Vintage electronics share a stage with the newest sonic technology when acclaimed Dutch composer Thomas Ankersmit highlights a two-night festival celebrating the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology (CEAIT). CEAIT Festival 2012 will be held at REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater Friday, February 10 and Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 8:30 pm.
Ankersmit, known for abstract, intensely focused electroacoustic work using hyper-kinetic synth and computer improvisation, kicks off a program that also features work by zerfall_gebiete, the duo of electronic ambient soundscape veterans Thomas Koner and Ulrich Krieger.
Friday is "Noise Night" featuring L.A.'s own Damion Romero and the pairing of noise pioneers Zbigniew Karkowski and Xopher Davidson. "Ambient Night" on Saturday features the debut of a new work by Ankersmit created expressly for the historic Serge analogue modular synthesizer, originally developed by Serge Tcherepnin at CalArts in the 1970s.
CEAIT Festival 2012 is funded in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Exchange International Program supported in part by public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services (New York), in partnership with the Dutch Centre for International Cultural Activities (SICA); Music Center, the Netherlands; Netherlands Theatre Institute; and the Dutch Fund for the Performing Arts. Thomas Koner's appearance is made possible by Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.
TICKETS & MORE INFORMATION
CEAIT Festival 2012
Friday, February 10 at 8:30 pm; and
Saturday, February 11 at 8:30 pm
Tickets: $20 ($16 students)
Seating is general admission and tickets are available for purchase in-person at REDCAT Box Office, by phone at 213-237-2800, or online at www.redcat.org.
REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
REDCAT is located at the corner of W. 2nd and Hope Streets, inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles.
ABOUT THOMAS ANKERSMIT
Thomas Ankersmit (1979, Leiden, Netherlands) is a musician and installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. His main instruments are the Serge analogue modular synthesizer, computer and alto saxophone. He frequently works together with New York minimalist Phill Niblock and electroacoustic artists Valerio Tricoli and Kevin Drumm.
"Ankersmit... sets a new bar for live electronic performance... Live in Utrecht is intriguing enough as an artistic statement to attract those uninitiated to this kind of music." —Louis Battaglia, PopMatters
www.thomasankersmit.net
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