Clay Chaplin, Joseph
Kudirka, Phillip Stearns
Episode Seven of You Too Can Play
Difficult Music, a series of audience participation
performances
Saturday April 15th 8:00pm
Machine Project
1200
D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
213 483 8761
Free
Clay Chaplin will be improvising with his bluetooth performance
glove instrument called Stupid Thing. Audience members will be
invited to play along using two other Stupid Things.
Joseph Kudirka's piece explores the domain of short-range radio
feedback. Here, consumer technology (portable FM recievers and
transmitters) intended to isolate the individual is used to foster
communal interaction between individuals.
Phillip Stearns will be presenting two of his most recent technological
masterpieces. Incomplete Statement is a live audio/video
improvisation using TI99 computers fitted with custom "self-observing"
modifications. Adjacent Frequencies is an interactive
installation piece he created with Lewis Keller that involves listening
to little black boxes with strange probing devices.
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Clay Chaplin is a composer, improviser, and video
artist from Los Angeles who explores audio-visual improvisation with
computer instruments and networked systems. He uses computers and custom
electronics as musical and visual instruments that can capture, process,
playback, or generate sounds and images in real-time. Clay is continuing
development of a wireless, interactive instrument named Stupid Thing
which, through a connection with the body provides mobility and
physicality to Clay's performances. Clay is currently the Interim
Director of Computer Music and the Experimental Media Studios for the
Experimental Sound Practices program at the California Institute of the
Arts . Clay's latest CD, Satellite Stutter, is available on the Artifact
Recording label.
More info on Clay Chaplin at
http://music.calarts.edu/~cchaplin
Joseph Kudirka writes both kinds of music, stupid and boring, and he is the greatest composer in the world.
"Phillip Stearns makes a lots of different kinds of sounds with various instruments that he's either collected, built, programmed or modified. These sounds can be loud, growling, squeaky, crunchy, bubbly, droning, fuzzy, crackly, and thought provoking, but mostly electronic in nature. He can often be found in the aisles of thrift stores hunting down strange old sound making devices, which he then takes home to his laboratory, straps them down on an operating table, opens them up and rewires their insides. Recently though, he's become obsessed with analog and digital feedback and is usually wasting most of his time plugging outputs into inputs. This usually results in a fantastically horrible lot of racket and/or video art that some would describe as "epilepsy inducing". His closest friends and family in Denver, Colorado are constantly reassuring themselves that this is simply a phase he will grow out of soon. Most also commented that they enjoyed Phillip's quieter days as a painter, back before all this electronic nonsense he's gotten himself into now. At present, Phillip is studying how to better integrate normally into society at the California Institute of the Arts. A more serious introspection and examples of past work can be found on the internet at www.art-rash.com/pixelform or at www.myspace.com/clobazam. Seriously."