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Philomela

These are highlighted edited excerpts from full length theatre piece (running time approx. 50 min). Based on the Greek myth of Philomela as recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and more currently eschewed by the poet Ted Hughes, this piece begins with a modern ‘Greek chorus’ of 4 talking heads that recites the basic tale: a young […]

Inbedded

This piece began as a sculpture. I had the notion of being not just on the bed but inside of one. So I gutted the inside of a box spring mattress, fitted it with contact mics, florescent lights and a clear plastic top. I rigged the base so I could slide in and out of […]

Improv with 2 Telephones

A collaboration between myself and multi-media artist, Andrew Bucksbarg altered the telephones for this piece. The desire here was to juxtapose ritual/instrumental actions, vocalization using the everyday common action of the telephone. Julie and Andrew move actions such as picking up the receiver, dialing, talking, and hanging up as well as exploring new possibilities the […]

Can Can

2 TV monitors, live audio, two bobble heads, live legs – a performance and collaboration between performer/artists Julie Adler & Andrew Bucksbarg. A fanciful exposure of legs, virtual heads and the space in between. Figurative, literal, disembodied and obvious and then not so. Built around improv, the towering head videos are singing or making sounds, […]

Caught

as part of Marin’s 21st Century Dance & Music Collaboration @ Marin Center Showcase Theatre (2001) Choreography by Heidi Landgraf and music by Julie Adler “With four performers, one of them singing Pandora Snailfly (composer Julie Adler) and Clarissa Berger’s fantastical costumes, Landgraf managed to create an insectarium of creatures yet to be classified by […]

A Stone’s Throw

From the Emissary to the Wanderer.  They have messages for each other.  Geophonic intersections Voices in the Strata (sphere).  She crosses paths with Her.  A geostrophic occurrence?  Or a geodesic one?  A stone’s throw…into infinity or a microsecond. This video contains highlighted excerpts from a performance by Jacki Apple and Julie Adler in Santa Monica […]

Lodged Part II

Lodged Part II (2002) is a music performance piece for voice and electronics. The video above is excerpted highlights. (Full length performance running time: 20 min) Here, I am accompanied by electronic composer and accompaniest, David Javelosa who manipulates the pre-recorded tracks as well as the live voice, adding another layer of instrumentation to the […]

Chair

‘Chair’ follows the sorrowful existence of a woman, chair and environment. A perspective of abandonment and a fable of gendered performance and capital gone awry in an office space in downtown Los Angeles. “Initially mundane images of a trashed office building are complemented with rhythmic electronic music; eventually a strange conglomeration of woman and chair […]

EarJam

Earjam (2000-2004) was a new music festival of LA, featuring LA based solo artists and groups, earbending innovation each evening which culminated in all cast improvised jams. It was launched in 2000 at Side Street LIVE downtown and curated and produced 4 different times by multi-media artist Jacki Apple and myself. I also performed on […]

Same as I/Cut Through

This performance was part of ‘Call & Response’: A benefit concert for the Drepung Gomang Monastery in South India. Curated and produced by Julie Adler at REDCAT, Los Angeles, Feb. 2004 With Tibetan Monks from Drepung Gomang Monastery in South India and members of Cal Arts School of Music faculty and alumni: David Rosenboom, Jacqui […]