Active Music Series Presents: Shanna Sordahl, The Lost Shapes, Stevie Richards

AMS PRESENTS

SHANNA SORDAHL::::::::
Shanna Sordahl is a sound artist and composer based in Oakland, CA. Using amplified cello with analog and digital electronics and installation art as her primary mediums, Shanna’s work is a continual exploration of one’s relationship to both sound and physical spaces. She emphasizes timbral changes, the resonant body of objects, and the re-contextualization of sound through the use of unconventional playing techniques, feedback, and audience immersion. Shanna strives to create sonic and physical spaces that induce a focused state of awareness, where one is encouraged to reflect on or reconsider their relationship to sound, people, spaces, and ultimately, ideas.

Her current focuses include a fascination with blurring the lines between performance spaces and installation to emphasize the transformative potential of these events. Seeing intricate connections between the experience of music and day to day life, Shanna cannot separate music from its social implications and lived realities. She views sound immersion and performance as methods for processing and re-contextualizing past experiences while simultaneously imagining and creating new possibilities for the future.

With an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, Shanna has studied composition with Laetitia Sonami, Chris Brown, James Fei, and Matt Rogalsky. She has performed and worked with a variety of composers and artists including Alvin Lucier, Trimpin, Wrekmeister Harmonies, and Sarah Davachi, and with the choreography collectives Wax Poet(s) and Simpson/Stulberg Collaborations. Her work has been presented at the 2013 International SuperCollider Convention and in 2015 she was awarded the Paul Dresher Artist Residency. In addition to an upcoming album release of solo material, her most active collaboration is as the duo SO AR with percussionist Robert Lopez.
https://www.shannasordahl.net/

STEVIE RICHARDS:::::::
Stevie Richards is a saxophonist and modular synth builder and
performer from Melbourne, Australia. He has been touring
Europe, the United States and South-East Asia regularly for the
last five years and is an active participant in the avant-garde /
improvisation environment of his hometown of Melbourne. He
has been the sound engineer and a committee member of
Make It Up Club in Melbourne since 2002.
He started performing in the alternative music scene in Sydney
in the eighties, where he found and appreciation for
improvisation and electronic music. As a musician, he has
moved through noise, free jazz, ambient and electroacoustic
music both as a soloist and through deliberate international
collaboration.

Stevie has a new sl_richards album ‘closed system’ that has
just been released on NCTMMRN records. This album features
minimal electronic / electroacoustic material recorded on his
home built DIY Buchla Music Easel and DIY Serge Modular.

Instagram : @noiseelectronique
youtube : https://www.youtube.com/user/cleaningladyfilms
FB : https://www.facebook.com/stevierichards
https://cleaninglady.bandcamp.com/

THE LOST SHAPES:::::::
Adventurous original jazz music. We all compose. You could call it avant-garde. You could call it abstract expressionism. We call it music.

Safa Shokrai – Bass, Darren Johnston – Trumpet, Kasey Knudsen – Alto Sax, Jason Levis – Drums, Mark Clifford – Vibraphone
www.facebook.com/thelostshapes