randy gibson / composer
Randy Gibson is a composer and performance artist living in New York City. His pieces combine live and electronic elements to create sounds and textures that would otherwise be impossible. His works are often fused with visual elements creating a truly unique collaborative performance in which all elements inform and grow from each other.
Originally from Boulder, CO, he started life as a percussionist specializing in marimba and world music. He began composition studies with Michael Theodore after reaching a plateau in his work as a percussionist. In 2001 he moved to New York to further his experience, and, in 2003 began composition and vocal studies with the seminal minimalist composer La Monte Young. He has studied marimba with Keiko Abe, Doug Walter and Pete Ehrman, Balinese Gamelan with I Made Lasmawan, and Electronic Music at the Centre de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) in Paris.
Gibson has received commissions from soprano Karie L. Kerner, the UK marimba and saxophone duo Snapdragon, film artist Ana Baer-Carrillo, as well as several dance companies and choreographers including Kim Olson/ Sweet Edge, Notes In Motion, the University of Colorado, The Interstate Dance Collective, Lauren Beale, Michelle Nance, Chantal Downing, Sarah Hauss, and Courtney Krantz. His pieces have been performed around the world and at several major festivals, including the Spark Festival for Electronic Music and Art, The Dusseldorf Internationale Tanzmesse NRW, the Boulder International Fringe Festival, the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Sans Souci Film Festival and the Erick Hawkins Legacy Forum.
Most recently he has collaborated on several pieces with the film artist and choreographer Ana Baer-Carrillo including their 2007 premiere of “Anger”. “Anger” brings to fruition many years of collaborative work integrating video and music into a seamless evening performance that breaks the barriers of traditional performance. After their extremely successful 2002 collaboration “Alicia,” Gibson and Baer-Carrillo decided to form an organization to allow themselves and others to be able to work in such a truly collaborative manner.
In 2003 Gibson and Baer-Carrillo founded Avant Media Performance, an interdisciplinary artist organization dedicated to the production of multi-media collaborative events.
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ana baer-carrillo / choreographer + videographer
Ana Baer-Carrillo has been nationally and internationally active as a choreographer, dancer, and video-artist since 1992. In March of 2004 Dance Magazine, in the article “Rocky Mountains Dancing,” described her as “one of the most innovative multimedia choreographers living in Boulder.”
In 2003 she co-founded Avant Media Performance with Randy Gibson. In 2005 she co-founded The Sans Souci International Festival of Projected Dance with Michelle Ellsworth. Currently, she is working and performing with Los Angeles based Corpus Delicti and is a co-director of the Boulder based Sans Souci Festival, and an artistic director of New York based Avant Media Performance.
She holds a Licentiate of Choreography from the Centro Nacional de las Artes, in Mexico City. In 2000 she moved from Mexico to the United States and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, from which she received her MFA in Dance with an emphasis in Video Dance. While in graduate school, she conceived and directed projects in several venues outside the University, the highlight being a solo exhibition with performances at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.
The collaborative aspects of Baer-Carrillo’s work have led to projects and performances with choreographers Nancy Spanier, Kim Olson, Gabe Masson, and Tarek Assam; filmmakers Elliot Caplan, Victor Jendras, and Hamel Bloom; and musicians Randy Gibson and Marcelo Gaete, among others. During her most recent artistic engagements she has presented work in Germany, France, Mexico and various venues on the west coast, such as The Theater of Note in Los Angeles and the Yugen Theater in San Francisco.
Upcoming engagements for the beginning of 2007 include: working with Nancy Spanier in Kauai filming a new solo dance piece and editing her “Flesh Sites” video footage; a video collaboration with the Trinity College Theater Department’s production of “The Laramie Project”; “Fenced”, a multidisciplinary performance at Highways Performing Space in Los Angeles, and a video dance and music workshop at the Chattanooga Performance Arts School with Avant Media artists Randy Gibson and Dani Beauchamp.
