I will be performing with Tim Perkis and Wyatt Keusch on Sunday, November 18th at 9pm at Berkeley Arts in Berkeley, CA. We will be presenting an hour long set of improvised electronic music. There will be a trio, duos, and solos. Here’s the official blurb:

Berkeley Arts 2133 University Ave., Berkeley CA

Computer music composer/improviser Clay Chaplin and young analog wizard Wyatt Keusch are joined by local electronicist/improviser Tim Perkis in a set of solo and group improvisations and compositions.

Also with Larry Ochs (sax) and Donald Robinson (percussion) at 8pm.

Last week I went to Montana de Oro State Park to go on a field recording expedition. It was really fun! I brought home many interesting sounds of various sea birds, quail, seals and or sea lions, and the ocean splashing inside of caves. Many of the recordings were made on the water of Morro Bay in a sea kayak. Check out the photos below. I plan to use many of the sounds in future electronic music pieces in addition to just uploading a few of the recordings without any processing.

I recently finished a new recording that will be included on an upcoming compilation of electronic music to be released on the Khalija record label. The six minute piece, titled mophophonic, grew out of an improvisation using a Blacet analog synthesizer. Treatments were then applied to the analog synth recording using a max/msp patch and the final version was tweaked ever so slightly in ProTools. The compilation should be available in the next few weeks.

I will be hosting and performing in the opening concert for the 8th annual Dog Star Orchestra concert series. The concert, titled Manipulated Field Recordings will take place on Wednesday, August 29th at 7PM at my house in Eagle Rock. The concert will take place on a large deck at my house known as The Deck concert space. The concert on the 29th will also include performances by Archie Carey, Scott Cazan, Stephanie Smith, and Sepand Shahab.

I recently submitted a number of audio tracks for Tom Erbe who is working on a fresh version of John Cage’s Williams Mix. The score calls for five to six hundred discreet audio events. I submitted a number of analog synth improvisations and a few field recordings. I can’t wait to hear the piece considering that Tom is a complete experimental music genius.

My collaborative field recording installation, One Minute Los Angeles, will be shown July 27th -29th as a part of New Town Art’s Knock Knock Sonic Surprise show.

A world of sound in 6 tiny rooms.
Open a door see what’s inside.
Discover experiments in sonic performances behind each door.

Friday, July 27, Noon to 7:00PM
4414 E. York Blvd. (near Eagle Rock Blvd)
Albert Ortega • Joe Cantrell • Clay Chaplin •  Kio Griffiths & Michael Vlatkovich • Heather Lockie • Rick Potts • Karen Frimkess Wolff

Saturday, July 28, 3:30PM to 9:00PM
4414 E. York Blvd. (near Eagle Rock Blvd)
Joe Cantrell • Clay Chaplin • Kio Griffiths & Michael Vlatkovich • Albert Ortega • Rick Potts • Karen Frimkess Wolff

Sunday, July 29, 1:00PM to 8:00PM
615 S. Westlake Avenue (MacArthur Park Adjacent)
Abyss of Fathomless Light & Jonas Reinhart • Joe Cantrell • Clay Chaplin • Tom Peters • Rick Potts • Karen Frimkess Wolff

I just completed mixing and mastering a two CD set for composer David Rosenboom’s series of works called In the Beginning. The project will be released as a two CD set in November of 2012 on New World Records. We initially recorded a couple of the pieces back in 2009 but the project hit full stride in 2012 when we recorded a woodwind quintet, solo piano work, and a large scale piece involving a string quartet, brass quartet, percussion quartet, woodwind quartet, and two pianos. We completed the editing, mixing, and mastering in the summer of 2012.

I recently completed a recording session with composer/performer Heather Lockie who composed a really interesting and eerie sounding piece for string quintet and voices called Dryads . The plan is to edit and mix this summer and the piece should be available in the Fall of 2012.

Just completed a recording session with composer Mike Winter who has written a really interesting piece for electric guitar quartet called lower limit . The plan is to edit and mix this summer and the piece should be available in the Fall of 2012.

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.