Machine Project

Stina Hanson, Douglas Wadle, Vitamin Wig C [Robert Hansen + Aaron Spafford]
Episode Four of You Too Can Play Difficult Music, a series of audience participation performances
Saturday March 25th 8:00pm
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
213 483 8761

Free
Stina Hanson presents the Super Fantastic Difficult Music Marching Band, with the goal of getting as many people playing, marching and clapping together as possible. Kazoos of multiple hues will be provided, as well as a selection of sheet music to the songs everyone seems to know but has no idea where they learned. What kind of marching band would you like to be in? What does it wear? How does it move? How will it interpret “You too can play difficult music”?

Douglas Wadle will be presenting an audience participation version of Logos prior Logos. The piece is a rules-based improvisation based upon the formal logic statements contained within the score/painting. He will, time permitting, also blather on about the work and its significance or lack thereof in relation to the notion of difficult music.

Vitamin Wig C and friends will be engaging in a sloppy improvisation incorporating mouth sounds and vocalizations, simple percussion instruments, pre-recorded media, and a host of familiar musical instruments. Audience members will be asked to please turn UP their cell phones!

Stina Hanson is from Vancouver, BC, Canada where she received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts in April of 2005. While at SFU she studied composition with Janet Danielson and Owen Underhill, collaboration with David McIntyre and clown with Penelope Stella. She worked as a composer/sound designer on SFU Main Stage productions under directors D.D. Kugler and Marc Diamond as well as smaller theatrical productions with directors Cary-Jo McKinnon, Lindsey Reoch and Jennifer Cameron. Stina has a large interest in theatrical collaboration and has worked with Sodium Glow, 4-5-0 Productions and Draft 89 Productions. She also worked in collaboration with Benjamin Carson and choreographer Diego Maranan on the dance piece Second Law which was shown both at the Firehall Arts Centre and as part of the 12 Minutes Max festival. Stina is currently working towards her Masters of Fine Arts in Composition from the California Institute of the Arts, studying with Steven Takasugi.

Douglas C. Wadle (b. 1977), is a Los Angeles-based composer who derives his approach to art making from equal parts experimental music, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and (recently) approaches drawn from twentieth century practices in the visual arts. Douglas is also a performer/multi-instrumentalist, primarily in improvisational and/or experimental theatrical performance pieces. He has worked extensively with choreographers Simone Forti, Marianne M. Kim, Victoria Marks, and Kristen Smiarowski. His music has been heard in various venues and festivals in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Vitamin Wig C was started by robert hansen and aaron spafford one day in 2004 in Robert’s studio at Calarts. Other names considered that day for VWC were Galloping Wig, Elbow Wig, Habit Forming Wig, Mantel Piece Wig, Wig Mansion, Wig Mannerisms, Trapezoid Wig, and Burlap Wig. The following year Vitamin Wig C went on to perform a number of times in the Southern California area at venues including the Il Coral with Genaro Barragan, Val Verde Park with Mark So and Elisa Lopez (audience members) and Adam Overton (camera) and Roy O. Disney Hall with Albert Ortega. Vitamin Wig C also maintain a vast library of recorded audio and video documents created with the help of an expanding wig family. Their first album Gotcha Wig Wallet was released a year ago on the zbzz.bz website and remains available for free download.