Carole Kim: Cascade | Dilate Ensemble and Oguri
The artists will host a Q&A after the performance; wine will be available for purchase.
This presentation was made possible with additional support by CCRMA/Stanford University.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Carole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on multi-media installations, video projection, live and telematic performance, drawing and photography. Her work spans diverse contexts including experimental art, music, dance, theater and site-specific installation. Out of a love of experimentation, process and collaborative co-creation has sprung a consistent body of work activating the edges of where analog meets digital, physical meets virtual and visual meets sound meets the body. Kim’s work has been supported by Thoughtworks Arts, Irvine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Center for Cultural Innovation, MAP Fund, Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, NowArt LA, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)/Stanford University, Metabolic Studio, City of LA (COLA), Pasadena Arts Council, The Music Center, Durfee Foundation, REDCAT, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, The Getty Center, AutomataLA, SASSAS, Dublab, Newtown, Turbulence.org, Zeitgeist Ensemble, Circuit Network-SF, CalArts and Descanso Gardens.
Luisa Muhr is an Austrian, New York based interdisciplinary art-maker, focusing on experimental vocal and movement art. Her range includes her capacity as a performer, improvisor, installation artist, sound artist, composer, and experimental theater maker. Her creations range from interdisciplinary installation performance works, experimental and music theater pieces, improvised music and movement, graphic scores and compositions, to video works, and opera. Muhr is a certified Deep Listening® practitioner after Pauline Oliveros. Residencies include Pioneer Works and commissions include Roulette Intermedium (2021) and the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC (2017 and 2020). Collaborations include Daniel Carter, Tania Chen, Kenneth Goldsmith, Shelley Hirsch, Arturo O’Farrill, William Parker, John Zorn, and through Constellation Chor: Claire Chase, Sarah Hennies, Ashley Fure, and the New York Philharmonic
Jon Raskin has been a member of Rova Saxophone Quartet for the last 45 years exploring the relationship of improvisation and composition, developing and honing the language of ensemble music and researching linguistic possibilities of the saxophone. He has performed and/ or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Sam Rivers, Tim Berne, Phillip Johnston, Leo Smith, Frank Gratkowsi, Phillip Greenlief, and Carla Harryman.
Scott L. Miller is an American composer and improviser. His music is characterized by collaborative approaches to composition and the use of electronics, exploring performer/computer improvisation. Inspired by the inner-workings of sound in the natural and mechanical worlds, his music is the product of hands-on experimentation and collaboration with musicians and performers from across the spectrum of styles. Miller’s recent work has focused on experiments in two realms: AR/VR applications in live concert settings and telematic recording and performance production of interactive electroacoustic music. He is a three time McKnight Composer Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, and Past-President of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S. His music is available on New Focus Recordings, Panoramic, ein_klang, Innova, and others, and is published by American Composers Edition. Miller is a Professor of Music at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, and he is Director of SEAMUS Records.
Oguri: Dancer/Choreographer
Resident of Venice, California, since 1991, formed Body Weather Laboratory Los Angeles with Roxanne Steinberg. For over 30 years Oguri has been creating, teaching, and producing dance and multi-media works incorporating his own large-scale set/sculpture installations in formal theater settings and site-specific venues worldwide. He continues to investigate the relationship of dance to environment and the boundaries between performer and audience. He has developed collaborative projects with musicians, sculptors, painters, and poets, using literature, imagery, and materials to transform space and change the sense of time with dance. He actively seeks to brings dance to diverse audiences in his local community and beyond. In 2011 Oguri formed ARCANE Collective with Morleigh Steinberg, for touring live performance. Oguri has received numerous grants and awards regional, nation and worldwide, 2018 United State Artist Doris Duke Fellow, among others.
