REDCAT Presents The 12th Annual CEAIT Festival

REDCAT presents the twelfth annual genre-bending CEAIT Festival from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology. Returning to the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater with two concerts of World and US premieres, each night of this year's CEAIT Festival runs from abstract reveries to flat-out sonic raucousness. The festival opens Thursday, March 4, 2010 with performances by John Wiese, Maria Chavez and Marcus Schmickler. The following night, Friday, March 5, 2010 features Better Than Future, Steve Roden, and Bloody Claws (Carla Bozulich). Curtain for both performances is 8:30 pm.

Thurs Mar 4 | 8:30 pm
John Wiese | Maria Chavez | Marcus Schmickler

John Wiese, founding member of the concr?te grindcore band Sissy Spacek, opens the fest to crackling effect, followed by Peruvian-born avant-garde turntablist Maria Chavez, who uses new and broken needles ("pencils of sound") and distressed vinyl to spin brooding webs of electroacoustic sound. The night concludes with composer Marcus Schmickler, of Pluramon pop fame, and two newly revised works of surround-sound computer music derived from astrophysical data.

Fri Mar 5 | 8:30 pm
Better Than Future | Steve Roden | Bloody Claws (Carla Bozulich)

The second program kicks off with electronics and laptop interpenetrations by Better Than Future, comprising Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan and Elisabeth McMullin. Next up is a multimedia performance by Steve Roden that ruminates on desert landscapes outside Marfa, Tex., and the minimalist forms of Donald Judd through juxtapositions of field recordings, live improvisation, graphic notation, acoustic objects, electronics and video. The festival's smashing finale arrives courtesy of Bloody Claws, aka Carla Bozulich, a sound artist who works in numerous impromptu formats and who has toured and recorded extensively with the Geraldine Fibbers, Scarnella and Evangelista.

The CEAIT Festival is funded in part with generous support from the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.

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