Machine Project

Liam Mooney and Thadeus Frazier-Reed
Episode Two of You Too Can Play Difficult Music, a series of audience participation performances
Saturday March 4th 8:00pm
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
213 483 8761

Free

Liam Mooney presents Sublimation: The Physical Process, Not the Psychological One“, a piece whose form is created by the participation of unprepared performers given a set of materials which they then must decide how to use, after being sternly warned of the potential dangers of placing these materials in their mouths and/or eyes.

Drawing on influences from genetic and game algorithms, Thadeus Frazier-Reed will be presenting 3 pieces that bridge the gap between performance art and installation art. Audience members will be asked to help perform some pieces and will be able to interact with installation pieces following the performance. One need not be a “virtuoso” to create something complex. In the natural world it is the multitude of very simple choices and changes that create complexity.

Simian for three players will call upon volunteers from the audience to play an adaptation of the electronic game SIMON in which they try to match letters of the human genetic sequence. Their triumphs or failures will be reflected in the tones created during game play.

Until Something Better Comes Along takes advantage of slight deviations in mass produced electronics to create complex sonic and visual relationships controlled and discovered by the viewer.

Program 4, Pump on… Go will again call on help from an audience member to influence the performance of cellist April Guthrie. The audience member mans a computer console that is tracking the performance of the cellist. By making visual correlations the user limits the set of pitches that the cellist may play which in turn limits the visual content. This feedback loop between performers will slowly reveal another sonic layer of the piece.

Minds will be put back together.

Liam Mooney is a noise advocate and occasional musician who sees instruments everywhere he looks, hears them everywhere he steps, and tastes them everywhere.

more information on Liam Mooney visit http://www.liammooney.com

Philadelphia born composer/artist Thadeus Frazier-Reed is involved with all aspects of interdisciplinary performance art. He began by studying Double Bass performance at Eastman School of Music before leaving to pursue his composition career. Thadeus studied under composer Andrew Rudin at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. During this time his work was heavily influenced by close work with Curtis Bahn and Dan Trueman of Interface and Dawn Stoppiello and Mark Coniglio of Troika Ranch. Thadeus went on to become one of the founding members of ArcheDream, a blacklight multimedia dance theater company, based in Philadelphia. He recently graduated from California Institute of the Arts under the tutelage of Mark Trayle, Michael Pisaro, Tom Erbe, James Tenney and Sara Roberts. His works have been premiered/performed in Pennsylvania, New York, Oregon and California. When not working on his own music, Thadeus supports other performing artists by working as a technical director, audio technician and computer programmer.

more information on Thadeus Frazier-Reed visit http://www.tcfr33.com