Primoz Sukic, Jakob Heinemann, Adam Lion, Sam Wentz, & Julie Bour
Saturday May 10th | doors at 7:30pm, performance at 8:00pm
$20 tickets | $10 student tickets with ID | sliding scale
*This performance is supported by BROILER, an Oracle Egg Residency series providing 3 to 7 day residencies to incubate ambitious new work in sound and performance. Learn more here.
Student and Faculty members form the CalArts school of music and dance come together in a project researching the connection between movement and sound. During the one week residency at Oracle Egg in Los Angeles the team of artists will indulge in exploring and experimenting with the spatial possibilities of the venue, and how to decentralize the performance space, and the relation of the performers to the audience. The media of sound and movement will meet through improvisatory practices, informing, and deconstructing each other's acquired patterns. The week-long exploration will culminate in a performance on Saturday, May 10th.
Primož Sukič
Guitarist, improviser, and composer Primož Sukič graduated at the KASK conservatory in Ghent, Belgium in 2016, and is currently pursuing his doctoral degree at the California Institute of the Arts, where he also teaches guitar and composition lessons as Special Faculty. His compositions are based on acoustic phenomenon exploration, and mathematical models, and feature works for solo electric guitar, electronics, group settings, and sound installations. He is also a committed performer of contemporary music aesthetics of various kinds, and works in interdisciplinary projects with dance, theater, and film. He’s a founding member of the Third Guy duo, the group Replicant, and a member of the Ictus Ensemble (Brussels), and PlusMinus Ensemble (London). He also plays in duo with Seijiro Murayama, and Tom Jackson, and regularly performs, and teaches around Europe, United States, and South America, and has released his work through labels such as Mirgro records, Roam, Zavod Sploh, and Inexhaustible Editions.
Jakob Heinemann
Born 1995 in Madison, Wisconsin, Jakob Heinemann is a multidisciplinary artist, working in the areas of sound art, free improvisation, avant garde composition, photography and acoustic ecology. Much of my work centers on sonic communion as a means of cultural exchange and solidarity, using sound to understand the community and environments we inhabit as well as our relationships therein. A double bass player, I am deeply committed to improvisation, with roots in the free jazz community of Chicago, and I play in outsider Americana trio Alta Vista and the avant-jazz Devin Drobka Trio. My compositions tend to reflect this spirit of collaboration. They frequently utilize open scoring to create a participatory framework inclusive of both performer and composer, as well as field recordings and spectral analysis to document a sense of place in a radically changing environment. I have sat on the board of the Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology since 2023, and founded the monthly free improvisation series All The Sounds Are Done in Madison, WI. Along with Peter Maunu and Carol Genetti, I curated Splice Series in Chicago from 2021-2022. I currently reside in Los Angeles, where I am pursuing an MFA in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices at California Institute of the Arts. I have released music on Clean Feed Records, Ruination Recording Co, Party Perfect, Aerophonic Records, as well as my own imprint, Kashe Editions.
Adam Lion
Offering “a tone so pure it is almost a sine-wave” (The Wire), Adam Lion is a percussionist/vibraphonist investigating acoustics, perception, repetition, enabling constraint and spontaneity. His experimental performances blur acoustic space, creating opportunities for new sonic frameworks to naturally emerge. Within this process new realities grow, encouraging listeners to investigate the hidden potential of reimagined sound. Based in Los Angeles, his work has been featured in The New York Times, Pitchfork Media, Artforum Magazine, and Bandcamp Daily.
Sam Wentz
Sam Wentz is a dance and performance artist based in Los Angeles. Originally from North Dakota, he graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 2006, completed his BFA in Dance at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2009, and received his MFA in Dance and Choreography as a Teaching Fellow at Bennington College in 2016. Most notably, he danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company (2009 - 2014) and currently performs with Kensaku Shinohara. He has been on the dance faculty at CalArts since 2018. His performance work has been shown at the Bennington Museum (VT), the Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, G-Son Studios, Human Resources, Pieter Performance Space, REDCAT, and The Tank NYC. His work was recently published in the Dance Studies Association on-line publication Conversations Across the Field of Dance: Volume 43: Ethics, Risk, and Safety in the Field.
Julie Bour
Julie Bour's journey in dance spans over three decades, marked by her commitment to the art and nurturing emerging talent. Born in France, she trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and performed with Ballet Preljocaj, winning a "Bessie Award" for Best Performance. She then joined the Inbal Pinto/Avshallom Pollak Company in Israel and collaborated with opera director Julie Taymor in the U.S. From 2007 to 2012, she focused on choreography in New York City, co-founding The Flying Mammoth to merge art forms. After moving to Los Angeles in 2012, she contributed to the Cannes-nominated film "La Danseuse." Now, as the MFA in Choreography Program Director at CalArts, Julie is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of makers and creating meaningful experiences that explore how dance intersects with everyday life, technology, and other art forms.