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S I G N A L F L O W

MUS IC AND SOUND ART FEST IVAL

M ILLS COLLEGE

MARCH 11 -14 2010

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32 Student Union

23 Music Building, Ensemble Rm Courtyard

23 Music Building Lobby

32a near creek-side bench between Rothwell Center (32) and F.W. Olin Library (31)

23 Music Building Stairwell

30 Lisser Hall Lobby

Andy Clifford

Dan Good

Seth Horvitz

Gretchen Jude

Barton McGuire

Ben Taylor

32a

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INsTaLLaTIONs

All installations run continuously throughout the festival unless otherwise noted.

For Piano, Electromagnetic Feedback, Andy Clifford Student Unionand Computer *Saturday and Sunday only

Twisting Harp Dan Good Music Building Ensemble Room Courtyard

Character Studies Seth Horvitz Music Building Lobby

“Cocooned” Gretchen Jude near creek-side bench between Rothwell Center and F.W. Olin Library

Arabidopsis Barton McGuire Music Building Stairwell

Canvas Ben Taylor Lisser Hall Lobby *Thursday only

For Piano, Electromagnetic Feedback, and Computer (2010) As a companion work to my performative piece “For Bass Clarinet, Filters, and TamTam”, this piece deals with idea of amplifying and extending the unique acoustic properties of the piano through the use of electromagnetic feedback circuits that are controlled by the computer. There are 2 main paths of feedback, one that resonates the strings and another that resonates the soundboard. These two sources of feedback also acoustically modulate each other and therefore influence the feedback loops that are driving them. The computer is acting as a mitigator, allowing for the piano to operate within a given musical space through a generative process by making simple decisions regarding which feedback loops are on or off.

Twisting Harp This piece is built from a simple, repeating geometric form, a skewed trapezoid formed from three beams and one wire. Each instance of the form is half the size of the previous one, creating a range of five octaves from the longest wire to the shortest. Sound is created by a feedback system, and the elements are acoustically coupled by a hollow chamber internal to the structure.

Character Studies A series of black and white animations created with the software program TextEdit, “Character Studies” conjures elements of ornamental design, architecture, and op-art. Each animation is generated by zooming out of a simple string of repeated text. As the zoom level changes, the characters overlap and realign themselves, creating patterns in the process.

Arabidopsis Giant spring-reverb systems feed back through themselves and each other in interlocking loops, generating a variety of tones and rhythms. The delicate and exposed nature of the springs results in open sensitivity to their surrounding environment. As their power sources deplete, their individual and collective resonances will change, and eventually expire.

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Thursday, March 11, 8:00 pM LittLefieLd ConCert HaLL

Mayflies Barton McGuire Matthew Hettich, violin William Ryan Fritch, cello Daniel Steffey, musical saw Luigi Marino, bowed percussion Barton McGuire, tape feedback

Trouble The With Matthew Michael Ahern Hettich Matthew Michael Ahern Hettich, laptop and electronics

INTERMISSION

For Bass Clarinet, Filters, and Tam-Tam Andy Clifford Matt Ingalls, bass clarinet Andy Clifford, filters and tam-tam

granny zebra plays my future self Lana Voronina Lana Voronina, upright piano and electronics

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prOGraM NOTEs Mayflies / Barton McGuireHuman, mechanical, analog electronic, and digital systems are constructed so that they will generate sound, but will eventually and certainly fail and be silenced. Trouble The With / Matthew Michael Ahern Hettich Man with machine vs. man against machine. Systems are imposed, embraced, and resisted.

For Bass Clarinet, Filters, and Tam-Tam / Andy Clifford A companion work to “For Piano, Electromagnetic Feedback, and Computer”, this piece deals with extending the spectral content of the bass clarinet in attempts to make an acoustic shift from harmonic sounds to inharmonic sounds. Unlike the piano installation, this work uses the natural resonating qualities of the Tam-Tam as a filter to gradually reshape the sound of the clarinet until it is unclear which instrument is the main focus. This gradual shift from the bass clarinet to the Tam-Tam is also reflected in the compositional processes that form the material for the piece. Therefore, the piece is in two sections, the first dealing with periodic gestures such as trills and the alternating of breath and pitched sounds. The second section deals with things that are aperiodic in nature, focusing only on long tones that are being shaped in their spectral content over long periods of time by both the player, and the filtering of the player through the Tam-Tam.

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FrIday, March 12, 8:00 pM LittLefieLd ConCert HaLL Contested Reconstructions Clara Brasseur Jacob Zimmerman, alto saxophone Tucker Jessup, trumpet in Bb Regina Schaffer, piano Zeina Nasr, voice Gretchen Jude, voice and computer Aiden Caes, text Jules Shendelman, photographs Julia Brasseur, projections Nancy Boutilier, recorded speech Lawson Solo Jacob Zimmerman 1.ascending, 2. descending, 3. ovals Jacob Zimmerman, alto sax INTERMISSION

It’s Not About Time Dan Good Dan Good, electric bass and electronics

Networks – Ritual Luigi Marino Anagamin Ensemble Luigi Marino, percussion Daniel Steffey, percussion Anna Wray, percussion, Christina Stanley, violin Jennifer Wilsey, tam tam David Douglas, tam tam

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prOGraM NOTEs

Contested Reconstructions / Clara Brasseur Contested Reconstructions explores the dichotomy between a double mastectomy as part of treatment for breast cancer and top surgery as part of gender transition/transformation. The music and text work together to explore the fracture and (re)construction of physical embodiment. I am not interested in portraying a straightforward picture of transness or femininity, of queerness or heterosexuality, but am interested instead in the boundaries and the ambiguities, the struggle for definition when there aren’t words. This piece revolves around a medical procedure that carries intense circumstantial/contextual meanings, and the contradictions of investment in surgery as necessary cure or chosen vehicle of transformation.

It’s Not About Time / Dan Good Flashbacks from recent memory randomly overlay the live performance, mixing like and unlike textures and creating harmony and dissonance. How could it be about anything other than time?

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saTurday, March 13, 8:00 pM LittLefieLd ConCert HaLL Untitled Dream 7 e mezzo: (study of sky) Sofia Larsson Sofia Larsson, video The Opal Church Ben Taylor Ben Taylor, The Opal Church: web instrument Barton McGuire, Canvas: web installation Dustin Schultz, Canvas: web installation INTERMISSION

Pattern Resolution Conner Lacy Lona Kozik, piano Christina Stanley, violin Conner Lacy, computer

Journey: Day into Night Gretchen Judea scored improvisation for koto, electronics/laptop, dancer, singing saw and double bass Gretchen Jude, koto & electronics Peiling Kao, movement & electronics Chris Brasseur, lighting Barton McGuire, saw William Ryan Fritch, bass

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prOGraM NOTEs

Untitled Dream 7 e mezzo: (study of sky) / Sofia Larsson Untitled Dream 7-e-mezzo: (study of sky) is a video-score and part of the cross-disciplinary body of work (untitled dreams). The compositional structure of these pieces can be thought of as a type of audiovisual sculpture -- welding “zones of time” together. The sculptural “base layer” of a given piece is the pre-edited audiovisual material. In the presentation of a piece, this base layer may also serve as a “building block” for interpretative responses by artist working in other media loosely guided by a set of perceptual parameters and the principle of synchronicity (*). New parameters and/or stage elements are established for each performance/interpretation. The compositional organization of the sculptural materials themselves is, in turn, an experimental blend celebrating compositional approaches to musical time, visual language and fancy perceptual ideas such as “cinematic excess” and excess per se explored by beautiful thinkers, directors, composers and people like Curtis Roads, Pauline Oliveros, Edward Branigan, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, my best-in-the-world-brother Anders “Bubbi “ Larsson, my mega-Swedish mom and dad, plus ultra-wonderful YOU. The Opal Church / Ben Taylor “Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke In The Opal Church, I am performing in a website by adding and subtracting media to it. Essentially, I am rewriting its inner HTML code in real-time. This is the website on the main screen. My performance may be seen by anyone, anywhere, who is watching this website. I am being accompanied by Bart and Dustin playing a local (non-broadcast) performance of an interactive musical website that I made. In their case, the website is the “score” – they are allowed to travel anywhere within the website, and their travels give structure to the music. You may view my web compositions (including Canvas) at www.whitechord.org Pattern Resolution / Conner Lacy Pattern Resolution is an interactive, sonic structure in which players signal to the computer the moments at which they play composed and improvised gestures. These timings are then digitally recapitulated, transformed, and systematically intertwined. Journey: Day into Night / Gretchen Jude I would like to thank everyone at Mills for their kind support, particularly my mentors: computer/electronic musicians John Bischoff, James Fei and Laetitia Sonami, improvisers Molly Holm, Linda Johnson and Fred Frith, and Oakland’s own koto master Brian Wong; my esteemed colleagues: Conner Lacy and Carson Whitley (who kept me laughing at the glitches); and my brilliant collaborators: Peiling Kao, Barton McGuire, William Ryan Fritch and Chris Brasseur. Journey would not exist without these people.

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suNday, March 14, 4:30 pM LittLefieLd ConCert HaLL

“Ki:N[e6^tic ] [^-pPa5:ri]t1o”N Dustin Schultz Dustin Schultz, homemade instrument, electronics Either you will falter Zeina Nasr Zeina Nasr, voice Jacob Zimmerman, alto saxophone, Drew Ceccato, tenor saxophone Seth Horvitz, electronics Chuck Johnson, electronics Lana Dandan, video art INTERMISSION

195 Holly Herndon Logan Birdsall, voice Elise Cumberland, voice Gretchen Jude, voice Lucy Moore, voice Zeina Nasr, voice Danishta Rivero, voice, Holly Herndon, laptop

Green Phosphor No. 1 Seth Horvitz Seth Horvitz, green computer monitor, inductive microphone, video camera

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prOGraM NOTEs

“Ki:N[e6^tic ] [^-pPa5:ri]t1o”N / Dustin SchultzInteractions between performer and mechanical organism possess the shape and character of disembodied organisms and environments. Either you will falter / Zeina Nasr

Either you will falterOr the sun will strike youIn the faceA swift illuminationIs the crooked lotOf our race

When I saw you shakingIn the spaceOf an amenJust right then --I knew

(Text by Zeina Nasr) 195 / Holly HerndonThis piece explores the juxtaposition of acoustic, amplified and processed voice in an attempt to address the question of the electronic disembodiment of the human voice. With the addition of synthesized electronics, feedback and extended vocal technique, this piece compares timbre and texture of electronics, voice and a combination of the two, as equally valid, yet markedly different autonomous entities. Green Phosphor No. 1 / Seth HorvitzA simple experiment in mind control, Green Phosphor No. 1 uses a green monochrome computer monitor as an instrument for projection of both sound and image. An inductive microphone is used to amplify the electromagnetic activity generated by the monitor, while a video camera is used to project the surface of the monitor overhead.

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arTIsT BIOs

Logan Birdsall is a sophomore studying music at Mills College.

Christopher Clara Brasseur is a Music Composition master’s student at Mills College, currently studying with Fred Frith. Clara graduated in 2008 from Oberlin College with a BA in Music Composition and Astrophysics. Past composition teachers include Professors Lewis Nielson and Randolph Coleman at Oberlin Conservatory, and Peter Buckland at Penn State University. Clara’s music explores intersections between textual meaning and musical embodiment. {www.professionalpenguin.com/music.html}

Julia Brasseur studies film and media arts with an emphasis in screenwriting at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also pursuing a Spanish minor and worked as a writing intern for Penn State Public Broadcasting this past summer. She will graduate in 2012 after which she hopes to spend time traveling.

Aiden Caes is a graduate of Oberlin College (‘08) where they wrote “Two Reconstructions of Gender,” the text for “Contested Reconstructions” under the guidance of Nancy Boutilier. Aiden is currently a Master’s candidate in Library and Information Science at University of Wisconsin - Madison. Aiden’s interests include quilting, fine woodworking, and dogs.

Drew Ceccato grew up in Ann Arbor, MI where he started woodwind studies at age 10. He later attended Interlochen Arts Academy and New England Conservatory of Music for saxophone performance and is currently enrolled at Mills College. Today Drew lives in Oakland, CA and is working on multiple projects across many different genres.

Andy Clifford is a second year in the MA Composition program at Mills College. His work frequently deals with topics pertaining to perception, psychoacoustics, and acoustic phenomena in form of sound installations and compositions.

Elise Cumberland is in her final year studying music at Mills College. Elise is always listening.

Lana Dandan is a photographer and visual artist. {www.lanadandan.com}

David Douglas is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger that specializes in all things percussive. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in percussion performance from the University of North Texas in 1999, he has spent the better part of the last ten years touring and recording with such acts as John Vanderslice, Kelley Stoltz, Mandarin, Cursive, The Baptist Generals, Mark Eitzel, and many others. He is currently working on a master’s degree at Mills College, where he studies improvisation and composition.

Dan Good is a composer and sound sculptor. He is interested in process, feedback, interconnectedness, noise, orthogonality, acoustics, curvature, time, space, and the way things sound when you hit them. He believes that large groups of small things bouncing off of one another produce emergent phenomena, and seeks to exploit this idea in his work. Prior to attending Mills, Dan studied electrical engineering at MIT and UC Berkeley. He is now very much looking forward to finishing school and never going back again.

Holly Herndon is a second year graduate student at Mills College working towards her MFA in electronic music and recording media. Her most recent work combines the original instrument, the voice, with contemporary electronic instruments as a means to explore the expressive potential and core humanity within these new technologies.

Before moving to Oakland, Holly was one half of electro-pop duo Electrocute, embarking on a comprehensive world tour in 2005/2006. A Tennessee native and fluent German speaker, prior to her studies she managed an online music licensing service for commercial clients and curated cultural events for the venue ‘West Germany’ from a base in Berlin, Germany.

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Matthew Michael Ahern Hettich is someone who wonders why love scenes in movies make him uncomfortable. Still.

Seth Horvitz (b. 1973, Los Angeles) has been producing and performing electronic music since the mid-1990s under the name Sutekh for record labels such as Leaf (UK), Soul Jazz (UK), Force Inc./Mille Plateaux (Germany), and his own Context Free Media. He is also one half of the spastic dance-theater-self-help duo Pigeon Funk with Joshua Kit Clayton. Though he began his musical adventures as a self-taught misuser of electronics and radio DJ, in recent years he has gravitated towards a more studied approach to composition, taking private courses in piano performance and music theory and completing scores for several short films. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley in 1995 and is currently in the second year of the Master’s program in Electronic Music at Mills. {www.context.fm}

Matt Ingalls is an Oakland-based composer, clarinetist, concert producer, and computer music programmer. Often incorporating elements of improvisation, his music is heavily influenced by his long involvement in computer music. Matt is the founder and co-director of sfSound, a new music series, ensemble, and internet radio station devoted to new ideas and traditions of experimental music, performance art, live electronic music, Bay Area composition, and the various facets of contemporary improvisation. {www.sfSound.org/matt}

Tucker Jessup, a freelance trumpet player based out of Oakland who is sometimes asked to play saxophone and/or sing, which he finds strange, was raised by penguins following a tragic childhood boating accident. He attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music on a full football scholarship through a shocking administrative error. The school does not have a football team. Thereafter, he lived in San Jose and played a lot of trumpet with youth musical theater companies and community orchestras. He often lectures his dogs on a variety of subjects. He enjoys swimming, despite the painful memories.

Chuck Johnson is an Oakland-based composer and musician who has worked in improvised music, noise, experimental rock, American Primitive fingerstyle guitar, and music for film. In recent years he has developed a versatile analog electronic performance system, created interactive and intermedia work with unusual interfaces, and worked extensively with just intonation tuning systems – all with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that might reveal latent beauty. Recordings of his work have been published by Communion, Amish, Merge, Umbrella, Phaserprone, Squealer and Threelobed.

Gretchen Jude Before coming to Mills for an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media, Gretchen Jude studied koto with Sawai master Curtis Patterson, nagauta shamisen with Nishimura Makoto, and Urasenke tea ceremony with Hagiwara Kimiko (in Tokyo); as well as experimental & computer music with Ted Apel, and vocal performance with Giselle Wyers & Bruce Browne (in Idaho). She has done performance art, improvised, and performed classical, traditional, experimental, acoustic and electronic/computer music in the U.S. and Japan, most recently at Old First Church in San Francisco and at the Berkeley Art Museum (with Ellen Fullman).

Peiling Kao was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She worked as a freelance dancer for 13 years and was a full-time teacher at Cloud Gate Dance School in Taiwan. She graduated with a BFA in Dance from Taipei National University of the Arts in 1996 and has completed technique training in ballet, contemporary, Chinese folk dance, and contact improvisation. She was awarded the Taiwan-England artists’ residency program, hosted by Independent Dance based at Siobhan Davis Studios in London in 2007. Peiling is now doing her MFA in Choreography and Performance at Mills College and was selected as an apprentice for ODC.

The artist/professionals that she worked with are Hwai-Min Lin (Founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theater), Mary Anthony, Molissa Fenley, Brenda Way, Sonya Delwaide, Sean Curran, Ross Parkes, Men-Fei Lo, Min-Shen Ku, Susan Van Pelt, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Nancy Lyons, Rachel Berman, Alyce Finwall and Joumana Mourad.

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Lona Kozik is a pianist and composer who has lived all over the United States and in the United Kingdom. Currently her permanent address is in Totnes in Devon, England - a town described by British Airways magazine in 2005 as one of the top ten “funky” towns in Europe. Her interests are wide, but in music she is currently interested in thinking about German hegemony in classical music, the legacy of modernism, the legacy of romanticism, the music of Eric Satie, for which she has a particular affinity, and something called sacred geometry.

Lona studied piano performance/pedagogy and music theory/composition at West Chester University in Pennsylvania and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She has written mostly piano music of a generally classical/contemporary flavor, and in 2009 her set of piano etudes entitled “Fast Jump,” recorded by the pianist Danny Holt, was issued on CD on the Innova label. She is currently studying improvisation performance with Fred Frith and Roscoe Mitchell, which has prompted her to think a lot about humanity and music and the communal aspects of music-making as a model for improving things.

Conner Lacy Conner was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1985. He emerged as an averaged sized baby, and after a few years of growth began dressing up a lot, changing characters almost daily. He played an incredible amount of soccer in his youth, traveling to tournaments all around the country and eventually to Europe a few times. Junior year of high school he quit playing soccer seriously to devote his attention to his rock band, writing, exploring new things, and artistic expression. He went to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville where he had spent the slightly-larger half of his life. There he studied electronic music and digital art, as well as a fair amount of anthropology. Now he’s finishing up his M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College in Oakland, California. Conner works as a software developer creating musical controllers and instruments. Lately, he’s been reading a lot about Buddhism, cognitive science, and information theory. He likes to run from his warehouse to Middle Harbor Shoreline Park and back when the freight trucks have all departed. Writing this, he feels really happy and thankful to have met all the wonderful people currently inhabiting Mills and the broader community.

Sofia Larsson Sometimes balloons are very pink. Dreams dream our dreams. The recorded sound of “una Pera” (especially if spacial-iced) makes 12-year-old kind of girls like me smile. Heaven is YOUR forever smile. Please don’t stop the music! P.S. Happy Birthday! D.S.

Luigi Marino is a second year MFA in electronic music. His main interests are composition and improvisation for both acoustic instruments and electronic media. He plays mostly zarb and bowed metals.

Barton McGuire is a second year MFA student studying Electronic Music & Recording Media. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 2008 where he studied Religious Philosophy and Music, among other things. He composes and constructs electro-acoustic music and installations, and is especially interested in the use of systems, ultrasound, and homemade electronics and instruments.

Lucy Moore In her final semester as a music major at Mills, Lucy Moore is so glad to join the stage this year at Signal Flow.

Zeina Nasr is from Beirut, Lebanon. Sometimes, when she wakes up in the morning, in the brief moment before remembrance returns, she has no idea where she is.

Danishta Rivero is an electronic music major at Mills College.

Regina Schaffer performs all over the Bay Area as a soloist, accompanist and ensemble member. She annually helps organize and performs in the concert series New Keys, newfangled music for the piano. She has also been teaching piano privately for the past 12 years to students of all ages and levels. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in piano performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she studied with Mack McCray and her Master of Fine Arts degree at Mills College. www.reginaschaffer.com

Dustin Schultz Rural North Dakota can be a dark, cold and murky place this time of year. It was from there whence I came and I am now quite excited to be calling Oakland home. I have studied composition with Laetitia Sonomi and Henry Gwiazda, and hold a BM in music composition from Minnesota State University Moorhead.

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Jules Shendelman is an Oakland-based student, pre-everything trannyboy, atheist Jew, pervert, writer, photographer, and budding queer theorist. He is interested in marginalization, deviance, liminality, and both literal and figurative queer spaces. Jules is currently majoring in Queer Studies at Mills College and hopes avoid the world outside of academia for as long as possible.

Christina Stanley is a violinist and vocalist pursuing an MFA in improvisation and literature from Mills College. She is currently studying violin with David Abel and composition with Fred Frith. She is interested in finding an intersection between electronic and acoustic music and enjoys working with living composers. Christina studied violin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Li Lin and graduated with her BM from San Francisco State having studied chamber music with the Alexander Quartet, violin with Daniel Kobialka and voice with Alissa Deeter. She has toured Cuba, Europe and the United States performing her music.

Daniel Steffey is an active composer and percussionist in the San Francisco Bay area. Currently attending Mills College for an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media, he studies composition with Roscoe Mitchell. Recently, Daniel composed music and did sound design for Helen Pau’s award winning play The Stone Wife. He has also written music for experimental film artists such as Dale Springhetti, Eric Lowe, and Michael Valentin. Daniel received his BA in Music Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he studied percussion with Dean Gronemeier and Tim Jones. As a percussionist, he has performed extensively throughout the United States with groups such as the Iron Beats Drum and Dance Group, the Ragtime Rebels Marimba Band, and his psychedelic rock group Easysleeves.

Ben Taylor is a composer of electronic music and music for the Internet. He was born in Charlottesville, VA, and studied composition at Kenyon College in Ohio. He considers the Internet a flexible, free space for multimedia art installation, as well as a nearly unlimited resource of media to sample from and collage. In addition to composing web music, Ben has won academic honors for his electro-acoustic compositions and toured New England with the minimalist rock band Rowboat Rowboat.

Lana Voronina lana has a website dot com

Jennifer Wilsey performs, composes and teaches music with a focus on improvisation, polyrhythm and Deep Listening™ practices. In addition to being active as a concert percussionist, she has performed with many diverse artists and ensembles including Timeless Pulse, The Good Sound Band and Petr Kotik and the SEM Ensemble. Jennifer’s recent recordings include: Timeless Pulse Live at CNMAT, 2002 (Deep Listening); Timeless Pulse Quintet (Mutable, 2007); and upcoming releases of a trio album with Pauline Oliveros and George Marsh on Taiga Records, and a trio album with W. A. Mathieu and George Marsh. As an educator, Jennifer teaches percussion, percussion pedagogy and directs the Percussion Ensemble at Sonoma State University. She also maintains a private studio offering creative music lessons for children and adults in Santa Rosa, CA.

Anna Wray, percussionist, is a freshwoman at Mills College where she is a Provost Scholar and recipient of the Carroll Donner Commemorative Scholarship. She is a graduate of Sleepy Hollow High School in Sleepy Hollow, New York and this year’s Marcus Rice Scholar for outstanding musicianship. Anna has participated in the United Nations Youth Orchestra, Westchester All-County Band, and the Hudson Valley Symphonic Wind Ensemble.

Jacob Zimmerman Saxophonist and composer Jacob Zimmerman (b. 1986) studied at the renowned Garfield High School in Seattle, and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts where he received a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Saxophone Performance. Zimmerman is currently a 2nd year Masters Composition student at Mills College in Oakland, California. His teachers have included Roscoe Mitchell, Jerry Bergonzi, James Fei, Joe Morris, Anthony Coleman, Allan Chase, and John Mallia. Zimmerman has performed at a variety of prominent venues and festivals including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Jordan Hall in Boston, and Avery Fisher Hall in New York.

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T H U 1 1 / 8 P M F R I 1 2 / 8 P M S AT 1 3 / 8 P M S U N 1 4 / 4 3 0 P M

Bar ton McGu i re

Ma t t He t t i ch

Andy C l i f f o rd

Lana Vo ron ina

C la ra B rasseu r

Jacob Z immer man

Dan Good

Lu ig i Ma r i no

So f i a La r s son

Ben Tay l o r

Conne r Lacy

Gre t chen Jude

Dus t i n Schu l t z

Ze ina Nas r

Ho l l y He r ndon

Se th Ho r v i t z