Events
Samuel Hertz (Oakland), Christi Denton, Jesse Mejia, LL LL (Portland Debut)
- 7:30pm Thursday, February 25, 2016
Samuel Hertz, composer and performer, received his MFA at Mills College, where he studied composition and electronic music with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, James Fei, Maggi Payne, John Bischoff and Chris Brown. Though classically trained, his studies in experimental literature and musical techniques steer his compositions and performances to include a wide variety of acoustic and electronic media such as: sensor technology, prepared guitars, piano, electro-acoustic percussion instruments, instruments of his own design, electronically modified traditional instruments, and movement.
http://www.samhertzsound.com/recent-works/
Christi Denton is a Portland based composer and sound installation artist who works with found sounds, electronics, and homemade and modified instruments. She has a degree in Music Composition from Mills College and a graduate certificate from the Centre de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (France). Christi has built giant chimes as part of the Music for People & Thingamajigs Festival and amplified exhibits in the Exploratorium. She played at the Spark Festival and her music is part of the exhibit Six Seconds Around Me in the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Italy. In 2011 and 2012, her work was featured in collaborative performances for Ten Tiny Dances at the Time Based Art Festival in Portland, where dancers controlled music through light and flex sensors. She competed in the 2012 Guthman Instrument Competition, was in residency at Caldera in 2014, and has played in every Electrogals festival since 1995.
https://soundcloud.com/christidenton
Jesse Mejía (Portland, Or) is a composer, performer, engineer and educator with a cross-disciplinary, collaborative process. He received his MA from Bangor University, Wales and BA from Sarah Lawrence College with a focus on composition, generative technology and physical interaction. Mejía directs a 20+ person experimental choir (CHOIR) and is part of Acid Farm, a live Nu Acid/Balearic Beat duo with Morgan Hynson. Mejía has performed at PICA's TBA festival, Northwest New Works festival, Dance+, Disjecta, composition gallery, False Front and various dance clubs and warehouses.
LL LL is a new collaboration between performers Phull Collums and Woo Lee Allen, dedicated to living at least two moments at once. They create maps which unfold across wrinkles of time that guide split parts of self back to a place of play. As art is the home where these maps are most alive, they often appear inside the video, sound and performance work of LL LL. Most recently, Phull and Woo, performed New Dream Room, a dance party installation performance piece for this year’s Spaceness event up in Long Beach, WA.
Phull Collums aka Sean Christensen:
http://phullcollums.bandcamp.com/
http://seanchristensenabt.tumblr.com/
https://vimeo.com/109753350
Woo Lee Allen aka Lucy Lee Yim:
www.cargocollective.com/lucyyim
Recommended donation is $3-$5 - all proceeds go to the artists.