Composer John Oswald coming to CalArts...the original
mashup king...
John
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> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 23:29:58 -0800
> To: rz@zvonar.com
> From: acf/LA Technology Salons
> <teXalon@composers.la>
> Subject: acf/LA Composer to Composer with JOHN
> OSWALD - 02/16/04
>
> American Composers Forum of Los Angeles proudly
> presents:
>
> =====================================
> COMPOSER TO COMPOSER WITH JOHN OSWALD
> =====================================
>
> Presentation by composer John OSWALD, moderated by
> Richard ZVONAR
>
> REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney|CalArts Theater)
> 631 West Second Street
> Los Angeles, CA 90012
>
> Monday, FEBRUARY 16, 2004, 3:00-6:00 PM
>
> $10 admission
>
> Ample parking on site
>
>
> In conjunction with his performance on the
> Musical Explorations series at REDCAT on February
> 20, Composer John Oswald will discuss his work in
> a special ACF Composer to Composer salon (while
> simultaneously displaying a large-screen
> projection of the chronophotic image from his
> brand new DVD feature movie The Arc of
> Apparitions).
>
>
> Oswald is best known for his invention of
> Plunderphonics, a musical form/process/ethos
> wherein pre-existing recorded pieces are
> transformed into new works by a variety of
> editing and signal processing techniques. The
> 1989 Plunderphonic CD (never-for-sale, remaining
> stocks destroyed by Michael Jackson & CBS) became
> an underground cult classic. The realistic cover
> photo of a nude Michael Jackson revealed as a
> white woman paralleled the musical
> transformations depicted on the disc. Other
> electroquoted artists included Bing Crosby, The
> Beatles, Glenn Gould, Public Enemy &
> (consequently) James Brown. The samples Oswald
> used to create these pieces were studiously
> footnoted with all due credit given to the source
> artists. The disc was not sold but distributed
> freely to radio stations, libraries, critics and
> musicians. Despite this approach, prudes in the
> "Recording Industry" representing Michael Jackson
> destroyed the remaining copies and prohibited
> Oswald from distributing or reproducing the CD.
> In the wake of these events, Oswald was
> commissioned to plunderphonicize recordings by
> the Grateful Dead and artists on the Elektra
> label, and he has continued to explore the far
> reaches of musical perception, culture jamming,
> and sonic transformation (including the CD new
> release Aparanthesi - a 30 minute exploration of
> a single note).
>
> Oswald's February 20 performance at REDCAT will
> include Rascali Klepitoire (plunderphonics-like
> treatments of the performance of obvious choices
> from the Classical Repertoire) as well as
> concert-situation and phenomenal (in multiple
> senses of the word) pieces, composed between 1991
> & 2001.
>
>
> ============================================
>
> For more information on Plunderphonics, see:
>
> http://www.plunderphonics.com/
>
> For information on Aparanthesi, see:
>
> http://www.electrocd.com/cat.e/imed_0368.html
>
> For information on John Oswald's performance at
> REDCAT, see:
>
> http://redcatweb.org/season/music/johnoswald.html
>
>
> ============================================
>
> JOHN OSWALD BIO
>
> "For the moment, John Oswald is a solo movement,
> the most exciting school of one in music."
> - Milo Miles, Village Voice.
>
> Oswald begins 2004 with the first commercial
> publication of one of his chronophotics: the
> feature length Arc of Apparitions is produced on
> DVD by Avatar/Ohm editions. And Oswald's own
> label Fony will be rereleasing his albums from
> the nineties, starting with Grayfolded (March)
> and Plexure (May) and Discosphere (August). He is
> also founding an experimental ad agency called
> Veracity.
>
> In 2003 Oswald premiered his new solo dance opera
> Spinvolver, with Susanna Hood, in Berlin in
> February, followed by performances in several
> European capitols. In the fall, Aparanthesi, a
> one note electroacousmatic composition, entailing
> some research in the perception of sonic morphs,
> was released on CD by empreintes DIGITALes.
>
> Last spring his first Chronophotics to be
> exhibited in North America, entitled Jacko
> Lantern, was on display in the window of Pages
> Books as part of both the Images Moving Pictures
> and the Contact Festival of Photography, while
> Stills, his first solo show of images, was held
> over at Toronto Harbourfront's Premiere Dance
> Theatre for eight months, and he was the cover
> boy for the British music mag The Wire. In recent
> years he composed a "Concerto for Wired Conductor
> and
> Orchestra", which premiered at Boston Symphony
> Hall. He designed the soundtrack and system for
> Stress, an eight-screen movie by Bruce Mau,
> showing at the Museum of Technology in Vienna. A
> new piece entitled "Oswald's First Piano Concerto
> by Tchaikovsky, (as suggested by Michael Snow)"
> was premiered in Vancouver by Paul Plimley and
> the CBC orchestra. He composed a score for the
> National Ballet of Canada for orchestra, robot
> piano and the disembodied singing voice of Glenn
> Gould. For the past four years he has been
> creating a database of photo portraits for a
> series of "Moving Stills". One of his
> plunderphonie video/photo collages was shown at
> the Royal Festival Hall Hayward Gallery in London
> and was immediately sold as a gift to the Museum
> of Modern Art in New York.
>
> Of recent works, he wrote, directed and produced
> a radio play in four interwoven languages
> (Brazilian, Dutch, English & German); wrote,
> animated, directed & scored "Homonymy" (for
> chamber ensemble & cinema); scored the stage
> version of the silent movie classic "Metropolis";
> produced the soundtrack album to the gay porn
> feature "Hustler White"; as well as appearing as
> himself in John Greyson's feature film "Un?ut"
> and Craig Baldwin's "Sonic Outlaws", and he was
> the subject of one of Moses Znaimer's television
> documentaries "The Originals".
>
> Other recent activities include: a sonic
> motorcade in Brasilia; and a dance composition
> for 22 choreographers (including Bill T.Jones,
> Margie Gillis, & Holly Small); plus commissions
> from the Lyon Opera Ballet, Dutch National Radio,
> Change of Heart, SMCQ, Pizzicato 5, and Radio
> Canada. Other works are in the active repertoire
> of the Kronos Quartet (they've played his Spectre
> over 300 times worldwide, & another commission,
> Mach almost as often), the Culberg Ballet Sweden,
> the Monaco Ballet, The Deutsche Opera Ballet
> Berlin, The Modern Quartet, the Penderecki
> Quartet, and others. His recorded works have been
> used in productions for radio, stage, concert,
> television, film, Hollywood movies, computer
> media and video.
>
> Oswald is also the founder and co-facilitator of
> Art Wrestling, a Toronto-based contact
> improvisation movement jamboree which has
> occurred weekly uninterrupted for 28 years.
>
> In 1990, Oswald's most notorious recording,
> plunderphonic, was destroyed by prudes in the
> Recording Industry representing Michael Jackson.
> He has since released recordings on Elektra,
> Avant, ReR Megacorp, Blast First, & Swell,
> featuring transformations of the music and
> performances of Stravinsky, Metallica, James
> Brown, Gyorgy Ligeti, Dolly Parton & many others.
> A box-set CD & book retrospective of his
> plunderphonics work has just been appropriated
> from Oswald's ?ony label by Seeland. The first
> disc of his Grateful Dead production GrayFolded
> was selected as the #1 international recording of
> the decade by the Toronto Sun. In the same year
> his album of improvised music, Acoustics was a
> #1 critic's selection in Coda magazine. The
> GrayFolded package, completed the following year
> was selected for best of the year lists in
> Rolling Stone, The New York Times and many other
> publications. A recent retrospective CD box-set
> of
> Plunderphonic works has been called
> "mind-numbingly amazing" by Peter Kenneth,
> Rolling Stone Magazine, and made Spin Magazine's
> 2001 top 10. 2004 will see the founding of an ad
> agency called Veracity. Oswald is Director of
> Research at MysteryLaboratory in Canada. Eye
> Weekly's '94 year end report anointed him a
> "God-like being" (in 2003 they have upgraded this
> to "a god proper"). The Montreal Mirror says
> "John Oswald is probably Canada's most important
> composer-musician," and the London (England)
> Observer has called him "the maddest man on the
> planet."
>
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