Johnny Chang is a violinist/composer based in Berlin. He has studied composition and experimental music performance with Michael Pisaro, Mark Menzies and James Tenney. In performance Mr Chang has collaborated with many performers both in the new music genre as well as those with more experimental inclination. Recent musical influences come from phonography and its performative potentials as well as the music of Christian Wolff, Salvatore Sciarrino, Peter Ablinger and an assortment of folk/pop/rock combinations.


Der Neusseeländische Komponist und Geiger Johnny Chang lebt derzeit in seiner Wahlheimat Berlin.

Er studierte in den USA bei James Tenney und Michael Pisaro. In vielfältigen Konzerten arbeitete er mit vielen Musikern der Neuen und Experimentellen Musik.

Jüngste musikalische Einflüsse kommen aus der Phonographie und der Musik von Christian Wolff, Salvatore Sciarrino, Peter Ablinger und einigen Indie Pop/ Rock Formationen.

UPCOMING

 

Pauline Oliveros Worldwide Tuning Meditation (Malibu)



In August 2007, I took part in Pauline Oliveros' Worldwide Tuning Meditation, which was organized by friends Jessica and Jeremy, and took place in an abandoned water tower out at Malibu. The recording from this event is posted here. (At about the 54 minute mark, I felt like certain individuals started to overtake the process, and appropriate the opportunity for their own creative outlet. To some there might not be any difference, but there is to me. I cut the recording at this point. Perhaps some of you listening might have done so earlier than the 54 minute mark... ?) The Meditation piece in its entirety lasted roughly 75 minutes.

PERFORMANCES

LIVE @ ... (performance of a free - improvised character)

Club Ding-a-Ling
(with Corey Fogel, drums & Steven Kim, e-bass)
Los Angeles - August 27, 2008

K77
(with Keith O'Brien, e-guitar & Paula Matthusen, electronics)
Berlin - June 29, 2007

Dangerous Curve
(with Raven Chacon, e-bass)
Los Angeles - January 6, 2007



175 EAST (Guest Appearances)
(live recordings from 1999-2000, Auckland & Wellington , New Zealand)

Elliot Carter: Canon for four
Laurence Crane: See Our Lake
James Saunders 511 Possible Mosaics


Miscellaneous …

John Cage: 11' 38" for a violinist
"Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970s"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - July 26, 2004

Mark So: Haley's Comet
Tenney: For percussion perhaps, Or... (night)
(with Mark So, objects/slide guitar)
FESTIVAL: Desert
at an abandoned Airfield at Giant Rock road, Landers, California 92285

Luigi Nono: hay que caminar, soñando
(with Mark Menzies, violin)
Graduate Recital at California Institute of the Arts, December 12, 2004

COMPOSITIONS


XXX. for Xenia Pestova
for amplified toy piano
first performance by Xenia Pestova in Montreal June 13, 2009

OPERA:
(2008 -
for voice, three sustaining instruments, objects & playback devices

Earl Brown's "November 1952"
Realization for violin and piano
Traci Esslinger, piano

Westphalian Fragments (Dortmund Coast) 2006
for four Instruments
first performance by the Dog Star Orchestra @ California Institute of the Arts
Johnny Chang, violin
James Orsher, harmonium
Michael Pisaro, e-guitar
Mark So, piano

Füchschen-Alt (2007)
for voice, e-guitar, harmonium, violin

Ellipsis Interludes (2007)
for four sustaining instruments

Goldsmith Variations (2006)
first performance @ main gallery, California Institute of the Arts

Interior Dialogues (2006)
for dictaphones, piano, saxophone, violin, speaker
first performance by Object Collection @ Brooklyn Fire Proof, NYC

simultaneous with

Los Angeles Transcriptions (1): Room, 1843 Santa Ynez (2006)

Johnny Chang, violin
Kara Feely, speaker
Travis Just, tenor saxophone
Quentin Tolimieri, keyboard
Jonathan Marmor, objects (in Los Angeles Transcriptions)

UR (1) (2006)
for multiple clarinets

Modulatory Synchronicity (2004)
for violin and harmonica

MICROSCORE PROJECT

with Cellist Jessica Catron

ARTSaha! Festival, Omaha, Nebraska
September 11, 2008
Philip Brownlee: Circuit Diagram
Stane Hubert: 30 seconds of pure evil
Nicholas Chase: Boner Act 1

Music on Main Series, Vancouver, B.C.
March 13, 2007
Part 1 (see PDF for detailed listing)

CONTACT

johnny.echo@gmail.com





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