AD HOC
Since its founding over ten years ago SASSAS (The Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound) has presented the best experimental music to Los Angeles audiences through the sound. series of concerts. While sound. requires months of advance planning, all to often SASSAS is approached by national and international touring musicians looking for venues to perform in Los Angeles with little advance notice. Ad Hoc was founded out of the belief that it benefits the greater Los Angeles community and the reputation of LA in the international sound community if these musicians are able to add Los Angeles to their tour schedule.
Developed in collaboration with the Chinatown-based collective Human Resources, Ad Hoc is designed to accommodate short term requests by national and international touring musicians wanting to perform in Los Angeles. SASSAS and Human Resources collaborate to find lodging for the musicians and transportation as needed. All Ad Hoc concerts are volunteer run and low cost with tickets sold on a first come, first serve basis the night of the show. The majority of door proceeds go directly to the touring musicians.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
AD HOC #4: FRED FRITH
SASSAS and Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock have the honor of presenting an evening with Fred Frith.
As a songwriter, composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist best known for the reinvention of the electric guitar, "Frith makes music that must count amongst the most powerful and original of the present time" Liberation (France)
Please join us for this very special event.
Sunday, February 12
Doors open at 7; concert begins at 7:30.
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
2225 Colorado Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Ticket price: $12 advance; $10 for SASSAS and CFAER members.
$15 at the door.
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PAST CONCERTS
AD HOC #3: Tim Feeney, Vic Rawlings and Casey Anderson
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Presented in collaboration with
Human Resources
Tim Feeney and Vic Rawlings
Tim Feeney and Vic Rawlings have performed together as a duo since meeting within Boston's "lowercase" improvising community in 2005. Their music explores an unpredictable relationship with making sounds, achieved by elaborate preparation and extension of acoustic soundboxes, such as drums or cello, and expanded via original electronic instruments, ranging from naked circuitboards to amplified kitchen objects. They focus on the metamusical potential of unstable sounds and silences, exploring austere combinations of sound and the otherworldy ripple effects that pulse through a silent space or alert ears. The group has toured throughout the United States, and released its first CD, In Six Parts, on the Sedimental label in fall 2007. Upcoming releases include Ithaca Recordings, for The Watchful Ear, and Fairchild Chapel for Homophoni.
Casey Anderson
Casey Anderson is an artist working in a number of media, including composition, improvisation, electronic music, saxophone, text, and installations. He has performed with Jason Kahn, Ulrich Krieger, MKM, Fomoudou Don Moye, Michael Pisaro, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Trayle, and the Dog Star Orchestra. Performances, exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA -- Los Angeles (CA), ISSUE Project Room (NY), STEIM (NL), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), and Mass MOCA (MA). He currently lives and teaches in Los Angeles, California, and works with Machine Project.
AD HOC #2: DAVID WATSON & DAVID GRUBBS
With guests STEVE RODEN, JOE POTTS, WILLIAM ROPER and more.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Presented in collaboration with:
Beacon Arts
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DAVID WATSON
Described by the Los Angeles Times as completely unconventional, highly original and relentlessly inventive, David Watson's use of the Highland Bagpipes has been an ongoing project since the early '90s, with Watson remaking this traditional instrument into a vehicle for contemporary sound. Originally from New Zealand, Watson has been a key player in New York's downtown scene since 1987. Watson's unique body of work knits together experimental improvisation, 20th century guitar playing, and vernacular music. He has made the bagpipe an ideal instrument to explore particular spatial nuances of performance.
DAVID GRUBBS
Associate professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and director of the graduate programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA), Grubbs has released eleven solo albums and appeared on more than 150 commercially-released recordings. He is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with writers such as Susan Howe and Rick Moody, and with visual artists such as Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch, Cosima von Bonin, and Stephen Prina. Grubbs was a founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has been known to play in The Red Krayola. He directs the Blue Chopsticks record label. He is currently completing the book Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, The Sixties, and Sound Recording for Duke University Press.
AD HOC #1: KIM MYHR & JIM DENLEY
Friday, October 22nd, 2010 at 8:30pm
Jim Denley is considered one of Australia’s foremost improvisers of new music with a career spanning over three decades. An emphasis on spontaneity, site-specific work and collaboration has been central to his work. He was recently awarded a Fellowship by the Australia Council and is currently working towards a paradigm shift in the notion and perception of the saxophone; to establish its relevance to ancient and current traditions in Australian music, and to extend its range with the addition of innovative electronics and miking. Denley also runs the record label Splitrec. In Mural, Jim plays flute and saxophone. (website)
Kim Myhr is a guitarist and composer based in Oslo, Norway. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston and has since had an active performance schedule with concerts throughout Europe, Australia, Asia and North-America. In 2008, he received the JazZtipend at the Molde International Jazz Festival which included a commission for Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, a large ensemble consisting of thirteen handpicked improvisers from Norway and Australia; the one hour piece received wide critical acclaim. Myhr is also the co-director of the Fri Resonans festival, which has been presenting cutting-edge and innovative music in Trondheim, Norway since 2005. (website)
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, 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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