4MACIÓNJordan Glenn +
JOSÉ F. SOLARES +
MITCH STAHLMANN4MACIÓN debuts a new computer music composition for solo laptop, “Monzogranite,” arranged for the Mosswood Chapel. The work is a variation on a computer-generated melody which disrupts and plays in harmony with multiple digital feedback systems.
Jordan Glenn,
JOSÉ F. SOLARES, and
MITCH STAHLMANN perform a new trio of winds and percussion.
4MACIÓN (KRISTIAN DAHLBOM) is a Los Angeles-based composer and performer of computer music. Through laptop performance and the use of various electronic sensors, 4mación explores the relationship between human and computer in live music settings and aims to create dynamic, audible topographies as a product of this collaboration. Using live synthesis, sound processing, and feedback loops, they attempt to negotiate the divinity of nature with the bleakness of the computer. The results are often sounds that possess an uncanny aliveness.
JOSÉ F. SOLARES (saxophone/flute) is a Mexican improviser, saxophonist, composer and sound artist, born in Ensenada, Baja California. Jose has a BA in Classical Saxophone Performance from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC). Although his academic formation was in classical music, Jose has developed his musicianship in many other music genres like ska, rock, reggae, jazz, contemporary music, free improvisation, among others. He has performed in many orchestras and ensembles such as UABC Symphony, UABC Chamber Orchestra, La Covacha Big Band, Wilfrido Terrazas Sea Quintet, Bucefalo, Burnt Sugar Arkestra Chamber, etc. Jose has also participated in many festivals as Vértice 2018, Ensenada’s New Music Festival (Neofonia FMNE) 2019/2021, International Improv’s Week (SIDIMPRO) 2013- 2019, La Covacha’s International Jazz Week ( SIJAZZ) 2014-2019, Festival Of New Trumpet Music West 2020 (FONT West),and the Afrofuturism Festival at Carnegie Hall 2022. Jose has had the opportunity to work and learn from amazing artists like, Stephanie Richards, Tomeka Reid, Wilfrido Terrazas, Nathan Hubbard and Ivan Trujillo. With more than twenty world premiere pieces performed, one of his greatest interests in music is to explore the sonic possibilities through new music and free improvisation. Jose is nowadays studying an MFA in Performance and Literature, with an emphasis in Improvisation at Mills College, in Oakland CA.
MITCH STAHLMANN (flute/winds) is a Minneapolis-born and Oakland-based multimedia artist, improvisor and composer focusing on flutes and electronics. His work has been presented in collaboration with and alongside Kronos Quartet, Meredith Monk, Zeena Parkins, Briana Marela, and Bang on a Can. His personal practice is dedicated to revealing the unearthed tones and uncharacteristic behaviors of the flute. An archive can be heard of this work through the recently premiered solo album Into the Wish, released through Mondoj of Warsaw, Poland. Mitch actively works with fellow bandmates Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice in LCM (Orange Milk Records) as well as various other improvisatory and impulsive acts of sound across the globe. Mitch completed his MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media with a Elizabeth B. Mills award for Composition at Mills College in 2020.
Jordan Glenn (drums/percussion) has worked closely with Fred Frith (FF Trio, Gravity Band), William Winant, Zeena Parkins (The Adorables), Roscoe Mitchell, Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose, John Schott, Lisa Mezzacappa, Kyle Bruckmann, Michael Coleman, Matthew Welch and bands Jack O' The Clock, Secret Chiefs 3, The Rova Sax Quartet, tUnE-yArDs and the collective Sifter with Rob Ewing, Beth Schenck and Lisa Mezzacappa. As a leader he led the trio Wiener Kids, Mindless Thing (a collaboration with poet Jim Ryan) and the percussion heavy large ensemble BEAK. Since 2019 he has co-run with Lisa Mezzacappa, the DO-OVER Music Series, a composition/improvisation lab held monthly at the Temescal Art Center in Oakland. He also has been commissioned to create scores for evening-length dance pieces by Sharp & Fine and Liss Fain Dance.
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Fred Frith, Guitar; Jordan Glenn, Drums; Jason Hoopes, bass