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September 26-28, 2008
LA Wholesale Orchestra Premieres Considering Light
LAWO Lucky Festival
8pm
Pasadena Unitarian Universalist Church (Neighborhood Church)
301 N. Orange Grove Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91103
www.wholesaleorchestra.org
Chase's latest work for large ensmble, Considering Light commissioned by The Los Angeles Wholesale Orchestra premieres as part of the 2-evening retrospective of the work of Stephen "Lucky" Mosko and his protégés. Festival activities will include interviews with several of Mosko's colleagues and other Lucky inspired events.
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May 31, 2008
NOVA
Illuminated Corridor at the Whitney Biennial 2008
Civil Twilight-11pm (or so)
Location TBD
www.illuminatedcorridor.com
Chase joins the San Francisco based Illuminated Corridor once more for the 2008 incarnation NOVA, creating a new film-sound installation for the streets of Manhattan.
The Illuminated Corridor will join Neighborhood Public Radio at its American Life exhibition at the 2008 Whitney Biennial (March 6 - June 1). The Corridor will close NPR’s run at the Whitney, creating a one-night only outdoor performance that uses source material from NPR’s Public Radio Interfaces (PRIs) and television transmissions. Advance details here.
[blog about it]


May 17, 2008
Museumnacht, Weimar
9:00pm
3 Jenaerstr. (Die Franz Liszt Altenburg)
Weimar, Germany
Acclaimed artist Anne-Katrin Altwein (www.anne-katrin-altwein.de) presents an evening of new work as part of the nationally celebrated Museumnacht
at the historic Franz Liszt Altenburg house. Included in the evening's festivities will be the performance of a work by Chase - details to be determined - as well as the screening of a new film by Altwein.


April 12, 13 2008
Nanette Brodie Dance Theater premieres New Orleans Lowdown
Golden West College Theater
Huntington Beach, CA
(details to follow)
www.nbdt.net
www.stevelockwood.org
Steve Lockwood's New Orleans Lowdown premieres with choreography by the Nanette Brodie Dance Theater. Lockwood's epic jazz-ballet features a new film by Chase's creative collaborative Egg Ensemble. Visit the websites above for details about the ballet and www.mas-lab.org to learn more about the film.
February 29, 2008
Guthrie and Streb Solstice Concert Series
7:30pm
Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103
626-792-5101
Admission $5-$10 Sliding Donation
www.armoryarts.org
www.guthrieandstreb.com
Innovative string duo April Guthrie ('cello) and Cassia Streb (viola) give the world premiere of Chase's Ouistitis, kicking off their triptych concert series featuring works written during the Summer Solstice.
September 14, 2007
Weimar-New York presents Nicholas Chase
8pm
Kunsthalle
Goetheplatz 9
Weimar, Germany

Laptop-improvisations, experi-Mental video and other Variations

An evening dedicated to the digital/audio-visual work of L.A. composer Nicholas Chase takes place at the historic Harry Graf Kessler Kunsthalle in Weimar, Germany, as part of the hall's festival/art-show Weimar-New York. In his premiere solo performance, Chase's will work with complex palettes of electronic sound and music and explore the possibility of dynamic, spontaneously composed visual material that includes animated film, and vector generated graphics.

Salve TV-Weimar will broadcast an interview with Leon Klayman about the Weimar-New York Kunst u. Konzert. Klayman will talk about Chase's participation in the Festival and Salve-TV will air a portion of Chase's "7th Sense" as recorded by Cristin Wildbolz: airdate Monday, September 24.

Upcoming Premieres

Winter 2008

Mosko Portrait Concert
Los Angeles: venue, time and date TBA
Trevor Berens pilots the Los Angeles Wholesale Orchestra* in a concert exploration of the work of composers Stephen "Lucky" Mosko . The ensemble will also give the world premiere performance of Chase's Considering Light for large ensemble.
Read about the composition in progress here.
*Los Angeles Wholesale Orchestra previews its debut August 11, 8PM, Murphy Recital Hall, Loyola Marymount University.

Fall 2007
Solstice Music

Los Angeles: venue, time and date TBA
Guthrie and Streb
give the world premiere of Chase's Ouistitis for viola and 'cello as part of the duo's Solstice Composition Series. The series features 16 original compositions by various composers, created the week of the 2007 Summer Solstice. Visit www.guthrieandstreb.com for more information.
New Press!
June 27, 2007
Double Bassist Magazine reviews Cristin Wildbolz' DVD C ollaborations. Buy the DVD from MAS-Lab!

June 1, 2007
Neue Zeitung Zürich (NZZ-Switzerland) write-up of C ollaborations. Buy the DVD from MAS-Lab!

May 21, 2007
Roman Stolyar writes about his US tour for Jazz Russia Magazine (read a rudimentary translation here).


May 17-20, 2007
Kalamzoo Animation Festival International

Center for New Media - KAFI
202 N. Rose St.
Kalamazoo, MI 49003-4070
269-373-7883
kafi.kvcc.edu

Competition Round 6: Best of the Best (Non-narrative)
May 20
11am
State Theater
(Click here for competition lineup)
Dali's Egg: Chapter 1 (Other People's Things) has been selected as a finalist in the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International (KAFI) and will be screened competitively along with animation shorts by Bill Plympton, Peter Parr and a host of others. More about the Dali's Egg project at www.dalisegg.com and www.mas-lab.org. Watch the Dali's Egg website for screening times, and please check out KAFI's website (kafi.kvcc.edu) for more information on the festival.



April 27, 2007
Audio/Video Improvisation with Roman Stolyar
8:30PM
REDCAT
631 W. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 237-2800
Tickets $20, $16 Students, $10 CalArts associates
Chase performs electronics and video with world renown pianist and improviser Roman Stoylar in an evening of music, projection and cutting edge antics at Los Angeles' REDCAT. Watch here for details.


January 2, 2007
Stranger Than Fiction - Helsinki

3pm
Academy of Fine Arts
Kasarmikatu 36
Seminar Room 3 (3rd Floor)
Helsinki, Finland

www.kuva.fi
The first international screening of Dali's Egg: Chapter 1 (Other People's Things) takes place at the Academy of Fine arts in Helsinki, Finland as part of the STRANGER THAN FICTION - HELSINKI film festival. The festival is an extension of the STRANGER THAN FICTION festival that took place in San Francisco at The Lab in July 2006. STRANGER THAN FICTION was curated by Nomi Talisman and STRANGER THAN FICTION - HELSINKI is curated by Pilvi Takala. For details and a full listing of the festival programing, please download the press release.
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