casey anderson

I am very honored to have a piece on this proposed double CD via Editions Wandelweiser. Donate, if you can, here. Below is the intro video.

May 10th
Interactive Ping Pong Music
Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
7:00pm
$FREE

Composed by Joshua Gerowitz and performed by Brendan Carn, Casey Anderson, Louis Lopez, Stephanie Zaletel and Daniel Eaton. Computers, traditional instruments, cell phones and speaker objects will be used to realize this site specific composition focused on interaction, exploration and socialization.

Everyone in attendance will have a chance to participate.

May 11th
Blonk, Rosenzweig, Byrnes / Potts, Potts / Anderson, Gerowitz
Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
7:30pm
$5

Jaap Blonk, Jake Rosenzweig, Ted Byrnes (trio)
Joe Potts and Rick Potts (duo)
Casey Anderson and Josh Gerowitz (duo)

May 12th
Improvised Sound Ping Pong Tournament
Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
2:00pm
$FREE

Honor your mothers by attending an event that combines a ping pong tournament with improvised sound. Each player will be teamed up with a musician who will be using direct output generated from gameplay, and as the tournament progresses, improvised duets will arise. Participating musicians include Casey Anderson, Raphael Arar, Clay Chaplin, Phil Curtis, Wyatt Penn Keusch, Dan Letourneau, Stephanie Smith and Mark Trayle. If you would like to sign up as a player, please email Raphael Arar: me@rarar.com. Players will be selected on a first come, first served basis.

May 24th
Sleep Roseanne; Oboe Nightmare: New Work by James Klopfleisch
the wulf., Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm
$Free

Three new works by James Klopfleisch: Four Sleeps for struck ringing objects; The Virgin Joke, an experimental setting of a joke about virginity from the sitcom ‘Roseanne’; and A Bright Future Awaits You… for oboe and tape (played by Claire Chenette).

Also a mystery piece by Sepand Shahab!

Afterwords will follow a short Q&A where Klopfleisch will explain himself, and possibly tell stories from his 12 hour layover in the Miami airport, which he considers an unexpected mini-residency allowing him to write The Virgin Joke.

May 5th
Experimental Music Yearbook
Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA
7:30PM
$7 General, $5 Members

The Experimental Music Yearbook is pleased to present a concert featuring works from across the musical spectrum. Now entering its 5th year, the Experimental Music Yearbook (www.experimentalmusicyearbook.com) is a curated online repository of contemporary experimental music. Downloadable scores, along with audio from past performances, showcase the diversity of compositional techniques and performances practices that are in use today. This concert presentation will have a dual focus. The first half features work from 2012 guest editor Laura Steenberge and her colleagues at Stanford University. The second half will feature works from throughout the years of the Yearbook’s existence.

All of the pieces will be performed by the composers themselves and the EMY Players, a performance group dedicated to the realization of these works.

Program:
Laura Steenberge – Dante’s Inferno
John Granzow – TBD
Eoin Callery – TBD

Michael Winter – scene++
Manfred Werder — 20091
hans w. koch – e.t. (l.a.)

EVOL – tape installation

May 3rd
American Hardcore (as part of the Experimental Music Yearbook in SF)
ATA, San Francisco, CA
8pm
$6

Los Angeles-based artists Casey Anderson and Scott Cazan present new and recent live-electronic work as part of a series of events celebrating the Experimental Music Yearbook’s weekend of San Francisco events. Anderson will present new work interfacing custom circuitry/hardware with improvisatory, digital structures to explore the acoustical properties of musical and non-musical objects. Cazan will present new work involving the use of custom software/hardware feedback networks where misunderstanding, chance, and chaotic elements in algorithms serve to generate new audio and visual information.

Here is the LA Times review of the two-day Christian Wolff mini-festival at REDCAT that I recently performed in.

I recently set up a soundcloud page here which will, over time, replace all of the old audio player widgets that used to be all over this site.

I will be out East for most of this upcoming week. Here is the plan:

3/20: Acting as guest critic in one of Shona Kitchen’s classes at RISD.

March 21st
Soundscape 003
the salon, Providence, RI

New and recent work by Casey Anderson and others (TBA).

March 22
II.3: Casey Anderson
Willow Place Auditorium (26 Willow Place, Brooklyn)
10pm
$FREE

New and recent work by Casey Anderson presented as a circus. In other words, a simultaneous performance of numerous works which can be executed simply by speaking, operating radios, or using other everyday objects.

In the words of Travis Just: “So Doug will open a door, I will pluck a guitar and Jason is reading Stalin.”

Sequenza21 wrote a nice review of the last concert of the Tom Johnson residency at the wulf. (which I played a small part in). Here it is.

We are rolling out the 2012 issue of the Experimental Music Yearbook, an annual web-journal/series of concerts/events curated by myself, Scott Cazan, John Hastings, and Laura Steenberge. Check it out here.