, Cassia Streb, Christine Tavolacci, Adrian Tenney, Lisa Tremain

4: Sunday, June 6th, 3pm, The Compound
John Lely: Symphony in e
James Klopfleisch: Landscape #3
Samuel Vriezen: 10 readers
Adam Overton: general impression piece
evening finale: Wolfgang von Schweinitz: JUZ/Matt Barbier, trombone

5: Tuesday, June 8th, 8pm, The Wild Beast
Sam Sfirri: for Dan Flavin
Travis Just: Fabric for Jim
Jason Brogan: sheet music
Derek Bailey: Carpal Tunnel (after 12 weeks)/Eric Klerks, guitar
John P. Hastings: Vibrations
Carolyn Chen: Walk for 3n legs/Eric KM Clark, Christine Tavolacci

6: Wednesday, June 9th, 9am, Vasquez Rocks
Mark So’s Landscapes (a collection of 6 works performed by the ensemble)
includes also: Adam Overton: instead piece

7: Thursday, June 10th, 2pm, The Wild Beast
Morton Feldman: Palais de Mari/Katie Clark, piano
Manfred Werder: 2009(4)
Elisabeth McMullin: Polarity
Michael Pisaro: fields have ears (2) /Katie Clark, piano + Cazan, Anderson, McMullin and Hastings

8: Saturday, June 12th, 6pm, the wulf.
20 microscores/Jessica Catron, cello, Orin Hildestad, violin
Music by: Chiyoko Szlavnics, Greg Rosenthal, Kathy Pisaro, Andre Cormier, Pauline Oliveros, Zachary Watkins, Matt Davignon, Carol Sawyer, Johnny Chang, Leung Xiao-Lan, Jonathan Zorn, Kraig Grady,Phillip Brownlee, Eric KM Clark, Raven Chacon, Sean Clute, Matthew Lee Knowles, Michael Pisaro, Zachary Scott, Jennifer Butler
Jonathan Marmor: Dog Star Music/Clark, Klopfleisch, Tavolacci, So, Winter, Nilsson, Fraser
Mike Winter: approximating omega (performed by The Orchestra)
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The Orchestra (2010): Adam Overton, April Guthrie, Beth McMullin, C.T. Anderson, Cassia Streb, Cat Lamb, Christine Tavolacci, Colin Wambsgans, Danny Holt, Dicky Bahto, Emma Nilsson, Eric KM Clark, Eric Klerks, James Klopfleisch, Jason Grier, Jessica Catron, John Hastings, Julia Holter, Katie Clark, Laura Cetilia, Laura Steenberge, Lisa Tolentino, Mari, Mark So, Matt Barbier, Michael Pisaro, Michael Winter, Nathan Brown, Ori Barel, Orin Hildestad, Paul Fraser, Paul West, Rob Esler, Ronit Kirchman, Scott Cazan, Sepand Shahab, Tashi Wada

Locations:
The Wild Beast, CalArts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355

the wulf.
1026 South Santa Fe Avenue #203
Los Angeles, CA 90021

The Compound
33628 Lancaster Road – Hwy 138
Lancaster, CA 93536

Vasquez Rocks
10700 Escondido Canyon Road
Santa Clarita, CA 91390-4896

may 19th, 2010
Danny Holt
The Wild Beast, CalArts, Valencia, CA
time tba

Danny will be performing a concert of pieces commissioned for his Piano and Percussion project, including the premiere of my recent “processional.”

may 1st, 2010
Moon
The Hammer, Los Angeles, CA
time tba

Moon is a performing combination of Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, and Julia Holter. Many people don’t realize this when they look up into the sky every night, but it is true.

april 30th – may 1st, 2010
Les Espaces Acoustiques and Beyond: New Music after Grisey
Featuring the CalArts New Century Players and the CalArts Orchestra conducted by Mark Menzies
U.S. premieres

“Grisey stands among the foremost composers of his generation.” The New York Times

“We are musicians and our model is sound not literature, sound not mathematics, sound not theater, visual arts, quantum physics, geology, astrology or acupuncture.” Gérard Grisey

Exploring both the roots and enduring legacy of spectral music, this revelatory two-night showcase opens with the first-ever U.S. performance, in its entirety, of French iconoclast Gérard Grisey’s magnum opus, Les Espaces Acoustiques. The six-part cycle written between 1974 and 1985 became a touchstone for spectralism, a movement that sought to reconnect music with the full spectrum of sound, from consonance to noise. Pioneered by Grisey and Tristan Murail of the collective L’Itinéraire, this genre notably reconceived harmonic space in terms of sonic timbre and used electronic music techniques to manipulate live acoustic performance. Les Espaces Acoustiques begins with a viola solo and continues with sections for progressively larger ensembles, with the final two parts, for full orchestra, reaching Wagnerian heights of grandeur. The second concert follows up with works by younger generations of composers influenced by Grisey and spectralism, with recent compositions by Thierry Alla, Philippe Hurel, Kasper Toeplitz, Gérard Pesson (all from France), Rozalie Hirs (Netherlands), Andrew McIntosh (USA) and Wolfgang von Schweinitz (Germany/USA).

Gérard Grisey: Les Espaces Acoustiques
Fri Apr 30 | 8:30 pm

New Music after Grisey
Sat May 1 | 8:30 pm

march 31st, 2010
Architectures of Sound II
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Carlottesville, VA
Time TBA

A performance of my recent piece, “valley,” as part of the second installment of Architectures of Sound, curated by David Kant and Cameron Hu.

march 13th, 2010
casey anderson
little william theater, The Hammer, Los Angeles, CA
1:00-4:00pm

Machine Project invited me to play in the coatroom (and the hammer courtyard) as part of their year-long residency at The Hammer. i will be premiering a new piece/installation (“valley”), improvising in the coatroom on saxophone, and presenting an in progress (and currently untitled) laptop piece.

march 4th-5th, 2010
CEAIT Festival
REDCAT
Thursday and Friday, 8:30pm
$20/16

“[Steve Roden’s work] is aural performance art… Simplicity and beauty, sparse and Zen…” Igloo

“Bozulich is following a muse that runs her ragged.” Stylus

The genre-bending festival from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology returns with two concerts that each run from abstract reveries to flat-out sonic raucousness. John Wiese, founding member of the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek, opens the fest to crackling effect, followed by Peruvian-born avant-garde turntablist Maria Chavez, who uses new and broken needles (“pencils of sound”) and distressed vinyl to spin brooding webs of electroacoustic sound. The night concludes with composer Marcus Schmickler, of Pluramon pop fame, and two newly revised works of surround-sound computer music derived from astrophysical data. The second program kicks off with electronics and laptop interpenetrations by Better Than Future, comprising Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan and Elisabeth McMullin. Next up is a multimedia performance by Steve Roden that ruminates on desert landscapes outside Marfa, Tex., and the minimalist forms of Donald Judd through juxtapositions of field recordings, live improvisation, graphic notation, acoustic objects, electronics and video. The festival’s smashing finale arrives courtesy of Bloody Claws, aka Carla Bozulich, a sound artist who works in numerous impromptu formats and who has toured and recorded extensively with the Geraldine Fibbers, Scarnella and Evangelista. She appears alongside a very special guest.

John Wiese | Maria Chavez | Marcus Schmickler
Thurs Mar 4 | 8:30 pm

Better Than Future | Steve Roden | Bloody Claws (Carla Bozulich)
Fri Mar 5 | 8:30 pm

february 19th, 2010
new music by gary schultz
Sea and Space, Los Angeles, CA
9:00pm

performances of music by gary schultz and jib kidder, as part of the Aquarium installation and event series at Sea and Space.

february 13th, 2010
casey anderson/julia holter
little william theater, The Hammer, Los Angeles, CA
12:00-3:00pm

Machine Project invited julia and i to play in the coatroom as part of their year-long residency at The Hammer.

february 6th, 2010
the music of Larry Polansky
the wulf, Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm

the music of Larry Polansky. more information to follow

january 13th, 2010
architecture and music
ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
8:30pm

new work to be premiered at Issue Project Room, part of a concert relating architecture and music curated by David Kant, supported by MATA. also includes work by Charles Stankievech, Jacob Sudol and Doug Barrett.

January 8th, 2010
Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
8pm
led by Rory Cowal, Sara Roberts and Isaac Schankler

a performance of John Zorn’s “Cobra.”