Program for 2010-2011
OPENING CONCERT/PRESENTATION
October 16, 2010: Michael Coolen, Fred Swanson, John Campbell, Anita Sullivan, Dana Reason, Bob Brudvig, John Bliss, Tim Fox, Charles Goodrich, Brenda McComb, Paris Myers and other guests.
A mulit-media performance highliting the contributions of the forest to scientific understanding as well as responses from musicians, poets, and writers who have had personal interaction with the forest.
November 6, 2010: Marc Sabat (Berlin), violin and electronics
Marc Sabat is a Canadian-born composer, electronic musician, and multi-media performer who has been based in Berlin since 1999. He has made installations, video works, and concert pieces using acoustic instruments, and in some pieces, computer-generated electronics. He has drawn inspiration from investigations of the sounding and perception of small number relations, such as those that exist in Just Intonation. He has also drawn from American folk music, Minimal Art, and collaboration with other artists. His work is presented internationally in radio broadcasts and at festivals of new music presented around the world.
Example of his work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7_ujhz1u4E
January 15, 2012: Robert Briggs (Portland), Beat Poet (and guest musicians)
Robert Briggs was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and attended Auburn and Columbia Universities. In the 1950s he was a bookseller in Greenwich Village and North Beach where he was involved in jazz and poetry scenes. In 1972 he founded Robert Briggs Associated, a loose-knit group of West Coast Publishing consultants, which has been involved in publication of a variety of nonfiction titles, including Rolling Thunder. A member of the Zen Community of Oregon, Briggs is one of the last remaining members of the Beat Poet generation, and he will be performing with a variety of musicians from Portland.
Excerpt of his work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERxkTkZEq44
February 19, 2011 Hans Fjellstad (LA), documentary/electronics
Hans Fjellstad is a musician and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He studied music composition and improvisation with George Lewis at the University of California at San Diego and piano with Krzysztof Bruza. Fjellstad has composed for film, video, theater, and dance, and he has presented his works throughout the U.S., as well as Canada, Europe, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. He is also renowned for which award-winning documentary on Robert Moog. Mr. Fjellstand will present some of his documentary as well as perform live.
Example of his work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wst2sSiCbnQ
March 12, 2011: Lori Goldston cello/electronics ( Seattle)
From her early acoustic work with Nirvana, where she saw artists gain world attention but not lose their political and social consciousness, to her current big project, “Share This Place,” a song cycle about insects that will debut at the Seattle International Children’s Festival in the spring of 2007, Lori feels at home in a context that is continually being built and refined. She studied with Aaron Shapinksy at Bennington College and likens her cello to an opera singer, taking on whatever voice is needed for a performance.
Example of her work:
http://www.lorigoldston.com/silents.htm
April 6, 2011 Dan Joseph (NYC), Electronics and Dulcimer
Dan Joseph is a free-lance composer based in New York City. As an artist who embraces the musical multiplicity of our time, Dan works simultaneously in a variety of media and contexts, combining free improvisation with various forms of electronica and sound art. As a performer he is active with his own chamber ensemble, The Dan Joseph Ensemble, as well as in various improvisational collaborations and as an occasional soloist.
Examples of his work.
http://www.danjoseph.org/solo/
May 7, 2011 Pamela Madsen (Cal State Fullerton)
Pamela Madsen is acclaimed internationally as a composer, performer, and scholar. Through her compositions, interactive opera/installations, writings, teaching, performances, and organizations of events she has created a body of work with a profound breadth of vision. Madsen’s ritual interactive electroacoustic opera/installations focus on the concept of transformation and transcendence in musical performance through intensive focus on the moment, voice, movement, and virtuosity in conjunction with multi-media and spatialized electronics.
Examples of her work.
http://www.pamelamadsen.com/compositions.html
June 4, 2010: Workshop for young performers with members of Sonic Possibilities, the contemporary performance art ensemble in residence at Oregon State University. Students will work with professional performance artists to develop skills in improvisation, creativity, and multi-media skills, culminating in a performance by students in the evening.