Johnny Chang, violinist-composer

29.10.09, 21h

LA-based Guitarist Jeremy Drake arrives in Bogtown Berlin.

The Katzenjammer Kids are Jeremy Drake and Johnny Chang (violin/things)

Additional set by Alexander Frangenheim (double bass) & Michael Griener (percussion)

Sowieso NK
Weisestrasse 24
12049 Berlin

PERFORMANCES

LIVE @ ... (performance of a free - improvised character)

Club Ding-a-Ling
(with Corey Fogel, drums & Steven Kim, e-bass)
Los Angeles - August 27, 2008

K77

(with Keith O'Brien, e-guitar & Paula Matthusen, electronics)
Berlin - June 29, 2007

Dangerous Curve

(with Raven Chacon, e-bass)
Los Angeles - January 6, 2007

175 EAST (Guest Appearances)
(live recordings from 1999-2000, Auckland & Wellington , New Zealand)

Elliot Carter: Canon for four
Laurence Crane: See Our Lake
James Saunders 511 Possible Mosaics

Miscellaneous …

John Cage: 11' 38" for a violinist
"Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970s"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - July 26, 2004

Mark So: Haley's Comet
Tenney: For percussion perhaps, Or... (night)
(with Mark So, objects/slide guitar)
FESTIVAL: Desert
at an abandoned Airfield at Giant Rock road, Landers, California 92285

Luigi Nono: hay que caminar, soñando
(with Mark Menzies, violin)
Graduate Recital at California Institute of the Arts, December 12, 2004

COMPOSITIONS

XXX. for Xenia Pestova

for amplified toy piano
first performance by Xenia Pestova in Montreal June 13, 2009

OPERA: (2008 -

for voice, three sustaining instruments, objects & playback devices

Earl Brown's "November 1952"

Realization for violin and piano
Traci Esslinger, piano

Westphalian Fragments (Dortmund Coast) 2006

for four Instruments
first performance by the Dog Star Orchestra @ California Institute of the Arts
Johnny Chang, violin
James Orsher, harmonium
Michael Pisaro, e-guitar
Mark So, piano

Füchschen-Alt (2007)

for voice, e-guitar, harmonium, violin

Ellipsis Interludes (2007)

for four sustaining instruments

Goldsmith Variations (2006)

first performance @ main gallery, California Institute of the Arts

Interior Dialogues (2006)

for dictaphones, piano, saxophone, violin, speaker
first performance by Object Collection @ Brooklyn Fire Proof, NYC

simultaneous with

Los Angeles Transcriptions (1): Room, 1843 Santa Ynez (2006)

Johnny Chang, violin
Kara Feely, speaker
Travis Just, tenor saxophone
Quentin Tolimieri, keyboard
Jonathan Marmor, objects (in Los Angeles Transcriptions)

UR (1) (2006)

for multiple clarinets

Modulatory Synchronicity (2004)

for violin and harmonica

UPCOMING

The Katzenjammer Kids @ Sowieso Neukölln

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