As an artist who works with sound and music, Bach weaves field recordings, digital audio, and analog electronics into deep mediative soundscapes. His work reminds us that the boundaries of music are still wild and far from defined.
Be sure to visit GlennBach.com to learn more.
And more of Glenn’s music, and much more, can be found at: MPRNTBL
Recorded live on July 7th, 2010
Ear Meal Roxanne Varzi The Whole World Blind is a self-contained sound performance for SoundWalk 2011 by: Roxanne Varzi, Narrator, text, research and concept Vincent Olivieri, Sound Design. This work is a self-contained sound performance that involves the audience member blindfolding him or herself, then putting on headphones connected to an mp3 player and listening [...]
Recorded live 01/25/2012
Ear Meal Eric Clark Accomplished violinist, composer, and improviser Eric KM Clark has performed throughout the world, with the majority of his shows taking place in Los Angeles, Toronto, and New York City. Originally from Victoria, BC, Mr. Clark first moved to the US in 2004 to study at the California Institute of the Arts [...]
Recorded live 01/11/2012
Ear Meal Brad Dutz Brad started to study music at age seven. After high school he studied at the University of North Texas and Berkley college of music. In 1982 he moved to Los Angeles and began free-lancing until 1984 when he joined Maynard Ferguson and toured around the country. Beside his ten solo c.d.s [...]
Recorded live 01/04/2012
Claire Chenette is an oboist, songwriter, improviser, baroque, contemporary, and orchestral musician, teacher, sometimes dancer, and often multi-instrumentalist originally from the Midwest, but now based in Los Angeles. Her work combines an array of interests (language, folk music, Bach, books, counterpoint), which overlap colorfully in oboe-based songs.
Recorded live 12/14/2011
Daniel Rothman (composer) with Ashley Walters (cellist) playing and discussing his work-in-progress for her.
Recorded live 12/07/2011
Ear Meal Archie Cary Archie Carey is a musician living in the Los Angeles area. As a composer Archie aims to magnify sound, pitch, timbre, and environment to make the subtlest details a point of focus, achieved by using long durations, minimal pitch content, and contrasts between extremely high volumes and silence. In solo work [...]
Recorded live 11/30/2011
Recorded at the Long Beach Sound Walk
Recorded live 11/23/2011
Ear Meal Danielle Adair Danielle Adair is an artist born in northern Michigan and based in Los Angeles, California. She earned a BA with Honors from The University of Chicago (’03), and an MFA in Visual Arts and in Writing from California Institute of the Arts (’07). She is the recipient of the 2010 California [...]
Recorded live 11/16/2011
Ear Meal Vinny Golia As a composer Vinny Golia fuses the rich heritage of Jazz, contemporary classical and world music into his own unique compositions. Also a bandleader, Golia has presented his music to concert audiences in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States in ensembles varying dramatically in size and [...]
Recorded live 11/09/2011
Improvised soundscapes using only unprocessed field recordings gathered from places all over the world.
Recorded live 11/02/2011
Legendary clarinetist Marty Walker and percussionist Erik Leckrone perform.
Recorded live 10/26/2011
Matt Barbier is an academics musician… Based in LA Matt is a trombonist and composer focused primarily in the field of experimental intonation and noise music.
Recorded live 10/19/2011
8 mm film, photography, sound, and performance. This performance is the sound of sight.
Recorded live 10/12/2011
William Roper has been pushing boundaries, and challenging all things ‘sacred and dear’ for decades. This performance features everything from traditional brass, conch shell and might as well throw in a human femur for good measure.
Recorded live 10/05/2011
Ear Meal Daniel Corral 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 [...]
Recorded live 09/28/2011
Zen practitioner, musician and artist Haruko Tanaka performs.
Recorded live 08/10/2011
A blend of Japanese and English lyrics written and sung by Kaoru Mansour are melded with loops, samples and processing. Alan Nakagawa improvises using his invention, the Iso Cube; an insulated box that has two holes where he can reach in and play micro percussion like a hair comb, leaves, sheets of paper or tiny found objects.
Recorded live 08/03/2011
Incredible violist, composer and teaching artist Heather Lockie, performs with Archie Carey, Claire Chenette, Julia Holter and Alex Stramek.
Recorded live 07/27/2011
Ear Meal Mari & Julia Holter Mari is a Los Angeles-based composer/performer from Tokushima, Japan. Her work is an exploration, experimentation, and translation of her everyday life experience and cultural reflection with a touch of her curiosity. Her scores offer each and every performer an opportunity to sensibly seek unlimited possibilities within themselves, and to [...]
Recorded live 07/20/2011
Ear Meal Steve Gregoropoulos & Petra Haden Steve Gregoropoulos, composer/musician from Los Angeles, irrascible, militantly unlistenable unless playing pop in which case aspires to be beautiful wallpaper for the all-permeating media throughout the universe, member of Lavender Diamond, The Grabs, W.A.C.O., The Wild Stares, Daylong Valleys of the Nile, etc., believes in language, puts classical [...]
Recorded live 07/13/2011
Ear Meal Dan Clucas Dan Clucas is a trumpet player and composer living and working in Los Angeles. Born in Anaheim, California in 1966, he began playing trumpet at age ten, soon thereafter discovering the music of Dizzy Gillespie, which in turn led to a lifelong study of and respect for the African American music [...]
Recorded live 07/06/2011
Ear Meal Brian Walsh Brian Walsh performs with the Industrial Jazz Group, Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, Doug McDonald Brass and Woodwind Coalition, and Chamber Music Ensembles the Night Wanderers, Inauthentica, and Kairos Ensemble. Brian is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts (MFA & BFA) and the Los Angeles High School for the Arts. [...]
Recorded live 06/29/2011
Ear Meal William Harrington William studied record production with Nick Venet (producer of The Beach Boys, Creedence Clearwater and many others). His first two CDs, Urban Electronic Music, and UEM Live have received good reviews and airplay on NPR, college and indie radio stations. In 2006 The American Composers Forum awarded him a SUBITO grant [...]
Recorded live 06/22/2011
Ear Meal Scott Vance & Dave Tohir The Backbone (short for “feedback trombone”) is the creation of Dave Tohir and Scott Vance, both members of the Anything Goes Orchestra. The sound of the Backbone is reminiscent of guitar feedback but with the pitch range and slipperiness of the trombone. It’s also unpredictable, noisy, and sometimes [...]
Recorded live 06/08/2011
Ear Meal Steuart Liebig Contrabassguitarist/composer Steuart Liebig has played in several bands during his long career in music including Kammerstig, Meninas Quartet, Minim, Quartetto Stig and Stigtette. www.stigsite.com
Recorded live 06/01/2011
Ear Meal Antony DiGennaro Antony DiGennaro is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. His album, A Lonesome Fog, is an album of solo guitar pieces. He also recently completed an album with the avant/americana group Tears of the Moosechaser, entitled Songs for a Sinister Woman. He is involved with experimental groups Tinhorn Justice, and the Feedback Wave [...]
Recorded live 05/25/2011
Ear Meal James Klopfleisch James Klopfleisch is a composer/performer currently living in LA. His work lies on the line between music + performance event, presenting itself somewhere between, framing of sound in time & the relations between ever blurring historical genres + contemporary listening habitats. His work focuses on processes focusing on sound, but often [...]
Recorded live 05/18/2011
Ear Meal Andrew Pask & Jim McAuley Jim plays the ‘marxophone’ a real-time audio processing device developed by Andrew and operated via a footpedal. Andrew plays bass clarinet. JIM McAULEY is an acoustic guitarist whose passion for jazz, blues and experimental music is evident in his eclectic approach to improvisation. In addition to solo performances, [...]
Recorded live 05/15/2011
Ear Meal Catherine Lamb Catherine Lamb is a music composer and violist, working from the traditions of American Experimentalism, Just Intonation, and Indian Dhrupad. She is interested in delicate attention to layers of sound and their shadows. She intuitively works through mathematical forms, typically involving the opening from a centered pitch. Her most influential teachers [...]
Recorded live 05/11/2011
Ear Meal Sandy Yang Sandy Yang records music & lives in So California (born in Tokyo, Japan). In the mid 90s she became a member of ‘The Red Krayola’ while attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Along with Mayo Thompson & revolving members, they played in the U.S., Japan, Austria + France. Later [...]
Recorded live 05/04/2011
Ear Meal GE Stinson Gregory E. Stinson, better known as G. E. Stinson (born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma), is an American guitarist and founding member of new age / electronic musical group Shadowfax. Inspired by blues masters such as Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters, Stinson experimented with blues, jazz and other musical genres before co-founding Shadowfax [...]
Recorded live 04/27/2011
Ear Meal Lewis Keller Los Angeles based artist Lewis Keller manipulates frequency, timbre and amplitude via performance, installation, fabrication and digital media. His work combines sophisticated technology with crude humble structures, inviting listeners to question their relationships with time, technology, space, sound and silence. He received his BA from Colorado College and his MFA from [...]
Recorded live 04/20/2011
Ear Meal Jessica Catron Jessica loves sound in just about any form/context and has a pretty erratic performance history because of her involvement with a colorful mix of music projects. She has performed with an array of eclectic musical entieites including Pauline Oliveros, James Tenney, Harold Budd, Rod Poole, Carla Bozulich, Evangelista, Linda Ronstadt, Nels [...]
Recorded live 04/13/2011
Ear Meal MLuM In addition to being a featured artist on National Public Radio programs throughout the U.S.A., MLuM, a Long Beach-based histriophonic ensemble, comprised of multi- national artists, has presented internationally (Musicacoustica, Beijing; NUS Arts Festival Singapore; etc.). With an intercultural and inter-media aesthetic and praxis that can be described as “Weltradau” (World Noise), [...]
Recorded live 04/06/2011
Ear Meal Michael Jon Fink Michael Jon Fink has composed concertos for soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, violin and cello. He recently composed the score for Tareq Daoud’s short film “La Salle des Maitres,” an Official Selection of the Film Festival Locarno. He currently performs with Pickaxe, Gods of Rain and The Feedback Wave Riders. His [...]
Recorded live 03/30/2011
Ear Meal Mitchell Brown When Los Angeles native Mitchell Brown isn’t DJ Prof Cantaloupe on radio stations KXLU or Dublab, releasing albums of various sound artists on his melon expander imprint, organizing events or working with developmentally disabled children, he’s slowly nurturing many of his own sound experiments and projects. Above and beyond his solo [...]
Recorded live 03/23/2011
Ear Meal Gabie Strong Gabie Strong is an artist with a multidisciplinary approach to creating work about nature, technology, power and social resistance. Through her art, she seeks to tease out a feminist-dialectic between pure war and utopia, the state of entropy so indicative to Southern California. With a foundation in conceptualism and research in [...]
Recorded live 03/16/2011
Ear Meal OMAYUMI: FLAT RED Osaka-based movement artist Omayumi, visual artist Steven M. Irvin, sound artist Alan Nakagawa will collaborate in a multi-media performance titled FLAT RED. What if you could hear everything in the City at once? The artists set a framework based on senses and improvise to create a series of tone poems. [...]
Recorded live 03/09/2011
Ear Meal Laura Steenberge Laura Steenberge has always lived in So Cal, & for the past 12 years has lived in LA. She currently works in music as a contrabassist, guitarist, pianist, singer, composer, and songwriter. Primarily creating & participating in experimental, instrumental, choral & folk music. She likes to make black & white images [...]
Recorded live 03/02/2011
Ear Meal Ulrich Krieger Ulrich Krieger is well known as a saxophone player in contemporary composed and free improvised music as well as a composer of chamber music and electronic music. His recent focus lies in the experimental fields and fringes of contemporary Pop culture: somewhere in the limbo between Noise and Heavy Metal, Ambient and [...]
Recorded live 02/23/2011
Ear Meal Liam Mooney Liam Mooney is a composer (+ performer) of experimental music, of noisy sounds, inventor of unwieldy musical instruments. Though his earliest compositions were computer-based, they made heavy use of unusual, sometimes usual, acoustic sound sources, he soon sought ways to use these sources directly, without the computer. Spawning such groups as [...]
Recorded live 02/16/2011
Ear Meal Michael Winter Michael Winter is a composer, curator, music theorist, and software designer. He co-founded and co-directs (with fellow composer eric km clark) The Wulf., a non-profit arts organization that presents music free to the public in Los Angeles. Michael is a firm believer in music making as an experimental process and free [...]
Recorded live 02/09/2011
Ear Meal Ezra Buchla Ezra Buchla has become a legendary figure in the sound art community. Currently the artist in residence at Machine Project, his never ending investigation into sound, history and sciences have captivated audiences. His ensemble the Mae Shi with Tim Byron have toured internationally. Ezra Buchla is son of the legendary synthesizer [...]
Recorded live 02/02/2011
Ear Meal Tom Watson “Mainly a guitarist, I have always had a strong interest in experimental or abstract composition, and I studied elecro-acoustic music at the Institute of Sonology at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands in 1981-2.” Guitarist in bands : TOXIC SHOCK (1979-1981) Slovenly (1982-1992) Overpass (1992-1998) The Red Krayola (1993-present) The Best [...]
Recorded live 01/26/2011
Ear Meal Mooey Moobau “FIRST IN SPACE” was originally performed for John Burtle’s Eternal Telethon in 2010 at Machine Projects. It’s a “kamishibai” The work is about fictitious astronauts in space; incorporating original drawings, trombone, voice and iso cube. Mooey Moobau is not a band name or a stage name but more like a nickname [...]
Recorded live 01/19/2011
Ear Meal Scott Fraser Scott Fraser has been composing electro-acoustic music since 1972, working in live performance, theater, dance, film, and radio media. His work, while primarily electronic, has also included works for solo instruments & chamber ensembles. His pieces generally utilize musique concrete techniques, often combined with acoustic & electric instruments and synthesis, while [...]
Recorded live 12/15/2010
Ear Meal Dorian Wood Los Angeles-based singer/artist is “armed with a vocal charisma that would befit a preacher and an experimental streak that would make avant-gardists swoon” (WNYC Culture). He has held audiences captive for years on street corners, in concert halls and performance spaces throughout the US, Mexico and Europe, carrying with him a [...]
Recorded live 12/08/2010
Ear Meal Chris Kallmyer Chris Kallmyer is a performer/composer/sound artist living in Los Angeles, CA and is the Curator of Sound Programming for the Machine Project. Chris earned his MFA in music from the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Thomas Stevens, Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, and Edward Carroll. He holds [...]
Recorded live 12/01/2010
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