Saturday, August 17th 2019
Casa Berenice Trio performance – Human Resources
I will be performing with Heather Lockie and Sepand Shahab at Human Resources in LA. We are known as the Casa Berenice Trio.
Casa Berenice Trio makes ambient electro-acoustic improvisation. They scratch violas through electronics, stretch field recordings, tweak noisy oscillators, and have been known to weave a folk song into a patient, ambient mesh.

Wednesday, July 12th 2019
Casa Berenice Trio performance – VU Symposium
I will be performing with Heather Lockie and Sepand Shahab at the VU Symposium in Park City, Utah. Here are our program notes for the performance:
Casa Berenice Trio makes ambient electro-acoustic improvisation. They scratch violas through electronics, stretch field recordings, tweak noisy oscillators, and have been known to weave a folk song into a patient, ambient mesh.

Wednesday, July 10th 2019
Casa Berenice Recordings panel – VU Symposium
I will be leading a panel with Heather Lockie, Katie Porter, and Sepand Shahab on the topic of DIY house concerts, record labels, and activating a musical community.

Tuesday, June 18th 2019
Bitpanic – Dogstar Festival
We will be performing some new works and celebrating a new CD release with The Hub.

Friday, March 1st 2019
Trio – Casa Berenice
Improvisation with Tim Feeney, Davy Sumner, and me.

Saturday, February 9th 2019
Trio – Casa Berenice
Improvisation with Heather Lockie, Sepand Shahab, and me.

Monday, November 5th, 2018
Bitpanic with special guests Tim Feeney and Heather Lockie – Coaxial Arts
Bitpanic will premiere a new work by Clay Chaplin and perform two improvisations along with Tim Feeney and Heather Lockie

Sunday, September 5th 2010
Performance for Josh Beckman’s shipwreck installation @ Machine Project
I will be performing a 45 minute set for the gallery opening.

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June 12th & June 19th 2010
Field Recording Workshop @ Machine Project
I will be giving a two-part workshop discussing the aesthetics and practice of field recording. The first session will cover the possibilities and history of the genre through listening examples and discussion. We’ll also cover how to make field recordings with information on microphones, field recorders, and techniques for improving your sound. You will have access to a field recorder which you can use to create a recording of your own. Session two will be a listening and discussion session where everyone presents their field recording. Session two will be on Saturday, June 19th from 2-5pm.

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Wednesday, May 5th 2010
Betty Freeman Party / Concert @ REDCAT

I will be performing laptop on Earle Brown’s Four Systems with Stuart Fox (guitar) , Ulrich Krieger (sax) , and Mark Trayle (laptop).

This special concert celebrates the legacy of the late philanthropist, photographer and writer Betty Freeman, without question the most significant American advocate for contemporary classical music in the second half of the 20th century.

WHEN: May 5th, 2010 at 8:30pm
WHERE: REDCAT, 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
TEL/EMAIL: (213) 737-2300

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Saturday, May 1st 2010
Dream In @ the Hammer Museum

I will be performing with Aaron Drake as a part of the Dream In. We will be improvising together in the Hammer courtyard for five minutes at the top of every hour throughout the night. Here’s a little more information about the event:

On May 1st, 2010, artSpa and Machine Project will host an overnight Dream-In at the Hammer Museum. Dreamers are invited to camp out in the Hammer courtyard and collect any dreams that occur during their stay. The evening will feature experimental dreaming workshops, concerts, and bedtime stories, followed by a waking concert in the morning, all facilitated by a dreamy batch of local artist-psychonauts. The following day museum patrons may encounter dream reenactments, workshops, and napping music during their visit.

WHEN: May 1st, 2010 from 9pm to 9am
WHERE: UCLA’s Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024
TEL/EMAIL: (310) 443-7000

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Friday, March 12th 2010
Aquacoustica @ the CalArts swimming pool

I will be collaborating with composer / performer Ulrich Krieger on a work-in-progress called Aquacoustica.

WHEN: March 12th, 5 – 6:30pm
WHERE: CalArts, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
TEL/EMAIL: 661-255-1050

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Saturday, March 6th 2010
Sea and Space @ the Torrance Art Museum

The Sea and Space Explorations Gallery has been invited to present an evening of works at the Torrance Art Museum. I’ll be premiering a new piece called nodes which uses the dimensions of the gallery space to create standing waves generated by one speaker and sine tones.

WHEN: March 6, 6-9pm
WHERE: The Torrance Art Museum, 3320 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, CA 90503
TEL/EMAIL: TheTorrance Art Museum: 310-618-6340
Sea and Space: 323-982-0854 lara@seaandspace.org

Featuring: The After School Arts Program (ASAP), Lara Bank, Bianca D’Amico, Aaron Drake, Clay Chaplin, Donna Coppola, Asher Hartman, Lewis Keller, Matt MacFarland, Amy Blount Lay with the Johns (John Barlog & John Burtle).

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Saturday, February 27th 2010

California Ear Unit @ CNMAT (Center for New Music & Audio Technologies)

The California Ear Unit will be performing my piece called Tricomatic along with works by Linda Bouchard, Eric Chasalow, and Ulrich Krieger.

WHEN: February, 27th @ 8pm
WHERE: CNMAT @ UC-Berkeley
TEL/EMAIL: (510) 643-9990

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Friday, February 26th 2010

California Ear Unit @ Loeffler New Music Symposium

The California Ear Unit will be performing my piece called Tricomatic along with works by Linda Bouchard, Eric Chasalow, and Ulrich Krieger.

WHEN: February, 26th @ 7:30pm
WHERE: Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall @ CSU, Chico
TEL/EMAIL: University Box Office: 916-898-6333

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Thursday, October 1st to Sunday, October 18th 2009
Residency at STEIM

I will taking three CalArts Experimental Sound Practices students to STEIM in Amsterdam for a 2 1/2 week residency at the Dutch experimental music center. We will be working together as a group to create a unique performance. We will give a lecture / concert on Wednesday, October 14th at STEIM.

ESP ENSEMBLE

Coming from CalArts in California the ESP Ensemble is a quartet of composer-performers who are interested in exploring electro-acoustic improvisation and interactive audio-visual performance systems. The ensemble draws from a wide array of sound making devices including networked audio-visual laptop instruments, video cameras, effect pedals, electric cello, saxophone, percussion, voice, and various other sound making devices. While at STEIM we are interested in exploring ideas surrounding improvisation and performance practice for electro-acoustic-visual ensembles in addition to learning more about instrument sensors and the video tracking capabilities found in STEIM’s Junxion software.

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Wednesday, September 16th to Friday, September 18th 2009
Webcasting David Rosenboom’s AH Opera from REDCAT

I will directing a live webcast of the opera using four cameras with operators. The webcast will be viewed live around the world. Various venues will project the broadcast live for people to enjoy the performance live.

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Sunday, August 16th & Sunday, August 23rd 2009
Hydrophone workshop at Machine Project

A hydrophone is a microphone designed to be used underwater for recording or listening to underwater sound. Used in World War I, hydrophones were employed by convoy escorts to detect U-boats, greatly lessening the effectiveness of the submarine. From late in World War I until the introduction of active sonar, hydrophones were the sole method for submarines to detect targets while submerged, and remain useful today (source: wikipedia).

Come and build your very own hydrophone in this two-day workshop! Clay Chaplin will lead you through the construction of your hydrophone using a kit we’ll provide, then test it out in the Silver Lake reservoir.

Sunday, August 16th: Part 1

We’ll have hydrophone kits for your enjoyment. Minimal soldering experience required and plus we’ll help you. While constructing our hydrophones we’ll talk about field recording and more specifically about the properties of sound underwater and how hydrophones work. Once you’ve built your hydrophone take it home for a week and make a bunch of recordings.

Sunday, August 23rd: Part 2

Bring your hydrophone, your trusty field recorder (we’ll be able to supply a few to borrow if you don’t have one), and any recordings you have made. Right off the bat we’ll all head to Silver Lake to record what lurks beneath the surface. Then we’ll trek back to Machine and have a listening party. The real fun of making field recordings with a group is listening to everyone’s recordings.

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August 13th, 20th, 27th 2009
Sea and Space Resort Summer concerts

I’ve curated three experimental music concerts for the Sea and Space Explorations gallery’s summer Resort.

Thursdays, 8-10pm, $3 suggested donation

Aug 13 – Mellownoisedrona , performances by: Scott Cazan; Casey Anderson & John Hastings; & Lewis Keller

Aug 20 – Sea & Space Shanty’s, performances by: Julia Holter; Missincinnati (Jessica Catron, Corey Fogel, and Jeremy Drake); & Laura Steenberge

Aug 27 – Solos, Duets, and Groups, performances by: Albert Ortega; Mark Trayle; STEIM Ensemble (Casey Anderson, David Casey, Clay Chaplin, and Aniela Perry)

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April 5th, 2009
Field Recording Workshop @ Machine Project
I will be giving a two-part workshop discussing the aesthetics and practice of field recording. The first session will cover the possibilities and history of the genre through listening examples and discussion. We’ll also cover how to make field recordings with information on microphones, field recorders, and techniques for improving your sound. You will have access to a field recorder which you can use to create a recording of your own. Session two will be a listening and discussion session where everyone presents their field recording. Session two will be on Saturday, April 11th from 4-6pm.

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March 21st, 2009
California Ear Unit @ REDCAT
Inspired by the classic David Bowie pop hit, The E.A.R. Unit surveys fresh new works by young mavericks (living at this very moment throughout the American country-side from whatever origins they may be). The ensemble plays Daniel Wohl’s driving yet oddly sentimental +ou-, Oscar Bettison’s haunting Gauze Vespers veiled with simmering sonorities from dual toy pianos and other innovative orchestrations, Ryan Brown’s Our Friend Adam a verbal play on “Our Friend Atom” a short film that introduced the atom bomb to Ryan as a child who mistook atom to be Adam, Jamu for ensemble and electronics by Christine Southworth drawing from Gamelan melodies, Clay Chaplin’s Rememories, a structured improvisation using 3-D video as a meta-structure for the ensemble based on the relationship of time and memory, and an exciting new work from the Carlsbad Music Festival Tsar, Matt McBane.
The Ear Unit will be premiering my new work Rememories for 3D chromadepth video and improvising ensemble

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February 7th, 2009
CEAIT Festival @ REDCAT
Sound art pioneer Yasunao Tone and composer Marina Rosenfeld headline this year’s program of innovative and unconventional electroacoustic and cross-media work from CalArts’ Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology (CEAIT). Rosenfeld’s wide-ranging performance and installation works include live remixes of her own handmade acetate records; the nail-polish-bottle-on-electric guitar music of the Sheer Frost Orchestra; and last spring’s Teenage Lontano–a “cover version” of György Ligeti’s modernist landmark sung by a choir of teenagers–at the Whitney Biennial. She brings a new composition for her “phonographic speaker,” a rotating loudspeaker whose arcs of electroacoustic sound, emitted at 33 1/3 rpm, emulate the graceful, leisurely tempo of an long-playing record. Opening on Friday are Tom Recchion, a pioneer in low-tech sonic exploration; and K. Atchley’s Turtles, a multi-channel, laptop concert work in which manipulation of the amplitude and spatial placement of sine wave tones effects harmonic and timbral changes.The legendary Tone ranks among the first Japanese artists to “compose” happenings and improvisations in the 1960s. A veteran of Fluxus, Group Ongaku, Hi-Red Center and Team Random, he has created pieces for “wounded” CDs, computer systems, film, TV and radio, as well as environmental art. His work here entails a surround-sound automatic collage of source material from CDs and radio. Opening on Saturday are composer, improviser, and sound artist Clay Chaplin, mangling political speech in real time to create ambient tapestries of sound; and Laura Steenberge discovering that the dictionary is alive in her Lecture on Words.
I’ll be performing a new laptop improvisation called Surge the Purge.

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December 5th – 7th, 2008
ISIM Conference
International Society of Improvised Music Conference – Improvisation and Identity: Discovering Self and Community in a Trans-Cultural Age December 5-7, 2008 at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, Colorado USA with support from The Playground, Creative Music Works, jazz89 KUVO Radio Denver 89.3FM, KGNU Radio 88.5FM/1390AM Boulder/Denver Featured Artists and Presenters: Roscoe Mitchell, Joëlle Léandre, India Cooke
I’ll be performing an improvised set with my friends Aaron Drake, Lewis Keller, and Phil Stearns under the name TAG or Transcultural Alliance Group.

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September 20th, 2008
Soundwalk 2008
Taking place within the Arts District of Downtown Long Beach, SoundWalk is an annual art event, produced by the Long Beach artist group, FLOOD. Sound installations placed throughout the area, indoors and outdoors, will encompass a wide range of work that will integrate visual and aural elements. Included will be sculptures, environments, performances and installations, both interactive and passive. It is the variety of work that makes this event memorable for all who participate as well as for those who attend. The fifth annual Soundwalk will take place Saturday, September 20th in Long Beach, CA.
A version of my laptop installation Bridge will be exhibited using two laptops.

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