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Laetitia Sonami and Paul DeMarinis Featured in Electronic Music Festival at REDCAT

January 30, 31
REDCAT
8:30 p.m. both performances
$24 general admission

February 1
8:30 p.m.
Roy O. Disney Music Hall
CalArts Campus, Valencia
Free of charge

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January 13, Los Angeles - This year's installment of the annual festival presented by CalArts' Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology (CEAIT) features performances by noted multimedia electronic artist Paul DeMarinis and innovative composer, performer and sound installation artist Laetitia Sonami-a winner of the Alpert Award in the Arts in 2002.

REDCAT - the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater - is CalArts' new performance venue and gallery in Walt Disney Concert Hall. Admission is $24.00 for general admission seating.

The festival continues for a third day at the Roy O. Disney Music Hall on the CalArts Valencia campus on Sunday, February 1 at 8:30 p.m.. Admission to the Sunday performances is free of charge.

In addition to Sonami and DeMarinis, composer/performers for the seventh annual CEAIT Festival include Trevor Wishart, Chris Mann, Richard Lerman, Maggi Payne, Tom Recchion, Monique Buzzarté, Xavier Charles and Marc Pichelin, among many others.

For the past six years, the festival has presented a wide range of performances and installations, many of which integrated media outside of audio, such as dance, video, text and computer graphics. Presentations have included works by Todd Winkler, Pamela Z, Joe Colley, Blectum from Blechdom, Bob Gonsalves, Ted Apel, Douglas Repetto, among many others.

Program for the 2004 CEAIT Festival of Electronic Music and Media:

Friday, January 30, 2004 - REDCAT
(not listed in performance order)

Monique Buzzarté: Black Hole (2003) by Monique Buzzarté & Pauline Oliveros
Xavier Charles & Marc Pichelin: Clarinet-based electro-acoustic/ instrumental performance.
Paul DeMarinis: Performance
Greg Headley: Drain, moment-to-moment, real time composition
Joseph Lake: Untitled Max/MSP improvisation for four speakers
Georgina Lewis: Cordelia to Lear (2003), tape piece exploring the building blocks of speech.
Tom Recchion: Tape loops, CDs and LPs in a quasi-improvisational construction.
Michael Theodore & Glen Whitehead: Trumpetspeak, a collaboration between composer Michael Theodore and trumpeter Glen Whitehead Valet (Honey Owens & Jason Frank): audio/visual performance incorporating networked laptop computers and video projection.

Saturday, January 31, 2004 - REDCAT
(not listed in performance order)

Raven Chacon, Raja Das & Jason Thomas: Three Beatles Remixes: Manipulated and remixed samples and sound bites from Beatles songs.
Richard Chartier: Minimalist laptop performance
Brian Crabtree: mlr, a live performance employing custom interfaces which control computer sound machines.
Nick Fox-Gieg & Sean Clute: After Supremacy,live music and video performance inspired by Malevich's "Supremacy" paintings.
Kanta Horio: suspapView, live performance incorporating movement-controlled sound.
Richard Lerman: Changing States, performance for self-built metal microphones played with a small propane torch.
Chris Mann: The Plato Songs: Live performance, "the performance space as larynx."
Maggi Payne: Distant Thunder, CD playback, furnace sounds, tea boiling...
Laetitia Sonami: movement-controlled sounds, mechanical devices and lights.
Trevor Wishart: Imago, 16-channel, live playback of piece where "the single clink of two wine-glasses is used to generate a whole world of other sounds."

Sunday, February 1, 2004 - Calarts ROD Hall in Valencia, CA -Free
(not listed in performance order) Andy Ben, Derek Sajbel & Peter Jacobson: Live instrumental/performance with cello and circuit bending in 3 movements.
Matthew Burtner: (dis)Appearances (2003), for a trio of amplified acoustic violin, electric violin, and computer violin/multicontroller.
Brian Crabtree: gather, live performance.
Adrian Fischer: Washing Machine, tape piece based on a single sample of a washing machine.
Sarah Gorham: Molly the Beta
Jose Roque Ensemble (Leticia Castaneda, Jessica Catron, Sean Clute), cello and multiple analog and digital electronic sources and processing.
Sunit Parekh: Plaything: performance/video where a dancer effects various musical musical and visual events.
Roddy Schrock: Joey's Song, tape piece.
Aaron Ximm: Serendipity Machines: recordings with slightly modulated sine waves

Born in France and based in Oakland, Laetitia Sonami combines text, electronic music and "found" sound to create "performance novels," using instruments of her own design. Her CEAIT performance will incorporate the Lady's Glove, a black lycra glove wired so that the performer's slightest gestures are electronically translated into a shifting collage of sound and light.

The Village Voice describes Sonami as "sultry and magical... a striking talent. ...Her combination of French accent, California technology, and Tibetan perspective is darkly American. ...expect something inexplicable, compelling and deeply personal." A recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts in 2002, Sonami has performed at festivals internationally, including the Berlin-Musikerinnen Festival, the Lincoln Center Outdoor Performance Series, New York's Kitchen and Bang on a Can Festival, Le Garage in Paris, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and the Bourges Music Festival in France. Her solo CD debut is currently scheduled for release on the Lovely Music label.

Paul DeMarinis has been working as a multimedia electronic artist since 1971 and has created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions. Recent public artworks include large-scale interactive installations at Park Tower Hall in Tokyo, at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and Expo 1998 in Lisbon.

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