MESH & Richard An

Tuesday 19 November 2024 • 8pm

MESH & Richard An

$10

Join us for a night of improvised and technology-driven percussion music at Trade School. We begin with Richard An, here presenting new works for percussion and electronics (we hear many solenoids and a snare drum will be involved). We close out the evening with a quintet performance by MESH (Clay Chaplin, Archie Carey, Corey Fogel, Heather Lockie, Stephanie Cheng Smith), an open-improvisation, electro-acoustic ensemble whose dynamic improvisations will excite and intrigue!

MESH

MESH is a collective of improvisers based in Los Angeles. The energy is open and non-structured, thriving on free improvisation. The music often lands in ambient textures but is definitely prone to outbursts and has a wide dynamic range.

Members

Clay Chaplin, Archie Carey, Corey Fogel, Heather Lockie, Stephanie Cheng Smith

Richard An

RICHARD AN (b.1995) is a performer and composer, born and raised in Los Angeles.

Richard plays new music, usually with house on fire, co-founded the tiny backpack new music series, and has performed with Monday Evening Concerts’ Echoi Ensemble, Piano Spheres, The Industry and on Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend. Richard plays piano and percussion, and has been known to sing, conduct, and teach.

Richard’s music has been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Calder Quartet, HOCKET, C3LA, and more.

Richard has a BM in Composition from USC and an MFA from CalArts. He is on faculty at the Pasadena Waldorf School and Glendale Community College. He plays taiko and tabla, and makes YouTube videos.

Clay Chaplin

Clay Chaplinis an electronic musician, improviser, and audio engineer from Los Angeles who explores the realms of sampling, field recording, analog electronics, and computer synthesis for creative sonic expression. His solo performances often utilize custom electronics in combination with computer processing and stochastic code structures to create chaotic instruments for improvisation.

Archie Carey

a bio!

Corey Fogel

Corey Fogel (b 1977) is a composer, drummer, and artist based in Los Angeles. He works across genre and medium to explore many facets of improvisation. He approaches sounds, textiles, collaborators, gestures, and objects as viable materials for spontaneous, strategized, time-based experimental performance, often incorporating sculpture, video, music traditions, theatricality, and ritual.

Heather Lockie

Heather Lockie is a performer/composer, teaching artist and visual artist based in Los Angeles. She plays viola and piano, writes songs, plays in several contemporary musical groups, writes and arranges music, teaches music, gardens, and uses paints for both fun times and for compositional work. She has a BA in Comparative Literature (French, English) from Occidental College and an MFA in music composition and viola performance from the California Institute of the Arts, where she studied with Sara Roberts, Wolfgang Von Schweinitz, Mark Lowenstein and Ulrich Kreiger.

https://www.heatherlockie.com/

Stephanie Cheng Smith

Stephanie Cheng Smith is an L.A.-based composer, performer and programmer who creates interactive pieces, installations, improvisation, and through-composed works. Often using electronics, violin and light elements, Smith’s work stretches from ensemble performances and the realization of others’ scores to a solo practice that has included several projects that each utilize a novel technology-driven instrument of her own devise. Developing software and designing circuitry to control motorized elements, she has imagined a unique hybrid form where physical materials such jingle-bells, plastic cups, or pieces of paper can be deliberately – or aleatorically – controlled to “perform” expressive and organic sound events. A recent work, Life Cycles, uses such apparati to vibrate vellum, evoking the sound of cicadas. Smith's 2021 album Forms was released on A Wave Press.