The Lounge at REDCAT

Some great composers.
Hours of wonderful experimental and contemporary music!

Works by David Kendall TBD

A piece by Scott Cazan: 2 x 10-8 kg
Violin: Andrew Tholl
Laptop: Scott Cazan

By Andrew Tholl: in case of fire or flood
Violin: Andrew Tholl
Tuba: Luke Storm

Improvisation with Andrew Tholl violin, Chris Kallmyer trumpet a...nd Gary Schultz laptop/electric guitar

Works by Ori Barel include :
For Trumpet and Tape
Trumpet: Phillippe Brunet

Recollections '82
For Solo Bass Clarinet: Nathan Smith

Munoz?
For Tuba, Trombone, French Horn and Laptop
With Trio Kobayashi (Luke Storm, Matt Barbier and Anna Robinson), Laptop: Ori Barel

Show at 2:30
Free street parking
$3 specials!

We will have cava!Read More

Tetra Balestri
Tisa Bryant
Jennifer Mellis
&
Mathew Timmons

FREE

Reading starts at 11:30 am

Tetra Balestri is a recent resident of LA hailing from SF by way of NY. Her poems have appeared in the magazines Sal Mimeo and There Are Flying Planes and her chapbook, Cheap Imitations, was published by Green Zone in 2008. Her pla...ys have been performed at Under St. Marks Theater and the Ontological Theater in New York as well as the Poet's Theater in San Francisco. She has worked as an archivist for poet Larry Fagin and as assistant editor and contributor to various Facts on File encyclopedias including Encyclopedia of European Peoples. She currently works at the Beyond Baroque Literary and Arts Center in Venice.

Tisa Bryant’s first book, Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), is a collection of original, hybrid fiction-essays that remix narratives from Eurocentric film, literature and visual arts and zoom in on the black presences operating within them. An excerpt from her novella, [the curator], was published by Belladonna Books, along with the work of filmmaker/writer Chris Kraus. Tisa is currently sketching out an historical novel, getting Vol. 2 of the hardcover annual, The Encyclopedia Project, she co-edits, ready to go to print, and she is very happy to be relocating to LA this fall to teach creative writing at CalArts.

Jennifer Nellis lives, teaches, and writes in the Inland Empire. Her poems can be found on Cricket Online Review and the forthcoming issue of mark(s). Her movie-telling/benshi pieces, A Dip in the Pool and Poison, have been performed in San Francisco, LA, Miami, and various living rooms across the country.

Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is General Director of General Projects and he co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux), Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz) and is the Los Angeles editor of Joyland. A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press) and his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, Artillery, The Magazine and The Encyclopedia Project. He teaches interdisciplinary arts and writing workshops for CalArts School of Critical Studies.Read More

2 Pieces by Composer Mark So :

"ordinary education (the true course of events)"
-and-
"half-asleep at your instrument table"

This concert will include two realizations of "ordinary education (the true course of events)", bookending a performance of "half-asleep at your instrument table" (both pieces composed in April 2009... while Mark was in residence at Spiro Arts in Utah; both pieces are from his ongoing Ashbery series).

PERFORMANCES BY :
Casey Anderson
Nathan Brown
Jason Grier
Catherine Lamb
Gerhard Schultz
Mark So
Tashi Wada
Michael Winter

COMPOSER BIO :
Mark So is a Los Angeles-based composer and musician, enjoying life under rent control with a "bad" car and no cell phone. Originally from Syracuse, he graduated Pomona College and received his master's degree in composition from CalArts. His teachers have included Michael Pisaro, Thomas Flaherty, Annetta Kaplan, James Tenney, Sara Roberts, Christian Wolff and Stephen "Lucky" Mosko. In the last 5 years, he has written over 500 pieces, including the extensive Ashbery series, readings and empires, pursuing the unforeseen in subtly reduced scenarios of musical choice and action, while exploring the space and setting of music in new ways. Mostly text-based and strongly influenced by the New York School, Fluxus and the Wandelweiser composers group, his work explores varied open "theaters" of the sensible by scoring experimental engagements with faint, passing subtleties of continuity and arrangement (time and harmony) that often demand extreme attention, in and around changing experiences of silence.Read More

William Archila reading from his debut book of poetry "The Art of Exile" from Bilingual Press.

William Archila lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife. His poems have been published in The Georgia Review, AGNI, Poetry International, The Los Angeles Review, Notre Dame Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Blue Mesa Re...view among others. His poems also will be appearing in Poet Lore and Clackamas Literary Review.Read More