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.
December 4, 8pm Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, K'rd AUCKLAND entry $5
I am moving to Europe for one year and as a sort of going away party, I am organizing a concert at the Wine Cellar on December 4 (8pm) - there will be music by Christian Wolff (For, 1, 2 or 3 people") , Michael Pisaro (violin and __ materials) and myself, as well as selections from George Brecht's "Water Yam" and our own realizations from this Flux kit of events scores.
On this occasion, I will be joined by some local talents - John Bell, Jim Gardner, Kevin Keys, Luke Munn, Chris O'Connor and Charlotte Rose.
Finally I am getting around to posting the recordings from the Microscore Project show at The Wulf. back in September. Thank you to all the composers who have ever contributed to the project !
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
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)
