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SCREAM 2004 celebrates the 20th Anniversary of SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States) at California Institute for the Arts (CalArts) and the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT). Events include world premieres by Anne LeBaron and Barry Schrader at REDCAT.

SCREAM 2004 Live/Electroacoustic Music from CalArts

SCREAM 2004
Tuesday, November 9, at 8:30 p.m.
REDCAT
General admission: $20, Students, CalArts staff/faculty, and Alumni Affinity Card holders: $16, CalArts students: $10

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SCREAM Listening Room
Saturday, November 20 at 8:00 p.m.
Roy O. Disney Hall on the CalArts campus
Admission is FREE

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States), SCREAM (The Southern California Resource for Electroacoustic Music) presents two events. On Tuesday, November 9, SCREAM will perform at REDCAT. On Saturday, November 20, CalArts will present a SCREAM Listening Room event. Electroacoustic music involves both acoustic instruments and electronic technology. At REDCAT, SCREAM'S anniversary event features live electroacoustic works by CalArts faculty members including world premieres by Anne LeBaron and Barry Schrader, and works by David Rosenboom, James Tenney and Mark Trayle. Analog performers include clarinetist William Powell, violinist Eric Clark, August Friscia on piano and other guests.

The concert spans the decades with works ranging from James Tenney's Phases and Instrumental Responses from the early 1960s to the world premieres of LeBaron's The Left Side of Time and Schrader's First Spring. David Rosenboom will play his new composition for trumpet with live electronic signal processing. Shrader's 1999 composition, Five Arabesques, features clarinet and electronic sounds and Mark Trayle will perform, Black Stripe, his composition for credit cards and video.

On Saturday, November 20, CalArts will present a SCREAM Listening Room event in the Roy O. Disney Hall, celebrating the 20th anniversary of SEAMUS. Founded by Schrader in 1984, SEAMUS has grown to be the largest national organization of its kind. This concert will present video interviews and musical works by the past Presidents of SEAMUS. The evening's highlights include Schrader's Duke's Tune, a musical work based on a theme created from notes struck on a xylophone by his pet pig.

SCREAM was created by Barry Schrader in 1986. It is a loose consortium of colleges and universities in the Los Angeles area that offer programs in electroacoustic music. For many years, SCREAM presented concerts and broadcasts of electroacoustic music sponsored by the member institutions. SCREAM currently curates a series of programs that present the latest work in the field to Southern California. SCREAM is funded by an ongoing grant from California Institute of the Arts, which makes these concerts possible.

SEAMUS, The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States is a national organization for composers of electro-acoustic music. Each November, SEAMUS sponsors SEAMUS Electro-Acoustic Music Month, encouraging a variety of concerts and broadcasts of electro-acoustic music. SCREAM 2004 is proud to be part of SEAMUS Electro-Acoustic Music Month. For information on SEAMUS, go to http://www.seamusonline.org/.

Please note: in honor of his 70th birthday, SCREAM member James Tenny will perform a retrospective of his works with Montreal's Bossini Quartet at REDCAT. The performance is on Tuesday November 11 at 8:30 p.m.

SCREAM 2004
Tuesday, November 9 at 8:30 p.m.
General admission: $20, Students, CalArts staff/faculty, and Alumni Affinity Card holders: $16, CalArts students: $10
REDCAT is located at 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, at the corner of 2nd and Hope Streets in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles.
For Information call the REDCAT box office at 213-237-2800.

SCREAM Listening Room
Saturday, November 20 at 8:00 p.m.
Admission is FREE
Roy O. Disney Hall on the CalArts campus. CalArts is located at 24700 McBean Parkway in Valencia.
For information call the CalArts Ticket Office at (661) 253-7800.

The nation's first art institute to offer BFAs and MFAs in both the visual and performing arts, CalArts is dedicated to training and nurturing the next generation of professional artists, fostering brilliance and innovation within the broadest context possible. Emphasis is placed on new and experimental work and students are admitted solely on the basis of artistic ability. To encourage innovation and experimentation, CalArts' six schools - Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater - are all housed under one roof in one unique, five-story building with the equivalent of 11 acres of square footage in Valencia, California, just 30 minutes north of downtown Los Angeles.

REDCAT is a technologically advanced black box performance space, 3,000 square foot art gallery and lounge located within the Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex in downtown Los Angeles. It is a natural extension of CalArts, an institution that has been long known for challenging artistic traditions and enabling young artists to learn from - but also question - some of the world's top practitioners in each artistic discipline. This same spirit of heightened cultural and civic discourse is what brings REDCAT to life.

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