Dana Reason

Kevin Patton: Electronic, guitar and computer music! Oct. 29th!

Dana Reason — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:45:02 +0000

Join us Saturday October 29th for the first Corvallis concert of Kevin Patton!

Biography

Kevin Patton is a composer, scholar, and experimental sound performer whose music explores intersections of composition and improvisation, technology and the body. The design of new musical interfaces and computer music systems for the analysis, composition, and performance of electronic, multimedia, and experimental music is at the center of his practice.

Kevin is a recent winner of the Rhizome 2009 commission competition with visual artist Maria del Carmen Montoya for their installation, I Sky You. Kevin often performs his own work in both instrumental improvisation and interactive chamber music and has performed in Europe, Japan, and throughout North America while his chamber music has also been performed by such ensembles as Dinosaur Annex. Kevin is also a founding member of Gray Code an improvisation ensemble that combines electronic instrument design and machine improvisation with experimental jazz practice in collaboration with percussionist Frederick Kennedy and clarinetist and composer Butch Rovan.

Kevin’s music and ideas have been presented at the International Computer Music Conference 2009, Electronic Music Studies (EMS) International conference in Paris, France and Beijing, China, and the Visiones Sonoras festival in Morelia, Mexico, among many. He was an Invited Researcher at the Sorbonne, in Paris France for the Spring of 2009. Kevin holds a Ph.D. from Brown University in electronic music and multimedia composition and Master of Music degree in jazz studies from the University of North Texas, where he played guitar in the grammy nominated One O’Clock Lab Band.

Angela Carlson and Becky Jeffers- Piano Duo – Oct 29th!

Dana Reason — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:43:43 +0000

For more than 25 years Angela Carlson and Becky Jeffers have performed piano works for 4 hands. They have premiered new works by living composers as well as performed an extensive array of classical repertoire. There concerts are musical and exuberant! Don’t miss this outstanding duo!

For this concert they will include a performance of “Postludes” by composer Jesse Jones.

Jesse Jones was born in New Mexico but has strong ties to Oregon. His Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in composition are from Eastern Oregon University and the University of Oregon respectively. He has already garnered several awards, including the Charles Ives Scholarship, and has received national exposure on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. He is currently pursuing a DMA at Cornell University.

Angle of Vision – Forthcoming Itunes Release

Dana Reason — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:49:21 +0000

Angle of Vision

John Bischoff – League of Automatic Music Composers

Dana Reason — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:35:23 +0000

John Bischoff Bio

Dana Reason — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:09:19 +0000

Education

MFA, Electronic Music and Recording Media, Mills College, 1973
BFA, Music Composition, California Institute of the Arts, 1971
Composition Major, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 1970

Courses Taught

MUS 001: Exploring Music
MUS 005: Diatonic Harmony I
MUS 054/154: Introduction to Computer Music
MUS 101/102: Twentieth Century Styles & Techniques I & II
MUS 160/260: Composition Practicum
MUS 251: Seminar in Computer Music
MUS 252: Seminar in Electronic Music Performance

Professional Experience

JOHN BISCHOFF (b. 1949) is an early pioneer of live computer music. He is known for his solo constructions in real-time synthesis as well as his development of computer network music. Bischoff studied composition with Robert Moran, James Tenney, Robert Ashley, and David Behrman. He has been active in the experimental music scene in the Bay Area for over 25 years as a composer, performer, teacher, and grassroots activist. His performances around the US include NEW MUSIC AMERICA festivals in 1981 and 1989, Roulette and Experimental Intermedia in New York, and the World Music Concert Series at Wesleyan University to name a few. He has performed in Europe at the Festival d’Automne in Paris, Akademie der Künste in Berlin, STEIM in Amsterdam, and Fylkingen in Stockholm among other places. He is a founding member of the League of Automatic Music Composers, the world’s first computer network band, and co-authored an article on the League’s music that appears in “Foundations of Computer Music” (MIT Press 1985). From 1985 to 1996 he performed and recorded with the network band the Hub. In 1999 he received a $25,000 award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York in recognition of his music. He was also named a recipient of an Alpert Award/Ucross Residency Fellowship in 2002. Recordings of his work are available on Lovely Music, Tzadik, 23Five, Centaur, and Artifact Recordings. He is currently Associate Professor in the Music Department at Mills.

http://www.mills.edu/academics/faculty/mus/bischoff/bischoff.php#

John Bischoff – Saturday October 1st @ 7PM

Dana Reason — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:08:12 +0000

700 SW Madison Avenue
Corvallis, OR 97333-4514
(541) 754-1551

Cost: Free to students with ID, $10 adults, $5 Arts Center Members.

Nirvana’s cellist- Lori Goldston!

Dana Reason — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 03:00:10 +0000

Please join us at the Art Center for the extraordinary cellist from Seattle- Lori Goldston! She will be performing with silent film as well as solo cello compositions and improvisations.

Please visit her wiki biography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Goldston

Cory Frye : Lori Goldston

Dana Reason — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:05:20 +0000

By Cory Frye | The Entertainer | Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2011 7:15 pm | No Comments Posted

Best remembered for her place alongside Kurt Cobain on a 1993 ‘MTV Unplugged’ session, cellist Lori Goldston remains a respected figure in the musical world. She’ll perform at The Arts Center on Saturday, March 12. (Contributed photo)

CORVALLIS — Like many music buffs, I first became aware of Lori Goldston thanks to Nirvana’s “MTV Unplugged” session in late ’93. She’d joined the lineup for its “In Utero” tour — which I’d missed, sadly, assuming there was always Next Time. But that “Unplugged,” for a lot of us, was our last real glimpse of Kurt Cobain, his band intact, making television history in more ways than we realized.

Goldston was seated to Krist Novoselic’s right, on an intimacy-draped set dotted with candles and lillies. Her cello wove arresting currents through each and every number, driving chills through “Something in the Way” and adding an ominous dimension to Cobain’s ache in “Where Did You Sleep Last Night.”

It was startling, at first, to see a classical musician among rock ’n’ roll monsters, underpinning acoustic renderings of a catalog known for its buzz and crunch. But her presence imbued the performance with a haunting, melancholy sweetness that resonates in my memory to this day.

Reflecting from a distance of 15 years, Goldston told Learning Musician’s Shulamit Kleinerman, “It’s such a funny calling card. A lot of people get stuck being remembered for something they hated doing. I’m fortunate that I like that band, and I like what I did for them.”

Goldston, certainly, never got stuck. In fact, she’s as busy as ever. The Seattle-based artist has continued exploring music with a tireless devotion through a discography that now spans nearly two decades. Her touch has graced albums from David Byrne’s “Feelings” (1997) and the Sub Pop compilation “Give the People What We Want: Songs of the Kinks” (2001) to the Wedding Present’s “Take Fountain” (2005) and the Dead Science’s “Villainaire” (2008). Of course, this doesn’t count recordings made with her own group, the Black Cat Orchestra (which she launched with husband/collaborator Kyle Hanson), Shifting Light and Spectratone International.

She can be heard sending string-soaked shivers through Earth’s “Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1,” released last month. As a longtime fan of that Northwest throttle (the seismic vision of guitarist Dylan Carlson), I was delighted to feel her steady pulse illuminating the disc’s crawling intensity.

However, it’s her film-scoring work that brings Goldston to The Arts Center’s Between the Cracks Forum series. Credits include Lynn Shelton’s “Humpday” (2009) and Linas Phillips’ 2010 Sundance Film Festival entry, “Bass Ackwards.” She’s also given dramatic import to a raft of silent classics; her live performances have accompanied screenings of F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” (1922), Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), and Yasujiro Ozu’s “Passing Fancy” (1933).

“Goldston’s music constituted a kind of physical enactment of listening,” ArtForum’s Matthew Stadler observed in 2005, describing the cellist’s TBA Festival performance of “Arc.” “She began in silence — absorbing the moment and the film — and then her sound emerged, shifting and responding to what she took in.”

Audiences may witness this amazing process in action at 7 p.m. Saturday as Goldston improvises to Germaine Dulac’s surrealistic “The Seashell and the Clergyman” (1928) at The Arts Center, 700 S.W. Madison Ave. There will also be a Q-and-A/discussion with the artist and perhaps another piece, time permitting.

Admission is $10 general, $5 for Arts Center members, free for students with ID.

For more information on the performance or the series, call 541-754-1551 or go to www.theartscenter.net orwww.danareason.com/2010/10/hello-world.

Lori Goldston

Dana Reason — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:59:15 +0000