School of Music

Carolyn Chen has made music for supermarket, demolition district, and the dark. Her work reconfigures the everyday to retune habits of our ears through sound, text, light, and movement. Her studies of the guqin, a Chinese zither traditionally played for private meditation in nature, have informed her thinking on listening in social spaces. Recent projects include an audio essay on a scream and commissions for Klangforum Wien and the LA Phil New Music Group. 

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In his 46 year career, trombonist Miles Anderson has performed in a variety of musical genres working with leaders as diverse as John Williams and John Cage, and Pierre Boulez and Les Brown. He served as Principal Trombone of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, the Les Brown Big Band, and was a founding member of the Los Angeles Brass Quintet. He was the first brass player to recieve a Solo Recitalists' Fellowship from the NEA. He also had a long standing collaboration with electric violinist, Erica Sharp, with whom they were the resident musicians of the McCaleb Dance Company. Miles was also a member of the original brass faculty at CalArts. He is currently retired in San Francisco.

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"Baseck is a Los Angeles-based experimental electronic musician. His roots run deep in L.A.’s underground rave scene since the early 90s. Baseck’s fascination with sound brought him to turntablism at an early age. His attraction to hands-on hardware, learned from scratching records, led to audio manipulation with small battery powered toys, drum machines, then modular synthesizers. His unique style and mastery of a wide range of music hardware segued into his involvement with music technology. 

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Lu Coy (they/them) is a mixed media artist and musician of Mexican and Ukrainian Jewish heritage based in Los Angeles, California. Lu creates work in the form of performance art, video, sculpture, experimental music and song, and holds degrees from The Boston Conservatory and California Institute of the Arts. With their introspective and ritualistic performances, Coy guides their audiences through the fading architectures of ancestral, transcestral and personal memory to salvage the forms of the dead and heal moments of personal loss and failure. As a multi-instrumentalist known for their mastery of several woodwinds, use of electronics, and agile vocals, Lu performs regularly with several prominent bands in LA’s Queer-Alt-Latin music scene. 

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Bassist, composer and improviser Lisa Mezzacappa has been an active part of California’s vibrant music community for more than 20 years. Her music spans ethereal chamber music, electro-acoustic works, avant-garde jazz, music for groups from duo to large ensemble, and collaborations with film, dance, and visual art.

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Katherine Young makes electroacoustic music and sonic art using expressive noises, curious timbres, and kinetic structures to explore the dramatic physicality of sound, shifting interpersonal dynamics, and tensions between the familiar and the strange. As a bassoonist and improviser, Katherine amplifies her instrument and employs a flexible electronics setup. She performs often as a soloist, and her debut solo album garnered praise in The Wire (“Bassoon colossus”) and Downbeat (“seriously bold leaps for the bassoon”). Since collaboration is central to her practice, she also regularly performs in ad hoc improvised groups and with projects such as Beautifulish (duo with Sam Scranton) and Architeuthis Walks on Land (duo with Amy Cimini).

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Native of Japan, Oguri’s inspiration to dance came after meeting Butoh founder Hijikata Tatsumi. He started training/performing in 1985 with famed dancer Min Tanaka's company, Mai-Juku and participated in founding Body Weather Farm. Oguri also began performing solo dance in the avant-garde scene in Tokyo. He also designed the lighting for Min Tanaka’s choreographies. He practiced traditional organic farming, experiencing the rhythms and cycles of this most human lifestyle. This connection of the human body to nature is a foundation of Oguri’s dance. Oguri moved to Los Angeles in 1991 and joined Roxanne Steinberg sharing Body Weather Laboratory.

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