8:00pm
Adam Hirsch - solo alto saxophone/voice/electronics
8:45pm
Scott Cazan - electronics (Los Angeles)
9:30pm
Carmina Escobar - voice/electronics (Los Angeles)
Adam Hirsch is a composer, songwriter, and improviser from Los Angeles. He makes music with saxophones, computers, analog electronics, and his voice, among other things. His work ranges from chamber music to free improvisation to pop experiments.
His mentors and teachers in saxophone, composition, and improvisation have included Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, Peter Swendsen, Ben Wendel, Zeena Parkins, and John Bischoff.
Adam currently lives in Oakland, CA as an MFA student in Electronic Music & Recording Media at Mills College, and tours around the US under the moniker Native Eloquence.
Scott Cazan is a Los Angeles based composer, performer, creative coder, and sound artist working in fields such as experimental electronic music, sound installation, chamber music, and software art where he explores cybernetics, aesthetic computing, and emergent forms resulting from human interactions with technology. His work often involves the use of feedback networks where misunderstanding and chaotic elements act as a catalyst for emergent forms in art and music.
One of the most vital experimental musicians from Mexico is Carmina Escobar, who through her voice and technological tools has explored a wide range of contemporary music and improvisation. In this work, Escobar offers a series of interactions between her voice, body, and a public space in Connecticut in which there were some uncovered pianos in open space, full of rusty strings and leaves. The recordings were made with different types of microphones, the result is a piece heaping on beauty and also relevant acoustical challenges.