Dog Star Orchestra, Volume 7 (June/July, 2011, Los Angeles)
Locations:
The Wulf - 1026 South Santa Fe Avenue #203, Los Angeles, California 90021The Wild Beast (Calarts Campus) - 24700 Mcbean Parkway, Valencia, California 91355
Download Program: Click here
Events:
All Events Start At 8Pm Except July 11 (Afternoon)Sunday, June 26th at The Wulf
"For Philip Guston" by Morton Feldman (4 hrs)
Curated by Michael Winter
Wednesday, June 29th at The Wild Beast
Indigenous and Diasporic Music
Music by Mosko, Corral, Feldman
Curated by Christine Tavolacci
Thursday, June 30th at The Wild Beast
Audio Destructinators + The Stylophone Ensemble
Music by Fraser, Sramek, Carey, Wadle, Ingrid Lee and others Curated by Paul Fraser
Friday, July 1st at The Wild Beast
Music For Solo Amplified Violin
Adam Fong, Brent Miller, Lisa Coons, Denise Gilson, John Hastings
Curated by Eric KM Clark
Saturday, July 2nd at The Wild Beast
Very Quiet Solo And Small Ensemble Music
Michael Pisaro, Sam Sfirri, Jack Callahan, Emi Tamura And Others
Curated by Michael Pisaro
Tuesday, July 5th at The Wild Beast
"Treatise" by Cornelius Cardew
Ensemble Led by Eric Km Clark And Christine Tavolacci
Thursday, July 7th at The Wild Beast
Large Ensemble Concert:
Robert by Christian Wolff
Ascending Series 5 by Michael Pisaro
Curated by Michael Pisaro
Sunday, July 10th, House/Hill Concert (481 1/2 Ave. 28, Los Angeles, California 90031)
Landscape Music by California Composers
Curated by Adam Overton & Laura Steenberge
*Updated Info
Monday, July 11th, "A Few Rooms Around Town" (Private Locations, TBA)
Small Afternoon Events
Pieces by Mark So, Madison Brookshire, Jason Brogan And Istvan Zelenka among others
Curated by Mark So
Wednesday, July 13th at The Wulf
Music For Field Recordings, Sine Tones And Strings
Shahab, Cazan And Gary Schultz
Curated by Scott Cazan, Sepand Shahab
Saturday, July 16th at The Wulf
Music With Mathematics by Tom Johnson/Mike Winter
Curated by Michael Winter
+ Abschluss Party (Red/White Sangria Included)
Each year in June, acclaimed composer Michael Pisaro hosts a remarkable concert series in Los Angeles, called Dog Star Orchestra. The seven-day series features new and rarely performed experimental music, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, and younger composers like Michael Winter, Julia Holter and Mark So.
Commencing summer in the hills north of Los Angeles (where Pisaro teaches at CalArts) the Dog Star Orchestra takes its name from the dog days of Valencia heat, and the arrival of Sirius, the dog star, in the warm night sky.
From Wikipedia:
"Michael Pisaro (born 1961 in Buffalo, New York) is a guitarist and composer. A member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble, he has composed over 80 works for a great variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. A particularly large category of his works are solo works, notably a series of 36 pieces (grouped into 6 longer works) for the three-year, 156-concert series organized by Carlo Inderhees at the Zionskirche in Berlin-Mitte from 1997-1999. Another solo piece, pi (1-2594), was performed in installments by the composer on 15 selected days in February 1999, in Evanston, Illinois, and in Düsseldorf in 2000-2001.
His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues. It has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991) and Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990, 1991). He has had extended composer residencies in Germany (Künstlerhof Schreyahn), Switzerland (Forumclaque/Baden), Israel (Miskenot Sha'ananmim), Greece (EarTalk) and in the U.S. (Birch Creek Music Festival/Wisconsin). Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Vienna, Brussels, Curitiba (Brazil), Berlin, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Cologne, Aarau and elsewhere.
Most of his music of the last several years is published by Edition Wandelweiser (Germany). Two CDs of his work have been released by Edition Wandelweiser Records. He has performed many of his own works and those of close associates Antoine Beuger, Kunsu Shim, Jürg Frey and Manfred Werder, as well as works from the experimental tradition, especially John Cage, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley and George Brecht.
Before joining the composition faculty at the California Institute of the Arts (where he is located presently), he taught music composition and theory at Northwestern University from 1986 to 2000."
Recorded by Jake Viator. Much thanks to Dublab for helping to make this archive possible.
Commencing summer in the hills north of Los Angeles (where Pisaro teaches at CalArts) the Dog Star Orchestra takes its name from the dog days of Valencia heat, and the arrival of Sirius, the dog star, in the warm night sky.
From Wikipedia:
"Michael Pisaro (born 1961 in Buffalo, New York) is a guitarist and composer. A member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble, he has composed over 80 works for a great variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. A particularly large category of his works are solo works, notably a series of 36 pieces (grouped into 6 longer works) for the three-year, 156-concert series organized by Carlo Inderhees at the Zionskirche in Berlin-Mitte from 1997-1999. Another solo piece, pi (1-2594), was performed in installments by the composer on 15 selected days in February 1999, in Evanston, Illinois, and in Düsseldorf in 2000-2001.
His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues. It has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991) and Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990, 1991). He has had extended composer residencies in Germany (Künstlerhof Schreyahn), Switzerland (Forumclaque/Baden), Israel (Miskenot Sha'ananmim), Greece (EarTalk) and in the U.S. (Birch Creek Music Festival/Wisconsin). Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Vienna, Brussels, Curitiba (Brazil), Berlin, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Cologne, Aarau and elsewhere.
Most of his music of the last several years is published by Edition Wandelweiser (Germany). Two CDs of his work have been released by Edition Wandelweiser Records. He has performed many of his own works and those of close associates Antoine Beuger, Kunsu Shim, Jürg Frey and Manfred Werder, as well as works from the experimental tradition, especially John Cage, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley and George Brecht.
Before joining the composition faculty at the California Institute of the Arts (where he is located presently), he taught music composition and theory at Northwestern University from 1986 to 2000."
Recorded by Jake Viator. Much thanks to Dublab for helping to make this archive possible.