BETALEVEL » performance http://betalevel.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pure Metal http://betalevel.com/2011/08/12/pure-metal/ http://betalevel.com/2011/08/12/pure-metal/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:00:19 +0000 jason http://betalevel.com/?p=2576 PURE METAL!!!"It's all laptops and brass!"
Friday, August 12, at 8:30pm]]> “It’s all laptops and brass!”

Hi Fi/Lo Noise

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

Hi Fi/Lo Noise

Pierce Warnecke and Louis Laurain

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“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

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Casey Anderson

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]]> http://betalevel.com/2011/08/12/pure-metal/feed/ 0 Three Points of Support http://betalevel.com/2011/04/28/three-points-of-support/ http://betalevel.com/2011/04/28/three-points-of-support/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:30:36 +0000 jason http://betalevel.com/?p=2477 three-points
Electroacoustic Music with Multi-Output Diffusion!
THURSDAY, April 28 at 8:30pm]]> Electroacoustic Music with Multi-Output Diffusion!

electroacoustic-triforce

(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

triforce kittah seez u

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Saturday, April 23rd, at 9pm
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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.

whoaaa

]]> http://betalevel.com/2011/04/23/betalevel-all-star-revue/feed/ 0 LepFest 2 http://betalevel.com/2011/03/17/lepfest-2/ http://betalevel.com/2011/03/17/lepfest-2/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:00:34 +0000 jason http://betalevel.com/?p=2342 LepFest 2! Irish drinkin' and mayhem--in space!
Thursday, March 17, at 8 pm
]]> Warwick Davis has admittedly left behind the quiet dignity of Willow...

Sate your Leprechaun urges!
Thursday, March 17th
8pm
Free

As part of our super-awesome annual tradition of cultural sensitivity, we’ll once again feature a Leprechaun movie-themed drinking game.

Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!

This year:

Leprechaun 4: In Space

Possible drinking game signals to include:

  • The phrase: “Semper fi! do or die! kill! kill! kill!”
  • Sexual harrassment
  • Bad jump cuts
  • Leprechaun makes things appear
  • Sexual innuendo
  • Praying by marines
  • Senseless hyperbole and exagerration
  • Forced laughter
  • Any scene that justifies Warwick Davis’ lifelong dream of playing this role
  • Any of the seven sins
  • Selfless heroism
  • Pun
  • Any time anyone says Mittenhand
  • Homoerotic tension
  • References to Samuel Beckett
  • Flubbed lines
  • Dick jokes
  • Moments of tender poignancy
  • Public service announcement
  • John Wayne reference
  • Shakesperean dialogue, particularly Richard III
  • Bad foley
  • Racial jokes about white people dancing
  • Class warfare
  • Continuity error
  • By the number killing in horror cliche
  • Anti-intellectual bias
  • Mike Meyers reference
  • “For Kowalski!”
  • Rhyming threats
  • More Iago than Richard III; maybe Caliban
  • Name that Shakespeare villain reference!
  • Dat ass–will it be tapped?
  • To tap or not to tap? That ass.
  • Reference to St Lawrence of the Gridirons
  • Judicious use of slo-mo
  • Extended metaphors
  • Marianne Faithful impersonation
  • The word “broad”
  • Attempts to transcend the role you’re given
  • General pathos
  • Gratuitous nudity or conspicuous lack thereof
  • Pure awesomeness
  • Random S/M paraphernalia
  • Boob non sequitur / Deus es Boobina
  • Drag show karaoke reference
  • “Me gold!!!!”
  • Martial arts showdown
  • Cheap ass Cronenberg
  • Gay joke
  • Cyborg modeled on Dee Snider
  • Ricardo montebaln reference
  • Selfless heroism
  • The vanity of Narcissus
  • “Hit ‘em with your hat!”
  • Ms Dos reference
  • Beefcake shot / gratuitous six pack
  • General reference to musical theater, including but not limited to Little Shop of Horrors
  • Aliens
  • Wizard of Oz reference
  • Group hug

      • Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!

      Also, there will be singing.

      Tá brón orm.Tá brón orm.Tá brón orm.Tá brón orm.

      lep44

      Póg mo thóin!

      Cén t-am é?

      Tá mé ólta!

      ]]> http://betalevel.com/2011/03/17/lepfest-2/feed/ 0 American Hardcore http://betalevel.com/2011/02/18/american-hardcore/ http://betalevel.com/2011/02/18/american-hardcore/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:30:30 +0000 jason http://betalevel.com/?p=2328 Robots Helper Rainbow Hardcore Improvised Electronic Music!
      Friday, February 18th, at 8:30pm
      ]]>       hardcore

      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/

      ]]>       http://betalevel.com/2011/02/18/american-hardcore/feed/ 0       sifr-cipher-zero : cyber-shamanizing http://betalevel.com/2010/12/06/sifr-cipher-zerocyber-shamanizing/ http://betalevel.com/2010/12/06/sifr-cipher-zerocyber-shamanizing/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:30:45 +0000 jason http://betalevel.com/?p=2232 sifr-cipher-zerocybercyber-shamanistic audio-visual ritual
      Monday, December 6 at 8:30pm]]>       SOMETHING LIKE THIS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU!SOMETHING LIKE THIS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU!SOMETHING LIKE THIS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU!

      Audio-Visual Ritual
      Monday, December 6 at 8:30pm
      Free

      Look, we gotta be honest with you. We aren’t really sure what is going to happen here. We do know it’s going to be a performance involving sound and light. And also darkness. There might be robotics? We’re not sure. But we are definitely looking forward to it.

      Omar put together a performance last year called “translating bodies into wormholes
      (ripe with access points)”      . And a couple years ago, he was part of a performance with endless contortionist and televega called “Architecture in the Dark”. This one might be like those, but different.

      We asked Omar for a description. He said: “if a video can stand in place of a text description, then…”

      ]]>       http://betalevel.com/2010/12/06/sifr-cipher-zerocyber-shamanizing/feed/ 0       RESONANCE http://betalevel.com/2010/10/09/resonance-9/ http://betalevel.com/2010/10/09/resonance-9/#comments Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:50:45 +0000 deadphone http://betalevel.com/?p=2118 RESONANCE 9 Performances by Casey Anderson, Daniel Corral & Thomas Helton
      Saturday, October 9th, at 9pm
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      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

      The RESONANCE music series is a forum for musicians, listeners and scholars to share, discuss, and collaborate on singular ideas in sound. Alongside lectures and audio installations, the series will focus on providing a showcase for experimental projects and offer an opportunity for composers to develop conceptual pieces or works-in-progress within a live, intimate setting. By bringing together diverse artists exploring various frontiers—from improvisational classical ensembles and avant-garde vocal virtuosos to unique instrument artisans and machine-manipulating noise technicians—RESONANCE encourages a deterritorialization among these practices, in pursuit of possible openings onto something otherwise, unintended and new.

      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

      ]]>       http://betalevel.com/2010/10/09/resonance-9/feed/ 0       MKM http://betalevel.com/2010/09/06/mkm/ http://betalevel.com/2010/09/06/mkm/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:30:45 +0000 jason http://betalevel.com/?p=2062 THWACK!! a rare night of genre-defying musical improvisation
      Monday September 6 at 8:30pm]]>       komatsuzaki_13-500x

      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:

      mueller kahn

      sea_and_space_gray moeslang

      casey-anderson-small scottatpiano_resize-small

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

      ]]>       http://betalevel.com/2010/09/06/mkm/feed/ 0       RESONANCE http://betalevel.com/2010/08/20/resonance-8/ http://betalevel.com/2010/08/20/resonance-8/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:30:09 +0000 deadphone http://betalevel.com/?p=2031 RESONANCE 8 Performances by Earn, Rale, Aures & Greg Davis
      Friday, August 20th, at 8:30pm
      ]]>       ELECTRIC

      FRIDAY, August 20thth
      8:30pm (doors at 8)
      Free

      Ambient Electro-Acoustic INSANITY!!!

      Featuring sets by Earn, Rale, Aures & Greg Davis

      Greg Davis: Born in 1975, Greg Davis grew up in Crystal Lake, Illinois. He studied classical & jazz guitar and composition at DePaul University in Chicago where he received his bachelor’s degree in music in 1999. In 1997, he started his own independent record label, Autumn Records, to release his own music and the music of others. Davis moved to Boston to pursue a master’s degree in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music which he completed in 2001. During this time, he also immersed himself in an independent study of computer based electronic music and became an active live performer. February 2002 saw the release of Davis’ debut album Arbor on Carpark Records of New York City. This marked the beginnings of his career as a professional musician. He has collaborated with a wide range of musicians including Zach Wallace, Joe Grimm, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Jeph Jerman, Tim Barnes, Sebastien Roux, Steven Hess, Chris Weisman, Akron/Family, Megafaun, Ben Vida and many more. Davis is well known for his blend of acoustic instruments with computer / electronic sounds. He continues to explore the possibilities of sound using new technologies and a wide array of instruments from around the world.
      MYSPACE: GREG DAVIS

      AURES: Aures is a microtonal music group, from Portland, OR. The group consists of John Krausbauer (violin), Thomas Thorson (violin) and Taryn Tomasello (accordion). Aures play amplified acoustic instruments utilizing tuning systems derived directly from the harmonic series, to achieve their aims.
      Their compositional-improvisations produce dense and dynamic fields of harmonic interference and reinforcement which are unavailable to conventionally even-tempered Western music. The effect is in equal parts both foreign and familiar, searching for a deep consonance amid a flux of microtonal variations, beating tones, difference tones, and psychoacoustic phenomena. Long durations of the music allows the listener to adapt the ear to these unusual sounds, placing the listener into an interactive sound-field where alternative harmonies begin to emerge.
      MYSPACE: AURES

      Featuring opening sets by LA artists EARN & RALE.

      The RESONANCE music series is a forum for musicians, listeners and scholars to share, discuss, and collaborate on singular ideas in sound. Alongside lectures and audio installations, the series will focus on providing a showcase for experimental projects and offer an opportunity for composers to develop conceptual pieces or works-in-progress within a live, intimate setting. By bringing together diverse artists exploring various frontiers—from improvisational classical ensembles and avant-garde vocal virtuosos to unique instrument artisans and machine-manipulating noise technicians—RESONANCE encourages a deterritorialization among these practices, in pursuit of possible openings onto something otherwise, unintended and new.

      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

      ]]>       http://betalevel.com/2010/08/20/resonance-8/feed/ 0       RESONANCE http://betalevel.com/2010/06/19/resonance-7/ http://betalevel.com/2010/06/19/resonance-7/#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:30:47 +0000 deadphone http://betalevel.com/?p=1985 RESONANCE 7 Performances by OK Music, Zotalayer & Sublamp
      Saturday, June 19th, at 8pm
      ]]>       sonic hug

      Saturday, June 19th at 8:30pm (Doors open at 8)
      Free

      Featuring sets by OK Music, Zotalayer & Sublamp

      OK Music: is a Los Angeles based band, made up by Yvette Holzwarth (voice/violin), Dan Corral (drums, synth), and Ryan Tanaka (keyboard). The group evokes moods and narratives through “themed” improvisations, using simple ideas and concepts as its departure point for musical inspiration. “OK” is a colloquial English word denoting approval, assent, or acknowledgment. Performances include elements of audience participation, where the listener may be able to suggest themes for the band to use as part of their improvisations.
      http://musicisok.wordpress.com

      Zotalayer: [Ssssssss!] Luthor: What are you doing! Superman: Melting your infernal machine into a puddle with my heat vision! Luthor: HAHAHA! But it’s too late, you caped fool! The damage has already been done! Superman: What was it, Luthor? The ionosphere? The ozone layer? Luthor: No no no no. It was something not even you have heard of, Superman. The ZOTA layer! But you’ll never see it for yourself. My machine has destroyed it. Superman: You! Deluded! Maniac! Luthor: But don’t be alarmed. No one on Earth will be harmed, at least not directly. The only person who was protected by the zota layer was YOU! Superman: You’ve got exactly three seconds to start making sense. Luthor: There’s a peculiar type of radiation out there that not even you are immune to, Superman. It effects your mind whenever you relax or go to sleep. Turns you into a wild man and makes you go absolutely berserk! Superman: Great Scott! The destruction tonight in Metroplolis… Luthor: That’s right, old foe, it was you! And with the zota layer gone, you can bet it will be happening a lot more often. [Punch!] Luthor: Ooof! [Woosh!]
      layer.zota.org

      Sublamp: Los Angeles based artist Ryan Connor uses a synesthetic blend of audio and video textures to explore pre-language emotional experience, an anti-symbolic direct sensory experience influenced by the closed-eye vision work of Stan Brakhage.
      sublamp.com

      The RESONANCE music series is a forum for musicians, listeners and scholars to share, discuss, and collaborate on singular ideas in sound. Alongside lectures and audio installations, the series will focus on providing a showcase for experimental projects and offer an opportunity for composers to develop conceptual pieces or works-in-progress within a live, intimate setting. By bringing together diverse artists exploring various frontiers—from improvisational classical ensembles and avant-garde vocal virtuosos to unique instrument artisans and machine-manipulating noise technicians—RESONANCE encourages a deterritorialization among these practices, in pursuit of possible openings onto something otherwise, unintended and new.

      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

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