The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present Mills Music Now 2018-2019
MARIA CHÁVEZ
Sound Artist, DJ
(David Tudor Composer-in-Residence)
Saturday, October 20, 2018
8:00pm
Littlefield Concert Hall
Free to Mills students, faculty, and staff
Admission:
$15 general, $10 seniors and students
Buy tickets at the door, or online at:
https://www.boxofficetickets.com/go/event?id=332063
For detailed information, please visit the Music Now webpage:
http://musicnow.mills.edu
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Wheelchair accessible
Free parking on campus
Mills College
Music Department
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
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Maria Chávez, born in Lima, Peru, and based in NYC, is best known as an abstract turntablist, conceptual sound artist and DJ. Her improvised solo turntable performance combines recorded sounds from vinyl records with the electroacoustic sounds of vinyl and needle in various deteriorating phases. This raw approach merges the practice of improvisation with the inherent unstable conditions of a turntable, allowing accidents to dictate each sound piece. Her conceptual sound installation practice tends to be site specific, allowing each space to highlight it's own sonic qualities. Her solo exhibitions are often interactive, ranging from spatial sound presentations to turning an entire art space into a gigantic string instrument for the audience to perform.
Chávez has been a research fellow of the Sound Practice Research Department, Goldsmith’s University, a composer fellow with Civitella Ranieri in Umbertide, Italy, and an artist fellow at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Her instructional book of essays and illustrations, OF TECHNIQUE: Chance Procedures on Turntable, was published in 2012.
She has participated in various artist residencies including the CEC Artslink/Back Apartment residency in St. Petersburg, Kunstmeile Krems sound artist residency in Austria, The Kitchen in New York and the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at HeK – haus der elektronischen Künste-Basel, INKONST Art Center, Sweden, The Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Getty Museum, Black Mountain College Museum and Documenta14 in Kassel.
Her latest solo exhibition, Topography Of Sound: Peaks and Valleys, a painting show about the topography of vinyl records and needles, was recently on view at the Harnett Museum of Art in Richmond, Virginia while her latest 4.1 spatial sound installation, The Center and Periphery, was exhibited in the group show, Soundings, curated by Stephen Vitiello for the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech University.
Later this fall Maria will be a perform her solo turntablism work for the Le Guess Who? Festival, co-curated by Moor Mother, the Ableton Loop Festival in L.A. along with touring extensively around Europe and the UK. This winter she will be artist in residence with MESS (The Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio) along with presenting a new abstract turntablism commission for DECIBEL in Perth, Australia with Monash University.
www.mariachavez.org
https://soundcloud.com/maria-chavez
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/mariachavez
Videos and interviews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruDZM-mrTpA
https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=356
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Upcoming Concerts
IMPROVISATION CONCERT
Friday, October 26, 2018 8:00 pm
duo B. : Lisa Mezzacappa and Jason Levis, and The Schimscheimer Family Trio (Jon Arkin, Kasey Knudsen, Michael Coleman)
LAS SUCIAS (DANISHTA RIVERO AND ALEXANDRA BUSCHMAN)
AND COMPOSERS FROM THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Saturday, November 3, 2018 8:00 pm
The renegade duo mixes riot grrrl lyrics, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and possessed vocals. CCM faculty composers
Zeena Parkins and Laetitia Sonami are also featured.
MILLS PERFORMING GROUP
Saturday, November 17, 2018 8:00 pm
Music by Robert Ashley, Meredith Monk, Maggi Payne, Morton Feldman, Wendy Reid, and Steed Cowart
ZEENA PARKINS-HARP BENEFIT CONCERT for MILLS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2019 8pm $20 general, $10 seniors, non-Mills students, Mills alums
Parkins plays Captiva, her solo for harp and electronics and
then is joined by Fred Frith and William Winant for improvisations
Jean Macduff Composer-in-Residence
DAVID BEHRMAN
Saturday, February 16, 2019 8:00 pm
An evening of works by one of the legendary pioneers of
live electronic music
SIGNAL FLOW FESTIVAL
Thursday, March 7, 2019 – 8:00 pm - Free
Friday, March 8, 2019 – 8:00 pm - Free
Saturday, March 9, 2019 – 8:00 pm - Free
Sunday, March 10, 2019 – 4:00 pm - Free
New Works by Mills Graduate Students
X SOUND FESTIVAL
Saturday, April 6, 2019 8:00 pm - Free
New Works by Mills Undergraduate Students
Dewing Piano Recital
JOANNA MACGREGOR
Saturday, April 13, 2019 8:00 pm
Music by Beethoven, Chopin, Ginastera, and Liszt
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All Mills Music Now concerts are in the Littlefield Concert Hall.
Free to Mills students, faculty, and staff
Admission: $15 general, $10 seniors, Mills alums, and non-Mills students (unless otherwise noted)
Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at:
http://www.boxofficetickets.com (keywords: Mills College)
For more information, please visit:
https://musicnow.mills.edu/
Please like and share our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/193767684800647/
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA . 94613
Cost: $15 general, $10 seniors and students