Thursday, July 9th

8:30 pm

Please join us for an evening of improvisational sound music performed by Joseph Hammer (tape loops and synthesizers,) William Leavitt (electric cello,) and Rick Potts (analog synthesizer).  Hammer, Leavitt, and Potts (with Steve Thomsen) performed together in the early 1990’s as the group Solid Eye.

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Los Angeles based William Leavitt is a theater artist, painter, and musician who has performed and exhibited in Los Angeles since 1975.  He wrote and produced his first theater piece, “The Silk,” in 1975.  Around 1988 he began working with Joseph Hammer and Rick Potts on experimental music projects. They collaborated on the music for “Random Trees”, a play that was presented at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 1990.  As a cellist, he has performed in several local groups including Solid Eye, The Sub tones, and Provisional Riviera.  He was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for New Genres in 1991 and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998. This exhibition will include his hand-built instruments “Two by Cello” and “One by Bass” from 1991-92.

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future Instruments related performances:

Dani Tull, Saturday, July 25 – solo performance

William T. Wiley and Ethan Wiley, Saturday, August 15

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