.: Radio Healer :. Radio Healer is a concept born out of the Phoenix metropolitan area. It is a collaborative project designed to communicate with Arizona’s array of rich multi-cultural movements. Radio Healer demonstrates a divergence comprised of visual and musical elements that represent traditional indigenous and contemporary non-indigenous forms of technology. The project functions to mediate and field-find community perspectives about the affects of technology on culture, and the human experience. Radio Healer utilizes these perspectives in a feedback loop that enables its performance to approach an empathetic reflection of its environment. Through its expression, it seeks and explores community themes in an effort to understand and represent the community’s discourse.
.: Crossing 32nd Street :. Crossing 32nd Street strives to increase the awareness and understanding of modern music through an aggressive commitment to performing relevant contemporary works at the highest level. Performances routinely include the music of the modern masters, including, among others, John Cage, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, Iannis Xenakis, Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, John Luther Adams and James Tenney, as well as the exciting new works of emerging composers. Founded in 2000 by contemporary music specialists from Arizona State University, the University of New Mexico, and the University of California-San Diego, Crossing 32nd Street is ensemble-in-residence at Paradise Valley Community College. Though its instrumentation changes with the needs of each piece, Crossing 32nd Street's core plays percussion, saxophone, and electronics while also composing and improvising with acoustic, electro-acoustic, and multi-media tools. The group regularly performs concerts in alternative spaces in Downtown Phoenix and on the campuses of ASU, Glendale Community College and Paradise Valley Community College.
.: Live Art Platform :. The Live Art Platform provides a venue for artists of all disciplines to present their work in front of an informal audience of mostly students, faculty, and adventurous members of the Arizona State University community. This is an experimental laboratory providing artists with a friendly environment in which to try out works-in-progress, completed pieces, or performance experiments. LAP is hosted by the Intermedia program in the School of Art at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. We encourage everyone to participate: ASU students, faculty, staff, as well as members of the broader Tempe, Phoenix, Scottsdale community.
.: Dog Star Orchestra :. Dog Star Orchestra presents a wide collection of contemporary and classic experimental repertoire. Now in its fifth year, nearly 40 musicians and listeners particpate in this year's events. Many of the scheduled works have rarely, if ever been performed or recorded. A festival archive will be hosted in its entirety at dogstarorchestra.org. Dog Star Orchestra is organized annually by acclaimed experimental composer Michael Pisaro. Each themed day - ostensibly, a casual, communal gathering of music lovers - challenges interpretation and listenership over the course of an immersive and intensive week of music-making.
In Spring of 2010, members of Dog Star recorded Pisaro's catalog of songs, Tombstones at Studio Paradiso (San Francisco). This is scheduled to be released through Human Ear Music on vinyl, as a double-album, in Spring 2011.
.: red fish blue fish :. red fish blue fish is a resident ensemble of percussionists at the University of California, San Diego, under the direction of Steven Schick. The group serves as a laboratory for the exploration of new work for percussion and tours this work regularly. red fish blue has played in New York on the Bang on a Can Festival (at Lincoln Center and the Henry Street Settlement), the Agora Festival (Paris), the Centro des Bellas Artes (Mexico City), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and as a regularly featured ensemble on the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella series, sharing a concert with percussionist Evelyn Glennie in the Disney Hall in Los Angeles. In 2006 red fish blue fish released a 3 CD set of the percussion music of Iannis Xenkis to great critical acclaim. Two DVDs -- of the early percussion music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and of Roger Reynolds's Sanctuary -- will be released by Mode Records in 2010.
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