We are in the beginning stages of planning Issue 2012. In the meantime, though, why not revisit all three of our previous issues:

2011, 2010, and 2009.

More soon!

February 25th
The Experimental Music Yearbook
Issue Project Room, New York, NY
8:00pm
$TBA

Now entering its 4th year, The Experimental Music Yearbook (www.experimentalmusicyearbook.com) is an online repository for composers, performers, and the public to glean the methods and styles of various artists working in the experimental music tradition. As the modes of experimentation in the arts change from year to year, the Experimental Music Yearbook’s annual issues will build into a comprehensive, and varied, database of experimentation in music/sound.

For this concert, the editors will select highlights from the first three years to spotlight the different methods composers use to create their music. Differing in concept and execution, the compositions display the full range given to performers in realizing works in the experimental tradition.

Program:

Taku Sugimoto: 10
Christian Wolff: small preludes
Peter Ablinger: Amstee bei Regen
John P. Hastings: for Barnett Newman

Olivia Block: Shear
Hans W. Koch: e.t.(l.a.)
Casey Anderson: living room + accoutrements [database]

Performers to include: Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, G. Douglas Barrett, John P. Hastings, Travis Just, Jessie Marino, Qasim Naqvi, Andrew Smith, & Quentin Tolimieri.

issue 2011 has been added! click here to see scores/listen to recordings/view video/download all from the 2011 edition of the experimental music yearbook. curated by Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, and John P. Hastings, the performances for the 2011 edition took place at various locations in New York and Los Angeles.

issue 2011 features contributions from Casey Anderson, John Bischoff, Scott Cazan, Bill Dietz, John P. Hastings, Travis Just, James Klopfleisch, Hans W. Koch, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Jessi Marino, Albert Ortega, Mark Trayle, Tashi Wada/Paul Clipson, and C. Spencer Yeh.

Concert 1, 10/15, 8pm (Presents Gallery, Brooklyn, NY): Jessie Marino/On Structure

Concert 2, 10/15, 8pm (the wulf., Los Angeles, CA): Hans W. Koch

Concert 3, 10/21, 8pm (BETALEVEL, Los Angeles, CA): John Bischoff, Scott Cazan, GX Jupitter Larsen, and Mark Trayle

Concert 4, 10/22, 8pm (the wulf., Los Angeles, CA): Casey Anderson, John P. Hastings, Albert Ortega, and C. Spencer Yeh

Concert 5, 10/29, 8pm (Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA): Tashi Wada with Paul Clipson (electric)

We are pleased to announce the following artists as participants in issue 2011 of the Experimental Music Yearbook:

Casey Anderson
G. Douglas Barrett
John Bischoff
Scott Cazan
Bill Dietz
John P. Hastings
Travis Just
James Klopfleisch
Hans Koch
GX Jupitter Larsen
Jessi Marino
Albert Ortega
Mark Trayle
Tashi Wada
C. Spencer Yeh

The 2011 festival will feature new performance works, installations, and essays, and will take place the weekend of October 21st in Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY.

Here is a great interview with Cat Lamb, one of our featured artists from Issue 2010, regarding an upcoming premiere.

Olivia Block, one of our featured artists in Issue 2010, was recently featured in the Wire. Olivia was also kind enough to include the journal in her Wire Portal feature, accompanied by a bunch of other great stuff (including one of my [this is Casey] favorite music blogs, written by Brian Olewnick).

Check out the article on Olivia in this issue and then head over here to see some web stuff selected by Olivia. Yay, Olivia!

since we are currently in the planning stages for the next edition of the experimental music yearbook, John Hastings and I would like to announce that our good friend, Scott Cazan, will be joining us to curate the 2011 edition.

issue 2010 has been added! click here to see scores/listen to recordings/download both from the 2010 edition of the experimental music yearbook. Curated by Casey Anderson, John Hastings, and Sara Roberts, the performances for the 2010 edition took place at CalArts and the wulf.

issue 2010 features contributions from Casey Anderson, Olivia Block, Clay Chaplin, Greg Davis, Vinny Golia, John P. Hastings, Julia Holter, Chris Kallmyer, Cat Lamb, Sara Roberts, Mark So, Laura Steenberge, and Mike Winter.

welcome to the new home of the experimental music yearbook!