Renée T Coulombe
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Selected Solo and Ensemble Performances, Performance Residencies
Erroneous Funk with Badal Roy, University of California, Riverside, January 23, 2004.
With Badal's Bayan at Riverside Downtown Public Library, Supported by the Gluck Foundation, January 24, 2004.
Erroneous Funk with Badal Roy, Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute for the Arts, January 24, 2004.
Erroneous Funk at UCR Is Improvising: International Festival of Spontaneous Art, Music and Dance, UC Riverside Arts Building Performance Lab, April 3, 2004.
Erroneous Funk live in "The Lounge" KPBS Radio 89.5 (NPR) San Diego, CA September 16, 2004.
With Adaptable Girl, UC Riverside Performance Lab, April 16, 2005.
Erroneous Funk, Dizzy's in the Gaslamp, San Diego, CA, November 27, 2005.
With Percussionist/Saxophonist Walter Gershon Parallel 66 Concert Series, Pomona CA, January 14, 2006.
Erroneous Funk, Music on the Edge: New Music by Women Composers, Voices on the Edge Festival, Cal State Fullerton, March 9, 2006.
UCR Free Improvisation Ensemble, David's Pictures, Nebulae, Before the Thing Happened, Mirror Mirror, UC Riverside, June 4, 2006. Second Performance at Open Fist Theatre, Hollywood, CA, October 24, 2006.
Gamelan Plesetan with no.e sunflowerfish, Rene Lysloff, and students from the UCR Gamelan Ensemble. 30 minute structured improvisation for Gamelan instruments, MIDI, Live electronics, Prepared Piano, Voice and live video processing using Jitter/Max. UC DARnet, Research exchange, UC Riverside, ARTS Building 166, January 26, 2007.
Adaptable Girl Playspace, 3-hour, 2-channel audio installation, with video, dance and visual installation. Closing event of the UC Digital Arts Network Research Exchange, January 27, 2007.
1x2x3=Nem!* for Gamelan Orchestra, Improvising pianist and drummer, and live electronics. Premiered by UCR Gamelan Orchestra, René T.A. Lysloff, director, with Sapto Raharjo, guest director and lead drummer, University Theater, University of California, Riverside, June 8, 2007. I performed as improvising pianist and singer for this premiere.
Free(style) Theater Project with co-director Rickerby Hinds. A one-hour experimental theatrical event combining original music, collaborative dance, media installation (live and pre-recorded video, live-action projected drawing, sculpture) and narrative elements. Research completed in the "Free(style) Theater Project workshop group, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Premiered June 3, 2007, Arts 157, UC Riverside. Los Angeles premiere at the Open Fist Theatre, 6209 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles. July 10 and July 11, 2007.
Telematic Performance with Synthia Payne (of Telematic Circle), and Gamelan Plesetan, Friday Evening Media Event, UCIRA State of the Arts: Demonstration, Arts Building Performance Lab, Room 166. November 6, 2008.
Gamelan Plesetan, with no.e sunflowerfish, Rene Lysloff, and students from the UCR Gamelan Ensemble at State of the Arts: Demonstration, November 7, 2008.
badland revelations for fixed audio, live audio, video installation and improvised piano Palomar College November 22, 2011, and Mesa College Recital Hour.
Chapul'LA: An evening of Art, Music, Performance and Chapulling for the Los Angeles Gezi Forum in support of democratic protesters in Turkiye. I presented fixed and live audio compositions, live and processed piano improvisation at Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA. September 14, 2013. Also at the Mesa College Recital Hour performance, November 6, 2013.
Sympathetic Resonance (2014-2016) for prepared piano and electronics. This 4-movement concert-length work for solo prepared piano, digital audio and interactive video installation celebrates the piano's pivotal role in the history western music, its prevalence as sound source for musicians and artists, as well as the remarkable technology of the instrument itself. Three movements of the work in progress premiered at Mesa College, San Diego on November 12, 2014. Forthcoming performance residency at the University of Gothenburg, Academy of Music and Drama, November 11-18, 2016. World Premiere at Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, SARC Queen's University Belfast, November 28, 2016. American Premiere at Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, December 9-10, 2016.
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Jazz and Poetry Event, with Poet Quincy Troupe. An evening of improvised music and poetry with renowned Miles Davis biographer and poet Quincy Troupe and Improvisation Collective Erroneous Funk. UC Riverside, December 1, 2001.
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