NEW MUSIC SERIES, EVERY THURSDAY

the luggage store, 1007 Market Street

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

8-10PM

$6-10 sliding scale, no one refused for lack of funds

SURGE & CONVERGE I:
ELISE BALDWIN
CLAY CHAPLIN
MILTON CROSS
KADET KUHNE

Two artists from Los Angeles and two artists from San Francisco
come together for an evening of improvisation, performing both
solo and collaborative sets in a continuous current of sonic banter.
Curated by Kadet.

Elise Baldwin:
Raised on a farm in Idaho, Elise Baldwin now resides in San Francisco, 
where she recently completed her MFA in Electronic Music at Mills 
College. When not indulging her interest in pyrokenesis or reading 
compulsively in the bath, E can be found cooking up aurally hazardous 
byproducts in her studio or building software instruments for video 
manipulation. She has spent much of the past decade as a sound designer 
and recording engineer, as well as composing for theater, film, live 
performance, and audio installations. Active in the Bay Area 
experimental music scene, she focuses on solo and collaborative 
intermedia performance, appearing recently at the ARTSfest 2004, E.S.P. 
Media Lounge, CalArts CEAIT Festival 2003 and the National Queer Arts 
Festival. She is a Harvestworks Artist in Residence for 2006 and 
recipient of the 2004 Frogs Peak Award for Experimental Music. 
(clattertrap.com)

Clay Chaplin:
Clay Chaplin is a composer, improviser and video artist from Los 
Angeles who explores audio visual improvisation with computer 
instruments and networked systems. He uses computers and custom 
electronics as musical and visual instruments which can of capture, 
process, play back, or generate sounds and images in real-time. Clay is 
continuing development of his wireless, interactive instrument named 
'Stupid Thing' which, through a connection with the body provides 
mobility and physicality to his performances. During his career, Clay 
has worked on many projects involving experimental music, video, dance, 
computers, and related technology. His works have been performed 
internationally including performances at the Los Angeles County Museum 
of Art, the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, the Lincoln 
Center Out-of-Doors Festival, the Sonic Circuits Festivals, the Piano 
Spheres concert series, the Santa Fe Electronic Music Festival, UCSB's 
Cultural Turn Conference, UCSD's Time-Forms Media Festival, the 
Ex-Static Concerts in Sydney, the Korean Electro-Acoustic Society 
concerts in Seoul, the Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists in 
Toronto, the Olympia Experimental Music Festival, the International 
Computer Music Conference in Hong Kong, the Baltimore Composers Forum 
concerts, the CEAIT Electronic Music Festivals, and the Electronic 
Music Threshold concerts. Clay is currently the Director of the 
Computer Music and Experimental Media studios at the CalArts School of 
Music where he teaches composition, audio recording, and digital video. 
(music.calarts.edu/~cchaplin/)

Milton Cross:
Milton Cross (who also goes by Tony) has been playing the violin since 
the age of 4. He studied at the Oberlin Conservatory, the Curtis 
Institute, and the Aspen Music School. He has performed, recorded 
and/or toured with Tarentel, No Name Trio, Laughingstock, Dielectric 
Drone All-Stars, John Vanderslice, Alfred, and many others. Milton has 
composed and performed soundtracks for several films, including Frozen 
Angels (Sundance, 2005, with co-composer and longtime co-conspirator 
Zoe Keating), Oregon (South by Southwest, Seattle International, 
Odense, Berlin, Taos Talking Pictures, and Sci-Fi Channel), Uncovering 
Glen Canyon (Taos Mountain, Flagstaff, Durango and Santa Fe Film 
Festivals) and Alfred (Cannes, 1999 and ResFest, 1998).
Other activities include field recording (he has presented work at the 
Field Effects series in San Francisco), writing (published a few times 
in McSweeney's Internet Tendency), and working as a Soundscape Monitor 
in Muir Woods. Milton lives in San Francisco but grew up in New York 
and Michigan. He has twice completed the swim from Alcatraz to San 
Francisco. (miltoncross.com)

Kadet Kuhne:
Kadet Kuhne is a media artist based out of Los Angeles whose work 
includes music composition, filmmaking and installation. Kadet’s fever 
for combining audio and video began over a decade ago when she started 
shooting and soundtracking underground films. Kadet has two solo CD 
releases, Seismic and Thin Air, and is featured on numerous 
compilations including Women Take Back The Noise and MONO:POLY. As an 
award-winning filmmaker, she has nine film and video shorts that are 
screened worldwide, and designs interactive, audiovisual installations 
for galleries and museums. Past exhibitions and performances include 
the Museum of Art Lucerne, LACMA, Musees de Strasbourg, MOCA -LA, San 
Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, REDCAT. The LAB, The Weisman Art 
Museum, The CEAIT Festival, Highways Performance Gallery, New York 
Underground Film Festival and The Knitting Factory. Since graduating 
with an MFA in Music Composition & Integrated Media at CalArts, Kadet 
has moved into teaching at UCSD and owns a Post-Production Sound 
studio, Audible Shift, where she designs and mixes for cinema, 
commercials, video games and music releases. (tektonicshift.com)

*****************************************************************************