Weba Garretson and Ralph Gorodetsky have consistently pursued the intersection of Popular Music and Contemporary New Music ideas. The music evokes a multitude of influences — from Folk to Eisler, from Stravinsky to Webern.
Recorded live 05/09/2012
Ear Meal FINALE @ Inglewood Main Library On April 7, 2012, Collage Ensemble Inc. coordinated it’s last project. The event took place at the iconic Inglewood Main Library designed by Charles Luckman. The event included three components. One was a visual arts exhibit in the main library hall including works by Steve Roden, Mona Kasra, [...]
Recorded live 05/02/2012
Ear Meal Toomai String Quintet The Toomai String Quintet Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin; Pala Garcia, violin; Erin Wight, viola; John Popham, cello; Andrew Roitstein, double bass They will be playing a movement of James Tenney’s “Quintext: Five Textures for String Quartet and Bass”, Scott Cazan’s “Outliers”, and a movement from Vincent Raikhel’s “The Garden of Forked [...]
Recorded live 04/25/2012
Ear Meal Alex Sramek “A common thread among much of my music is the fleeting moment of “wouldn’t it be cool, awesome, horrible, or hilarious if” – moments that might come about when bored, idle, frustrated, or inebriated, and that would give the average musician a quick, short-lived chuckle. The difference with me is that [...]
Recorded live 04/18/2012
Ear Meal Vetza Vetza is a multi-talented artist who has full control over a range of disciplines including classical instrumentation, experimental sound improvisation, voice and theater. She is an innovator representing the LA Arts community in the international art world. Vetza is an original member of the the LA Free Music Society. She is a [...]
Recorded live 04/11/2012
Ear Meal Tom Recchion at LAFMS, the BOX Tom Recchion has been a sound and visual artist/composer/art director & graphic designer in California since the 1970’s. He is the co-creator of the legendary Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS). At the time he discarded object making (though he employs it now) and concentrated on the [...]
Recorded live 04/04/2012
Ear Meal Casey Anderson Casey Anderson is an artist working in a number of media, including composition, improvisation, electronic music, saxophone, text, 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. Performances, exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA [...]
Recorded live 03/28/2012
Founded in 2008 to perform the music of Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Trio Kobayashi has gone on to explore a wide repertoire stretching from vocal music of the renaissance to the game music of Iannis Xenakis. Kobayashi continues to explore the possibilities of its instrumentation through collaborations with living composers such as Marc Sabat, Larry Polansky, Nicholas Deyoe, Ulrich Krieger, Mark Trayle, and Jürg Frey.
Recorded live 03/21/2012
Ear Meal 100th Episode! Stephanie Smith Stephanie Cheng Smith is a multiple-media sound artist, composer and performer who enjoys creating environments that move and influence the mind and body. She often works with massive sounds and textures, tactile objects, and choreography. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and is currently earning an [...]
Recorded live 03/14/2012
Odeya Nini is a composer/ vocalist/ experimentator and performance artist. Her work is an investigation of inner dialogue, polarization, cohabitation and the meaning of validity. As both a composer and soloist, her music acknowledges the arch from silence to noise and all its variant sonic exposures.
Recorded live 03/07/2012
Ear Meal Daniel Eaton Through out the last few years Daniel Eaton has been part of collaborative projects and scored many films and animations. He is currently a member of GRAMPUS, DINOSAUR ANGEL (A duo specializing in sonic explorations and viral videos for the internet), Orkestar Meze’ (a bulgarian brass band), and is working on [...]
Recorded live 02/29/2012
Bassoonist, composer, and instrument-maker Leslie Ross gives a performance of her multi-channel bassoon endeavors and demonstrates other instruments that she has built.
Recorded live 02/22/2012
Ear Meal Nick Deyoe & Clint McCallum Nicholas Deyoe is a composer, conductor, and guitarist born in Colorado and currently living in Southern California. He is a Ph.D. candidate in composition at UC San Diego and studies with Roger Reynolds. Compositionally, Nicholas strives to bring together noise, delicacy, drama, fantasy, brutality, and flexibility of intonation. [...]
Recorded live 02/15/2012
Ear Meal Douglas Goodwin Douglas Goodwin is a creative programmer. His interest in information theory has taken him from low-level video manipulation to natural language programming. His videos and installations have shown from Athens to Zagreb. He has taught classes in media theory and production at Emerson College, CalArts School of Critical Studies, and MassArt’s [...]
Recorded live 02/08/2012
Superstars of experimental music, John Olson and Jackie Stewart take us on a sonic journey of epic proportions.
Recorded live 02/01/2012
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
Inouk Demers is a sound artist, media artist and composer living in LA. His work has been shown or heard throughout Europe and North America, and commercially recorded. His recent work includes multimedia collaborations, documentary film, experimental video, field recordings, and aesthetic journalism.
Recorded live 01/18/2012
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
