SATURDAY, 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: www.annahomler.com; Michael Delia: mad.lemurie.cz; Al Margolis: www.myspace.com/ifbwana + www.pogus.com; Katherine Liberovskaya: www.liberovskaya.net
FRIDAY, 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
MONDAY, 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
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13
Anna Homler & Ari DeSano play on the HIPPODROME (the free shuttle bus for the LA Art Walk)
from 7:00 - 7:30pm
http://www.esotouric.com/hippodrome
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
7:30 - 8:00pm The Dough Rollers
8:00 - 9:15pm Fort King & Ruthann Friedman
9:15 - 10pm Dick & Jane
Sunday, July 12th
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.”
http://www.pfmentum.com
http://www.emilyhay.com
http://www.annahomler.com
suggested donation: $5.00
street parking
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 2nd, 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)
For info: (626) 449-3359
http://www.poobah.com/
Saturday, October 21, 2006,8:00 p.m.,$10. 00
at Dangerous Curve -an Experimental Exhibition and Performance/Live Art Space
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) <http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=11940580> "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) <http://braddutz.com> 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) <http://www.w3art.com/DrewLesso.html> 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 <http://www.discogs.com/artist/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 <http://dangerouscurve.org>
Saturday 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, California
(213)613-1537
cafemetropol.com
Thursday, Sept. 15th...Los Angeles
at Club Tropical, 8641 Washington Blvd., Culver City, (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.
Sunday, Sept. 18th...New York
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.
Puppetina Piewacket! CD Release. Available here soon!
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 www.sirr-ecords.com 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 http://www.pfmentum.com/index.html for more information.
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 www.resonancefm.com or www.theorchestrapit.com.
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.
April 2004
Anna's back from Europe, safe and sound!
Are you looking for Anna's latest CD? Try CDBaby!
March 2004
Anna will begin a performance tour in parts of Europe again next week.
March 2004
Anna will perform Breadwoman at the Los Angeles Women's Theater Festival, at Barnsdall Gallery Theater on Saturday March 27th at 3pm, located at 4800 Hollywood Blvd.
March 2004
Anna will be interviewed on KXLU on Wednesday, March 24th at 9pm.
March 2004
March 1, 2004, AnnaHommler.com is officially launched! Welcome and please visit often to find out where you can see and hear Anna and her work next!
