Angel City x Vernacular: Trio3 Improvisations
October 15 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Doors at 6:30pm
Trio 1
Carole Kim – live video, sound objects, electronics
Kozue Matsumoto – koto
Aine Nakamura – movement, voice
Trio 2
Alex Cline – percussion
Dwight Trible – voice
Joshua White – keyboard
Trio 3
Joe Baiza – guitar
Mike Watt – bass
Matt Crane – drums
Vernacular: New Music teams up with Angel City Jazz Festival for the third year in a row to present, fittingly, an evening of three trios.
We invited three disparate but equally compelling artists, percussion maestro Alex Cline, visual and sonic explorer Carole Kim, and punk abstractionist Joe Baiza, to each select two additional collaborators for the evening.
The three trios that resulted from the process represent unique approaches to improvisation and collaboration; three very different responses to the challenge of creating in the moment based on the excitement of working with new personalities or the discovery of new possibilities by fathoming the depths of established personal relationships.
Working with light and images, movement, language and poetry, and sound, the artists presenting tonight create spontaneously in real time, producing what could never be planned, and revealing what could never be predicted.
Alex Cline
From his beginnings as an eleven-year-old rock drummer through his almost fifty-year career playing drums and percussion with many of the most important and celebrated artists in the fields of creative jazz and new music, improvisation and collaboration have been two of the most prominent aspects present throughout all of Alex Cline’s endeavors as a musician. Two of Alex’s own large-scale projects, “For People in Sorrow” (2011, a tribute to Roscoe Mitchell and the AACM) and “Oceans of Vows” (2015, a tribute to his teacher Thich Nhat Hanh) were graciously presented by the Angel City Jazz Festival and beautifully made available as artifacts by Cryptogramophone Records.
Carole Kim
Carole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on multimedia installation, video projection, live and telematic performance, drawing and experimental sound. She has experimented extensively with video projection in space including intricately hand-made layered projection environments and site-specific video projection onto large scale urban architecture and natural landscapes such as the forest in Norway, the rockscapes in Joshua Tree and the old oak groves in Descanso Gardens. She considers improvisation to be a heightened expansive form of interaction and has sought this dynamic exchange across disciplines. Animated by the ability to nurture a modest inspired spark into something magical keeps Kim feeling like the world can always be made larger and more humane. She thrives on venturing out to the edges of her creative curiosity and inviting others to synergistically join her there.
https://www.carole.kim.com
Joe Baiza
Joe Baiza is one of the most distinctive guitarists to emerge from the so-called punk rock scene of southern California, “so-called” because most of Baiza’s music fits more into the categories of free jazz or jazz-rock. He has often been ahead of the curve with his musical thinking, playing intense instrumental jams a few years before his audience would be eager for them, and bringing together the creative anarchy of improvised music with the independent attitude of the punk scene at a time when the two philosophies seemed mutually exclusive, at least superficially.
An accomplished visual artist, Baiza approaches sound in a painterly way, adding his unique coloration to sounds as widely disparate as pioneering Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of’s punchy garage jazz, and the earthy skronk of the Mecolodiacs.
