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Robin Streb is a violinist who an active performer and teacher from Vancouver, BC, Canada. She is the assistant principal viola with the Vancouver Island Symphony and has performed with the Victoria Symphony, Vancouver Opera Orchestra and the Kamloops Symphony. She is a member of Melange Chamber Ensemble and the Vancouver Miniaturist Ensemble. Streb has performed in the Los Angeles area with the Okiro Series, Tonoi Ensemble, CTRL+ALT+REPEAT, New West Symphony, and various events at California Institute of the Arts. Robin earned her BMus from the University of Victoria (1999) and her MMus from Rice University (2002). In addition to her performing schedule, she also teaches at the Vancouver Waldorf School and the Vancouver Academy. Marc Thomas http://www.madrasband.com is a guitarist who, after a year at Berklee College of Music, returned to his native Southern California to graduate from the Studio/Jazz Guitar program at USC. He has since performed in all the major rock and jazz venues throughout Los Angeles, most recently at Walt Disney Hall with Burt Bacharach. He is in the indie rock band Madras, which just completed their second full-length album. Substrate is an ensemble made up of Laura Thomas-Merino on cello, M. Cera on electronics, RS-232 on electronics, and Jen Boyd with field recordings. They created a piece for Long Beach's Soundwalk 2006 that was a 10-foot tape loop with sounds of cello/electronics, birds, and a plucked heater. This will be their first live show together, with one member, Jen Boyd, playing through a live-feed webcast. Laura Thomas-Merino http://www.tonoi.org/lauratm.htm is a professional cellist originally from Los Angeles, who currently residing in Providence, RI. She graduated from the School of Music at Indiana University, then attained a cello position with the Graduate String Quartet at Wichita State University, where she received her graduate degree in Cello Performance. She has since performed in the US, Canada, Mexico, Peru, and Italy. She is an orchestral and chamber musician, cello teacher, electronic musician, and concert presenter. Her fellowship with Community MusicWorks in Providence resulted in a collaboration with Pamela Z in concert with the Robin Cox Ensemble, the world premiere of Andre Cormier's "Infections" with the group OXO at The Sonic Boom Festival in Vancouver, and a house concert of Mendelssohn's string octet with the Providence String Quartet. She is co-curator of the quarterly experimental music series CTRL+ALT+REPEAT, which features performances by local a! nd internationally recognized performers of experimental electronics and New Music. As a member of Mem1, an electroacoustic duo with media artist M. Cera, she has collaborated with the Penderecki String Quartet and performed at REDCAT (Walt Disney Hall), the Orange County Museum of Art, and at numerous galleries and festivals throughout Southern California and the East Coast. Mem1 was awarded a 2007 artist residency at Harvestworks in New York City. Their second full-length album "Alexipharmaca" was recently released by Interval Recordings. M. Cera http://www.c3ra.com is a media artist who explores intuitive and experimental control systems. He creates custom applications for live audio/visual performances. Jen Boyd http://www.jenboyd.org spends her free time collecting microscopic recordings of trees, plants, and other audible organic matter, using them to create layered compositions in real time using a portable mixer. Working with contact microphones and a flash recorder, Boyd constructs stereo soundscapes that give depth to the delicate sounds of trees and plants alike. Boyd has a BFA in music technology from CalArts and is currently working on her Masters in Electronic Music at Mills College. At Mills, she is working on presenting natural sounds in live performance and sound installations. She is trying out various means of releasing recorded works of natural sounds and continues to build an archive of phonographies and contact recordings. Jeremy Drake http://www.jeremydrake.com is a Los Angeles-based guitarist who has performed in Australia, England, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Canada and throughout the United States. He recently performed music for "Macbeth" at the Adelaide Festival in Australia, was the featured guitarist on the Fox Searchlight film "The Hills Have Eyes." He has released a set of improvised music, recorded live with guitarist Nels Cline, on EMR records. As cofounder of the much-missed LINE SPACE LINE improvised music series, he presented concerts featuring local and international musicians on a weekly basis from May, 2002 through August, 2005. He now serves on the board of directors of SASSAS (The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound). Steve Roden http://inbetweennoise.com is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles who works in painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, and performance. He uses various forms of specific notation (words, musical scores, maps, etc.), translating them through self-invented systems into scores. These, in turn, influence his visual art and sound composition. Roden has been exhibiting his visual and sound works since the mid-1980s, with numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and arts spaces in the US, Italy, France, Japan, Bulgaria, Slovenia, England, etc. He has shown at such places as Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York, Studio La Citta Gallery in Verona, San Francisco Art Institute's McBean Gallery, Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, and Gallery E/static in Torino. He recently appeared in group exhibitions at The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, San Diego Museum of Contempora! ry Art, The Hammer Museum, Sculpture Center in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art EMST in Athens, and The Drawing Room in London. Roden has performed his soundworks at various arts spaces and festivals worldwide, including Serpentine Gallery in London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MIT, The Walker Art Center, He has toured Brazil and Japan and released over 20 CDs of audio works on labels worldwide. Roden received an MFA from Art Center College of Design in 1989 and a BFA from Otis Parsons in 1986.
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