THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Curated by Jaroslav Andêl, The Future of the Future jumps from this motto: "Yesterday we dreamt about the future, today the future dreams about us." A group show with works from Terreform ONE [Open Network Ecology], Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings as well as the Imaginary 20th Century team.

Opening July 29 through October 25, 2010

Go to DOX site for details.

Sea and Space Explorations at Torrance Art Museum
Lara Bank and the Sea and Space Explorations go to the Torrance Art Museum to show off some of SAS' recent happenings. I'll be showing a video/skype collaboration I did with Pauline Oliveros on her Humming Meditation.

Opening March 6 - 6PM

Go to Torrance Art Museum site for details.

Lecture Filmic Space at Art Center
Kari Rae Seekins and I will be presenting our work (and work of others that we think is neat) around the frame of 'filimic space'; e.g. situations created by applying sounds to environments

February 26, 2010 - 3-6PM

Go to Art Center's site for details.

An Epic Reading Under the Aquarium at Sea and Space Explorations
Curated by Daiana Feuer, I will be performing with other artists influenced by the idea of conservation, consumption and creating a really incredible space right under your nose.

February 23, 2010 - 8-10PM

Go to LA Record's site for details.

Surveillance Solos at Highways Performance Space
A new score for some incredible dancers. This from the release: An evening of dance theater that employs a combination of farce and stark honesty to question, in a world where so much information is easily accessible, just what can be considered private or intimate and how quickly small deviations from "normal" behavior become suspicious.

January 15-16, 2010 - 8:30pm

Three Battery People at Silver Echo Gallery
I will be presenting a new sound installation along with 6 other artists exploring the notions of sustainability and some possible applications of those ideas to art. The title is actually If G. Plante, G. Leclanche and J.A. Thiebaut could still breath.

January 15-17, 2010

watch her (not know it now) at Dance Theater Workshop
With the great support of Mark Murphy and George Lugg, Meg Wolfe will be performing our work in New York as part of APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters).

January 10, 2010

At Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th St. NYC

Sound and the Physical Body presented by CalArts and Center for Integrated Media
Kari Rae Seekins and I will be lecturing and doing a sonic field trip around the campus demonstrating some of the physiological effects of audio phenomena that drive some of our work. Open to all students and faculty.

November 2, 2009 from 7 to 10 pm

SoundWalk 2009 presented by F L O O D
Sound Art Event "SoundWalk 2009", a one-night event of sound installations by over 50 local and international sound artists.
I'll be there presenting a work with my collaborative partner Kari Rae Seekins - this titled "Dear Pentagon"

October 3, 2009

Dear Aaron Drake, published by The Noun
A 'poem' published by The Noun - Taken from email messages collected between April 2007 and September 2009. Sections culled represent common themes and formal structures found in a majority of the messages - Yay - Bank of China! Confusing but lucrative!

September 29, 2009

NOW Fest at REDCAT
A festival of new work by artists in the Southern California Area. I'll be presenting a piece with collaborator Meg Wolfe titled watch her (not know it now)

August 6-8, 2009

(dub)zeck at Highways Performance Space
This performative mixtape is a molotov cocktail flung at the cold, clean environs of modern theater. Plunging Patty Hearst, "Under My Thumb," Baudrillard, "The Message," Chuck Norris, CNN and other fragments into the boiling tempest of Buchner's classic expressionist text Woyzeck, a shadowy post-future America is mapped wherein all sense of meaning in communication has been erased. Performed in English, French, Polish, German, and Spanish.

August 1, 2009

Monkey Town
I'll be performing a new piece dedicated to Travis Johns - powered by a car battey, this is a laser light show for fleas.
Also, friends Phil Stearns and Loud Objects perform!

July 7, 2009

Here's to Leo's Gaping Axe Wound
at Golden Trapperkeeper Lodge
Performance of Here's to Leo's Gaping Axe Wound for modifyied Califone (playing Gavin Briar's Sinking of the Titanic), no-input mixer and melodica.

March 28, 2009

Luggage Store Gallery
Performance of Piece for No-input Mixer #1. Also, performances by Animal Vegetable Television and YoYo MaMa.

March 26, 2009

SoundINSpace at Sea and Space Explorations
February 2009! The 2nd annual Sound In Space Festival at Sea and Space Gallery. We're doing it again with over 60 artists and diverse programming from Fluxus notecard pieces to a Metal A Cappella Battle of the Bands.

Every Thursday through Sunday
starting February 5, 2009

Future Imaginary at O T I S
The Future Imaginary is an exhibit planned for the Ben Maltz Gallery at the Otis College of Art and Design. The exhibit consists of artists' responses to The Imaginary 20th Century.

Opening January 24, 2009
through March 30, 2009

F L O O D presents SoundWalk 2008
One night only! This taken from FLOOD's release: The evening operates under the concept of a one-night aural/visual experience as provided by sound installations located in various indoor and outdoor spaces situated throughout the East Village Arts District in Downtown Long Beach. (the list of participants is long and strong but you can bet I'll be there)

The metro drops off right downtown Long Beach.

5-10PM September 20, 2008

New Installation featured on Arts Alive on KUSC
My installation Intermediate artificial environment 3 (i.e. the environment that houses the neonatal capsule 10) will be featured on KUSC 91.5 Los Angeles for the upcoming SoundWalk 2008 in the LBC. For those that aren't down with the dawg pound, that Long Beach City biatch.

Airing 8AM and 5PM
Saturday September 13, 2008

Eleven Missing Days at the unknowntheater
Meg Wolfe/Show Box presents two weeks of experimental dance from New York and Los Angeles artists, at Unknown Theater in Hollywood as part of the 2008 Dance Series. Featuring the premiere of Eleven Missing Days, for which I was the composer and sound designer, other short works by guest artists include: Faye Driscoll (NYC) and Arianne Hoffmann (LA), casebolt & smith (L.A.) and Sam Kim (NYC).
July 3-6 and 10-13, 2008

SoniTrek
A Half Mile of Al Fresco Sonic Art. June 28, Noon to 7:30 PM and June 29, 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM at Lower Arroyo Park in Pasadena. A half mile hike through 16 works of sonic art. SONIC ART BY: Tyler Adams, Joe Cantrell, Clay Chaplin, Aaron Drake (me.), David P. Earle, Enrich'd White (Mark Doten/Andy Sykora), Thadeus Frazier-Reed, Naia Gottlieb, Gregg Johnson, Lewis Keller, Katie McMurran, Teddy Raven, Mark Trayle
June 28-29, 2008

Bent Festival Los Angeles
Hosted by Grand Performances (LA) and The Tank (NYC), this year's festival features an incredible roster of national and international circuit benders of all shapes and sizes! I was so glad to have this team of courageous curators and organizers - Cooper Baker, Thadeus Frazier-Reed, Lewis Keller, Marc Nimoy, Lorin Edwin Parker and Phil Stearns.
May 17-19, 2008

Sound in Space Series in February 2008
Curated by myself, Lara Banks and Clay Chaplin, the Sea and Space Explorations in Highland Park hosts the entire month of February 2008. Artists include Mark Trayle, Arthur Jarvinen, Michael Pisaro, Phil Niblock, Thomas Ankersmit and many more. 13 concerts in the shortest month of the year - luckily... it's a leap year.
5 February 2008

The Imaginary 20th Century opens at the
Orange County Museum of Art
At the Orange Lounge in the South Coast Plaza. Multiple projections and interactions.

Opening reception: January 17th, 2008
Runs through: February 3rd, 2008
17 January 2008

The Imaginary 20th Century at REDCAT
Roundtable discussion with Norman Klein, Margo Bistis and Andreas Kratky on the this new interactive novella for which Kari Seekins and myself composed the score.
14 November 2007

Salon Series v.10
At the beautiful Zomzy Studio in Highland Park, Salon Series v.10 (curated by Marc Nimoy) highlighted performances by Madeline Puckette, Phililp Graulty, Alisha Bauer and Peter Cho, and myself with my first solo piece for mixing boards and lights.
10 November 2007

ZKM presents : The Imaginary 20th Century in
YOU_ser: The Century of the Consumer
An Interactive Installation and Fourteen Animations
/// Margo Bistis, Norman M. Klein, Andreas Kratky, Kari Rae Seekins and Aaron Drake - boom.
October 21, 2007
through
December 31, 2008

365 Days - 365 Plays opens at the
Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica
One of the better interpretations of the plays (not because I'm biased), Patrick Kennely and Leo Garcia curated an evening of music, dance, performance art and theater around Suzanne Lori Parks' work. They created a performance where early 20th and 21st centuries converged under a big top. The event mapped two immagrants' journey through a Breughelian world of indulgence that bordered neo-psychedelia.
12 and 13 October 2007

Installation at SoundWalk 2007
My installation Digital Reanimation Through the Corpse of James T. Russell for discarded CDs, aluminum cans, sewing needles, wood, glue, nails, electrical wire and motors spun until the wheels fell off. The fourth annual art festival hosted by Flood in Long Beach.

27 September 2007 (my birthday!)

RTO featured on the Hessiches Rundfunk
The ultimate night at the Kunst Halle in Darmstadt was the subject of a 20 minute expose on Radio Hessen - H3. RTO was featured as the "installation in the foyer of the toilettes" - it was IN the toilettes too!

26 August 2006

RTO to the Darmstadt Ferienkurse 2006
RTO featured at the Kunst Halle Darmstadt as part of the Darmstadt Courses. Other artists included James Orsher, Phil Stearns, Genoel Ruhle von Lilienstern (what a name), et al.

25 August 2006

RTO at Soundwalk 2006
RTO, at the ArtPark in Long Beach, is part of the third annual Soundwalk in Long Beach hosted by FLOOD.

26 June 2006

RTO to ICMC 2006 in New Orleans
Going to post-katrina New Orleans for ICMC 2006 will be a lot of things. To say the least, interesting but mostly wrenching.

22 June 2006

Meanings [A], [B] Premier
Frankie Bernstein premiers my piece for solo bass drum, tape and electronics via Rolen Star and dual projection at Roy O. Disney Hall at CalArts on 04 May 2006

27 May 2006

RTO Summer Tour 2006
RTO kicks off the Summer tour at the Provflux art festival in Providence, Rhode Island

25 May 2006