Outsound PresentsGuest Curation with Pete "Rat" Martin & Chris Golinkski
8-10pm
Daniel Steffey
Conner LacyGretchen Jude and Peiling Kao duo
Daniel Steffey is an active composer and percussionist in the San Francisco Bay area, and is currently attending Mills College for an MA in Composition. At Mills, he studies composition and theory with David Bernstein and Roscoe Mitchell, and percussion with William Winant. Recently, Daniel composed music and administered the sound design for Helen Pau’s award winning play "The Stone Wife". His composition Radio Piece #7 was chosen for the “60x60 Concert Series” which was performed at the 2010 International Computer Music Conference. Daniel received his BA in Music Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he studied percussion with Tim Jones and Dean Gronemeier. As a percussionist, he is currently an active member in the William Winant Percussion Group, and has performed extensively throughout the United States with groups such as the Iron Beats Drum and Dance Group, the Ragtime Rebels Marimba Band, and his psychedelic rock group Easysleeves.
Conner Lacy is an artist and art technologist. In addition to making art in a variety of mediums, he develops practical tools which catalyze and bolster creativity. His own artwork often treads boundaries between (sometimes false) dichotomies, and employs multiple vantages of resonance (sonic, emotional, symbolic, spiritual, electromagnetic, etc.). Conner earned a B.A. in Music and Digital Art from the University of Virginia and an M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College. He was born in Arkansas and grew up in Virginia. He’s very interested in Buddhism, likes humidity, cicadas, and running, to name a few things.
Gretchen Jude is a composer, performer, writer and artist from Boise, Idaho. Vocal and electronic sound are often juxtaposed in her work, which crosses borders between human and machine, analog and digital, East and West, self and other. Gretchen recently completed her MFA in Mills College's Electronic Music/Recording Media program; she has also studied koto, shamisen and tea ceremony in Japan.
Peiling Kao was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She has worked as a freelance dancer for 13 years and was a full-time teacher at Cloud Gate Dance School in Taiwan. She graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts in 1996 with a BFA in Dance and has completed technique training in ballet, contemporary, Chinese folk dance, and contact improvisation. She was awarded the Taiwan-England artists’ residency, hosted by the Independent Dance based at Siobhan Davis Studios in London in 2007. This spring, Peiling finished her MFA in Choreography and Performance at Mills College; this year she was selected as an apprentice for ODC.
Among the artists/dance professionals that she worked with are: Hwai-Min Lin (Founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theater), Mary Anthony, Molissa Fenley, Brenda Way, Sonya Delwaide, Sean Curran, Ross Parkes, Men-Fei Lo, Min-Shen Ku, Susan Van Pelt, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Nancy Lyons, Rachel Berman, Alyce Finwall and Joumana Mourad.
Cost: $6-10