Philip Mantione - BIO/CV

Philip Mantione has composed music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, computer, fixed media, interactive performance, multimedia installations, experimental video and live broadcast via radio, television and the internet. He writes custom software in Max/MSP to create music that melds field recordings, sampling and computer generated sound into unique sonic textures. His Sinusoidal Tendencies, released on Innova, has been described as "austerely impressive" (Paris Transatlantic Monthly) and "a searing study in form and color." Zane Fischer, of the Santa Fe Reporter, called his interactive sound sculpture, The Human Resistor, "...a satisfying, interactive rabbit hole, in which tactility becomes sound." L.P. Streitfeld, art critic and writer for the New York Times and The Advocate & Greenwich Times, has described his collaborative work with visual artist Alysse Stepanian as "a wry and profound commentary on the conflicted state of America's emotions." Their work has been shown internationally in Asia, Europe, North/South America and the Middle East. More information is available at box1035.com

Selected venues that has presented Mantione's work include: the Bing Theater at LACMA, Merkin Concert Hall (NYC), Baltimore Contemporary Art Museum, Islip Art Museum, CCA (Santa Fe,NM), FILE at the SESI' Cultural Centre (Brazil), CCCB (Barcelona, Spain), National Museum of Fine Arts (Cuba), and the European Media Arts Festival (Germany). Recent concerts include: John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium at UNM, the Southwest Festival of New Music (New Mexico), Long Beach Sound Walk 2013 (CA) and the Riverside Art Museum (CA). He is currently a Full-time Professor at the Art Institute of California where he teaches various courses in audio technology, synthesis, sound design and acoustics.

RADIO

1996 - 2014

• Echoes: "The stranger that is next to me" (curated by Brandon LaBelle)(stress.fm)
• The Hidden Sounds (Net Radio Show on basic.fm)
• Dancing in Circles (KAOS; Olympia, WA)
• Acoustic Frontiers (CKCU; Ottawa,ON,Canada)
• Trembling Timber Lounge (KAOS; Olympia, WA)
• Endless Possibilities (WRSU; New Brunswick, NJ)
• Santa Fe Radio Cafe (KSFR; Santa Fe, NM)
• Other Voices, Other Sounds (KUNM; Albuquerque, NM)
• Chuggypig Unlimited Express (KAOS; Olympia, WA)
• My Mind Is Red (WRCT; Pittsburgh, PA)
• Feedback Monitor (Toronto, CA)
• Future Static (KUGS; Bellingham, WA)
• Brain Ticket Death (WFHR; Dearborn, MI)
• Martian Gardens (WMUA; Amherst, MA)
• No Other Radio Network (Pacifica)(WPFA; Berkeley, CA)
• Inner Space (Zagreb, Croatia)
• FOLDOVER (WOBC; Oberlin, Ohio)
• Sonar Map (Seattle)
• Sonic Stratosphere (Seattle)
• Vast Field (not to scale) (CA)
• The Ways and Mistaken Pathways (Lithuania)
• Delusions and Furie (WFHR; Dearborn, MI)
• Fresh Ears (MN)
• art@radio (MD)
• Virtual Concert Hall (Aspen, CO)
• Difficult Listening (Australia)
• Kalvos&Damian (NH)
• Repeat After Me (CA)
• KUSC simulcast from the Bing Theater, LA County Museum of Art
  

PRESS

 

2014

• Inland Empire Weekly; "Soft Sound Loud Loud Sound Soft" (Pick of the Week - Jan. 2, 2014)

2013

• Voice of the Inland Empire; Featured guest on this television program hosted by Ron Stark (Feb. 2013)(KVCR).
• Inland Empire Weekly; "Experimental Sound" (Pick of the Week - Feb. 14, 2013)
• The Press-Enterprise; "RAM hosts experimental sound workshops and performances" (Feb. 15, 2013)

2011

• The Baltimore Sun; "Looking for LOL at the Contemporary Museum" (pdf) June 9, 2011.
  

2010

• Endless Possibilities - WRSU; Featured on segment called Explorations with commentary by Douglas Laustsen. Listen here.
• The New Mexican - Pasa Tiempo; “A Dream Within a Screen” (pdf) March 12, 2010, Pg. 30-31; interview with curator, Alysse Stepanian by Casey Sanchez. Performed with The Autotelics for the 1st Anniversary Show of Manipulated Image.
  
• Santa Fe Radio Cafe - KSFR; Interview with Mary-Charlotte Domandi on March 4, 2010.
• Other Voices, Other Sounds - KUNM; Interview with Ali Liddel on March 7, 2010.
• Other Voices, Other Sounds - KUNM; Airplay for The Improvising Composer project by host, Derek Caterwaul on February 21, 2010.

2009

• Sf-Reeper; Blog by Charlotte Jusinski, writer for the Santa Fe Reporter.
• Santa Fe Radio Cafe; Interview with Mary-Charlotte Domandi
• The New Mexican - Pasa Tiempo; “My Circuit From the Slab Began to Rise” (pdf) July 12, 2009, Pg. 48-49; Interview with Craig Smith.
  
• Abington Art Center;(pdf) Curatorial statement by Sue Spaid for the exhibition, “Endurance: Daring Feats of Survival, Risk and Perseverance.“
• Sf-Reeper; Blog by Caroline K. Gorman, writer for the Santa Fe Reporter.
• Sf-Reeper; Blog by Patricia Sauthoff, writer for the Santa Fe Reporter.
• UNOBSTRUCTED; Blog Talk Radio, Interview with Alaina R. Alexander.

2008

• Santa Fe Reporter; “A Ton of Simple” Nov.12-18, 2008, Pg. 32
  2008
• KSFR; Live radio interview with John Greenspan regarding “T = 2.7k,” a multimedia piece with trumpter, Ron Helman and visual artist, Alysse Stepanian that premiered at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2006

• City Weekend; Editorial Team; “Top 5: Check out City Weekend’s Top 5 Art Exhibits”(“Don’t be afraid, be ready” listed as the #1 exhibit in Beijing, China); Vol 6, Issue 17, No. 12; June 22-July 5, 2006, Pg. E5
• Beijing This Month; Charles J. Dukes; “Shadow Series No. 1”; Issue 151; June 2006, Pg. 48

2005

• The Advocate & Greenwich Time; L.P. Streitfeld; “Americans and security: Wanting our cake and eating it”; September 18, 2005, Pg. D3 - review

2004

• Chronogram; Jennifer Wai-Lan Huang; “Drained by Desire”; August 4, 2004, Pg. 207, illus.
• The Putnam County News and Recorder ; “Collaborative Concepts presents in the Concept Room, An Installation with Gravity-driven Mechanics, Sound and Video”; July 14, 2004; on-line archive.
• The New York Times (Westchester Edition); Benjamin Genocchio; “A Backup Plan With Fine Results”; May 30, 2004, Pg. 8; Arts and Entertainment; illus.

1999

• American Composers Forum; NYU; Invitational video presentation and discussion.
• FYI (quarterly publication of NYFA; Fall 1999, Volume 15, No. 3) Interviewed by senior editor, William R. Kaizen regarding Mantione's role as co-founder of MANY and the approach this group takes towards multimedia and interdisciplinary arts.

1997

• LA Loft District; Interviewed as a Los Angeles loft district resident artist in this documentary video by director Maya Koyo

COMPUTER MUSIC

2013

• The Human Resistor
  Earthquake V1
  Earthquake V2
  

2012

• Deadman Overlook

2011

• Social Immune System
• Depth of Field
• HFone
• HTtwo
  

2010

• Fabrics
• Valuri
• 4Minus4
• 4Plus4
• Teethtones
• Sonata for Teeth

2009

• It's ALIVE! (Scattered Music)
• Dialtone and Strings

2006

• Solution to Pollution based on voice samples of Nicholas Adams, Thomas Buckner, and Alysse Stepanian

2005

• Collage Party based on samples recorded at a Collage Party in Brooklyn

2004

• Drainage Music (Scattered Music CD109)

2003

• Fourteen (Scattered Music CD108)

2002

• Crowd (Scattered Music CD107)
• Big Band based on samples of the big band music of James Marentic

2001

• Dorr computer music included on The Door Project CD (Alta 02 CD)
• motel (Scattered Music CD106)
• Equal Form (Scattered Music CD105)

2000

• Containers (Scattered Music CD104)
• Sinusoidal Tendencies (Innova Recordings 117)
• Radiator (Scattered Music CD103)

1999

• Radiator Canadian Electro-acoustic Community (CEC) web site
• Random 26 (Scattered Music 102)

FESTIVALS / EVENTS / EXHIBITIONS

 

2014

• FILE 2014 - Electronic Language International Festival - Hypersonica; Three works from the Salvatore CD included in this international festival at the FIESP Cultural Center in San Paulo, Brazil (August - October 2014).
  
  
• USAP (Urban Solar Audio Plant); a new 12-channel piece for the solar powered, WI-FI controlled, multichannel sound system for public spaces designed by Peter Eisold, Micha Dawid and Sven Sappelt. Premiere performance/installation in June 2014 (Berlin).
  
  
• Interview and online presentation of Social Immune System and Radiator as part of NOISES, a project of L'Autre Musique Laboratoire(France)(2014).
  
  
• Estman Radio Podcast of Social Immune System as part of Marinella Senatore's exhibition, Public Secrets, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (Switzerland) (February - April 2014)
  
  
• HFTwo Included in iFar Noise Compilation #3 (released February 2014).
  
  
• "Exuberant Politics" - Chant and Social Immune System to be included in this exhbition at Public Space One Gallery in Iowa City, Iowa (March 2014).

2013

• "Long Beach Sound Walk 2013"- Premiere performance/installation by a group of eight sound artists I formed called The Autotelics (October 2013).
  
  
• "Homeostasis Lab" - included in this digital collection of work curated by Julia Borges Araña and Guilherme Brandão as part of The Wrong Digital Art Biennale instigated in Sau Paulo, Brazil (October 2013).
  
  
• "Imaginary App Exhibition"- featuring Be Happy NOW!- created in collaboration with Alysse Stepanian; Museum | London; Ontario, Canada; The Imaginary App book co-edited by Paul D. Miller AKA DJ Spooky and Svitlana Matviyenko (Sept.-Oct. 2013).
  
  
• "Beyond the Sound" - Curated this show of sound art on the FB virtual gallery space, Urban Ranch Projects (July 2013).
  
  
• "Festival Futura 2013" - France - "Social Immune System" presented in this acousmatic sound festival (August 2013).

• "Experimental Sound for Visual Artists and Filmmakers" - Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA; Organized this two day event featuring a series of workshops and performances supported by a grant from Metlife Creative Connections and Meet The Composer (February 16-17, 2013).

2012

• ICMC - International Computer Music Conference; Official selection; Social Immune System

• Music for Two Cars @ Autry Overlook - 8601 Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles, CA; A collaborative sound installation created with Daniel Eaton. Included in the Mulholland Dérive event(December 9, 2012).
• Manipulated Image: "memory and identity" - Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; A sound installation included in this event also featuring performances and experimental video screenings (April 29, 2012).
• AvantKino - Seeing Eye to Eye - Freies Museum Berlin - Germany;ImXCocteau, video screening. Music for the video by Alysse Stepanian. (February 25, 2012).
• Gwen Frostic School of Art - Atrium Gallery - Western Michigan University; ImXCocteau, Video installation. Music for the video by Alysse Stepanian. Curated by Adriane Little. (January - February 2012).
• SFNM - Southwest Festival of New Music; Depth of Field and Social Immune System to be included in this festival honoring the centennial of the birth of John Cage. The event will feature the premiere of a new piece by Christian Wolff. (June 2012).
• Ear to the Earth:100xJohn - Participating composer in this project honoring the centennial of the birth of John Cage. Sponsored by the Electronic Music Foundation(2012).
• John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium 2012; Traffic, World Premiere performance of a new brass quintet, UNM, Albuquerque, NM (March 2012).

2011

• "Zeppelin 2011 - Sounds In Cause/Soundscape and Economic Change"; Social Immune System, 16 Channel sound piece at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona(CCCB)(December 2011).
• "LOL: A Decade of Antic Art" ; auditionherefreebeer, included in this exhibition at the Baltimore Contemporary Museum (June 2011).
• "Chopped and Stretched"; Sonata for Teeth, sound piece at this exhibition at Drift Station, Lincoln, Nebraska(September/October 2011).
• FILE 2011 - Electronic Language International Festival - Hypersonica; Fabrics, included in this international festival (for the second straight year) at the SESI' Cultural Centre in San Paulo, Brazil (July 2011).
• Lightworks 2011; Fabrics, included in this festival of film, sound and new media that takes place in Grimsby Minster, Grimsby (UK).
• Wet Sounds; Valuri, included this traveling installation in Europe. In Wet Sounds, "the listening space is split into two distinct spaces. Underwater, sound fills perception but despite it being absorbed by the ears and body, listening is a silent and detached yet intimate experience. Overwater, sound interacts with the resonant swimming pool space. Other people's actions such as moving in the water or talking become part of the listening experience. Listening shifts from an internal experience underwater, to an external one outside, uniting in the mid point in a floating position on the water surface."

2010

• FILE 2010 - Electronic Language International Festival - Hypersonica; Dialtone and Strings, included in this international festival at the SESI' Cultural Centre in San Paulo, Brazil (July 2010).
• International Computer Music Conference; Teethtones, included in the 60x60 program of the ICMC in New York City (June 2010).
• Fonlad 2010 Festival; FREY, music for the video by Alysse Stepanian included in this digital art festival in Portugal, curated by Jose Vieira.
• XIII INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSICA ELECTROACUSTICA "SPRING IN HAVANA" 2010; music for FREY, a video by Alysse Stepanian screened at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba.
• SoundLab Cologne; Dialtone and Strings, included in this on-line festival that travels to other electroacoustic festivals world-wide.
• The Reunion; Incidental music for this play written by James Marentic and directed by Chuck Patterson. Performed at The Tank in New York City.

2009

• YOVEO International Video Festival; music for ImXCocteau, a video by Alysse Stepanian screened the Suffolk Space in NYC.
• CologneOFF V Video Festival; music for Roghieh, a video by Alysse Stepanian screened on-line and off -line for this festival based in Cologne, Germany.
• 12-Nights; Festival of electronic music and art at the Harold Golen Gallery during Art Basel Miami 2009.
• Endurance: Daring Feats of Survival, Risk and Perseverance; Video exhibition at the Abington Arts Center in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, curated by Sue Spaid.
• Kunstfilmtag 09; music for FREY, a video by Alysse Stepanian screened at Kunstfilmtag in Düsseldorf, Germany in a show called, With a View to a Sound.
• re:MAKE IT!; Performed with the Transducers at the opening of this multimedia exhibit at the Santa Fe Complex.

2008

• The Human Resistor; Occam’s Razor exhibition at the Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Performance instrument and interactive sculpture created from hacked consumer electronics. Also performed live with Martin Back at the opening.
• Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music;
  College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM.

2005

• Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• Interpretations 2004/05; Merkin Hall, NYC

2004

• Symposium on the Future (NYC); Chelsea Art Museum
• Zèppelin 2004 (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Spain)
• Thailand New Media Art Festival (Thailand)
• DIGIT Festival (Narrowsburg, NY)

2003

• Paris-Berlin International Meetings (FR/GE)
• Foro Artistico CD-ROM Salon (Hannover, GE)

2001

• Medi@terra Festival 2001 (microMuseum) traveling exhibition - Greece, Balkans, Germany
• Seamus Festival 2001 (Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the US)
• The Parking Lot (art event in Los Angeles, CA)
• European Media Arts Festival (Germany)
• Immedia1901 (University of Michigan)
• Contemporary Music IV (Northwestern University)
• Sonic Circuits (Los Angeles Harbor College)

2000

• Most Significant Bytes 2000 (OH)
• Shy Anne Sound and Video Festival (WA)
• Sonic Circuits VIII (MN)
• The Leeds International Film Festival (UK)
• Paris/Berlin International Meetings (FR/GE)

1999

• Sonic Circuits Circus International Festival of Electronic Music and Art (MN)
• OnetoMANYthree; multimedia event at Dixon Place (NYC)

1998

• TwoMANYtwo; multimedia event at DCTV (NYC)
• OneMANY; multimedia event at Greenwich House, Hayden Auditorium (NYC)
• Swiss Institute (NYC)

INSTALLATIONS

2013

• "Long Beach Sound Walk 2013"- Premiere performance/installation by a group of eight sound artists I formed called The Autotelics (October 2013).

2012

• Music for Two Cars @ Autry Overlook - 8601 Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles, CA; A collaborative sound installation created with Daniel Eaton. Included in the Mulholland Dérive event.
• Consensus by Default; A sound installation included in this event also featuring performances and experimental video screenings. Manipulated Image: "memory and identity" - Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  

2009

• ATMOSPHERE EVO-LUTE; A collaborative weather-driven sound installation with Martin Back at the MOV-IN Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• FrankenCircuit; organized and curated this installtion at the Santa Fe Complex involving over twenty artists, performers and technologists.

2007

• Glitter, glamour and glory: HUNDE VERBOTEN; a BOX 1035 installation with kinetic sculpture, video and sound created with Alysse Stepanian. January/February at Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin, Germany (audio excerpt)

2006

• Don't be afraid, be ready; a BOX 1035 installation with kinetic sculpture, video and sound created with Alysse Stepanian. June at Imagine Gallery, Beijing, China (audio excerpt)
• ...until you slip; a BOX 1035 installation with kinetic sculpture, video and sound created with Alysse Stepanian. June/July at the Islip Art Museum, New York
• Fierce; a BOX 1035 installation with video and sound created with Alysse Stepanian. Imagine Gallery Residency; Beijing, China (audio excerpt)

2005

• Utility of Obsession: All Things Orange; a collaborative installation with kinetic sculpture and video created with Alysse Stepanian. August 26 through October 9 at Branchville Gallery, CT.

2004

• Drainage; an interactive installation created in collaboration with Alysse Stepanian, with video, sound, sculpture, and gravity-driven mechanics. (audio)

2001

• White, pink, regular and unknown; Sound installation in One Night Stand, Farmer's Daughter Motel, Los Angeles, CA
• video car; video installation in The Parking Lot Show, Los Angeles, CA

1998

• Fierce; Armenian Center for Contemporary Art, Yerevan, Armenia; computer music for slide projection and video (audio excerpt)
• Music for Corridor; Factory Place Gallery, LA; Site-specific sound installation.
  

MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE

2008

• T = 2.7k - a multimedia event at the Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Computer music with live computer-interactive performance by trumpeter, Ron Helman and video by Alysse Stepanian.

2001

• liveReal; a multimedia event in NYC broadcast live on television and the web

1999

• auditionherefreebeer; a collaborative performance piece with Alysse Stepanian aboard the Staten Island Ferry as part of cremolata flotage, a show curated by Sue Spaid (audio excerpt)
• Ten or So; Dixon Place and Columbia University, NYC; computer music for a collaborative work with Steve Cohn (shakuhachi), Doug Geers (computer music), and Alysse Stepanian (video)
• scourge.org; Dixon Place, NYC; sound for a collaborative multimedia performance piece by Alysse Stepanian and Sue Spaid

1998

• E Pluribus, Pluribus; Renee Weiler Concert Hall, NYC; music for five musicians and tape
• Music for Typist; Hayden Auditorium (Greenwich House) NYC; interactive computer music for typist with projected visuals
• Out of Line; Hayden Auditorium (Greenwich House) NYC; Music for Alysse Stepanian’s multimedia performance piece.
• Steps; DCTV, NYC; music for alto sax, video tape and computer music. Premiered by Styliani Tartsinis (alto sax) with video Alysse Stepanian.
• 50/50; DCTV and Here, NYC; Computer music for slide projection; invitational performance through Composers Collaborative Inc.

VIDEO

The following videos were collaborations with Alysse Stepanian. Screenings include: YOVEO International Video Festival, CologneOFF V Video Festival, Kunstfilmtag 09, 12 Nights Festival of Electronic Music and Art, Abington Arts Center, The Santa Fe Complex, The Paris-Berlin International Meetings, The Leeds International Film Festival, Sonic Circuits, Shy Anne Sound and Video Festival, Paris/Berlin International Meetings, Most Significant Bytes
2000, Mississippi State University, wigged.net, Jan Baum and Fig Galleries (Los Angeles), Void and Ocularis (NYC).

2013

• The Magician King and the Apprentice (music)

2011

• Kayo: I Think I have a Hole in My Head (music)
• What Is My Name Sister? (music and sound design)

2009

• FREY (music)
• Roghieh (music and sound design)
• mo-tar-JEM?(music and sound design)
• ImXCocteau (music)

2003

• america

2001

• Buffalo
• Country Inn
• THE PASSING CLOUDS
• the way of water / alysse 9.1 (audio excerpt)
• Europe by car

2000

• eggpoem
• 2000
• Reunion

1999

• The Field
• CUTTING
• auditionherefreebeer

1998

• 72 Hours: Acrobat’s Little Leap; DCTV and Art in General, NYC; soundtrack for video by Alysse Stepanian

1997

• LA Loft District; Excerpts from Assemblage used in this documentary by Maya Koyo

CD-ROMS

2003

• Relativity; Thailand New Media Art Festival (Thailand)

2000

• Sinusoidal Tendencies; European Media Arts Festival (Germany), Immedia1901 (University of Michigan), Foro Artistico CD-ROM Salon (Hannover, GE)

CONCERTS/PERFORMANCE

2014

• "Riverside Whistles and Bells" - new work for live and computer manipulated church bells at the Riverside Art Museum (CA) Supported by a generous grant from NewMusic USA (December 2014).
  
  
• Southern California Soundscape Ensemble - performance with the SCSE founded by Glenn Bach at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Los Angeles. Sponsored by SASSAS (October 2014).
  
  
• "Atlas Sets" - live performance at the Riverside Art Museum with Glenn Bach (January 2014).

2013

• "Ear Meal" - Los Angeles, CA; Featured performance on this webcast hosted by Alan Nakagawa and streamed on laartstream.com (April 3, 2013)

• "Experimental Sound for Visual Artists and Filmmakers" - Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA; Organized this two day event featuring a series of workshops and performances supported by a grant from Metlife Creative Connections and Meet The Composer (February 16-17, 2013).

2012

• John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium 2012; Traffic, World Premiere performance of a new brass quintet, UNM, Albuquerque, NM (March 2012).
• SFNM - Southwest Festival of New Music; Depth of Field and Social Immune System to be included in this festival honoring the centennial of the birth of John Cage. The event will feature the premiere of a new piece by Christian Wolff. (June 2012).

2010

• The Improvising Composer;Solo performance and group improvisation at the Santa Fe Complex.
• The Transducers; Concert at High Mayhem.
• The Autotelics; Performance with Al Faaet at the 1st Anniversary Show of Manipulated Image.

2009

• The Transducers; Concert at ArtsLAB at UNM as part of the SPECTRE Concert series curated by William Fowler Collins.
• The Transducers;Concert at The Filling Station in Albuquerque as part of the Roost Concert series curated by Mark Weaver.
• The Transducers;Concert at re:MAKE IT!, an exhibition at the Santa Fe Complex.
• HEX; Orchestral piece performed by the Santa Fe Community Orchestra conducted by Oliver Prezant in Stieren Hall at the Santa Fe Opera.

2008

• Random Textures and Seven Short Loud Sounds; Meow Wolf in Santa Fe NM, performed with the Ancestral Groan Liberation Orchestra

2005

• Traffic for strings; Merkin Hall (NYC), performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble and conducted by Petr Kotik
• Traffic for strings; Willow Place Auditorium (Brooklyn Heights, NY), composers workshop concert with the S.E.M. Ensemble and conductor, Petr Kotik

2004

• Traffic, for brass quintet, New Music Ensemble (CSULA), Los Angeles, CA

1999

• Random 25; Dixon Place, NYC; string quartet performed by the Kaleidoscope Ensemble

1996

• Ochlokratia for orchestra; CSULA, LA; conducted by Hannah Park and performed by members of the CSULA Orchestra
• Assemblage; LA County Museum of Art; music for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp
• Draw; Pacific Contemporary Music Center Annual Festival; Los Angeles, CA; performed by the Whole Bean Woodwind Quintet
• Monads; Composers Forum; CSULA, Los Angeles; music for baritone voice, piano, two percussionists and five actors

1995

• Brass Quartet; Pacific Composers’ Forum Concert; Los Angeles, CA; performance by the Crown City Brass Quintet.
• Random 7; Movements in Music; Los Angeles; music for piano trio; concert featuring composers living in downtown, LA.

1994

• Random 2 and Absolute; Downtown Lives 94’, and Downtown Lives 93’; Los Angeles;
  electronic music for two art events sponsored by DADA (Downtown Artists Development Association)

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2006 - 2007

• Imagine Gallery; Beijing, China
• Kunsthaus Tacheles; Berlin, Germany
• Islip Art Museum; East Islip, Ny

COMMISSIONS / GRANTS

 

2014

• NewMusic USA grant to create the Riverside Whistles and Bells project at the Riverside Art Museum in December 2014.
  

2013

• Meet The Composer; MetLife Creative Connections to fund "Experimental Sound for Visual Artists and Filmmakers" - Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA; A two day event featuring a series of workshops and performances (February 16-17, 2013).
  

2010

• Meet The Composer; MetLife Creative Connections grant from Meet The Composer for a project I instigated called The Improvising Composer at the Santa Fe Complex in March 2010.

2005 - 2006

• "B" for baritone voice, string quartet, percussion and computer; Commissioned by Thomas Buckner for performances in New York City and San Francisco.

TEACHING/WORKSHOPS/LECTURES

2011 - present

• The Art Institute of California; Full-time Professor - Courses taught include: Fundamentals of Audio, Science of Sound I/II, Audio Technology I/II, MIDI Systems I/II, Digital Audio II/II/IV, Listening and Analysis, Music Theory I, Synthesis and Sound Design I/II, Acoustics, Special Topics and Porfolio I/II.

2013

• "Experimental Sound for Visual Artists and Filmmakers" - Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA; Organized this two day event featuring a series of workshops and performances supported by a grant from Metlife Creative Connections and Meet The Composer (February 16-17, 2013).

1999 - 2011

• The Improvising Composer; Organized and participated in this series of workshops, concert and panel discussion moderated by local music critic Craig Smith.


• College of Santa Fe; Workshop and audio mentoring for visual art students.


• The UUUUT Experiment (<65dB); Created this bi-monthly workshop of improvisational performances featuring the use of computers, extended instrumental techniques, robotics and found objects.

• SFMax Group; Created a MAX/Msp users group at the Santa Fe Complex. Meetings featured presentations by local members, invited guests as well as myself.


• SUNYAB; Guest lecturer at a Video Production class taught by Tony Conrad at the State University of New York at Buffalo.


• OrganizedSoundSF; Private guitar lessons, music software tutorials and composition lessons.


• American Composers Forum; NYU; Invitational video presentation and discussion.

ARTS COMMUNITY

2013

• "Experimental Sound for Visual Artists and Filmmakers" - Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA; Organized this two day event featuring a series of workshops and performances supported by a grant from Metlife Creative Connections and Meet The Composer (February 16-17, 2013).
  

2008 - 2010

• The Santa Fe Complex; Involved as music facilitator, curator and organizer for this non-profit organization dedicated to collaborations between art and science. Produced over twenty-five contemporary music concerts and improvisation workshops.

1997 - present

• MANY (Musicians and Artists in New York): Co-founder of this artist-run nonprofit multimedia performing and presenting organization which focuses on the creation and presentation of contemporary music, art performance, experimental video, spoken word and dance. Co-produced several events in the NYC area in which the work of over fifty artists has been presented.

1996 - 1997

• Pacific Composers Forum; Assistant Producer for several concerts for this Los Angeles based group.

1996

• Factory Place Gallery; Volunteer work for this artist-run gallery in Los Angeles including role as Exhibition Coordinator for the Chalk show, curated by Sue Spaid.

LIST OF WORK

2013

• Earthquake V1; computer music
  Earthquake V2; computer music
  The Human Resistor; computer music and bent circuits
  The Magician King and the Apprentice; computer music for video by Alysse Stepanian

2012

• Deadman Overlook; computer music
• Music for Two Cars; collaborative sound installation with Daniel Eaton.

2011

• Social Immune System; computer music.
• Depth of Field; computer music.
  
• HFone; computer music.
  
• HFtwo; computer music.
  

2010

• Fabrics; computer music.
• Valuri; computer music.
• 4Minus4; computer music.
• 4Plus4; collaborative eight channel computer music created with Martin Back.
• Teethtones; computer music.
• Sonata for Teeth; computer music.

2009

• Dialtone and Strings; computer music.
• Sustained Textures; structured improvisation piece.
• It's ALIVE!; CD of live performances in Santa Fe and a video soundtrack.
• ATMOSPHERE EVO-LUTE; Collaborative weather-driven installation with Martin Back.
• FrankenCircuit; curated this multimedia collaborative installation and created a kinetic sculpture called Binary Clock for the event.

2008

• T = 2.7k; a 45 minute multimedia work with computer music, live computer-interactive performance by trumpeter, Ron Helman and video by Alysse Stepanian.
• The Human Resistor; a sound sculpture and performance instrument made from hacked consumer electronics, plywood and copper pipe.
• Random Textures; a structured improvisation piece for any number of players and any means of making sound.
• Seven Loud Short Sounds; for any number of players.

2007

• Glitter, glamour and glory: HUNDE VERBOTEN; a BOX 1035 installation with Alysse Stepanian (audio excerpt)

2006

• B; music for baritone voice, string quartet, percussion and computer
• Don't be afraid, be ready; a BOX 1035 installation with Alysse Stepanian (audio excerpt)
• ...until you slip; a BOX 1035 installation with Alysse Stepanian
• Solution to Pollution; computer music based on voice samples

2005

• Traffic for strings; music for string orchestra
• Utility of Obsession: All Things Orange; a collaborative installation with Alysse Stepanian
• Collage Party; computer music

2004

• Hex; music for orchestra
• Drainage; a collaborative installation with A. Stepanian
• Drainage Music; music for the Drainage installation

2003

• fourteen; computer music
• Relativity; CD-ROM
• Traffic; music for brass quintet

2002

• big band; computer music based on big band samples recorded by James Marentic
• crowd; collection of computer music

2001

• liveReal; a collaborative multimedia event broadcast live on television and the web
• motel; computer music
• White, pink, regular & unknown; computer music and sound installation
• Five; computer music
• Elizabeth; computer music
• Dorr; computer music
• Buffalo; sound-track for video by A. Stepanian

2000

• Country Inn; computer music for video of the same name by A. Stepanian
• Two Minutes; computer music
• eggpoem; collaborative video with A. Stepanian
• Reunion; computer music for video of the same name by A. Stepanian
• 2000; collaborative video with A. Stepanian
• Sinusoidal Tendencies; computer music
• Sinusoidal Tendencies; CD-ROM

1999

• auditionherefreebeer; sound-track for video by A. Stepanian - based on a collaborative performance of the same name (audio excerpt)
• Random 26; computer music
• Ten or So; collaboration with Doug Geers, Alysse Stepanian, Steve Cohn
• The Field; video of the same name by A. Stepanian
• scourge.org; music for art performance
• Random 25; for string quartet
• Radiator; computer music

1998

• 72 Hours: Acrobat’s Little Leap; sound-track for video by A. Stepanian
• Steps; for alto sax and video tape
• 50/50; computer music with slides
• Music for Typist; interactive for typist and computer
• Out of Line; for tape, violin, viola, cello, shakuhachi, hichriki, and shofar (written for Alysse Stepanian’s, Out of Line, a multi-media art performance)

1997

• E Pluribus, Pluribus; for five musicians and tape
• The Anarchist; for solo piano

1996

• Three; for two pianos, clarinet and tape
• Ochlokratia; for orchestra
• Assemblage; for flute, clarinet, harp, and string quartet
• Music for Corridor; taped electronic music
• Human Sounds; computer music
  

1995

• XVII e Carrousel; for string quartet
• Monads; for baritone voice, piano, percussion I and II, and five actors
• Draw; for woodwind quintet
  

1994

• Brass Quartet
• Random 7; for piano trio
• Random 2; electronic music

1993

• One Around, One Across; for flute and clarinet
• Duet for Violin and Cello

1992

• Absolute; for solo cello