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TAM ACTIVATED: LASE (Los Angeles Saxophone Ensemble)

(Los Angeles Saxophone Ensemble)

Saturday, December 15, 2018, 3 PM


LASE presents Silent—a program dedicated to quiet, reductionist pieces for saxophone quartet in the post-Cage'ian tradition.

LASE will perform two pieces by Radu Malfatti (wurzel lampundus, 2004) and Antoine Beuger (carthamrosa, 2003), who both are part of the composer group Wandelweiser. Both works were written for and are dedicated to Ulrich Krieger. In these pieces a completely different way of playing saxophone is being explored: ultra-quiet and sparse.

LASE performer-composer core members: My name is Casey Butler, aka Stellar Rahim.

My music is of a spiritual nature.

I am a composer and I play saxophone, bass, keyboards, flute, percussion, gamelan, guitar, other various instruments and I use my voice too.

Here's a list of some bands that I perform and/or record with: Pharaohs, Honus Honus, Mr. Tube and the Flying Objects, Dusty Meadows Band, Stellar Rahim, Gamelan Burat Wangi, Gamelan Pandan Arum, Cloudland Canyon, Vetiver, Mary Epworth, Wild Nothing, Blake Hazard, Lyonnais and Museum Of Love Marta Tiesenga, originally from Chicago, IL, is an LA-based interdisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and animator currently pursuing a dual Master’s degree in Composition - Experimental Sound Practices and Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). At CalArts, Tiesenga studies with Michael Pisaro, Eyvind Kang, Sara Roberts and Ulrich Krieger. Previously, Marta earned their BM in Saxophone Performance from the Eastman School of Music, studying under Professor Chien-Kwan Lin. In their work work, Marta explores and experiments with intersections between music cognition, music theory, repetition, composition, language and nonverbal communication, transience and experience. They work with images, sound, performance and strive to find an encompassing synthesis between media with inter-sensory art.