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 (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 is 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.
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 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.