sound. at REDCAT
Saturday, September 15
IKUE MORI and ZEENA PARKINS
FRED FRITH
Ikue Mori (electronics), Zeena Parkins (electric harp), and legendary guitarist Fred Frith are international icons of modern improvisation. "Phantom Orchard," Parkins and Mori's duo CD of 2004, was hailed by critics as "beautiful and dangerous" and "a joy to experience." Their appearance with Frith is the first time these frequent collaborators will perform together in Los Angeles.
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Ikue Mori moved from her native city of Tokyo to New York in 1977. She started playing drums and soon formed the seminal NO WAVE band DNA, with fellow noise pioneers Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. DNA enjoyed legendary cult status, while creating a new brand of radical rhythms and dissonant sounds; forever altering the face of rock music.
In the mid 80's Ikue started to employ drum machines in the unlikely context of improvised music. While limited to the standard technology provided by the drum machine, she has nevertheless forged her own highly sensitive signature style.
Throughout in 90's she has subsequently collaborated with numerous improvisers throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, while continuing to produce and record her own music. In 1998, she was invited to perform with Ensemble Modern as the soloist along with Zeena Parkins and composer Fred Frith, as well as commissioned by Roulette/Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust to create One Hundred Aspects of the Moon. Ikue won the Distinctive Award for Prix Ars Electronics Digital Music category in 99.
In 2000 Ikue started using the laptop computer to expand on her already signature sound, thus broadening her scope of musical expression. That year she was commissioned by the KITCHEN ensemble, wrote and premiered the piece Aphorism and was awarded the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship. In 2003 Ikue was commissioned by RELACHE Ensemble to write a piece for film In the Street. She has been working with visuals played by the music since 2004. In 2005 she was Awarded Alphert/Ucross Residency.
Current working groups include Mephista with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, a quartet with Kim Gordon, DJ Olive and Jim O'Rourke, Trio with Haco and Aki Onda and Hemophiliac with John Zorn and Mike Patton. She has also with Dave Douglas's Witness and Freakin ensemble as well as John Zorn's Electric Masada.
Zeena Parkins, multi-instrumentalist, composer, improvisor, well-known as a pioneer of the electric harp, has also extended the language of the acoustic harp with the inventive use of unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of digital and analog processing.
Ms. Parkins has appeared on over 70 CD's and in hundreds of concerts in both large and small spaces all over the world. Zeena has appeared in dozens of music festivals in Europe, South America, Japan and the States including: Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Lincoln Center Festival 2000, The Serious Fun Festival, ExperImenta in Buenos Aires, The Music Merge Festival in Tokyo, The Moers Festival in Germany, Willisau and Tacklos Festival in Switzerland, the LMC Festival in London, Vancouver Coastal Jazz and Blues Festival, Musique Action International in France, the Festival Mimi in Arles, City of Women Festival in Slovenia and the Festival Musique Actuelle in Canada.
International radio performances have been broadcast on ORF in Austria, VPRO in Holland, the BBC in England and on many US college radio stations. An Artist-in-Residence at Harvestworks/Studio Pass and at STEIM in Amsterdam, she has been funded by numerous organizations including the American Music Center, Arts International, New York State Council of the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, and Meet the Composer. In 1997, Zeena was honored with the prestigious award from the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts and won a Bessie, the NY Dance and Performance Award for her score for choreographer Jennifer Monson's Sender.
© Heike Liss 2005
Fred Frith, composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist, has situated himself for more than thirty years in the area where rock music and new music meet. Co-founder of the British underground band Henry Cow (1968-78), he moved to New York in the late seventies and came into contact with many of the musicians with whom he's since been associated, including, for example, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Tom Cora, Zeena Parkins, and Bob Ostertag.
Fourteen years in New York gave rise to groups like Massacre (with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher), Skeleton Crew (with Tom and Zeena), and Keep the Dog, a sextet performing an extensive repertoire of Fred's compositions.
In the eighties Fred began to write for dance, film, and theatre, and this in turn has led to his composing for Rova Sax Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Arditti Quartet, Asko Ensemble, and many other groups, including his own critically acclaimed Guitar Quartet. Best known world-wide as an improvising guitarist, Fred has also performed in a variety of other contexts, playing bass in John Zorn's Naked City, violin in Lars Hollmer's Looping Home Orchestra, and guitar on recordings ranging from The Residents and Rene Lussier to Brian Eno and Amy Denio.
Fred is the subject of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzels' award-winning documentary film Step Across the Border. He is currently Professor of Composition at Mills College in Oakland, California.
Performance begins at 8:30 p.m.
Location:
REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for innovative visual, performing and
media arts, located at the corner of W. 2nd St. and S. Hope St., inside the
Walt Disney Concert Hall complex.
Admission: $25; $14 for students with valid I.D., SASSAS members and CalArts alumni with an Affinity Card
sound. 2007 is co-curated by Cindy Bernard, Jeremy Drake and Kathleen Johnson; produced by SASSAS.
The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) is supported in part through grants from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Meet the Composer, the West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, a special donation from Amoeba Music and the generous contributions of our members. For further information on SASSAS: www.sassas.org or contact us at 323.960.5723.
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