Thursday, 11/14
Doors: 7PM
Music: 8PM
$10

Coaxial Arts is excited to present this unique evening of experimental sound, featuring the Los Angeles debut of acclaimed New York vocalist Charmaine Lee. Rounding out the bill will be Bay Area sound art pillars John Bischoff and Tom Djll, along with LA's own Tim Feeney.

Charmaine Lee
https://www.charmainelee.com/
IG: @charmainelee

Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is an Australian vocalist based in New York. Using the voice, feedback, and live processing, Lee’s practice is primarily concerned with risk-taking, playfulness, and improvisation. She has been recognized as “extraordinary” by New Yorker and has been featured in New York Times, Washington Post, and Wire Magazine. As a composer, Lee has been commissioned by leading institutions including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, and HBO Max. Lee is an Emergent Ventures winner (2024) and was an Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room (2019) and a Van Lier Fellow at Roulette (2021). Her long-standing collaborators include Conrad Tao and Ikue Mori (MacArthur Fellow). Lee frequently guest lectures at undergraduate and graduate-level composition programs including Columbia University, Princeton University, Stanford, and the New School. Lee runs a record label & distribution platform, Kou Records, dedicated to pioneering artists in music & sound.

John Bischoff
https://johnbischoff.com/

John Bischoff (b. 1949, San Francisco) is an early pioneer of live computer music. He is known for his solo constructions in real-time synthesis as well as the development of computer network music. His recent performances combine hands-on analog circuitry and digital synthesis in open dialog. He is a founding member of the League of Automatic Music Composers, the world's first computer network band, and co-authored an article on the League's music that appeared in "Foundations of Computer Music" (MIT Press 1985). He is also an original member of The Hub, a band he has performed and recorded with for over 3 decades. Recordings of his work are available on Artifact Recordings, Lovely Music, Tzadik, 23Five, Centaur, and New World Records.

Tom Djll
http://tomdjll.com/
IG: mutootator

Tom Djll first studied electronic music at the Colorado College on the EMS Synthi 100. He spent the years 1981-1998 working with the Serge Modular Music System. Deep Listening work with Pauline Oliveros, 1991. At the Mills College Contemporary Music Center 1993-95, he developed a personal trumpet language alongside electronic and microtonal studies. Beginning in 2012, Djll shifted back to analog systems and electroacoustic interfaces. Currently Djll concentrates on presenting and explaining chaotic sound-worlds, inspired by the work of Rob Hordijk. Recent collaborations with Gino Robair, Suki O'Kane, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Axel Dörner, and the trio EUPHOTIC with Cheryl Leonard and Bryan Day.

Tim Feeney
https://www.timfeeney.com/
IG: @theothertimfeeney

Tim Feeney makes sounds and images in forests and waterfronts, investigating unstable sound and duration. He appears in tunnels and stairwells with Cassia Streb; inbookstores and basements with Sarah Hennies and Greg Stuart; in galleries and libraries with Vic Rawlings and Annie Lewandowski; in colleges and museums with Andrew Raffo Dewar, Holland Hopson, and Jane Cassidy; on recordings for Intakt, Black Truffle, Full Spectrum, Sedimental, and Marginal Frequency; and in the occasional festival or concert hall with Anthony Braxton, Ingrid Laubrock, and the Partch Ensemble.

Mattie Barbier
https://mattiebarbier.com/
IG: @mattie_barbier

Mattie Barbier is an LA based musician and sonic researcher focused on experimental intonation, latent acoustic worlds, and the physical processes of their instrument. Their playing has been described by the LA Times as being "of intense, brilliant, virtuosic growling that gave the striking impression that Barbier was dismantling the instrument while playing it," by the Wire as “exploring the nooks of instrumental tone far beyond the reach of most mortals,” and by the New Yorker as being a "diabolically inventive trombonist-composer." Mattie is a member of RAGE Thormbones, wildUp, echoi, Diapason, and is an active soloist and improviser on low brass instruments and bagpipes. Additionally they teach at CalArts.
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