Ear Meal Joshua Carro Joshua Carro is a sound artist, composer, percussionist, teacher, and record producer based in Los Angeles, California. carro has performed in countless recitals and concerts in U.S.A. and Canada and is known for his electro-acoustic drumset improvisations using an original setup which he has developed after recent research in the medium [...]
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Ear Meal Christine Tavolacci Christine Tavolacci is a flutist who has devoted much of her time and study to the performance of contemporary and experimental music. Christine has traveled across the United States and Europe to study and perform, and has had the pleasure of working with many great 20th and 21st century composers, such [...]
Recorded live 06/05/2013
Ear Meal Gloria Alvarez & Kris Escajeda About Gloria Enedina Alvarez: Chicana poet/intermedia artist, playwright, librettist, literary translator and curator, presently teaches creative writing and works as a consultant in public schools, universities, libraries, museums, and art centers. Her literary/artistic efforts have been recognized by the CAC, National Endowment for the Arts, Cultural Affairs Department, [...]
Recorded live 05/29/2013
Ear Meal Experimental Music Friendly Venues A little stroll through the internet, introducing LA venues that are friendly to the genre of art we all know and love! We invite the audience to submit venues we may have overlooked on the comment page once the show is archived so we can benefit the community.
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Ear Meal Jennifer Moon “What I love and find the most potent about art is its ability to transform the way we perceive and interpret information and, hence, the ability to transform how we interact with the world and with ourselves. For me, great art is when it expands beyond its physical form or occupation [...]
Recorded live 06/15/2013
Ear Meal KCHUNG Radio Between Sunday and Thursday of each week, over 40 online radio shows are presented live, mainly from their Chinatown headquarters but on occasion, remote, on location i.e. from MOCA or For Your Arts or…. Not only is KCHUNG an eclectic roster of shows ranging from conceptual performance to NBA updates, DJing [...]
Recorded live 05/08/2013
Ear Meal Brad Dutz and Chris Wabich The duo of BRAD DUTZ and CHRIS WABICH is known as the end all of sonic possibilities for two percussionists. They blend composition, improvisation, high art and comedy to create a “total percussion” rounded program. The duo also incorporates world rhythms from their real experiences as performers with [...]
Recorded live 05/01/2013
Ear Meal Lucky Dragons lucky dragons is an ongoing collaboration between Los Angeles-based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. Active as a band since 2000, they are known for their participatory approach to making music, radically inclusive live shows, and playful, humanistic use of digital tools. Fischbeck and Rara have presented collaborative work in a [...]
Recorded live 04/24/2013
Ear Meal Ian James Ian James was born in 1981 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BA from The Ohio State University. He has participated in recent exhibitions and performances in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Marfa, Texas. [...]
Recorded live 4/17/2013
Ear Meal Mike the Poet Mike Sonksen, also known as, Mike the Poet, is a 3rd-generation LA native acclaimed for poetry performances, published articles & legendary city tours. Poet, journalist, historian, tour guide, and teacher, he graduated from the University of California Los Angeles and is currently pursuing an advanced degree at California State University [...]
Recorded live 04/10/2013
Ear Meal Philip Mantione Philip Mantione’s music has been described as “austerely impressive” (Paris Transatlantic Monthly) and Innova Recordings calls his Sinusoidal Tendencies, “a searing study in form and color.” Zane Fischer, of the Santa Fe Reporter, called his interactive sound sculpture, “…a satisfying, interactive rabbit hole, in which tactility becomes sound.” He has written [...]
Recorded live 04/03/2013
Ear Meal John Galvin & Dan Kapelovitz John Galvin has been a researcher at the House Research Institute in Los Angeles (formerly the House Ear Institute) for more than 15 years, where he has studied speech, music, and psychophysical perception with cochlear implant patients. He has also recorded and played music with various Los Angeles [...]
Recorded live 03/27/2013
Ear Meal Hi, My Name Is Ryan Hi, My Name Is Ryan (Ryan Avery) This vehicle for Avery’s work runs the gamut between monologue, improv, spoken word, and stand-up comedy, with the first performance being set up like a talk show (which led to the creation of Grand Avenue Tonight), and subsequent performances including wrapping [...]
Recorded live 03/20/2013
Ear Meal Andrew Choate Andrew Choate was born and raised in South Carolina and studied music and literature at Northwestern University and the California Institute of the Arts. His first book, Langquage Makes Plastic of the Body, was published by Palm Press in 2006. His most recent book is Stingray Clapping, published in 2012 by [...]
Recorded live 03/13/2013
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Recorded live 03/06/2013
Ear Meal Los Angeles Road Concerts Los Angeles Road Concerts presents a showing of site-specific projects from over 110 Los Angeles artists in unused public outdoor spaces along the entire length of Mulholland Drive’s 21 miles, starting at its east end, at Cahuenga Pass, and resulting with a reception party near the Nike Missile Site [...]
Recorded live 02/27/2013
Ear Meal William Basinski William Basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 25 years in NYC. His haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life, resounding with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time. His epic 4-disc masterwork, The Disintegration Loops, [...]
Recorded live 02/20/2013
Ear Meal Wet Power Wetpower plays experimental, video game, instrumental, freedom paradise music. Michael Beltran plays electric bass he goes to school for the trombone. Sarah Beltran she plays casio and yamaha keyboards and is 20 years old and Max Markowitz plays drums and teaches five year olds how to do stuff. Have fun.
Recorded live 02/13/2001
Ear Meal Alexis Disselkoen Alexis Disselkoen is a native Angelino born to parents of Mexican and Anglo descent. She explores notions of race, ethnicity, and belonging, and the effects these ideas have on bodies. Using objects as vehicles for interaction, Disselkoen proposes social encounters and spaces for negotiation that are participatory, yet directed by the [...]
Recorded live 02/06/2013
Ear Meal MLuM Sublating the Pierrot Ensemble, Pierrot Lunaireaoke: Sieben von Dreimal Seiben aus Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire is both riff and trope. The Pierrot Ensemble, a permutation of the old-school cabaret orchestra, atavistically functions as karaoke, the musical accompaniment of bar and lounge. As the “empty orchestra”( kara 空 “empty”, and ōkesutora オーケストラ “orchestra”) [...]
Recorded live 01/30/2013
Ear Meal Joanna Demers Joanna Demers, associate professor of musicology. PhD in musicology (Princeton, 2002); DMA in contemporary flute performance (UC San Diego, 2002). Research interests include aesthetics and the philosophy of art, post-1945 popular and concert music, and sound art. Monographs: Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity (University of Georgia [...]
Recorded live 01/23/2013
Ear Meal Raquel Gutierrez Raquel Gutierrez is a community based performance writer and cultural activist. She is a co-founding member of the queer performance art ensemble, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, and has written their first play currently in production called The Barber of East L.A., commissioned by a humanities initiative at USC that enabled the troupe [...]
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Ear Meal KARLA DIAZ & SPEW Karla Diaz is a writer, artist, activist and educator born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from CalArts. She has done museum projects locally, nationally and internationally including in Colombia, Egypt, London, Italy and London among other places. She has written for several art magazines including [...]
Recorded live 12/12/2012
Ear Meal Alex Wand Alex Wand with Odeya Nini, Heather Lockie, Brendan Byrnes and Jake Rosenzweig “I’ll be doing a half hour performance on LA’s Ear Meal webcast. It will feature most of the things on the banner above: me + 4 great musicians, an ostrich, Woody Guthrie, and the Lou Harrison National Steel Guitar [...]
Recorded live 12/05/2012
Ear Meal Geneva Skeen Geneva Skeen’s experiments in performance, composition, and writing toy with nostalgia and memory, improvisation and spatial relationships. She directs a chorus of women for the avante-garage jazz-punk massive KILLSONIC, and has performed at REDCAT, LACMA, GLOW Festival, LACE, 323Projects, and the NELA Artwalk. She has studied Critical Theory and Performance at [...]
Recorded live 12/05/2012
Ear Meal Jim Fox Jim Fox’s music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles and soloists throughout the U.S. and presented at the Monday Evening Concerts, New Music America, Real Art Ways, Wires, the SCREAM Festival, the Ventura Chamber Music Festival, the CalArts Contemporary Music Festival, Podewil (Berlin), the Schindler House/SASSAS, REDCAT, the Ear Inn, [...]
Recorded live 11/21/2012
Ear Meal Eric Potter .. psonic psorcery – ambient and chaotic electric guitar – urban cycling – trying to get lost in the desert – moonwatching – hot springs – surprises – improvisation – jumbo rocks – intuition .. .. ..
Recorded live 11/14/2012
Ear Meal Antony DiGennaro & David Tranchina is a composer and multi-instrumentalist, currently roaming the hills on the outskirts of the Los Angeles area. His songs and compositions draw from experiences and influences ranging from early Americana to techniques culled from the 20th/21st century experimental tradition. To date, he has released several albums as a [...]
Recorded live 11/07/2012
Ear Meal Mika Soma and Shinichi Ono Mika Soma is a Japanese mixed media artist. She graduated from Otis College of Art and Design in 2007 with a BFA in New Genres, and has been showing her works both in the states and Japan. was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1974. He graduated from Claremont [...]
Recorded live 10/31/2012
Ear Meal Michael Pisaro Michael Pisaro was born in Buffalo in 1961. He is a composer and guitarist, and a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble. He has composed over 80 works for a great variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. A particularly large category of his works is solo works, [...]
Recorded live 10/24/2012
Ear Meal Robert Crouch & Yann Novak Yann Novak (b. 1979 Madison, WI) is a sound, video and installation artist living and working in Los Angeles. His work utilizes different forms of digital documentation as a point of departure. Through the digital manipulation of these sound and image files, his works serve as a translation [...]
Recorded live 10/17/2012
Ear Meal William Leavitt & Paul Tzanetopoulos William Leavitt is an artist and musician who has been working in Los Angeles since the early 1970’s. His art work was the subject of a recent retrospective titled Theater Objects at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2011. As a cellist he has played in [...]
Recorded live 10/10/2012
Ear Meal Lauren Pratt and the James Tenney Archive Lauren Pratt was kind enough to give us a tour of her late husbands archives, composer James Tenney. This is a rare and wonderful glimpse into the history of Tenney and Ms. Pratt’s dedication in organizing decades of composition, history and life. We are absolutely honored [...]
Recorded live 10/03/2012
Ear Meal Micol Hebron & Michael Hanson Micol Hebron is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles and is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Chapman University in Orange, CA. She has been engaged in individual and collaborative projects in Los Angeles since 1992. Her work frequently explores the artist’s relationship to art-making, [...]
Recorded live 09/26/2012
Ear Meal Steven Speciale is a pianist, conductor, and educator. He currently teaches Electronic Music, AP Music Theory, and Choir at Loyola High School of Los Angeles while also serving as Director of Music for St. Andrew’s in Fullerton. He holds a Bachelors of Music in Piano Performance from U.C. Irvine where he also did [...]
Recorded live 09/19/2012
Ear Meal Indian Soundscape Four members of Long Beach Community Drum, John Dawson, Craig Stone, Les Peters and Larry Smith, will discuss the development of Urban American Indian Singing in the Los Angeles area while sharing songs associated with Intertribal Pow Wow Celebrations in Southern California.
Recorded live 09/12/2012
Ear Meal California Indian Soundscape Cindi Alvitre is the mother of four children and grandmother of two. She is a weaver, writer, storyteller and traditional singer. She is a Tongva descendant of the Moompetam (Salt Water) Clan, the original people of Los Angeles and the southern Channel Islands. She has been Director of Ti’at Society, [...]
Recorded live 09/05/2012
Ear Meal Alan Nakagawa Nakagawa has been studying and using elements of scientist Royal Rife’s experiments utilizing frequencies to allegedly destroy pathogens. ROYAL PAIN 3.0 is an original sound and video work that juxtaposes images and sounds from Rife’s studies and the examines the tactile relationship of frequencies and dreams. Alan Nakagawa, sound artist based [...]
Recorded live 07/11/2012
Ear Meal The Royal Us Heather Lockie and Max Kutner began working together while studying at the California Institute of the Arts. Both realized they shared a passion for starkly arranged melodies and devastating though sometimes charming stories covering unrequited love, sudden death and lingering regret. As a result, The Royal US was formed in [...]
Recorded live 07/04/2012
Ear Meal Grampus Grampus is an improvising, interface driven trio based in Los Angeles. Using the signal processing program Max/MSP both trumpet player Louis Lopez and trombone player Daniel Eaton create elaborate ways of modifying their acoustic instruments. In developing these new digital instruments, the search for integrating acoustic and processed sound through improvisation let [...]
Recorded live 06/27/2012
Ear Meal Devin Hoff “I play contrabass (bass violin, double bass, string bass, dog house, etc), bass guitar, write songs, sing a little, and play some guitar. I have been doing these things for 20 plus years, over half my life, and love music more every day. I have been fortunate to play with so [...]
Recorded live 06/20/2012
Ear Meal Sam Lopez Sam Lopez has played the guitar with the most unlikely of items; butcher knives, crowbars, and even a human skull . A self proclaimed “noiseician”, Sam Lopez has been unleashing frightening torrents of black feedback under the name, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Sam’s motto is “more is more” and exemplifies this through [...]
Recorded live 06/13/2012
Ear Meal Veteran brass players of the L.A. improvising scene, Michael Vlatkovich (trombone) and William Roper (tuba), have finally done what everyone has been telling them to do for years – document their zany antics. “Chobraty” is a co-led project with compositions by Vlatkovich and Roper. The written material provides a jump-off point for the [...]
Recorded live 06/06/2012
PAUL STAPLETON is a sound artist, improviser and writer designs and performs with a variety of modular metallic sound sculptures, custom made electronics, found objects and electric guitars. TED BYRNES comes from a jazz background and has since made his home in the worlds of free improvisation, new music, electro-acoustic music, and noise.
Recorded live 05/16/2012
Ear Meal Jake Rosenzweig with Archie Carey and Mike Lockwood Jake Rosenzweig is a musician primarily concerned with structured improvisation and surreal juxtapositions of musical materials. He holds an MFA in Jazz Bass from the California Institute of the Arts and currently lives in Los Angeles. Other projects include Stupid Man Suit, The Sogo Takeover, [...]
Recorded live 05/30/2012
Ear Meal FINALE @ Inglewood Library (part 2) On April 7, 2012, Collage Ensemble Inc. coordinated its 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 [...]
Recorded live 05/23/2012
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
