Tania Chen, Thomas Dimuzio, and Wobbly
Date:
Thu, 10/20/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert Bios:
Tania Chen is a leading interpreter of John Cage, Cornelius Cardew and Morton Feldman, and a performance and video artist, experimental musician and free improviser. She performs, composes and improvises on piano, keyboards, digital, vintage electronics and found objects.Her music has taken her across the globe, performing and recording in Berlin, London and Tokyo, to San Francisco, LA, New York and beyond. Tania’s live and recording collaborations include John Cage’s “Music of Changes” for solo piano, John Cage’s “Indeterminacy” with Stewart Lee & Steve Beresford; Cornelius Cardew & Michael Parsons’ Piano Music, the group Bad Jazz “Bad Dreams in the Night” & cassette “Tincture”; “Ointment” with Steve Beresford; and two forthcoming recordings with Gino Robair and Tom Djll in the group Tender Buttons and “Ocean of Storms” with Henry Kaiser, William Winant and Wadada Leo Smith. Her forthcoming recordings are Andrew Poppy's solo piano music, John Cage's Electronic Music for Piano with Thurston Moore, David Toop and John Leidecker; and a duo experimental music album with Thurston Moore on the Knitted Records label.
Thomas Dimuzio is a musician, composer, sound designer, mastering engineer, label proprietor, and music technologist residing in San Francisco, California. Inspired as much by John Cage as Led Zeppelin, Dimuzio's music is like a sonic excursion that transports the listener into other worldly aural realms. “His work has a narrative, filmic tug that will draw you into its dark corners, ears alert… brilliant and rarely less than entertaining.” — Peter Marsh, BBC. Long regarded as a musical pioneer for his innovative use of live sampling and looping techniques, Dimuzio has earned a deserved reputation worldwide as an avant-garde sound artist in touch with the aesthetic pulse of time and technology. A true sonic alchemist who can seemingly create music events out of almost anything, Dimuzio's listed sound sources on his various releases include everything from 'modified 10 speed bicycle' and 'resonating water pipe' to short-wave radios, loops, feedback, samplers, synthesizers and even normal instruments such as guitar, clarinet and trumpet. Dimuzio's eclecticism bespeaks a career equally informed by a profound dedication to his craft and collaborations with friends, artists and technologists alike. “Attending a Thomas Dimuzio performance is like lying underneath a web of freeway bridges with your eyes closed; blocking out all visuals except the brief daggers of light that flicker with each passing car. There is a sense of probable dread—metal, wooden or cigarette debris from the vehicles could fly off and injure you—but also one of hypnotized calm, thanks to the amplified hum of Michelin and Goodyear against greased concrete.” — Cameron MacDonald, Pitchfork Media. Dimuzio's recordings have been released internationally by ReR Megacorp, Asphodel, RRRecords, No Fun Productions, Sonoris, Drone Records, Record Label Records, Odd Size, Seeland, and other independent labels. Among his collaborators are Chris Cutler, Dan Burke, Joseph Hammer, Anla Courtis, Nick Didkovsky, Due Process, Voice of Eye, Fred Frith, David Lee Myers, 5uu's, Matmos, Wobbly and Negativland.
Jon Leidecker has been producing music under the name Wobbly since 1990, improvising with recordings to produce music which inherently resists the act of being captured. Recent performances deploy a battery of mobile devices driven by their built-in microphones, reacting instantly with error-prone variations on the notes and sounds they believe they are hearing: a tightly-knit orchestra with inhuman reflexes, resulting in structures which the human performer influences more than controls. Your phone is the instrument, and your phone is always listening. Wobbly's live and studio collaborations with Negativland, Dieter Moebius & Tim Story, Matmos, Fred Frith, John Oswald, Thomas Dimuzio, Huun-Huur-Tu, Sagan and the Freddy McGuire Show compliment live mix media collages broadcast twice a month on KPFA FM's Over The Edge radio program
FREE
Open to the Public