MicroTextual
music with words | words without music
April 16th , 2011 | | @ MiMoDa Studio
5772 W. Pico Blvd | Los Angeles, CA 90019 | $15/$10
Program
MicroTextual, a CATALYSIS PROJECTS presentation curated by Aron Kallay, brings together musicians and artists to create microtonal music, text performance, and performance-integrated sculpture, expanding the points of convergence between modes and disciplines of artmaking. World premieres by Jeffrey Holmes, Cat Lamb, Isaac Schankler, and Quintan Ana Wikswo. Additional works by Bill Alves, Harry Partch, David Rosenboom, and Kim Ye.

“Quintan Ana Wikswo’s work uses obsolete technology and manual techniques to capture images of decaying, paradoxical locations and traditions; drawn as she is to the ruins and outskirts of urban centers, Wikswo is documenting a discarded world.” — Shana Nys Dambrot (Flavorpill)

On Bill Alves’ Luminescence: “…voices, gamelan, and computer-generated tones joined in a haunting, nocturnal reverie: unearthly, far beyond the reaches of harmonic or tuning systems.” — Alan Rich, LA Weekly

“Ye’s latex and cloth figure sculptures… update the surrealist wardrobe’s toed shoes and breasted nighties for the Burrovian Interzone age of iPod people interfacing with their talking insect-typewriters.” — East Bay Express