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The UFOrchestra seeks to redefine performance narratives by blurring the boundaries between discipline and expanding the limitations of genre. We seek to create work that enables each of us to expand within and beyond our respective disciplines and is unified by the commonalities between our disciplines.
The UFOrchestra springs from the creation of its seminal work Eleven Ideas (About People and Stuff). Key collaborators have focused on Eleven Ideas as a model for future collaborations and commissions. In 2005 the ensemble performed a 10-minute work-in-progress preview of Eleven Ideas at the Barnsdall Art Park Theater in Hollywood to outstandingly positive response. In 2006 a cinematic reduction of this first performance screened at film festivals in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Helsinki, while a film-reduction of the ensemble’s second effort, Lost and Found (scene 2 of Eleven Ideas) previewed at Indiana University’s Perform.Media Festival. In 2008 the Egg Ensemble premieres its first commission, providing visuals for New Orleans Lowdown, a ballet composed by Meredith Monk’s keyboardist, Stephen Lockwood, set to the choreography of Nanette Brodie. Meanwhile, intensive development of the full 300-minute Eleven Ideas continuous full-force. Future projects include a prequel to Eleven Ideas, a project composed by Chase and Haroun entitled 22, first explored by the Long Beach Opera in 2003.
To book or commission the UFOrchestra email us at ufo@nicholaschase.net
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R'Jeenah Bonney studied Philosophy and English at Portland State University. She has been involved in the performing arts for a number of years both as production personnel and performer. Ms. Bonney's children's poetry has been published in Cricket Magazine. Currently at work on a series of novels, Dali's Egg features the debut of Bonney's prose.
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NICHOLAS CHASE - COMPOSER/PRODUCER
Dubbed by LA Weekly as an 'Eye/Ear Explorer,' Alpert Award Nominee Nicholas Chase earned his MFA in Composition/New Media and Integrated Media studying with Morton Subotnick, Bunita Marcus, Stephen L. Mosko and Sara Roberts. Chase additionally studied Arabic Classical Music under Ziad Bunni of the Aleppo Conserveratory in Syria. Chase's solo and chamber works have been performed internationally by ensembles and soloists alike and his electro-acoustic works have been featured at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and the CalArts Center for Electronic Art and Information Technology (CEAIT). He has received commissions from the California E.A.R. Unit, the Long Beach Opera, New York based choreographer Nazorine Paglia, as well as illustrious soloists from around the world. Chase is co-founder of the Egg Ensemble, Founding Director of the Musical Arts/Sound Laboratory (www.mas-lab.org), and one third of the audio/video improvising trio NIRUSU III (www.nirusuiii.com). Chase teaches composition privately and gives lectures on music, technology and esotericism. www.nicholaschase.net
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Ann Haroun holds a BA Magna cum Laude in General Studies and an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Idaho. Haroun has worked on publications with authors David Duncan, Sallie Tisdale, Elinor Langer and Mike Kirkmeier. Haroun’s poetry and fiction have been printed in periodicals such as Paper Radio and Source of Infection and she has published a non-fiction children's book entitled Places of Mystery. Haroun’s work has been dramatized by the Repertory Theater of Portland, Oregon and by the Long Beach Opera in collaboration with Nicholas Chase. Haroun has been featured as the subject of a documentary for her collection of soils from around the world.
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Randall Wakerlin holds a BA in Film/Animation from Hampshire College and an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts. Wakerlin’s film figure1: Scar (detail)won Best Animation awards in both the Pacific Coast Film Festival and the Seattle Underground Film Festival in 2000. Recent projects include animation pieces such as the 26-second short Twenty-Six, and an experimental documentary featuring the textiles of Northern Thailand titled In Good Spirits. Wakerlin resides in Portland, Oregon where he works with animators Chel White and David Daniels at Bent Image Lab as a stop motion animator, compositor and director. Wakerlin teaches animation at the Art Institute of Portland and Pacific University. www.secondaday.com
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