Field recording in relation to non-human life and elemental belonging/  Improvises parallel streams of cello, voice and words/ believes creative expression is an opportunity to offer an experience of equanimity.

A recipient of the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize, Ken Ueno, is a composer/vocalist/sound artist who is currently a Professor at UC Berkeley, where he holds the Jerry and Evelyn Hemmings Chambers Distinguished Professor Chair in Music. Ensembles and performers who have played Ken’s music include Kim Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky, Mayumi Miyata, Teodoro Anzellotti, Aki Takahashi, Wendy Richman, Greg Oakes, BMOP, Alarm Will Sound, Steve Schick and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Nieuw Ensemble, and Frances-Marie Uitti. His music has been performed at such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MusikTriennale Köln Festival, the Muziekgebouw, Ars Musica, Warsaw Autumn, Other Minds, the Hopkins Center, Spoleto USA, Steim, and at the Norfolk Music Festival. Ken’s piece for the Hilliard Ensemble, Shiroi Ishi, was featured in their repertoire for over ten years, with performances at such venues as Queen Elizabeth Hall in England, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and was aired on Italian national radio, RAI 3. Another work, Pharmakon, was performed dozens of times nationally by Eighth Blackbird during their 2001-2003 seasons. A portrait concert of Ken’s was featured on MaerzMusik in Berlin in 2011. In 2012, he was a featured artist on Other Minds 17. In 2014, Frances-Mairie Uitti and the Boston Modern Orchestra premiered his concerto for two-bow cello and orchestra, and Guerilla Opera premiered a run of his chamber opera, Gallo, to critical acclaim. He has performed as soloist in his vocal concerto with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in New York and Boston, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Lithuanian National Symphony, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and with orchestras in North Carolina, Pittsburgh, and California. Ken holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. A monograph CD of three orchestral concertos was released on the Bmop/sound label. His bio appears in The Grove Dictionary of American Music.

Erik Spangler (a.k.a. DJ Dubble8) is a composer and electronic musician working within a wide range of listening environments. As a turntablist and controllerist DJ, Spangler performs live remixes of his own compositions along with found-sound improvisations, through solo performances or in an ensemble context. His compositions have been performed across the United States and internationally from Canada to China, by groups including the Atlantic Brass Quintet, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and International Contemporary Ensemble. Along with producer Wendel Patrick, Dubble8 is co-founder of Baltimore Boom Bap Society, a forum for improvised and experimental hip hop in collaboration with musicians from diverse genres.

Jason Vande Brake is a Los Angeles-based voice actor with more than 20 years of acting and singing experience.

He's originally from Iowa (corn, not potatoes; you're thinking of Idaho) and holds an MFA in Acting from the University of California, Irvine. Jason is a founding member of Fugitive Kind, LA's most exciting new performance group. He has performed on stage at Berkeley Rep, the Shakespeare Theatre, the McCarter Theatre Center and the San Francisco, Hollywood and New York Fringe Festivals, among other places. 

Jason's versatile and engaging voice is always available to help tell your story, brand your project or bring your character to life. His vocal style has been described in many ways – from warm, friendly and engaging to authoritative, commanding and intense.

http://www.jvbvo.com

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