Live Electronic Music

John Wiese, Wyatt Penn Keusch, Scott Cazan, Casey Anderson
Saturday, May 26
8:30pm
Free

John Wiese

Wyatt Penn Keusch

Scott Cazan

Casey Anderson

Live Electronic Music

Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, Tim Perkis, and Mark Trayle
Friday, March 2nd
8:30pm
Free

Featuring Solos and Duos! (Anderson/Cazan, Perkis/Trayle)

Tim Perkis

Mark Trayle

Casey Anderson

Scott Cazan

Friday Octoper 21 at 8pm

Music by John Bischoff, Scott Cazan, GX Jupitter-Larsen, and Mark Trayle

John Bischoff

Scott Cazan

GX Jupitter-Larsen

Mark Trayle

Now in its third year, The Experimental Music Yearbook is a repository for composers, performers, and the public to glean the methods and styles of various artists working in the experimental music tradition. As the modes of experimentation in the arts change from year to year, the Experimental Music Yearbook’s annual issues will build into a comprehensive, and varied, database of experimentation in music/sound. An annual festival will accompany the online portion of the Experimental Music Yearbook.

Experimental Music Yearbook Concerts for 2011:

Concert 1: 10/14 8pm — the wulf., Los Angeles, CA
The music of Hans W. Koch

Concert 2 10/15 8pm — Presents Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Jessie Marino / On Structure

Concert 3: 10/21 8pm — BETALEVEL, Los Angeles, CA
John Bischoff, Scott Cazan, GX Jupitter-Larsen, and Mark Trayle.

Concert 4: 10/22 8pm — the wulf. Los Angeles, CA
Casey Anderson, John P. Hastings, Albert Ortega, and C. Spencer Yeh.

Concert 5: 10/29 8pm — Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Tashi Wada with Paul Clipson

FRIDAY, August 12th – *TONIGHT*
8:30pm
Free

Hi Fi/Lo Noise

Pierce Warnecke and Louis Laurain

“We push towards a textural ensemble of sounds, a homogenous music where each sound has a place, and yet blends together with the rest to form a whole. We try to make unidentifiable sounds that have as little connotation as possible. We want each sound object to be as ‘free’ as our dialogs, constructions and sequences of them.”

Scott Cazan

Casey Anderson

(We're pretty sure it's going to feel like this when you're in the audience)

Joseph Clayton Mills / Adam Sonderberg / Catherine Lamb
THURSDAY, April 28rd
8:30pm (doors at 8:00)
Free

Catherine Lamb
solo viola and oscillators

Joseph Clayton Mills / Adam Sonderberg / Catherine Lamb
trio for oscillators, repurposed electronics, resonating percussion, and sound files

Joseph Clayton Mills and Adam Sonderberg are 2/3 of the Chicago-based trio Haptic (w/ Steven Hess), a texture-centric performing and recording entity that combines a rigorous attention to sonic detail with restless experimentalism.

For tonight’s performance they are joined by LA-based composer and violist Catherine Lamb. The trio will create a long-form electro-acoustic work utilizing multi-output diffusion.

The evening will commence with a solo work, performed by Lamb, for viola and oscillators.

NOTE:
This event will include Multi-Output Diffusion! Symptoms may include: standing brainwaves, drone temples, trance face, or dreamboat foot. Please use Multi-Output Diffusion responsibly.

“A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position,
so Roithamer had written.”
- Thomas Bernhard, from Correction

SATURDAY, April 23rd
9:00pm (doors at 8:30)
Free

A lot of you may have witnessed members of the Hermetic Order of Betalevel presenting any number of various spectacles: guiding a paranoid bike ride, hosting robot farm animal races, shouting drunkenly at the screen during “Leprechaun 4: In Space,” or leading the crowd in a rousing rendition of “The Age of Aquarius.”

But did you know that we’re musicians as well?

Yes, that’s right. When we’re not working hard to bring you some of the most idiosyncratic events in LA, we also play music. Saturday night there will be short sets from:

Jason Brown as Zotalayer
Sean Deyoe as Traditional
Colin Dickey as Martini Sheen
David Eng as Last Nights of Paris
Amar Ravva as ▼IN▲

and featuring our host for the evening, Heather Parlato, as HERSELF!

So come on down and check out our sounds. We promise nothing less than utter astonishment.

Improvised Electronic Music!
Friday, February 18th
8:30pm
Free

Casey Anderson! Scott Cazan! Wyatt Keusch! Aaron Drake! Clay Chaplin!

“oh wait, fuck that, lets call it american hardcore. yeah.”

http://www.caseythomasanderson.com/
http://www.aarondrake.org/
http://claychaplin.com/
http://www.scottcazan.com/
http://www.wyattkeusch.com/

Betalevel Harvest Fest
Friday, November 26 at 8pm
Free

Harvest Games!

Apple Bobbing!

You Know You Want It!

Extreme Cornholing!

Two Levels of Cornhole Firepower!

Dainty Pie Eating Contest!

Tiny Forks! Tiny Pies! Massive Eating Power!

Robot Farm Animal Races!

Just Like Olden Tymes!

Harvest Activities!

Country Time Photo Backdrop Zone!

With props and gear for your backwoods hallucinations!

Gin and/or Juice!

All Your Family-in-Town Relaxation Needs!

Special Harvest Ceremonies

Get Your Annual Harvest Juju Fix!

Harvest Halftime Hoedown!

With the Special Mystery Hoedown Guest AllStars!

Stylings may include: Country Western, Contrary Western, Country House, Witch House, Country Witch, Country Folk, Funky Folk and/or Holiday Traditional!

IT’S HORN-O-PLENTY!!!

SATURDAY, October 9th
9:00pm (doors at 8:30)
Free

An evening of aural eclecticism

Featuring sets by Casey Anderson, Daniel Corral & Thomas Helton

Casey Anderson is an artist working with sound in a number of media, including composition, improvisation, electronic music, saxophone, and installations. He has performed with Jason Kahn, Ulrich Krieger, MKM, Fomoudou Don Moye, Michael Pisaro, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Trayle, and the Dog Star Orchestra. Recent commissions include Machine Project (LA), TRANSIT (NY), the CalArts New Century Players (LA), and the California E.A.R. Unit (LA). Recent residencies include STEIM, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival. Anderson holds a Bachelors degree (Music Composition and Philosophy) from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and a Master of Fine Arts (Music Composition) from the California Institute of the Arts. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
WEBSITE

Daniel Corral is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Eagle River, AK. Currently residing in the L.A. area, his unique voice has found a diverse range of outlets. He has accompanied avante-garde puppetry all across the USA, had his music performed by an orchestra riding the Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel, been featured at a USC faculty concert of original player piano music, displayed his massive multi-movement music boxes at galleries all over Los Angeles, composed for a number of films and dance performances, and much more. In May 2007 he received his MFA from CalArts, where his teachers included James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, Anne LeBaron, Wadada Leo Smith, and Stephen “Lucky” Mosko. He recieved his BM from the University of Puget Sound in May 2004.
WEBSITE

Thomas Helton is a composer and bassist who writes and performs music in both solo and ensemble settings. As a composer Mr. Helton was awarded a Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Fellowship Grant in 2007 for the commission and premiere of a new work for fifteen-piece ensemble, the Torture Chamber Ensemble. He was awarded an artist residency for the commission and premiere of Pride from DiverseWorks ArtSpace in Houston in October 2004, a work for ten-piece ensemble and video projection created in collaboration with video artist Maria del Carmen Montoya. Other new music commissions include 5 works for the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble. Desesperados (2005), a suite of tangos, is featured on Houston Public Radio’s CD The Best of the Front Row. Black Rain (2005), a work for saxophone, guitar, string bass, percussion and dancers, was chosen to be performed as part of FotoFest’s 2006 Biennial dedicated to the themes of The Earth and Artists Responding to Violence. As a bassist, Thomas Helton performs with his own ensemble, The Core Trio, as well as with many celebrated jazz and free improv artists including Tim Hagans, Milt Jackson, Daniel Carter, Monty Alexander, Frank Gratowski and Ernie Watts. He recently performed the music of Tim Hagans as a guest artist with Sweden’s Norrbotten Big Band. He was also featured at the 2009 ISB Bass Convention curated by Mark Dresser. Thomas has released three CD’s: Doublebass; Experimentations in Minimalism; and Saga. All three have received positive reviews in the press in both in the U.S. and Europe.
WEBSITE

If you would like to be considered for future events: please send details of your work and/or samples of your project to akashicrecordings@gmail.com

Improvisational Electronic Music Extravaganza!
Monday September 6
8:30PM
Free

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 join MKM for a large ensemble conclusion- not to be missed!

Artist Websites:

• Norbert Möslang – homepage.hispeed.ch/bots/
• Jason Kahn – jasonkahn.net
• Gunter Müller – guentermueller.com
• MKM – mkm.jasonkahn.net
• Mark Trayle – music.calarts.edu/~met
• Scott Cazan – scottcazan.com
• Casey Anderson – caseythomasanderson.com

For further information, contact: casey.thomas.anderson@gmail.com