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July 22, 2010, 5pm-8:30pm
D.E.N. Contemporary Arts opening reception and performance by Anna Homler (vox and toys) and Michael Intriere (cello) at 7pm, at the Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., Suite B275, West Hollywood
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June 17, 2010, 8pm
ANNA HOMLER + TED BYRNES + JORGE MARTIN + STEUART LIEBIG at ResBox (at the Steve Allen Theater, Hollywood CA). ResBox is "A monthly event featuring the world's best experimental music, curated by musician and filmmaker Hans Fjellestad." - - Read review on TTINLA
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June 12, 2010, 5pm
LAUNCH Presents as part of the LACMAMUSE Artwalk 2010
SASSAS SoundShoppe featuring Anna Homler and Jorge Martin~~~~~~~~~~~~~
May 22, 2010
Mix & Match Improv at pLAyLAnd,- Anna Homler alien vocals, small machines and found objects. Jorge Martin sound processing. Ted Byrnes prepared percussion. Steuart Liebig contrabass guitar with applied tools and technology.
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Collage Ensemble Inc. presents
EAR MEAL, an art webcast
Wednesday night:
ANNA HOMLER, JORGE MARTIN & ALAN NAKAGAWA
May 5, 2010 9:30 PM PST
"Anna Homler is a 'linguistic alchemist.' She sings in made-up languages that enable her to create remarkably expressive and exotic clusters of phonetics... The result is a beautiful combination of 'non-words' that are woven into surprisingly familiar and meaningful pieces of music." -- File 13 "Pick of the Issue”
Jorge Martin (Long Beach, CA) is one half of the duo, Spastic Colon
( http://www.spasticcolon.org ). His starting materials are sine waves, pulses, and sounds generated from the other person performing with him. Currently, he is a board member of The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound, aka SASSAS ( http://www.sassas.org/ ) and is closely watching the Lakers during this playoff season.
Alan Nakagawa is one half of the current iteration of Collage Ensemble Inc. (www.collagecollage.com) and loves to frequent local eateries. His blog on LA-based food spots is nearing 500 entries (www.cafelala.blogspot.com) and has had the pleasure of collaborating with various sound ensembles and producing this webcast, Ear Meal. (ditto on the Lakers)
EAR MEAL: Every Wednesday night at 9:30 PM Pacific Time, for a half hour, Ear Meal will offer a little slice of live experimental sound from the neighborhoods of Los Angeles .
UP COMING:
NEWCLOUDS, May 12, 2010
Tatsuya Nakatani, May 15 (special Saturday Ear Meal)
Rick Potts, May 19, 2010
Emily Hay, May 26, 2010
Morton Subotnick, June 2, 2010
Albert Ortega, June 9, 2010
Amy Knoles and Michael Sakamoto, June 16, 2010
Devin Sarno, June 23, 2010
John Wood, June 30, 2010
Jasmine Orpilla and Alan Nakagawa, July 7, 2010
ARCHIVE @ http://www.unitedartscene.com
Joseph Hammer
Drew Lesso with Peter Watkinson and Alan Nakagawa
Dwight Trible with Alan Nakagawa
Michael Whitmore
Kyungmi Shin & Todd Gary
Joe Potts
Department of Real Estate
Carl Stone
Mark Wheaton
Steve and Jeffrey Roden
Ronit Kirchman & Torsten Müller
Renee Petropoulos with Marya Alford and Sojung Kwon
Hans Fjellestad
Alan Nakagawa with Steven M. Irvin and Jeffrey James Mohr
The Clouds
Robert Crouch
Gregory Lenczycki
Ear Meal, a new webcast featuring artists sculpting sound, every Wednesday at 9:30 PM pst at http://www.unitedartscene.com
Collage Ensemble Inc. is Mona Kasra and Alan Nakagawa
"art you can sink your teeth into" www.collagecollage.com
Department of Real Estate, an experimental electronic bebop improv trio, is Peter Watkinson, Kio and Alan www.astroturd.com
Alan's day gig, helping bringing art to the masses, is www.metro.net/art
Alan loves food, over 450 eateries documented, www.cafelala.blogspot.com
Otonomiyaki, a collaborative sound art duo, is Kio Griffith and Alan Nakagawa www.otonomiyaki.com
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Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 2 sets - 7:30 and 9pm
free eventAN EVENING OF MIX AND MATCH IMPROV AT PLAYLAND
4140 Eagle Rock Blvd. LA, CA 90065
ANNA HOMLER alien vocals, playing small machines and found objects, processed by JORGE MARTIN, TED BYRNES on prepared percussion and STEUART LIEBIG on contrabass guitar with applied tools and technology.
for more information call 323 636-6262
pLAyLAnd2010@me.com
http://web.me.com/elaineparks/Site~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOODSunday, March 28 from 5:00 - 8:00 pm
An eclectic early evening cabaret/hootenanny/salon
featuring
urban folk music by your hosts Dick and Jane with Lee Joseph * avant garde song bird Anna Homler with bass meister Steuart Liebing * pianist extraordinaire Greg Glienna * 21st Century torch songs by Jose Promis * one-man-band flamenco and angry folk from Luis Oliart and Other Special Guests plus short films by Greg GliennaSunday, March 28 from 5:00 - 8:00 pm
The Other Side
2538 Hyperion Avenue
(just south of Griffith Park Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 661-0618
NO COVER
Full bar/Full restaurant menu
http://flyingleapcafe.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~
pLAyLAnd presents a two month intermedia exhibition
4140 Eagle Rock Blvd
LA CA 90065
April 3 - May 31, 2010
opening reception, April 3, 6 pm - 10 pm
hours Thursdays and Fridays 10:30 - 6:30, Saturday and Sunday noon - 6, and by appointment.
pLAyLAnd, a pop-up exhibition space, opening April 3 thru May 31, 2010.
A do-it-yourself inter-media art exhibition featuring 23 artists from Reno, San Francisco and Los Angeles in a variety of media and events taking place throughout the two months of the show, including site-specific installation, circuit-bending sound scape, international mail art show, video installation, live performing sculpture, photography, painting, large scale sculpture, poetry bomb, spoken word, performance, handmade toys that recreate science fiction scenarios - and Mudpeople.
Opening reception, April 3, 2010, from 6 pm to 10 pm. Step into the experience of pLAyLAnd.
"You're bound to see something you like and you will probably see someone you know". Meet the Artists, live action surprises throughout the evening, including a short performance by our beloved John Fleck.
Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. All events are free.
Our artists are; Tetsuji Aono, Andy Ben, Jeff Boynton, Dean Burton, Mike Christy, Simone Gad, Eli Geiser, S.A. Griffin, Dusty Hartman, Anna Homler, Stanton Hunter, Stephanie Hogan, Trelaine Lewis, Jason Lockyer, Mike Mollett, Tiger Munson, Elaine Parks, Kenzi Shiokava, Dianna Sion, Skooter & Creative Thing, Neal Taylor, Helen Van der Neer, Kris Vagner.
For more information contact Elaine Parks
c 323-636-6262
4140 Eagle Rock Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90065
pLAyLAnd2010@me.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~
February 5th & 6th2010 8:30pm NOISE ~ UEM w/invited guests at Highways Performance Space - An evening that redefines conventional notions of music through improvised sound and unfettered spontaneous noise, featuring Hans Fjellestad, Gregory Lenczyki, UEM (Urban Electronic Music), Kawaiietly Please, Jasmine Orpilla, Anna Homler, Jorge Martin, Joseph Hammer, William Harrington, Ted Byrnes and Andy Sykora. Videography by Joe Potts. Fri + Sat 8:30pm, adults: $20, Highways members, seniors and students: $15.
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December 4, 2009 7:30pm (reception from 4pm-9pm) Anna Homler (voice and toys) and Michael Intriere (cello) perform this Friday for the art show "10 ARTISTS 10 DAYS"
Location: The Culver Events Center, 11948 W. Washington Blvd, L.A. 90066 (map) - just east of Inglewood Blvd., free parking to left & behind LEAF restaurant.
More information: 10 Artists 10 Days~~~~~~~~~~~~~
October 24, 2009 8pm, Anna Homler, Michael Delia, Al Margolis (IF,BWANA), Katherine Liberovskaya
Mobius - 725 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA - 617 638 0020
L.A. based spoken-word and intermedia artist Homler has worked with instrument builder and sound and visual artist Delia. Delia has worked with composer Margolis and video artist Liberovskaya. Now they will all work together. The adventure begins with toys, homemade instruments, live sampling, pre-recorded sound, voice, words and live video. Anna Homler; Michael Delia; Al Margolis + Pogus; Katherine Liberovskaya~~~~~~~~~~~~~
October 23, 2009 7pm, Anna Homler, Michael Delia, Al Margolis (IF,BWANA), Katherine Liberovskaya
The Enchanted Fox - 174 Main St., Medway, MA 02053-1570 - 508 533 4440~~~~~~~~~~~~~
October 19, 2009 9pm, admission: $4.99, Anna Homler, Michael Delia, Al Margolis (IF,BWANA), Katherine Liberovskaya
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013
212 431 5127, 431 6430
Experimental Intermedia and XIRecords~~~~~~~~~~~~~
August 13, 2009 Anna Homler & Ari DeSano play on the HIPPODROME (the free shuttle bus for the LA Art Walk) - from 7:00 - 7:30pm
The bus stops on demand and you can see the route here.
Here is the full schedule:
6:00 - 6:30pm Grethel Bonilla
6:30 - 7:00pm Crimebo & Jane Cantillon
7:00 - 7:30pm Anna Homler & Ari DeSano
8:00 - 9:15pm Fort King & Ruthann Friedman
9:15 - 10pm Dick & Jane
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August 7, 2009 KILLSONIC PRESENTS at 2023
Date: Friday, August 7, 2009
Time: 9:00PM - 1:00AM
Location:
Gallery 2023 - 2023 S Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles CA 90021
Gallery 2023
KILLSONIC PRESENTS is a monthly music series comprised of new live works by members of the Killsonic collective and special guests. Each session brings forth innovative, original compositions, from all genres, which have never been performed elsewhere. Each showcased artist is given the opportunity to experiment in an up close and personal, listening-oriented environment. This month features new works by The Root Notes, Puerto Africa Discovers The Land Lost Forgotten, Clint Heidorn and Killsonic.
9:30 - 10:00: The Root Notes
10:15 - 10:45: Puerto Africa Discovers The Land Lost Forgotten
11:00 - 11:30: Clint Heidorn
11:45 - 12:15: Killsonic
Killsonic~~~~~~~~~~~~~
July 12, 2009 DOTTIE GROSSMAN / MICHAEL VLATKOVICH: Call & Response
ANNA HOMLER (voice, toys, electronics), with Jorge Martin, electronics and Ted Byrnes, Percussion, EMILY HAY Group (voice, flutes, effects, keboards), with Sarah Phillips (keyboards) and Ingo Deul (drums), improvised videos by Kio Griffith & Franz Heller
show starts at 9:30 p.m., doors open at 9
Get there early and enjoy the Echo Park Community Festival, celebrating local arts and artists
Place: Echo Curio, 1519 Sunset Blvd., Echo Park (cross sts. are Echo Park & Laveta)
phone: 213-977-1279
www.echocurio.com
“Another evening that the Echo Curio was made for, the expansion of minds and the collection of artists branching out into new directions, taking us along for the ride. DOROTHEA GROSSMAN and MICHAEL VLATKOVICH present poetry and creative new music (a la improvised trombone) in a unique "call and response" format. The aesthetic range the duo covers is enormous -- combining engaging and original poetry with on-the-spot musical improvisations of an almost infinite variety. EMILY HAY and ANNA HOMLER both bring the human voice into the 21st century and possibly beyond, certainly crossing a few dimensions along the way.”
PFMentum
Emily Hay
Anna Homler
suggested donation: $5.00
street parking~~~~~~~~~~~~~
July 18, 2009 Res Box at the Steve Allen Theater: ANNA HOMLER (vox, toys) + JORGE MARTIN (electronics) + MICHAEL, INTRIERE (cello)
Anna Homler
Spastic Colon
JOSIE ROTH (vox, violin, electronics)
Josie Roth
EMILY HAY (flutes, vox, electronics) + MOTOKO HONDA (keyboards,
electronics) + BRAD DUTZ (percussion)
Emily Hay
Myspace
Brad Dutz~~~~~~~~~~~~~
June 18, 2009 8PM ResBox at the Steve Allen Theater
The Center for Inquiry
4773 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90027
$10 at the door or reservations at: (800) 595-4849
more info: (323) 666-4268
all ages + free parking in lot
Steve Allen Theater
Myspace
Facebook
ResBox presents an eclectic roster of experimental music luminaries
and emerging artists on stage every third Thursday of the month at
the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood.
Recently passing its first year mark, series alumni include Lukas
Ligeti, Carl Stone, Z'EV, Soriah, Laetitia Sonami, Tatsuya Nakatani,
Vinny Golia, Motoko Honda, Ezra Buchla, Lisle Ellis, Steamboat
Switzerland, Leticia Castaneda, David Scott Stone, G.E. Stinson,
Daedeuls, Baseck, Kadet Kuhne, Becca Mhalek, among many others.
"The only place in town to tap the really freaky brew." - MetalJazz.com
Video Archive Playlistthought to be
the ability to move or to cause changes in objects
by force of the mind.
TELEKiNESIS
The Magic Cabaret.
June 2nd and 3rd 2009. There will be no shows added.
"JUNE GLOOM"
A very special edition BLACK cabaret.
Everybody wants to be a Black June Bride
TAXIDERMY, STAGING AND SPECIAL FX by
ROBBIE D., PHILLIP MANZANARES, DOUGLAS LITTLE & SCOTT GRAHAM
Hosted and created by
Jer Ber Jones as Queen Elizabeth the First & Elizabeth Frasier wanna-be.
DAVID J. original member of the bands BAUHAUS , LOVE & ROCKETS
PHILLIP MANZANARES as Tanya
DOUGLAS LITTLE of D.L. & Company
ANNA HOMLER a witch, with a few home brewed spells and a ray gun
LINDA SANTIMAN crooner in a haute couture gown by head SYREN Designer - Jeff Gent
JILANN O'NEILL dark, blond, siren
VINSANTOS new muse of David J.'s from San Francisco
MICHELLE CARR of the Velvet Hammer
SQUEAKY BLONDE monster
Tech by NELSON STITT
&dark Telekinesis Cabaret: “JUNE GLOOM” happens Tuesday and Wednesday June 2nd & 3rd, 2009, at the Cavern Club Theater in Silverlake, 1920 Hyperion Ave, Los Angeles 90027. Show starts at 9 pm; advance ticket purchase is suggested as this tiny venue always sells out. We will not be adding additional shows this month! Ticket purchases, and more show information is available at Robbied.
TELEKiNESIS JUNE- "JUNE GLOOM" Special Edition BLACK Cabaret... @ Casita Del Campo 1920 Hyperion Avenue, Silverlake, California 90027 LOS ANGELES / SILVERLAKE USA Cost:$20/25 9pm
JUNE GLOOM "Everybody wants to be a black June bride" a very special edition of this twisted, dark & fun cabaret.
With special guest DAVID J. of the band BAUHAUS & Love & Rockets! (He wrote Bela Lugosi is Dead!)
Also starring Jer Ber’s teenhood goth friend from Salt Lake City Tanya (Phillip) Manzanares with
Douglas Little, Linda Santiman, Jillann Oneill, Michelle Carr, Squeaky Blonde, Anna Homler and more.
ABOUT TELEKINESIS: Widely regarded as one of LA’s best & weirdest stageshows, Telekinesis is a monthly cabaret featuring a rotating cast of the artists, musicians, drag performers, and dancers who define the underground art and nightlife scene in Los Angeles. The brainchild of pop singer and drag superstar JerBer Jones, Telekinesis happens the first Tuesday of every month at Casita del Campo’s Cavern Club Theater in Silverlake. The consistently sold-out shows have a musical-variety format built around a different original narrative theme each month – past themes have included a polygamist family dealing with a rebellious sister-wife and a “March of Dames” telethon to raise money for underprivileged trannies. Tickets and information about upcoming shows can be found at Robbied.
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For up to the minute information about TELEKiNESIS and to check out new Jer Ber Jones music on myspace click here.
Check out Robbie Daniels Jr. music on myspace.Drift - Bypass Thru The Sky
Randy Greif - Electronics, Sampling, Guitar, Anna Homler - Vocals, Atom Smith - Bass, Electronics, Brad Cooper - Synthesizer
Four stalwarts of the underground, experimental scene collaborate under the name of Drift to release a CD of lush, atmospheric and surreal sounds. Anna Homler contributes vocals in her own language, as well sound-making toys of mysterious origins. Randy Greif adds electronics, sampling and guitar. Brad Cooper (of Brain Garden) throws percussion and keyboards into the mix, while Atom Smith (of The Muytator) supplies digital manipulations and bass.~~~~~~~~~~~~~
September, 2008 Article from THE - LA'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR THE ARTS - SEPTEMBER 2008
Anna Homler
Pharmacia Poetica
L Salon
7218 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles
(323) 930-0700 www.lsalon.net/lsalon.html
Pharmacia Poetica
"Pharmacia Poetica," Anna Homler's ongoing project begun in 1987, occupies the ephemeral space between art, the ordinary world, and an alternate universe. Also a vocalist who sings in her own invented tonal language, Homler operates in a physical realm where particles and waves, matter and energy, liquids and solids are all transmutable; yet simultaneously the work presents itself as a record of existence.
A library of glass bottles rather than books, the "Pharmacia" is a reliquary of the easily overlooked and unnoticed. Mysterious organic substances along with obsolete materials and artifacts reside in deeply hued ambient fluids. Plant-like fibers and filaments are as illusory as memories floating on the edge of consciousness. Other vessels contain recognizable objects -- magnetic cassette tape, typewriter erasing ribbon, wooden blocks with letters, fragments of untranslatable language in liquid elixirs. The bottles come in various shapes and sizes; several contain tiny bottles inside larger ones like little sunken vessels.
Homler's latest installation at L Salon was set not in an art space or gallery but in a Beverly Boulevard hair salon. There were no labels, names, or titles identifying the works. Instead they were carefully integrated into the setting, thus re-enforcing Homler's belief in the idea of art as intervention in the everyday world, intervention that prompts shifts in the viewer's perception. A group of bottles carefully arranged on an étagère might have been taken for some new hair products until closely examined. Likewise, the juxtaposition of a white feather filling a "Pharmacia" bottle next to a glass decanter of combs resting in blue disinfecting liquid throws the nature of the latter into question. In a group of cubicles by the rinsing station, Homler's dislocated objects made rolled-up, white towels suggest sacred scrolls, forcing us to traverse an ambiguous terrain of multiple possible realities. And the salon, a contemporary ritual space, provided an ideal mise-en-scène for Homler's subtle interceptions.
by Jacki Apple~~~~~~~~~~~~~
June 22, 2008 21st birthday celebration for the Pharmacia Poetica on June 22, 2008.
Live music by Michael Intriere (Cello), Jorge Martin (Electronics) and Anna Homler (Vocals).
L Salon, 7218 Beverly Blvd., LA 90036, 6-9pm
(An exhibition of the Pharmacia Poetica runs June 10 thru July 12th)~~~~~~~~~~~~~
March 22, 2008 See a DreamTime video!
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August 17, 2007 Anna Homler (voice and toys) will be appearing with Michael Intriere on cello and Spencer Savage on percussion as part of the Brea Fest from 8-10pm at the Brea Gallery at the Brea Civic and Cultural Centre, 1 Civic Centre Circle, Brea California 92821 telephone: 714 671-3601 Brea Gallery
2 tracks with Homler's vocals are included on the new Human Flesh cd, Penumbra, just released on EE tapes in Belgium EETapes
An interview with Anna Homler is included in the Lux Artillery survey of Underground women artists, "Women of the Underground" by Zora Von Burden to be released in September 2007.~~~~~~~~~~~~~
November 12, 2006 3:00PM Poo Bah Record Shop - 2636 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91107 - 626 449 3359
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October 21, 2006 3:00PM California Redemption Value: ThreeGroups of Experimental Musicians, Saturday, October 21, 2006,8:00 p.m.,$10. 00 at Dangerous Curve -an Experimental Exhibition and Performance/Live Art Space at 1020 East Fourth Place, (500 Molino Street #102), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Emily Hay(flutes , vocals), Carey Fosse(guitar),Brad Dutz (percussion), Anna Homler (vocal s, objects), Michael Intriere (cellist), Drew Lesso (prepared piano)
Dinosaurs with Horns featuring Rick Potts (multi-instrumentalist) andSpencer Savage (tape loops and devices)
More info:
EMILY HAY (flutes and vocals) <http://www.emilyhay.com/vita.html> is a dynamic musicianwho pushes her instruments to their limits. She has the chops of contemporary classical technique and the spontaneity for free improvisation, augmented withelectronic manipulationand highlighted byvocalizations rangingfrom primal to operatictointellectual scat. She has played with avant garde, alternative art rock, free improvisation, electro-acoustical, and contemporary classical ensembles such as U Totem, The Motor Totemist Guild, Otherparts, Adam Rudolph's Go: Organic Orchestra, andThe Jeff Kaiser Okodektet,is a featured artist on Cuneiform Records, pfMentum Records and Public Eyesore recordsand hasperformed extensively internationally. She co-hosts the alternative music radio program "Trilogy" on KXLU 88.9FM Los Angeles <www.kxlu.com>.
CAREY FOSSE (guitar) "grew up in household vibrant with showtunes, film music and hard rock, often playing simultaneously." He has played in a wide variety ofbands such asThe Abe Lincoln Storyand Possum Dixonand hasrecorded/performed with members of X, Los Lobos, Circle Jerks, and Lowell George and Bonnie Raitt's bands, jammed with Brother Wayne Kramer of MC5, performed with percussionist Danny "Professor" Frankel, performance artist The Dark Bob, gnarly improviser Eugene Chadbourne, nOT iN tHE hOUSE!!! (duo with mad percussionist Eric Gardner), and in Glenn Branca's stunning "Symphony for 100 Guitars." He's been called a "wacko electric guitarist" by Guitar Player Magazine, and a "guitar iconoclast," "crazily imaginative," and "monster instrumentalist" by the LA Weekly. Currently, he performs jazz, improv, alt-pop; works and teaches; composes commercial sound design with Freshly Squeezed Music.
BRAD DUTZ (percussion) is an expert percussionist of many instrumentsfrom around the globe: congas, berimbau, bata, bodhran, bones, pandiero, djembe, tabla, kanjira, doumbec, riq, marimbaand others. He has 10 solo CDs, has co-produced 12 others and played as a sideman for 210 titles,including recording with artists such asAlanis Morrisette, KISS, Willie Nelson, Michael Wolff, Tribal Tech, David Benoit, Rick Braun, Vinny Golia, Lee Ann Ryhmes, Mitch Forman, Terence Trent Darby, Rickie Lee Jones, Handsonsemble, Jeff Bridges and Ronny Cox. He can be heard on the soundtrack ofnumerous TV shows and films,regularily records and performs throughout California in a wide variety of musical genres, is a part-time faculty member at Cal State Long Beachand his Obliteration Quartet is the subject of a film documentary.
MICHAEL INTRIERE (cello)is one of the founding members of the legendary and now-defunct underground chamber group Fat & Fucked-Up. A cellist, he has been strong note in the Los Angeles experimental music scene for over two decades. His nontraditional exploration of the limits of the violoncello has led him to collaborations with many of L.A.'s foremost improvisers, and participations in such unique musical configurations as the Salt Ensemble, the Miya Massoka Orchestra, the Emily Hay Collective, and Zebra*Logic. His experimental video work has been shown internationally, including screenings at Lincoln Center, MOCA in Los Angeles, and the Rotterdam Film Festival.
ANNA HOMLER (voice, objects)uses music and her own devisedlanguage, making words musical and music like words. She has performed at top-notch venues sthroughout the world and regularily performs ininternational festivalssuch asSonic Disturbance (Cleveland), New Music America (Montreal), Voices Festival (Austria), and Spoken Word Festival (Brussels). She has collaborated with composer/musicians Steve Moshier, Davis Moss, Ethan James, Spastic Colon, The Voices of Kwahn, Steve Beresford, Peter Kowald, Richard Sanderson, Geert Waegeman, and Pavel Fajt. She first became known in the 1980s with her "Breadwoman" cassette (High Performance Audio; with Moshier). In 1992, she released her debut CD "Do Ya Sa'di Do" (amf), followed by many others, ending with "House of Hands" (ND). Called "mesmerizing," "mischievous," "exotic," and "charming," Holmer is, because of her work's diversity and emotional power, a true force in international performance.
DREW LESSO (piano) studied composition withKarlheinz Stockhausen and was a founding board member of theLos Angeles' Independent Composers Association, serving as its president in 1989. His music has been performed primarily in Southern California, most notably, in New Music Los Angeles in 1987, and the SCREAM Festival at CalArts in 1989. He has guest lectured on Hans Kayser Harmonics at the Otis Parsons School of Art and Design, and at the Visual Music Alliance in Los Angeles. Two of his works for chamber ensemble were performed by the Cologne Philharmonic, as part of the International Computer Music Conference in 1988. "Slow Down" was performed by BassoBongo at Brown Brandice University in 1995. Also that year, "Constellations Pt 1" was selected by the International Computer Music Association to be part of the World Wide Web Museum at ArtneTIAMFREE. Lesso has published articles in the SEAMUS Journal and Computer Music Journal.
RICK POTTS is a multi-instrumentalist and a founding member of Los Angeles Free Music Society in the mid-70s. Potts has been active in the L.A. area since then, and his involvement in recording and performing with LAFMS unit, Le Forte Four, lasted through the early '80s. In Le Forte Four, he played electric guitar with an electric toothbrush and other implements, in addition to playing saxophone, xylophone and musical saw. In 1982, Potts formed experimental ensemble Dinosaurs with Horns with analog synthesizer and samplist Joseph Hammer (both later show up on Danny Cohen's 1999 Tzadik release). Heformed Solid Eye with Hammer and ex-Monitor Steve Thomsenandwas in the bands Airway, Creatures' Lives, Dinosaurs With Horns, Fine Arts Dumpsters, Gothic Hut, Human Hands, Le Forte Four, Monique Experience, Pablums, Paul Is Dead, Rick Potts Band, Solid Eye, Square HaircuttsandThe Steaming Coils.
SPENCER SAVAGE began playing live music with numerous groups in Los Angeles in 1983, primarily as a percussionist, vocalist, and noisemaker. He began using tape loops in 1984, when he started performing solo concerts. Between 1985 and 1991, he participated in series produced by such organizations as Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), New Music America, the Independent Composers Association (ICA), and the Foundation for Art Resources (FAR). During the past 10 years, he's appeared as a supporting player on CDs released by Amphinomics, Catasonic, Tzadik, Win Records, and the Cortical Foundation. Savage first recorded and performed as an auxiliary member of Dinosaurs with Horns in 1987, and continues to work with the group in public performances.
DANGEROUS CURVE is an experimental exhibition and performance/live art space~~~~~~~~~~~~~
July 23, 2006 FREE all toy performance with master percussionist Brad Dutz at Pooh Bahs
2636 E. Colorado, Pasadena
Sunday, July 23, 2006 3pm
626 449-3359~~~~~~~~~~~~~
July 22, 2006 Anna Homler voice & toys & Michael Intriere cello, joined by Drew Lesso prepared piano
Saturday July 22, 2006, 1st Ste: 5pm / 2nd Set: 6pm
Cafe Metropole - 923 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA - 213 613 1537~~~~~~~~~~~~~
September 15, 2005 Club Tropical, 8641 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA - 310 559 1127
Cryptonight presents vocalist and toy player Anna Homler and composer and bassist Steuart Liebig at 9pm. The poetry and trombone duo of Dottie Grossman and Michael Vlatkovich play at 8pm.Downtown Music Gallery, 342 Bowery between 2nd and 3rd St. free - 212 473 0043, Belgian Peter Jacquemyn (double bass and voice) and Anna Homler (invented language and found objects) play together for the first time at 6pm.
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September 1, 2005 Puppetina Piewacket! CD Release. Available here soon!
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February 2005 A piece called "untitled" is included on a compilation cd called "untitled songs" just released (2/05) on sirr-ecords in Portugal. It features an international group of musicians invited to react to Stockhausen's "Gesang der Junglinge" Anna Homler (voice, pocket theremin and wooden bones) collaborates with celloist Michael Intriere and Mark Wheaton (effects and engineering) for her contribution. The double cd will be distributed by GroundFault and Forced Exposure, among others.
Contact Sirr Eecords for more information.
A limited-edition mini-cd, "The Chopstick Sisters," has been released in France on the 3 Patttes label (12/04)
featuring Anna Homler, Nadine Bal and Alain Neffe.
Soon to be released on pfmentum, "Kelpland Serenades" a duo album featuring Anna Homler and Steuart Liebig. Contact PFMentum for more information.~~~~~~~~~~~~~
February 10, 2005 Anna Homler will be featured on the Full Circle Show, hosted by Mark Braby, on Resonance in London, which features experimental music, radio art, etc.
The broadcast date is scheduled for Thursday, February 10, 2005. More information might also be found either on Resonance FM or The Orchestra Pit.~~~~~~~~~~~~~
September 4, 2004
CONTACT: Leo Garcia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(310) 453-1755
MUSIC/PERFORMANCE LeoGarcia@highwaysperformance.org
The Daughters of Re-Invention Present NewMusic at Highways Sept. 4th
Santa Monica, CA - On Saturday evening, September 4th at 8:30 PM, Highways Performance Space presents the Daughter's of Re-Invention, a rare evening of three of LA's most interesting, eccentric and innovative music projects: Non Credo (Kira Vollman and Joseph Berardi), the acoustic cello/voice and toy duo of Anna Homler and Michael Intriere, and a trio of international improvisers, Emily Hay, Brad Dutz and Chao-Ming Tung. This promises to be an exceptional evening of 3 idiosyncratic groups who seldom play on the same bill. Highways Performance Space is located at 1651 18th Street in Santa Monica. Tickets are $15. For reservations call (310) 315-1459.
Using sounds, samples, and extended vocals, Non Credo, a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists Kira Vollman and Joseph Berardi, create a disturbing world inhabited by a variety of evocatively textured characters. The duo of Michael Intriere and Anna Homler combine the diverse sounds of the acoustic cello with found objects, musical toys, and alien vocals, creating a surprisingly tonal world rich with emotion and humor. Flutist/vocalist/pianist Emily Hay collaborates with Taiwanese-born composer and Chinese zither player Chao-Ming Tung and world percussionist Brad Dutz, to perform original compositions and free-form abstract improvisations for acoustic and electronically manipulated instruments.
Non Credo1s Kira Vollman is a breathtaking vocalist with the voice of a fallen angel. Within a single song, she is by turns an operatic soprano, a charming little girl, a guttural demon, and a siren seductress. Her partner, Joseph Berardi, has been a fixture on the Los Angeles experimental and improvised music scene for many years, both as percussionist and composer.
Renowned vocalist Anna Homler has performed throughout the US and Europe with a variety of projects, Homler is a singer who can take the audience by the hand and lead them along the weird path between atmospherics and surreal humor. Michael Intriere, has been a stalwart member of the Los Angeles experimental music scene for over two decades, collaborating with many of LA's foremost improvisers.
Emily Hay is a multi-instrumentalist who combines the complexity of contemporary classical technique with the spontaneity of improvisation. Chao-Ming Tung1s music encompasses stage, instrumental, and vocal and electro-acoustic works. Brad Dutz is a versatile and active drummer in the LA underground jazz scene. With over 140 album credits to his name, Dutz has performed with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Kenny Loggins.
Highways Performance Space is in its 15th year as Southern California1s boldest center for new performance, promoting the development of contemporary, socially involved artists and art forms from diverse local, national and international communities. Artistic Director Leo Garcia continues to affirm Highways mission of developing and presenting innovative performance.
For more information, photos or interviews, please contact Leo Garcia, Artistic Director @ 310-453-1755.~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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