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AGRA

About the piece:

Agra is the intersection of two modes of composition and studio craft. A very limited time window constrained this collaboration. Each composer contributed his own protocols to a process that selected for protocol compatibility. The resulting two mixes constitute variant 1, agra, and variant 2, raga.

About the artists:

ALBERTO GAITAN

Alberto Gaitán is a composer/programmer living in Arlington, Virginia. Born in Ecuador of Colombian and Puerto Rican parents, he immigrated to the USA after years of travelling. He has studied music theory, composition, photography, video production, computer programming, and biology, and has drawn from this varied background for his creative work.

Maintaining an emphasis toward collaboration, his work has sought to integrate different media and has led him to create works for video, slide projection, photography, installation art, and ensemble performance. As an advocate for and an active participant in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area arts scene for the last eighteen years, he has played a role in the revitalization of the 7th Street arts corridor, served on the directorial boards of alternative art spaces in D.C., and various local and national peer-review panels.

As a core member since 1985 of the artist collective Art Attack International, he has worked around the USA and in Europe. He is a founder of the multimedia ensemble, selforganizingsystem , and a member of the electroacoustic ensemble, SLUR, collaborations which have led him to work with artists/composers Ron Anteroinen and Douglas Quin, and video artist Matt Dibble.

He has served on peer review panels and fulfilled speaking engagements at The Corcoran College of Art & Design, Georgetown University, University of Florida, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and various conferences and galleries. He has taught a course on Computer Music at the Smithsonian Institution, and lectures nationally on the collaborative process, with Art Attack. As technical consultant, he has helped design and maintain computer based installations at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Techworld, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Washington Project for the Arts. His publication credits include contributions to "Jamming the Media: A Culture Jammer's Handbook," "The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog," "The Washington Post," "WIRED" magazine, and German arts journal "Kunstforum."

He has presently been commissioned by Arlington County, Virginia, USA, to create a permanent sound installation at the site of what will be the County seat.

RON ANTEROINEN

Ron Anteroinen is a New York-based recording artist and founder of the musical collective, Cowbrain & Saw. Anteroinen studied painting, art history and music at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, and played drums and piano in the punk-jazz group, The X-Units. While occasionally performing with other artists and contributing as a producer and composer, Anteroinen has recorded primarily as a solo artist over the years, releasing more than 25 different compilations of original songs and instrumentals. In the 1980s and '90s Anteroinen recorded with crude instruments and equipment that included portable cassettes, Farfisa and toy organs, along with boxes and cans for percussion, and home-made devices. The use of these sounds in his complex, eccentrically arranged songs and instrumental pieces became part of a signature sound for Anteroinen.

Anteroinen’s sound has evolved to include sampler-synthesizers and digital audio technology. Over the years, he has collaborated with Alberto Gaitán on various musical projects including recordings, sound installations, and the ensembles Negentrope and selforganizingsystem. Information about his solo projects and mail order.