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RESIDENCIES 2007-2008
Ensemble-in-Residence @ California Institute of the Arts
Monday April 21,, 2008 8PM Performance of Graduate Composer works
see http://www.calarts.org for details of activities
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TOURING CALENDAR/PAST PERFORMANCES
2005-2006
May 17, 2006
Ensemble-in-Residence @ UC-Riverside
1pm Colloquium, 4:30pm children's Performanc, 8PM Performance of Past and Present Electronic Masterpieces.
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February 21-25, 2006
Ensemble-in-Residence @ California Institute of the Arts
Saturday February 25, 2006 8PM Performance of Graduate Composer works
see http://www.calarts.org for details of activities
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April 17-22, 2006
Ensemble-in-Residence University of California, Santa Barbara April 17-22, 2006
Saturday April 22, 2006 7PM pre-concert lecture demonstration, 8PM Performance of "Electrifying" works, 10PM post concert discussion
see http://www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu for schedule of all other events
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Saturday, November 26, 2005, 8pm
Bludny Kamen "House of Art" - Opava
Czech Republic
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Sunday November 27-30, 2005, 8pm
Ensemble-in-Residence University of Constantine the Philosopher-Nitra
Slovakia
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Sunday, December 4, 2005, 8pm
Villa Aurora-Berlin "Berlin Meets LA"
Germany
2004-2005
Thursday, February 17, 2005, 8pm
"ECLECTICA"
Duncan Recital Hall in Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University - Houston, TX
Squint Amy Knoles-music/Richard Hines–video
Suspicious Motives Eric Chasalow
Go James Sellars
(Intermission)
Cave Eve Beglarian –music/Clifton Taylor-video
Cendres Kaija Saariaho
Coming Together Frederick Rzewski
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Friday, February 18, 2005, 2-6pm
Stude Concert Hall
Rice University - Houston, TX
Student Readings
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Sunday, February 20, 2005, 6pm
"ECLECTICA"
Recital Hall
Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, LA
Suspicious Motives Eric Chasalow
Tilted Piece Jack Vees
Go James Sellars
(Intermission)
Architectonics VII Erkki-Sven Tuur
Cendres Kaija Saariaho
Coming Together Frederick Rzewski
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Mon. Feb. 21, 2005, 4pm
PERSISTANCE OF VISION LECTURE
Recital hall
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Monday, February 21, 2005, 8pm
"VIDEOCTAVE"
Recital Hall
Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, LA
Squint Amy Knoles-music/Richard Hines –video
Immobiles Re-Mix Mel Powell-Music/Amy Knoles-Re-mix Video treatments of Mel Powell Painting
Tricomatic Clay Chaplin Music/Video
Cave Eve Beglarian –music/Clifton Taylor-video
Fall of the House of Usher Jeffery Rona –Music/James Sibley Watson, Jr.-Film
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Wed. Feb. 23, 2005
WORKSHOP “Persistance of Vision” Lecture Miami Dade College - Miami, Fl
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Thur. Feb. 24, 2005, 9pm
"ECLECTICA"
Subtropics Experimental Music and Sound Arts Festival
Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24th Street, Miami, FL
305.576.1278
Squint Amy Knoles-music/Richard Hines –video
Suspicious Motives Eric Chasalow
Go James Sellars
Intermission
Cave Eve Beglarian –music/Clifton Taylor-video
Cendres Kaija Saariaho
Coming Together Frederick Rzewski
PAST SEASONS
2003-2004
MUSIC BIENNALE ZAGREB/INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC April 6, 2003
MORTON SUBOTNICK SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION-LACMA IV
EAR UNIT-YOUNG COMPOSER SEMINAR. Arcosanti, Meyer, AZ
PENDULUM Series, University of Colorado at Boulder
GUEST RECITAL Series, Colorado state University
REMBERING EARLE, LACMA
HAPPY NEW EAR, LACMA
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
HOPKINS CENTER - DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Residency / Performance
ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
REDCAT - EAR Unit Plays Mel Powell
GONE GLOBAL, LACMA
?DO YOU KNOW FRED?, LACMA
2003-04 Ensemble Residency Series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Thursday June 13, 2002 DIEM FEstival -Aarhus, Denmark
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PERFORMANCE SEASON IN LOS ANGELES 2007-2008
EAR Unit Series @ REDCAT 
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (8:30 PM)
EAR Unit Premieres!
EAR Unit Premieres!
An evening of premieres by composers from Alaska to New York, commissioned by the E.A.R. Unit. The Unit will perform the new works The Light Within written by John Luther Adams (Fairbanks, AK) and Rites of Summer by Gordon Beeferman (New York, NY).
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10] http://www.redcat.org
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EAR Unit Series @ REDCAT Wednesday October 17th, 2007 (8:30PM)
DUBBELSPOOR
Dubbelspoor
Centered around the crystal-like gem, Dubbelspoor written by Dutch Master Louis Andriessen is program of pieces written by composers with views from different parts of the globe. The title piece meaning double track in english, contemplates a phenomenon that occurs when two trains are going in either direction on adjacent tracks, are the passengers seeing their own reflections or is it actually the images of those on the passing train? Also on the program Veil by Liza Lim (Australia) with Daniel Rosenboom on trumpet, Arpege from Esa Pekka Salonen's compositional father figure Franco Donatoni (Italy), the world Premiere of The Woodcarver & The Blacksmith just released by Ann Millikan on Innova (featuring the Unit), and hot off the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique press is Raphaele Biston's .oscil (France).
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10] http://www.redcat.org
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EAR Unit Residency @ CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
PERFORMANCE:
Saturday October 20th, 2007 (8:0PM)
Salmon Recital Hall
ORCHESTRAL WORKSHOP:
November 5th, 2007 (7:15PM)
Crean Orchestral Room
READINGS OF STUDENT WORKS:
November 17th, 2007 (2-5PM)
Salmon Recital Hall
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PERFORMANCE SEASON IN LOS ANGELES 2006-2007
EAR Unit SPECIAL EVENT @ REDCAT Monday July 9, 2007 (8:30PM)
BERLIN-LA FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE
The E.A.R. Unit and Villa Aurora present and evening of stunning new music by composers from Berlin to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the sister cities.
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10] $20 http://www.redcat.org
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EAR Unit Series @ REDCAT Tuesday November 7th, 2006 (8:30PM)
TARGET
This evening’s program brings a selection of challenging new works composed in response to recent global turmoil. The centerpiece is Keeril Makan’s utterly riveting Target, featuring special guest artist Laurie Rubin -- the electrifying young soprano who brought down the house in the work’s world premiere at Carnegie Hall. Also on the program: Ge Gan-ru’s Si, an anguished elegy for the victims of Tiananmen Square; Ulrich Krieger’s elegant beforeQuake, Steven Rick’s Mild Violence; Hideko Kawamoto’s Burning; and Mary Jane Leach’s provocative Gulf War Syndrone.
http://redcat.org/season/0607/mus/earunit.php
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CALARTS GRADUATE COMPOSER'S CONCERT Friday March 2, 2007 (8:00PM) Roy O Disney Concert Hall
The Unit takes on the hottest new thing coming out of the composition department at CalArts. You will hear it here first folks!
http://www.calarts.org
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EAR Unit Series @ REDCAT Wednesday April 11, 2007 (8:30PM)
JULIUS EASTMAN
The high-flying Los Angeles new music ensembles devotes its latest concert to the incandescent music of Julius Eastman, an iconoclastic composer, pianist, singer and dancer who died in 1990 at the age of 49. The program this evening comprises a single work titled Crazy Nigger—a piece of pre-mininal ecstasy performed on four grand pianos. This amazing work takes the device of additive process to a new structural level in the service of of an irresistable political motivation.
“Eastman was an energizing underground figure, one whose forms are clear, whose methods were powerful and persuasive, and whose thinking was supremely musical… When has such a brilliant composer come so close to disappearing from history’s grasp?” Kyle Gann
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10] http://www.redcat.org
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EAR Unit SPECIAL EVENT @ REDCAT Monday July 9, 2007 (8:30PM)
BERLIN-LA FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE
The E.A.R. Unit and Villa Aurora present and evening of stunning new music by composers from Berlin and Los Angeles to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the sister cities.
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
http://www.redcat.org
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PERFORMANCES IN LOS ANGELES 2005-2006
Sunday March 12, 2006 (3:00PM)
LA Public Library - Aloud Series
Videoctave
photograph-Richard Hines
Join the Unit in an exploration of of music with linear and interactive video. The haunting The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), film by James Sibley Watson Jr./music by Jeff Rona, Immobiles Re-Mix a video re-mix of the iconic Mel Powell piece for ensemble and early electronics, the trippy Tricomatic - Clay Chaplin, the very LA Squint - Hines / Knoles, and Cave - Taylor/Beglarian.
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Monday Evening Concerts
Monday March 27, 2006 (8:00PM)
Minimalist Jukebox 1.1
photograph-Richard Hines
Bing Theater - Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Blvd
In conjunction with the LA Philharmonic’s Minimalism Festival, the EAR Unit explores the 45-year history of this 180-degree-shift movement in music. The group presents early work such as Ingram Marshall’s Vibosuperball which gave rise to the repetitive patterns of David Rosenboom’s The Seduction of Sapientia, Gavin Bryars’ delicate Sub Rosa, and Canadian Linda Bouchard’s intense Liquid States. Dutch-American composer Peter Adriaansz (from the Louis Andriessen camp), and the Bay Area’s Mark Grey (a descendent of John Adams’ style) are featured in two world premieres written for this event.
Ticket info: (323) 857-6010
General $20; Members, Seniors $15 and Music Pgm Contributors $10; Students $5
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photograph-Richard Hines
Join the Unit in an exploration of of music with linear and interactive video. The haunting The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), film by James Sibley Watson Jr./music by Jeff Rona, Immobiles Re-Mix a video re-mix of the iconic Mel Powell piece for ensemble and early electronics, the trippy Tricomatic - Clay Chaplin, the very LA Squint - Hines / Knoles, and Cave - Taylor/Beglarian.
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RECENTLY PAST PERFORMANCES IN LOS ANGELES 2005
VALENTINES DAY! Tuesday February 14 , 2006 (8:30PM)
EAR Unit Series @ REDCAT
LUVN BLUM 
LUVN BLM
EAR Unit at REDCAT on Valentine’s Day
February 14, 2006 8:30 PM
The EAR Unit presents the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s LUVN BLM, written for the ensemble in memory of Julian Spear. Other “lovely” works on the program include the West Coast Premiere of Eric Chasalow’s Flute Concerto (Three Love Poems) , for Morton Feldman from Stephen "Lucky" Mosko (whom we loved and miss), A Rose Is A Rose Is A Round from James Tenney, John Cage's A Valentine Out of Season as well as special V-day events created by LA’s own beloved Empire of Teeth.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 (8:30PM)
EAR Unit Series @ REDCAT
transPOPsitions
photograph-Richard Hines
!The EAR Unit moves to its new home at REDCAT!
For the opening program the Unit is bringing Slavic Sonic/Visual Artist Julius Fujak from Herme’s EAR in Nitra to perform with the group in his multimedia work transPOPsitions. Exploring the ways pop culture influences new music, the program also includes a taste of hip-hop composer Daniel Bernard Roumain's "Fast Black Dance Machine," preeminent Dutch rocker Louis Andriessen's "Disco,"Jacob Gotlib’s electric “Filaments”, and the premiere of Shaun Naidoo’s searing hot "Burning the Future."
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Sunday, November 13 , 2005 ( 2 & 3:30pm)
Chamber Music in Historic Sites Series @ Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
photograph-Richard Hines
“Star Wars” is now a multi-generational phenomenon and to celebrate it the “wizards of new music” (Alan Rich) will lead us on a musical journey to match the first exhibition ever created to honor the art of costume design from all six of these iconic films. Set in the FIDM Museum & Galleries and featuring over 100 original costumes, sketches and ephemera, it will set the tone for a concert upstairs including John Williams’ “Cantina” (the bar creatures’ music). Also, works about aliens and amphibians, time, space and the future by Mel Powell, Morton Subotnick, John Bergamo, Shaun Naidoo and Matthew Rosenbloom — all performed with “exuberance and razor sharp precision” (New York Times).
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PAST SEASONS LACMA ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE SERIES
2004-2005
MONDAY, November 8, 2004, 8:00pm
TRAVELON GAMELAN 
photograph-Richard Hines
The California EAR Unit, opens its eighteenth season at the Museum with Audio Artist Richard Lerman’s Travelon Gamelan for three piezo disk amplified bicycles, some wry political commentary in Maria de los Angeles Esteves’ We’re all going to be Homeless Pretty Soon...Segue, Eve Beglarian’s Cave, and Miguel Azguime’s award winning, electro-sonic Derriere son Double. The evening also features Preview by Dorrance Stalvey.
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MONDAY - January 10, 2005L.S.D.
photograph-Richard Hines
(Lucky Sven David) David Lang has become one of the most visible and provocative of the young American composers. He has combined 5 pieces into the hypnotic suite “Child.” Though they were written for different instrumental combinations and four separate ensembles, tonight’s performance brings them together for a world premiere. The program contrasts with Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tuur’s “Architectonics VII” and another world premiere written especially for the group, “J” (for journal) by EAR Unit guru Stephen “Lucky” Mosko.
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MONDAY – March 21, 2005
STILL MOVING
photograph-Richard Hines
--------------MONDAY - May 16, 2005 Ensemble in Residence Series: 8:00 PMBing Theater-Los Angeles County Museum of Art5905 Wilshire Blvd. RELEASE...THE TYRANT
photograph-Richard Hines
The season concludes with two powerfully emotional works. Composer Paul Dresher in collaboration with writer Jim Lewis and tenor John Duykers (Nixon in China), is creating a new music theater work entitled “The Tyrant.” The Tyrant is inspired by Italo Calvino's remarkable short story “A King Listens.” A king, unable to physically leave his throne for fear of overthrow, is forced to experience his kingdom entirely through the medium of sound - and building a new text upon this premise.The conception of “The Tyrant” is irreverent, counterpoising intense physicality with the existential experience of power. Jonathan Mack will be the soloist joining the Unit.
Morton Subotnick’s foudroyant “Release” for clarinet quartet and surround sound was tragically inspired by the death of a loved one. Feeling that the moment of dying is a release of life from the body, that sense of release became the first notion for the new work and eventually became the title.
2003-2004
WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 29 - 2003REMBERING EARLEThe California EAR Unit opens its 17th season at the Museum with a tribute to the legendary Earle Brown. His groundbreaking compositional style of open form developed in the 1950's inspired countless numbers of future composers. The EAR Unit offers his seminal work ."Tracking Pierrot." and ."Special Events." for cello and piano, one of his last pieces. Scintillating works from Filippo del Corno, Kenneth Froelich, and the world premiere of Don Davis' A Lunatic Air (on Fire) complete the program.WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7 - 2004HAPPY NEW EARJames Tenney is renowned as the quintessential American Experimentalist, noted for his iconoclastic approach in the use of process in structure and tuning systems. The EAR Unit will perform the U.S. premiere of his "Spectrum 7." The concert also includes buoyant works by Kamran Ince and Belinda Reynolds, David Felder's haunting "partial (dist)res(s)toration" and Kerril Makan's electrifying "Bleed Through".WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7 - 2004 GONE GLOBAL The EAR Unit goes international with a world premiere from Polish " audio artist" Marek Choloniewski, who creates new sound forms with elements of performance and computerized visual arts. The global theme continues with Gerhard Stabler's " Spices," Berislav Sipus' raucous " Tin Hattie," Nicola Sani's suave " Oltre il deserto Spazio" and the ethereal " Intermezzo" by Gavin Bryars.MONDAY, MAY 17 - 2004 ?DO YOU KNOW FRED?Genre-defying guitar virtuoso Fred Frith joins the Unit in an exploration of improvisation. Also on the program: " Shimmerings" by Ira Mowitz, Rand Steiger's " Elusive Peace" for cello and drumset, Barbara Monk Feldman's serene " Three Poems by Wallace Stevens" and a world premiere by Tae Hong Park.
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PAST SEASONS LACMA SERIES 2002-2003
Monday, November 25, 2002 PANOPTICONÒan architectural design in which the occupants would be subject to scrutiny by an unseen observer in a central towerÓ devised by 19th-century British philosopher Jeremy Bentham ." The California EAR Unit opens its fifteenth season at the Museum with Victoria Jordanova and Relja PenezicÕs chilling look at todayÕs brave new world with the work Panopticon based on live video and audio surveillance devices. Clay Chaplin offers his video piece Three is a Bad Number. Daniel LentzÕs haunting Song of the Siren(s) recently released on Marty Walker's "Dancing on Water" (Cold Blue CB0005) and Molly ThompsonÕs Draft of Shadows based on New York City subway sounds complete the program. Wednesday, January 8, 2003 THE GREAT PROCESSIONThe Great Procession Charles WuorinenÕs music has been described: Òmarked by dazzling virtuosity, innovative formal design and an outward exuberanceÓ as the EAR Unit takes on his challenging twenty-five minute opus Ò The Great Procession.Ó The concert contrasts with Sean HeimÕs brief but elegant ÒStillness of a Kiss,Ó John Luther AdamsÕ ethereal ÒDark Wind,Ó Roger ZahabÕs buoyant ÒNot LaterÓ and a new work from premiere Icelandic composer Atli Heimir Sveinsson. Wednesday, March 12, 2003 MARCH MADNESS MarchMadness A plethora of fresh and novel voices present breakthrough creations in intriguing concise works by Shaun Naidoo, Annie Gosfield, David Lang, William Roper, Linda Catlin Smith, Cesar Mateus, Patricio da Silva, and phenomenal veteran Californian composer James Tenney. Wednesday May 21, 2003 MORTON SUBOTNICK SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION The EAR Unit pays a singular tribute to the legendary pioneer composer of electronic music, and inspiration to the group since its inception, Morton Subotnick. The concert offers a retrospective of his major works ranging from the Òghost piecesÓ of the early seventies to the MIDI controlled device compositions of the eighties and nineties concluding with the world premiere of"Breathe,Óa surround sound work for live computer, percussion, clarinet and computer images.
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PAST SEASONS LACMA SERIES 2001-2002
Monday October 15, 2001 8 pm
FILMUSICINEMAUDIOThe Pursuit of Musical Enigmas
The California EAR Unit continues its quest in the pursuit and irradiation of musical enigmas, complicated only by the inevitable creation of new ones, on its season opener at the Museum. Local and world premieres abound from Jeff Rona scores a turn of the century short film of "The Fall of the House of Usher", Jim Fox's spiraling "Axolotl", Charlotte Seither's "Playing both Ends Towards the Middle", "Birddog" by Ken Steen , Kaijia Saariaho's "Cendres", plus renowned Dutch composer Louis Andriessens, The New Math(s) with a short by indie cult film maker Hal Hartley.
Wednesday January 9, 2002 Morton Feldman's CRIPPLED SYMMETRY "....a mesmerizing, time-bending, spiritual experience..." So Mark Swed described the EAR Unit's recording of Feldman's hauntingly sensual ninety minute trio in his Los Angeles Times review. A rare opportunity you will not want to miss.
Wednesday March 13, 2002 EARUNIT 20TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIIONUnbelievable but true, the EAR Unit celebrates it's 20 year landmark with a concert of trail blazing works from its past complimented by a red-hot CD release on Echograph Records. John Bergamo's a tonal pop tune"Foreign Objects", James Sellars' riveting "GO", Julia Wolfe's strangely wonderful "Girlfriend", John Adams' trippy "Road Movies" and Frederic Rzewski's monumental "Coming Together" will rock your world. Don't miss this party!
Wednesday May 1, 2002 BROWNOUTThe EAR Unit offers electrifying innovations from the Art Noise Scene, plus spellbinding radical premieres from Anna Rubin, DJ Chase, and Mark Trayle as well as Barney Childs' cliff hanger "The Edge of the World", and Karen Tanaka's "The Song of Songs". Performance artist Laetitia Sonami and her sensory embedded lady"s glove will plug in with the Unit for a mesmerizing world premiere.
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PAST SEASONS LACMA SERIES 2000-20012000-01 Ensemble Residency Series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
October 18, 2000 8 pm - A Little Bit About My Cows The Ear Unit starts off its season with a bang-fest of drums in Steven Mackey’s "Micro-Concerto" for percussion and
ensemble as well as the legendary guru of percussion John Bergamo’s explosive “Piru Bole”. Also featured is the delicate "Departure Tracings (2000)"of Ching Wen-Chao, a haunting late duo "Dark Wind " by the prestigious American composer Jacob Druckman, "Sweet Air", from the always-surprising David Lang and the hilarious “Garland Hirschi’s Cows” by ex-MTV rocker Philip Bimstein. January 8, 2001 8 pm - Made in California An evening of unusual and provocative recent works from an all star array of California composers in conjunction with the Museum’s "Made in California " exhibit (see below). The Ear Unit delivers fresh stuff with sizzling local and world premieres. To celebrate Native Angelino (now living in the bay area) Paul Dresher's 50th Birthday the Unit performs "Chorale Times Two" a stunning work for solo violin with Electro-Acoustic ensemble (this piece brought tears to one critics eyes!), Steve Hoey's elegant "Colortura", Nick Chase's in yer face "Spit" a new work by Angelino Michael Fink. The Ear Unit’s own digital mix masters Rand Steiger and Amy Knoles are creating new works for live electronics and video. April 18, 2001 8 pm - Circuit Breakers Prepare to flip your switch to a night of ground breaking technological and musical innovation. Real-time audio processing, sequencers, samplers, MIDI, and electromagnetic chamber music. The Ear Unit goes techno with the scintillating music of Cal-Arts' visionary David Rosenboom. Kronos Quartet's mix man Mark Grey has written a new piece for the band using live interactive computer processing that will make you think you have just purchased an "E" ticket. Enter the calm of an isolation tank when listening to Andrew Lovett's atmospheric "Jacob Dreaming" , as well as the beautiful "Noa-Noa" by Kaija Saariaho written in Paris on the IRCAM Signal Processing Workstation, and see whats happened to Musique Concrete in the zeros with Eric Chasalow's "Suspicious Motives" and Bryan Rulon's "MessMixexpress". May 16, 2001 8 pm - The Magical Cabaret of E.A.R. Unit! Theatrical premieres abound! Hear and see the Los Angeles premiere of Mauricio Kagel's "Exotica", a rarely performed, fantastically bizarre symphony for more than sixty non-Western instruments. "Road Works", by Amnon Wollman , a piece for Solo Horizontal Accordionist and Electronics will transport you. Canadian John Rea's, "Les Blues d'Orphee" re-tells the story of Orpheus. William Roper's tone poem "Emmett Till", is about the murder of a young southern man in the 1940's, played by solo cello.