Education

1997 Ph.D. in Music, University of California, San Diego
1992 Master of Arts in Music, University of California, San Diego
Outstanding Graduate Student in Jazz Award
1990 Bachelor of Music in Composition, University of Southern California
Outstanding Graduate in Theory and Composition
Doctoral research areas: Composition; Improvisation; Analysis of “seminal” works of the 20th century; Polyrhythm, rhythm perception and pedagogy; Interactive computer music systems; Music of Conlon Nancarrow;

Additional areas of study:

Sichuan Opera percussion; Brazilian and Cuban percussion; Contemporary percussion repertoire.

Teaching Experience

2002 University of Sichuan, Chengdu, China. Artist in Residence.
Intro to Jazz, concerts, workshops
WAAPA, Perth. Artist in residence.
Chinese percussion music, Composition, Performance workshop
2001 Center for Research in the Computing Arts, San Diego. Artist in residence.
Development of new work
Stanford University. Guest Lecturer.
Free improvisation with interactive electronics
2000 California Institute for the Arts, Los Angeles. Guest Artist.
Performance-lecture
TAFE School of Music, Adelaide. Guest Lecturer.

Composition

University of Adelaide. Artist in residence.
Free improvisation with interactive electronics
1999 Sichuan Conservatory of Music. Artist in residence (three weeks).

Jazz, contemporary music

1998-9 University of California, San Diego. Lecturer.
Jazz Theory, Jazz Piano, Jazz Improvisation
1997-9 Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California. Lecturer.
Contemporary Scene in Popular Music, Improvisation Workshops, Ear-Training,
Basic Keyboard Skills, History of Western Music (guest lecturer)
1991-7 University of California, San Diego. Teaching and Research Assistant.
Music of African-Americans, Oral Tradition in Music, Popular Music, Music of Miles Davis, Basic Musicianship, Contemporary Percussion Repertoire
Professional / Administrative Experience
Co-founder and co-director of Clocked Out Productions (Melbourne, 1999-present)
Responsible for applying for and administering grants, organising and promoting all aspects of numerous performance events and series.
Co-director of New Music Forum concert series (San Diego,1992-3)
Responsible for obtaining funding, scheduling, organising performers and programming concerts and receptions.
Composer in residence, Ruse Theatre (San Diego, 1991)
Responsible for composing new works for regular performances of the "house band" Mungus, the collaborative work Rhythm of Life, and organising a regular experimental music series.

References

Professor Roger Reynolds
Department of Music, 0326, University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0326
U.S.A.
Phone/Fax: 00111 (858) 534 2444
Email: ping@rogerreynolds.com
Professor George Lewis
(Address same as Reynolds')
Phone/Fax: 00111 (858) 534 6293
Email: glewis@ucsd.edu
Professor Stephen Whittington
Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide
Adelaide, SA 5005
Phone/Fax: (08) 8303 3689
Email: stephen.whittington@adelaide.edu.au
Warren Burt
PO Box 2154
St. Kilda West, Vic. 3182
Phone: (03) 9384-2303
Email: waburt@melbourne.dialix.com.au

Selected Works
Compositions and Creative Arrangements
2002 Guaguanco, Maracatu, Batucada. Prepared piano. 10'
Chuanju Fanyi. Prepared piano and percussion. 10'
2001 Astraversary. Choir. 3'. Commissioned by Astra Choir (Melbourne)
Extended Pianos. 2 prepared pianos and electronics (with Anthony Pateras and Robin Fox). 45'. Developed with a grant from Arts Victoria
We move by intuition. Piano and percussion. 12’
Felaminikuti. Toy instruments. 5'
Treb Plane. Recorder and computer processing. 8'. Commissioned by Natasha Anderson (Melbourne).
2000 Plane Suite. Jazz quartet. 30’
Other Planes. Prepared piano. 47'. Broadcast live on New Music Australia
I Put a Spell on You. Keyboard and samples. 6'
Every Night the Same Dream. Piano and percussion. 10'
1999 Strings Attached. Percussion sextet. 15'. Commissioned by "red fish blue fish" (San Diego)
Six Moirés. Flute and clarinet. 12'. Commissioned by Soundings (San Diego/New York)
Better Days, Caravan, Love in Outer Space, Space is the Place. 3 clarinets, soprano and tenor saxophones, trumpet, trombone, guitar, piano, bass, drums and percussion (the "Clocked Out Orchestra").
1998 Hypnotic Strains. Percussion. 10' Commissioned by Vanessa Tomlinson
1997 Peace for January. Viola, piano, contrabass, percussion. 9'. Commissioned by Helios Quartet (Minneapolis)
1996 In Between States. Solo percussion, 2 flutes, 2 clarinets/bass clarinets, trumpet, 2 trombones, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass, and jazz trio: piano, bass, and drums. 30'. Submitted as doctoral dissertation
1994 Entanglement. Percussion solo. 15'. Commissioned by Steven Schick
1993 Paths Not Taken. Alto flute, tuned flower pots and contrabass. 8'
Sweet Nothings. Flute, guitar, viola, cello, and contrabass. 10'
1992 Looking for Towers. String septet. 8'
1991 Switch. Percussion solo. 7'
1990 A Conversation With A Blind Man. Voice, flute, t saxophone, trombone . 15'
1989 Sculpture #1. Symphony orchestra. 8'
Three Tangos. Percussion quintet. 8'. Published by Mitchell Peters
1988 Untitled. Symphony orchestra. 8'
Multi-Media and Electro-Acoustic
2002 Permanent Transit. Live music, sculpture, video, text and computer processing (with Sarah Pirrie and Craig Foltz). Developed with a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts.
2001 Other Planes. Live music, sculpture and text (with Sarah Pirrie and Craig Foltz).
2000 Erik & Kynan’s Clocked Out Happy Hour. Prepared piano, trombone and sampler (with Kynan Robinson).
1999 Clocked Out Trio. Live performance with interactive computer and electronics (with Harry Castle and Vanessa Tomlinson). Supported by the Center for Research in the Computing Arts (San Diego).
1995 Emerging Voices. Mechanical sound sculptures with interactive computer sound processing (with programmer Mark Danks).
1994 Moon River: The Evolution of a Marriage. Mechanical sound sculptures, dance and improvisation (with Roman DeSalvo, Michael Fennell and Lorna Dunne). Developed with a grant from the InterArts Consortium of the University of California, San Diego.
1992 Slyboots. Performance art and live electronic music (with Stephanie Juno)
Cross-Cultural Collaborations
2002 Sichuan Fantasy. Concert-length program of new works developed with Chinese composer Zou Xiangping, folk musician Zou Zhongxin, and choreographer Zhang Ping (Chengdu / Perth).
Mian / Sleep. Collaboration with Chinese choreographer Da Hai (Chengdu).
2000 Improvisa. Collaborations with dancers and musicians of the IBA (Barcelona improvisors) collective at their Improvisa Festival 2000.
1991- Man-Tek-Oso. Mexican-American improvising poetry and music ensemble (San Diego / Tijuana / Ensenada).
1991 Rhythm of Life. Concert-length program of new works developed with Tijuana percussionist Jorge Peña (San Diego / Tijuana). Commissioned by the Ruse Theatre.
Experimental and Community Theatre
2000 Dada Cabaret. Live music, text, performance art (with Vanessa Tomlinson, Sarah Pirrie, Warren Burt and Ernie Althoff). Received Green Room Awards for "Best Direction" and "Most Innovative Use of Form," and the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2000's "Best Cabaret" award.
1999 Glimpses. Live music, movement, kinetic sculpture (with Vanessa Tomlinson). Received the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2000's "Outstanding Music" award.
1997 Around the world in a single day. Collaboration with director Juan Pazos. Commissioned by San Diego Repertory Theatre.
Selected Recent Performances
Solo - Prepared Piano
2002 Virtuosic Visions series, Melbourne. The Spinning Wheel
2001 London Jazz Festival. I put a spell on you
Sydney Spring Festival, Sydney Opera House. Other Planes
2000 Rechabite Hall, Melbourne. Other Planes
Performing Arts Technology Unit, University of Adelaide. Other Planes
Clocked Out Duo - Experimental Piano and Percussion Duo
2002 Australian Daehakro Festival (Seoul, South Korea), Totally Huge New Music Festival (Perth)*, Drums in the Outback (Wogarno Station, W.A.)*, Chengdu Arts Centre (China)*, Articulating Spaces Series (Melbourne)
2001 Sydney Spring Festival, I Spy (Seattle), Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, Stanford University, Carnival Ad Nauseum (San Francisco), The Luggage Store (San Francisco), Southern Oregon University, Center for Research in the Computing Arts (San Diego), The Casbah (San Diego) California Institute for the Arts (Los Angeles), Club Zho and West Australia Academy for Performing Arts (Perth), Musica Viva’s “Menage” series (Melbourne)
2000 Nordic House (Reykjavic), El Cruce and El Juglar (Madrid), Jazz Si Club (Barcelona), Melbourne Fringe Festival, La Mama Musica Festival (Melbourne), The Empty Bottle (Chicago)
1999 Chengdu Arts Centre, Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Chapel Off Chapel (Melbourne), The Make it Up Club (Melbourne), Performing Arts Technology Unit (Adelaide)
1998 Sushi Performance Gallery (San Diego), Red Rose Club (London)
1997 ABC Studio 520 (Adelaide)
* in collaboration with Zou Xiangping and Zhang Ping
Small Ensembles - Creative Jazz and Improvisation
Bluepolesquartet (Melbourne, 2000-present)
Wangerratta Jazz Festival, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Make it up Club
En Rusk Quintet (Melbourne, 2001-present)
Wangerratta Jazz Festival, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Make it up Club
Clocked Out Orchestra (San Diego, 1997-8)
Spruce Street Forum, The Casbah, University of California, San Diego
Mungus Quartet (San Diego, 1990-7)
Ruse Theatre, Che Café
Additional collaborations and performances with: Bone (Brisbane), Erkki Veltheim (Melbourne), Tim O'Dwyer (Melbourne), George Lewis (San Diego), Scott Walton (San Diego), Jill Burton (New York), Malcolm Goldstein (Vermont).
Small Ensembles - Contemporary chamber music
Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble (Minneapolis, 1998-present)
London Jazz Festival, Luther College, Iowa State, University of Iowa, UW-Madison, The Fine Line, Woman's Club Theater, Weisman Gallery and Loring Playhouse (Minneapolis), Sheldon Theater (Red Wing), Grand Marais
Zeitgeist (St. Paul, 2001)
St. Paul Artwalk
red fish blue fish (San Diego, 1998)
University of California, San Diego, Green Umbrella Concert Series (Los Angeles)
Performances of compositions by other ensembles
Strings Attached. red fish blue fish: Bang on a Can Festival (New York, 1999), Green Umbrella Concert Series (Los Angeles, 1999), University of California, San Diego (1999-2002). Tambuco: Ii Festival Internacional Música Y Escena (Mexico City) and venues throughout Mexico (1999-2002). Defying Gravity: Drums in the Outback (Wogarno Station, W.A., 2002), WAAPA and venues throughout Perth (2002).
Three Tangos. Schlagwerkensemble Derndorfer: Prima La Musica 2002 (Linz, Austria). U.S.C. Percussion Ensemble, U.C.S.D. Percussion Ensemble, U.C.L.A. Percussion Ensemble, Los Angeles Percussion Collective, Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensemble, Victorian College of the Arts Percussion Ensemble, and others (1989-present).
Hypnotic Strains. Vanessa Tomlinson: Pacific Contemporary Music Center’s “New Music Festival 2000” (Los Angeles), San Diego International New Music Festival (1999), New Music Forum (San Diego, 1998). David Schmalenberger: West Virginia University (2000)
Entanglement. Steven Schick: Mandeville Recital Hall (San Diego, 1994), Center for Research in the Computing Arts (San Diego, 1994). David Shively: New Music Forum (San Diego, 1997)
Six Moirés. Soundings: Center for Research in the Computing Arts, New Music Forum (San Diego, 1999), SUNY Buffalo and Goucher College (1998)
Peace for January. Helios Quartet: Loring Playhouse, other venues in Minneapolis/St. Paul (1997-9)
Astraversary. Astra Choir: Astra Chamber Music Series (Melbourne, 2001)
Treb Plane. Natasha Anderson: Virtuosic Visions Series (Melbourne, 2001)
Sculpture #1, Untitled. University of Southern California Symphony (1988,9)
Discography
2002 The Gris is Getting His
Erik Griswold (scheduled for release on Clocked Out)
Love in Outer Space
Clocked Out Orchestra (scheduled for release on Accretions)
Extended Pianos
Erik Griswold, Anthony Pateras, Robin Fox (for release)
2001 Kynan Robinson’s En Rusk
Kynan Robinson Quintet (New Market Music)
2000 Every Night the Same Dream - Experiments in live acoustic sound
Clocked Out Duo (Clocked Out Productions COPCD001)
Other Planes - Trance music for prepared piano
Erik Griswold (Clocked Out Productions COPCD002)
I Dig
Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble (innova 548)
1999 Joik
Formula (DSTCD020)
1997 Solar
Helios Quartet (Sol y sombra 001)