In 2002, Tom Erbe and I started the California Electronic Music Exchange Concert (CEMEC) series for graduate composers at CalArts, Mills, UCSD, UCSB, and Stanford to present new electronic and computer music works. Each year, a pool of pieces is used to program a mixed concert at each school providing an opportunity for students to travel and discover current compositional trends at each school. 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the exchange concerts and the San Diego Reader recently wrote an article about the series. You can read the article here.

The California EAR Unit will be performing my audio-visual piece Tricomatic on two concerts this April. The first concert will be on Saturday, April 21st at Southern Utah University and on Monday, April 23rd at Northern Arizona State University. More information about Tricomatic is here.

I just completed the tracking for a recording of David Rosenboom’s large ensemble work titled In the Beginning V. The piece will be included on a two-cd set of David Rosenboom’s music to be released in the Fall of 2012 on New World Records. See the photos from the session below:

I will be performing with Aaron Drake as MegaThought on February, 17th 2012 at Beyond Baroque in Venice. Check out the MegaThought link under Collaborations for more information.

I just completed a recording for Andrew Dewar, Anne LeBaron, and Andrea Centazzo. The trio performed an amazing set of improvisations for soprano sax, acoustic and electric harp, and percussion. We recorded in the spacious-sounding CalArts percussion room over the course of a Saturday afternoon. See the photos from the session below:

I just completed the tracking for a recording of David Rosenboom’s woodwind quintet titled In the Beginning. The Midnight Winds Quintet performed the piece over two days. The piece will be included on a two-cd set of David Rosenboom’s music to be released in the Fall of 2012 on New World Records. See the photos from the session below:

I just got back from STEIM and the 5th annual residency for the CalArts Experimental Sound Practices program. Each year I take four CalArts Graduate students from the music school to STEIM to work on a group project and performance. This year was very fun and successful. The participants this year were: Heather Lockie, Maryclare Brzytwa, Jinku Kim, and Max Foreman.

I will be visiting the Oberlin Conservatory’s TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) studios on Wednesday, September 21st. I will be giving a talk about my work and meeting with students. More information about the TIMARA studios and program can be found here

I will be performing my piece Side Effects on Saturday, September 17th, 2011 in Lexington, KY as a part of the Studio 300 Digital Arts and Music Festival. I will also have my collaborative field recording and photography installation called One Minute Los Angeles installed in a gallery for the duration of the festival. More information about the festival can be found here

Saturday, September 3rd &
Sunday, September 4th, 2011
Shows at 2 & 5pm

Aquacoustica from machine project on Vimeo.

A collaborative project of underwater musical performance and state-of-the-art ‘over-water’ live-electronic signal processing.

Being a passionate and experienced scuba diver for more than 10 years, Ulrich Krieger will dive into a pool in full scuba gear, tank and all, for at least 45 minutes. He will sit on the ground or swim around, producing underwater sounds with metal, stone, plastic, and other ‘waterproof’ objects, including ‘underwater didjeridus’, underwater singing, and plastic instruments, like blue toy saxophones. These sounds will be picked up by hydrophones and transmitted to Clay Chaplin, sitting above water, treating and signal processing theses sounds, creating an electronic ambient soundscape.

Space is very limited so concert signup is available to Machine Project members first and then is open to the general public on Wednesday, August 31st at Noon. Special thanks to Machine Project and the BELLYFLOP Gallery for hosting the concerts.

RSVP HERE.

This performance will be taking place at the BELLYFLOP Gallery: “BELLYFLOP is a Southern California gallery space, theater, concert hall, disco, opera house, laboratory, auditorium and space of worship that appears as a full-water 10 ft.-deep swimming pool with diving board. BELLYFLOP emphasizes projects with ideas and executions that take risks, whether they glide smoothly or result in a mid-torso redness. Like the white cube galleries and black box theaters of tradition, BELLYFLOP’s aqua box comes with its own set of parameters to be explored in the fine arts. Visitors may wish to dress in water-appropriate attire.”

Location will be provided upon registration.