Elise Baldwin is an intermedia performer and sound artist whose live cinematic works center around themes of natural history, collective memory and relationships between technology and the natural world. Using custom software instruments, physical props and circuitry, she often combines and manipulates original and archival recordings. She will be performing "The Philosophy of Storms," inspired by a fascination with early American meteorology, storm watching and our cultural evolution from a faith-based society to a scientific one, "Investigations of a Dubious Premise 1, 2 and 3" (a collaboration with composer/performer
Kyle Bruckmann) and "Theater of Plants," a film that is microcosmic in scale yet expansively metaphoric in its examination of time, growth and decay. The Four Investigations of a Dubious Premise compositions are part of
Kyle Bruckmann's recent album Technological Music Vol. 1 (Entr'acte, 2013). The album is an oblique response to various antecedents of pulse-based electronic music without recourse to drum machines or sequencing (or — in the case of the Four Investigations— synthesizers). Tools include oboe, English horn, analogue synthesis and malfunctioning electric organs and piano.
Elise has spent much of the past two decades working as an audio director, multimedia producer and video editor on gaming and educational projects. Designing sound and creating musical compositions for many theater and film productions, she has had the good fortune to collaborate with talented musicians, dancers, performers and theater companies. Artist residencies include Arquetopia, Experimental Television Center, CESTA, and Harvestworks. Recent performances include San Francisco Cinematheque's Crossroads Festival 2014, Headland Center for the Arts, Other Cinema, Soundwave Festival, PS 122, ResBox, New York Electronic Arts Festival, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, CalArts CEAIT Festival and the National Queer Arts Festival. Her work has been featured on compilations Women Take Back The Noise, Sound Migrations, and Aural Fixation I and II.
Oakland, CA-based composer/performer
Kyle Bruckmann’s work extends from a classical foundation into gray areas encompassing free jazz, electronic music and post-punk rock. He is a member of acclaimed new music collective sfSound, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Eco Ensemble, Splinter Reeds, and Quinteto Latino. He has worked with the San Francisco Symphony and most of the area’s regional orchestras while remaining active in an international community of improvisers and sound artists. From 1996-2003, he was a fixture in Chicago’s experimental music underground; long-term affiliations include the electro-acoustic duo EKG, the art-punk monstrosity Lozenge, and the Creative Music quintet Wrack.
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Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
The premiere, at the 2013 Outsound New Music Summit, of Wrack ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (made possible by the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commissioning program).