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SCREAM Festival Debuts at REDCAT

December 1
8:30 p.m.
$24 general admission

Los Angeles, November 18 -- SCREAM (Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music) presents SCREAM 2003, a concert of premieres from six local composers and featuring guest composer Carl Stone. This will be the annual SCREAM festival's first appearance at REDCAT - the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater - CalArts' new performance venue and gallery in Walt Disney Concert Hall. Performances begin at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $24 for general admission seating. Tickets may be purchased at the REDCAT box office located at the corner of 2nd and Hope streets, calling 213-237-2800 or by clicking here.

Celebrating the opening of REDCAT, SCREAM 2003 will present an evening of new live/electro-acoustic music by David Bradfield, Bernardo Feldman, Rodney Oakes, Barry Schrader, Carl Stone and Mark Trayle. All works are either world or U.S. premieres. Guest artist Carl Stone will present the U.S. premiere of his epic work Ngoc Suong. Stone is one the first composer/performers to use computers in live performance. The Village Voice has called him "the king of sampling" and "one of the best composers living in (the USA) today." Tom Flaherty's Threnody for cello and live electronics will be performed by the composer. Ave Maria by Bernardo Feldman is a boundary-pushing new work for chorus and electronics featuring the Just Jazz! Choir conducted by Julie Lawson. Mark Trayle's from covered writing, is a live/interactive work described by the composer as "sonic hide and seek." Barry Schrader's Ravel for piano and electro-acoustic music, based on material from the works of Maurice Ravel, will be performed by pianist Vicki Ray. David Bradfield's new work for dance, ToxicAgenda will be performed by choreographer/dancer Tomas Tamayo. Bone of Contention, composed and performed by Rodney Oakes, continues his exploration the capabilities MIDI trombone.

The Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music, created by Barry Schrader in 1986, is a loose consortium of colleges and universities in the Los Angeles area that offer programs in electro-acoustic music. The purpose of SCREAM is to present annual concerts of new electro-acoustic music. SCREAM 2003 is presented by the California Institute of the Arts, California State University Dominguez Hills, College of the Canyons, Los Angeles Harbor College, and Pomona College. SCREAM is funded by an ongoing grant from the California Institute of the Arts, which makes these concerts possible.

Carl Stone divides his time between San Francisco and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney. He has composed electro-acoustic music exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East.

A winner of numerous awards for his compositions, including the Freeman Award for the work Hop Ken, Carl Stone is also the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Foundation for Performance Arts. For over twenty year he has received an international array of of commissions, including those from the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles, dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones, the Asian Cultural Councli, ZDF Television in Germany, Sony PCL, the Paul Dresher Ensemble and the Rockefeller Foundation among many others. In 1999 he was invited as Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center. In 2001 he served as Artist-in-Residence at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Japan, and in that same year he joined the faculty of Chukyo University's School of Cognitive and Computer Sciences.

Recordings of Carl Stone's music can be found on New Albion, CBS Sony, Toshiba-EMI, EAM Discs, Wizard Records, Trigram, t:me recordings, and New Tone labels.

Carl Stone's music has been used by numerous theater directors and choreographers including Hiroshi Koike, Akira Kasai, Bill T. Jones, Setsuko Yamada, Ping Chong, June Watanabe, Kuniko Kisanuki, Rudy Perez, Hae Kyung Lee, and Blondell Cummings. Musical collaborations include those with Yuji Takahashi, Kazue Sawai, Aki Takahashi, Sarah Cahill, Haco, Dorit Cypis, Michiko Akao, Stelarc, z'ev, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Tosha Meisho, Otomo Yoshihide, Kathleen Rogers, Min Xiao-Fen and Mineko Grimmer.

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 National Electro-Acoustic Music Month, encouraging a variety of concerts and broadcasts of electro-acoustic music. SCREAM 2003 is proud to be part of SEAMUS National Electro-Acoustic Music Month. For information on SEAMUS, go to http://seamus.lsu.edu/.