Sat May 27, 2017
Maps to the Stars Ensemble - featuring Lisa Mezzacappa and Jacob Felix Heule
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To end his month in residence at kitLAB, Bay Area composer, improviser and sound artist Wayne Grim will be performing classic graphic scores and scores from his Music Notation for Artists workshop with his Maps to the Stars Ensemble: Featuring Lisa Mezzacappa and Jacob Felix Heule.
As a sound artist, composer, and improviser Wayne Grim works with computers, instruments, and objects. Grim’s work spans a variety of areas including generative music, spontaneous composition, non-western musical techniques, improvisation, durational works, minimalism, noise, conceptual art, the sonification of scientific phenomena and the visualization of sound. As an artist, Grim is interested in the perfection and failure of machines and humans with respect to music. Grim has been the curator if the Exploratorium’s Resonance series and creates sound and music for many Exploratorium projects.
Lisa Mezzacappa is a San Francisco Bay Area composer, bassist, bandleader and producer, called “one of the most imaginative figures on the Bay Area creative jazz scene” by the San Jose Mercury News and “a Bay Area treasure” by KQED national public radio. Mezzacappa’s activities as a composer and bandleader are diverse, and include ethereal chamber music, electro-acoustic works, avant-garde jazz, music for groups from duo to large ensemble, and collaborations with film, video, sculpture and installation art. Recent projects include works inspired by noir crime fiction; by Victorian lady adventurers; and by vintage Italian science fiction comic books. Mezzacappa has been awarded residencies and grants from the Cité International des Arts, Paris, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute, the MAP Fund, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Wattis Foundation, the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation, among others.
Jacob Felix Heule is an improvising percussionist with a special interest in friction techniques. His music is shaped by intuition, listening, and following where the sounds lead. He embraces limited instrumentation — like a single drum and a single cymbal —as a commitment to exploring the depth of his instruments. Heule frequently collaborates with Danishta Rivero, Guro Moe, Håvard Skaset, Bill Orcutt, Tom Djll, Matt Chandler, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, Kyle Bruckmann, and John McCowen. He also curates the monthly Active Music Series, and runs a monthly improvisation workshop, Doors That Only Open in Silence. Heule’s practice is informed by his work as an audio engineer. In addition to regularly doing live sound, he has recently worked on albums by Burmese, Las Sucias, and Black Spirituals.
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As a sound artist, composer, and improviser Wayne Grim works with computers, instruments, and objects. Grim’s work spans a variety of areas including generative music, spontaneous composition, non-western musical techniques, improvisation, durational works, minimalism, noise, conceptual art, the sonification of scientific phenomena and the visualization of sound. As an artist, Grim is interested in the perfection and failure of machines and humans with respect to music. Grim has been the curator if the Exploratorium’s Resonance series and creates sound and music for many Exploratorium projects.
Lisa Mezzacappa is a San Francisco Bay Area composer, bassist, bandleader and producer, called “one of the most imaginative figures on the Bay Area creative jazz scene” by the San Jose Mercury News and “a Bay Area treasure” by KQED national public radio. Mezzacappa’s activities as a composer and bandleader are diverse, and include ethereal chamber music, electro-acoustic works, avant-garde jazz, music for groups from duo to large ensemble, and collaborations with film, video, sculpture and installation art. Recent projects include works inspired by noir crime fiction; by Victorian lady adventurers; and by vintage Italian science fiction comic books. Mezzacappa has been awarded residencies and grants from the Cité International des Arts, Paris, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute, the MAP Fund, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Wattis Foundation, the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation, among others.
Jacob Felix Heule is an improvising percussionist with a special interest in friction techniques. His music is shaped by intuition, listening, and following where the sounds lead. He embraces limited instrumentation — like a single drum and a single cymbal —as a commitment to exploring the depth of his instruments. Heule frequently collaborates with Danishta Rivero, Guro Moe, Håvard Skaset, Bill Orcutt, Tom Djll, Matt Chandler, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, Kyle Bruckmann, and John McCowen. He also curates the monthly Active Music Series, and runs a monthly improvisation workshop, Doors That Only Open in Silence. Heule’s practice is informed by his work as an audio engineer. In addition to regularly doing live sound, he has recently worked on albums by Burmese, Las Sucias, and Black Spirituals.
To end his month in residence at kitLAB, Bay Area composer, improviser and sound artist Wayne Grim will be performing classic graphic scores and scores from his Music Notation for Artists workshop with his Maps to the Stars Ensemble: Featuring Lisa Mezzacappa and Jacob Felix Heule.
As a sound artist, composer, and improviser Wayne Grim works with computers, instruments, and objects. Grim’s work spans a variety of areas including generative music, spontaneous composition, non-western musical techniques, improvisation, durational works, minimalism, noise, conceptual art, the sonification of scientific phenomena and the visualization of sound. As an artist, Grim is interested in the perfection and failure of machines and humans with respect to music. Grim has been the curator if the Exploratorium’s Resonance series and creates sound and music for many Exploratorium projects.
Lisa Mezzacappa is a San Francisco Bay Area composer, bassist, bandleader and producer, called “one of the most imaginative figures on the Bay Area creative jazz scene” by the San Jose Mercury News and “a Bay Area treasure” by KQED national public radio. Mezzacappa’s activities as a composer and bandleader are diverse, and include ethereal chamber music, electro-acoustic works, avant-garde jazz, music for groups from duo to large ensemble, and collaborations with film, video, sculpture and installation art. Recent projects include works inspired by noir crime fiction; by Victorian lady adventurers; and by vintage Italian science fiction comic books. Mezzacappa has been awarded residencies and grants from the Cité International des Arts, Paris, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute, the MAP Fund, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Wattis Foundation, the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation, among others.
Jacob Felix Heule is an improvising percussionist with a special interest in friction techniques. His music is shaped by intuition, listening, and following where the sounds lead. He embraces limited instrumentation — like a single drum and a single cymbal —as a commitment to exploring the depth of his instruments. Heule frequently collaborates with Danishta Rivero, Guro Moe, Håvard Skaset, Bill Orcutt, Tom Djll, Matt Chandler, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, Kyle Bruckmann, and John McCowen. He also curates the monthly Active Music Series, and runs a monthly improvisation workshop, Doors That Only Open in Silence. Heule’s practice is informed by his work as an audio engineer. In addition to regularly doing live sound, he has recently worked on albums by Burmese, Las Sucias, and Black Spirituals.
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As a sound artist, composer, and improviser Wayne Grim works with computers, instruments, and objects. Grim’s work spans a variety of areas including generative music, spontaneous composition, non-western musical techniques, improvisation, durational works, minimalism, noise, conceptual art, the sonification of scientific phenomena and the visualization of sound. As an artist, Grim is interested in the perfection and failure of machines and humans with respect to music. Grim has been the curator if the Exploratorium’s Resonance series and creates sound and music for many Exploratorium projects.
Lisa Mezzacappa is a San Francisco Bay Area composer, bassist, bandleader and producer, called “one of the most imaginative figures on the Bay Area creative jazz scene” by the San Jose Mercury News and “a Bay Area treasure” by KQED national public radio. Mezzacappa’s activities as a composer and bandleader are diverse, and include ethereal chamber music, electro-acoustic works, avant-garde jazz, music for groups from duo to large ensemble, and collaborations with film, video, sculpture and installation art. Recent projects include works inspired by noir crime fiction; by Victorian lady adventurers; and by vintage Italian science fiction comic books. Mezzacappa has been awarded residencies and grants from the Cité International des Arts, Paris, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute, the MAP Fund, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Wattis Foundation, the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation, among others.
Jacob Felix Heule is an improvising percussionist with a special interest in friction techniques. His music is shaped by intuition, listening, and following where the sounds lead. He embraces limited instrumentation — like a single drum and a single cymbal —as a commitment to exploring the depth of his instruments. Heule frequently collaborates with Danishta Rivero, Guro Moe, Håvard Skaset, Bill Orcutt, Tom Djll, Matt Chandler, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, Kyle Bruckmann, and John McCowen. He also curates the monthly Active Music Series, and runs a monthly improvisation workshop, Doors That Only Open in Silence. Heule’s practice is informed by his work as an audio engineer. In addition to regularly doing live sound, he has recently worked on albums by Burmese, Las Sucias, and Black Spirituals.
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