January 26–28, 2006

"An important contender in the international network of multimedia experimental festivals." Los Angeles Times

The genre-bending annual fest from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology returns to REDCAT with a new international lineup of unabashedly experimental works in music, multimedia, installation and sound art.

Thursday, January 26
Morton Subotnick
Until Spring Revisited
World premiere

The electronic music icon reinvents his seminal 1975 soundscape Until Spring, now reformulated for surround sound and video projection and performed on three laptops. Applying a new set of artist tools with masterful finesse and imagination, Subotnick collaborates with composer-performer Miguel Frasconi and light artist Sue Costabile.

"An electronic live wire." Los Angeles Times

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Friday, January 27
Eliane Radigue
Maja Ratkje
Jon Rose
World premieres

The tirelessly inventive Australian violinist and sound artist Jon Rose kicks off the evening with work from The Hyperstring Project, a body of uncanny improvisations based on the use of a MIDI-controlled interactive violin bow. He is followed by Maja Ratkje of the noise outfits Spunk and Fe-Mail. The Norwegian performer-composer creates savagely beautiful improvised soundscapes out of voice, acoustic instruments, field recordings and analog electronics. French electro-acoustic pioneer Eliane Radigue then concludes the evening’s program with Naldjorlak, the first completely acoustic work she has ever written, performed by Charles Curtis on cello as a thought-provoking reworking of technology.

"Radigue’s works induce in the listener an altered state of ecstatic spirituality." Kyle Gann

"Jon Rose doesn’t fit into any categories but all his albums create a violin-shaped world that is all his own, shot through with wild humour." The Guardian

"Ratkje’s voice is gloriously possessed by the tongues of more split personalities than there are angels on the head of a pin." The Wire

Funded in part by the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of French American Cultural Exchange (FACE).

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Saturday, January 28
David Dunn and James Crutchfield
Kadet Kuhne

"David Dunn is a visionary." Kenneth Gaburo

Los Angeles media artist Kadet Kuhne premieres a new audiovisual work, Holding Pattern III, in which captivating underwater imagery triggers a breathtaking interactive soundscape. This immersive sensory experience is accompanied by an improvised score by Mem1, a collaborative venture between cellist Laura Thomas-Merino and laptop artist M. Cera. The CEAIT Festival then culminates with the Theater of Pattern Formation, a mesmerizing live multimedia work by Alpert Award-winning composer and sound artist David Dunn and renowned chaos theorist James Crutchfield. Playing on the innate human ability to recognize patterns in space and time, and using custom-made circuits, the duo collates overlapping sonic textures with a dazzling array of complementary visualizations.

"Audio-visual surrealist Kadet concocts sounds that watch you ... Be aware: This is music that takes notes on you ... Kadet’s [music] demands that you listen hard, but rewards your effort with tiny details ... Some moments reach near-total abstraction, then pull back toward more repetitive structures, with backing pads and gutted, howling synths." XLR8R Magazine

Funded in part by The Herb Alpert Foundation

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