ISP Performer Archive of Events
Mulva Myasis
Mulva Myasis is instrument builder and circuit hacker Noa Ver. She plays handmade feedback oscillators. Squiggly, textural, arhythmic sounds from beyond.
Intisar Abioto
Intisar Abioto is a writer, dancer, photographer and life-literature-land explorer from Memphis TN. Intisar swears by the true life and love that can be found in fantasy, folklore, language, and movement. She makes her home in Portland, Oregon and her adventure everywhere.
Amenta Abioto
Songwriter, producer, and actor, Amenta Abioto is on the cutting edge of all that is musical, theatrical, and literary. Her music is boldly mystical and soul-fired, and her raw live performances invoke elements of both theatrical surprise and magic through ancient African diasporic sounds and stories. Weaved into syncopated rhythms and dichotomies of comedic proportions, Amenta surprises and tantalizes audiences with mind-bending ideas. She brings to the music scene funky academia while skipping vocally from soul-shaking gospel to smooth jazz and then onto hip-hop rhythms wrapped in West African beats.
Lori Goldston
Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. She works with improvisors, bands, orchestras, composers, choreographers, film makers and writers. Past and current collaborators and/or employers include Earth, Nirvana, Ellen Fullman, David Byrne, Greg Kelley, Clyde Petersen, Terry Riley, Mirah, Jherek Bischoff, Jessika Kenney, Trey Gunn, Mike Gamble, Dan Sasaki, Stuart Dempster, Cat Power, Matana Roberts, Malcom Goldstein, Vanessa Renwick, Lynn Shelton and the BBC Scottish Symphony among many others.
Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, she wanders recklessly across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography, performing in clubs, cafes, galleries, arenas, concert halls, sheds, ceremonies, barbecues, and stadiums.
Current and former collaborators and/or bosses include Earth, Nirvana, Mirah, Jessika Kenney, Ilan Volkov, Eyvind Kang, Stuart Dempster, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Jherek Bischoff, Malcom Goldstein, Matana Roberts, Dana Reason, Lonnie Holley, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, Mike Gamble, Mik Quantius, Embryo, Secret Chiefs 3, Marisa Anderson, Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto, Ô Paon, Tara Jane O’Neil, Natacha Atlas, Broken Water, Ed Pias, Byron Au Young, Christian Rizzo, Threnody Ensemble, Cynthia Hopkins, 33 Fainting Spells, Vanessa Renwick, Mark Mitchell and Lynn Shelton.
Andrea Kleine presents Ships
Ships is a structured improvisation based on images from an Yvonne Rainer film and is an excerpt from the longer work Screening Room, or, The Return of Andrea Kleine (as revealed through a re-enactment of a 1977 television program about a ‘long and baffling’ film by Yvonne Rainer.)
The improv score cycles through imagery derived from a section of Yvonne Rainer’s film Kristina Talking Pictures. The order of the imagery is set, but you are on your own to interpret it physically, and meet up at certain film-still landmarks. Its main focus is on an attentive awareness to one another and the room.
Read more here: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/arts/dance/andrea-kleines-take-on-yvonne-rainer-at-chocolate-factory.html
Ships dancers:
Kaj-anne Pepper is a choreographer, dancer and drag hostess who will gladly improv at your private party.
Noelle Stiles is interested in how and where experience is held in the body. As a dance artist, this interest provides a framework for extracting the corporeal language that intimately connects and individuates us. Her deep commitment to contemporary performance is expressed through her work as a dance artist, arts administrator, graphic designer, and consultant.
Noellestiles.com
Catherine Egan is a choreographer and director with a wide-ranging approach to making work for live audiences. An Alembic Resident Artist at Performance Works NW, she is using ice as a visual medium and developing pop-up installations for winter. Her current studio practice continues a partnership with dancer/performer Celine Bouly, further deepening choreography last seen at Blue Sky Gallery in February.
Taylor Eggan is a scholar, performer, and dance maker. He recently completed a PhD in literature and is currently at work on a new dance–theater piece, Abominable, set to premiere at Disjecta in October.
Danielle Ross is a choreographer and performer. She co-curates the series Pure Surface, is on the board of the Creative Music Guild, is a founding member of the dance publication FRONT and dances for Linda Austin. Her next work, Apparatus, will be performed at Disjecta July 14-16.
daniellerossperformance.com
Sarah Hennies (b. 1979, Louisville, KY) is a composer and percussionist based in Ithaca, NY. Her work utilizes an often grueling, endurance-based performances practice in a subversive examination of psychoacoustics, queer identity, and expressionistic absurdity. Her work has been presented in a variety of contexts including Café Oto (London), cave12 (Geneva), Ende Tymes (NYC), Festival Cable (Nantes), the Johns Hopkins Digital Media Center, O’ Art Space (Milan), and Second Edition (Stockholm) and she has composed several site-specific works for decommissioned industrial and military spaces such as Silo City (Buffalo, NY), Fort Tilden Bunker (Queens, NY) and The Monon Line Railway (Indianapolis, IN). She received her M.A. from the University of California-San Diego in 2003 where she studied with renowned percussionist Steven Schick and in 2016 was awarded a fellowship in music/sound from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Hennies is currently a member of improvised music group Meridian with Greg Stuart and Tim Feeney, a duo with sound/performance artist Jason Zeh, and the Queer Percussion Research Group with Jerry Pergolesi, Bill Solomon, and Jennifer Torrence. In late 2017 she will premiere the large-scale work, Contralto at Issue Project Room (NYC), a video/sound work involving strings, percussion, and a cast of transgender women.
http://www.sarah-hennies.com
http://soundcloud.com/hhhhhennies
Carla Mann
Carla Mann creates choreography for stage, alternative sites, installations and video. Throughout her career, the investigation of new creative methods, as well as collaborative ventures with composers and visual artists, have catalyzed the development of her work. Mann choreographs in close dialogue with performers, yielding movement material that is specific to them and that communicates their experiences as individuals.
Mann’s choreographic work has been supported by grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and the Dance Coalition of Oregon, and includes commissions from NW Dance Project, Arts in the Arboretum, Performance Works Northwest, and Portland Taiko (for a project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts) and presented by a number of organizations including the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Artquake, On the Boards (Seattle), Conduit Dance, the Duncan Centre (Prague) and the Kunming Youth Art School (Kunming, China). In addition to creating independent choreographic projects, Mann currently serves as Associate Artistic Director of Heidi Duckler Dance Theater/NW, a site-specific performance company.
Brandon Conway
Brandon Conway plays guitar and feedback mixer and occasionally writes for ensembles. As an improviser, he strives to create compelling sounds using the essential resources of the guitar and idiosyncratic extended techniques. Brandoncurrently plays with the groups Alma Freer and Halfbird and serves as the Board President for the Creative Music Guild.
https://soundcloud.com/
https://almafreer.bandcamp.
https://halfbird.bandcamp.com/
Jon Leidecker has been producing music under the name Wobbly since 1990, improvising with recordings to produce music which inherently resist the act of being captured. Recent performances deploy a battery of mobile devices driven by their built-in microphones, reacting instantly with error-prone variations on the notes and sounds they believe they are hearing: a tightly-knit orchestra with inhuman reflexes, resulting in structures which the human performer influences more than controls. Your phone is a musical instrument, and your phone is always listening. Leidecker’s solo performances are complimented by extensive live and studio collaborations, including work with Dieter Moebius & Tim Story, Matmos, Fred Frith, John Oswald, Thomas Dimuzio, Huun-Huur-Tu, Sagan and the Freddy McGuire Show. He recently became a full time participant in the culture jamming art collective Negativland, and as of last year inherited the stewardship of their legendary, long-running live mix media collage program Over The Edge on Pacifica KPFA FM in Berkeley.
PJCE Records presents Andrew Durkin’s Breath of Fire
Featuring Noah Bernstein on alto sax, Lee Elderton on tenor sax, Ryan Meagher on guitar, Todd Bishop on drums, Andrew Jones on bass, and Andrew Durkin on piano and compositions, “Breath of Fire” is a sonic exploration of existence and mortality.
Durkin, a Portland-based composer who now lives with the chronic pain of Ankylosing Spondylitis (a progressive arthritis of the spine), turned to yoga during the making of this record, and drew on a Kundalini breathing technique for its title. In yoga, “breath of fire” helps us stay grounded through personal struggles of body and mind. On this album, it is a metaphor for how music—with its capacity to move us, bring us together, and make us laugh or cry—helps us stay grounded through the broader struggles of life. Best known for his work with Los Angeles’s cult-favorite big band, the Industrial Jazz Group, Durkin has honed an eclectic, personal style influenced by composers Frank Zappa, Raymond Scott, Spike Jones, Charles Mingus, Carla Bley, Duke Ellington, and Thelonious Monk, and incorporating elements of metal, Baroque, and American roots music. He released five albums with the IJG, with whom he also performed throughout the United States, as well as in the Netherlands, and Italy. In addition to its music, that group was once known for its strange costumes, Situationist stagecraft, and irreverent attitude. But Durkin has also written for less raucous contexts, including soundtracks for experimental films, and commissions for various schools and performance groups on the West Coast. In 2011, Durkin, who has a PhD in English Literature and was one of the pioneers of the “jazz blogosphere,” embarked on a second career as an author. He has since devoted as much time to writing prose as to writing music. In 2014, Pantheon Books published his literary debut; a nonfiction study called Decomposition: A Music Manifesto, which Los Angeles Magazine included in its list of the “Best Little Music Books of 2014.” Composer Gavin Borchert, writing in the Seattle Weekly, called Decomposition “impressive and absorbing,” and pianist and writer Ethan Iverson hailed it as “fun and provocative.”
Notice Recordings presents Mathieu Ruhlmann and Lance Austin Olsen
Mathieu Ruhlmann is a sound artist residing in Vancouver, British Columbia. Ruhlmann’s work seeks to broadcast small intimate sonic happenings and phenomena through the use of field recording, natural material, and found objects and in doing so develop and arrive at a dialogue with the inaudible and tactile space of the environment. Ruhlmann captures these sounds through the use of specialized and custom built microphones. Ruhlmann’s compositions have been presented throughout the world to accompany art exhibitions, radio programs, films, and sound installations, as well he has released on various labels in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and the United States. Mathieu Ruhlmann also curates the label, caduc., which was established to bring attention to artists working in minimalism and electro acoustic improvised fields.
Lance Austin Olsen has represented Canada in a number of biennials with his large-scale painting and drawings. After a lengthy career as a visual artist, Olsen moved into sound art in 2000 and quickly established his unique style through works distributed on CD and installations at venues in the UK, Canada, and US. Olsen’s working method is uniform across all of his mediums: a surface is endlessly reworked, with each subsequent piece forming a record or narrative of ongoing discovery. Through this process, or matrix, the viewer experiences an inextricable link between the activity of producing the work as well as the sense that they are seeing but one element in a life-long pursuit.
Notice Recordings is the cassette label of Evan Lindorff-Ellery and Travis Bird. Initially based in Chicago, the label is currently divided between its proprietors in Portland, Oregon (ELE) and New Orleans (TB).
Bobby Previte is a drummer, composer and bandleader living and working in New York City.
bobbyprevite.com
Mike Gamble is an adventurous guitarist and multi-instrumentalist whose work with electronic modes of composition are integrated endlessly into his setup. Mike is currently serving as the Creative Music Guild’s Artistic Director.
http://mikegamble.tumblr.com/
Fabian Rucker is an Austrian saxophonist, improviser, and composer
www.fabianrucker.com
