Machine Project

Corey Fogel, Lorin Edwin Parker
Episode Five of You Too Can Play Difficult Music, a series of audience participation performances
Sunday April 2nd 8:00pm
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
213 483 8761

Free

Corey Fogel presents:

Corey Fogel vs. Difficult Music.
Corey advises that you come unprepared.

Lorin Edwin Parker presents Ferrous Artifacts: Three electronic musicians will perform in a prepared environment without traditional amplification or playback. The performers and the audience will interact with their music through touch, sight and sound by manipulating vibrating objects including telephone receivers, broken banjos, electromagnets and rusty skillets*. Take part in a mad science experiment to rival even the most venerable baking soda & vinegar volcano. Featured performers: F. Lewis Keller, Cooper Baker, Michael Ribiat, with introduction by Lorin Edwin Parker.

*Tetanus shots recommended, but not provided.

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Corey Fogel
what I do : I play the drums. sometimes in a band, sometimes by myself. usually by myself I improvise long, bizarre narratives full of strange sounds and awkward, vaguely familiar motions. I also love improvising with other people. sometimes I make music for short films and other strange incidences. sometimes I create very peculiar visual installations, ultimately still rooted in gesture/music. sometimes people will call what I do performance art, due in part to its choreographic and/or sculptural nature. that’s fine.

who I do : In 2001, I graduated from Arizona State University; Bachelors in Music: Jazz. In 2004, I graduated from Cal Arts; Master of Fine Arts in Integrated Media/Music. There I collaborated with and under Leo Smith, Mark Dresser, Sara Roberts, Willie Winant, Tom Leeser, Nick Didkovsky, Vinny Golia, Gerry Hemmingway, and John Oswald. I like to play with Ezra Buchla, Anni Rossi, Andre Vida, Jacob Koller, Brian Allen, in such bands as The Mae Shi, Brainkiller, Back Ted N-Ted, and some others. I recently recorded with my friends Gowns, Treasure Mammal, Carla Bozulich, The Mountain Goats, Whitman, and Bob Bruno.

more information on Corey Fogel visit http://calarts.edu/~cfogel/

Lorin Edwin Parker specializes in the creation of performance art utilizing sound and music, sculpture and unique technology. He is renown as an instrument builder and designer of interactive electronic technology. Parker’s aesthetic is an anachronistic confluence of the cultural and technological past, present and future. He draws extensively from Victorian and Edwardian culture and design, blending his historical tilt to re-contextualize modern technology and arts. His work is often humorous, theatrical, enigmatic and multilayered with visual, theatrical and musical elements. It addresses cultural topics such as conversation, communication, memory, psychoanalysis, and mechanization. Despite the complexity of some works, Lorin strives to connect with his audience directly, making his work engaging for even the most novice participant. “21st century art should be progressive, fun, accessible, even humorous. My art is not meant to be selective or exclusive — it is viable conceptually and as pure entertainment.”

more information on Lorin Parker visit http://music.calarts.edu/~lorinp/