sound
(Mayakovsky) Study for Instrumental Trans Communication, Voice, and Autotune at Rainbow in Spanish
Op. 21 Inner Experience Fellowship / Friends of Crime at Schindler’s Fitzpatrick House Aug. 1
Scott Benzel, Op. 21: Inner Experience Fellowship / Friends of Crime for prepared piano, vintage electronics, guitar, experimental percussion, tape loop, gong, and central mixing station. R.M. Schindler’s Fitzpatrick- Leland House, August 1, 2015. Presented by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture http://makcenter.org/programming/scott-benzel/
Roland Barthes, Sade Fourier Loyola; R.M. Schindler’s Fitzpatrick- Leland House, Los Angeles
“…in their activities as logothetes, our authors, it seems, have each had recourse to the same operations…The first is self-isolation. The new language must arise from a material vacuum…Loyola requires retreat; no sound, little light, solitude; Sade shuts his libertines up in inviolable places, Fourier decrees the dispersal of libraries…
The second operation is articulation. No languages without distinct signs. Fourier divides mankind into 1629 fixed passions, combinable but not transformable; Sade distributes ejaculation like the words in a sentence…Loyola cuts up the body as he cuts up the Christian narrative…our three authors deduct, combine, arrange, endlessly produce rules of assemblage; they substitute syntax, composition…for creation.
The third operation is ordering…to subject the vast erotic, eudaemonist, or mystical sequence to a higher order…the new discourse is provided with an Ordainer, a Master of Ceremonies… in Ignatius, it is the retreat director, in Fourier some patron or matron, in Sade, some libertine who sets up the postures and directs the over-all progress of the erotic operation; there is always someone to regulate the exercise, séance, orgy, but that someone is not a subject; the producer of the episode, he acts only for the moment…an operator of the sequence. Thus the ritual demanded by our three authors is only a form of planning: it is the order necessary for pleasure, happiness, divine interlocution…but this economy is not appropriative, it remains “excessive”. “
– Roland Barthes, Sade Fourier Loyola
Self-isolation, articulation, ordering, All elements of the time-honored Los Angeles tradition of a group isolating themselves in a house (usually in the Hollywood Hills), and using the environment as an incubator for the above-mentioned articulations, for the ordering of their ‘exercises, séances’, and sound. In Op. 21,: Inner Experience Fellowship / Friends of Crime, R.M. Schindler’s Fitzpatrick/Leland house becomes both incubator and generator of an ‘allover’ soundwork.
Desert Center with Palm Springs Art Museum
Desert Center (Composition I10 Mvmt IV: Dusk) for string quartet, experimental percussion, AM radio, and electronics in collaboration with the Palm Springs Art Museum and L.A.N.D. April 3 and 4, Palm Springs Museum at Palm Desert and Desert Center, CA
photographs by Christopher Adler
SPLIT CHORALE (FOR VILJO REVELL) NUIT BLANCHE TORONTO W KATHRYN ANDREWS
Nuit Blanche Toronto October 4, 2014, Toronto City Hall
Split Chorale for Viljo Revell, with Kathryn Andrews
Review: The Buffalo News
Preview: The Globe and Mail
Selected Music and Sound Works
LAAIR/Air de Paris, live performance at Shanaynay, Paris, 2013
Audio from PART-OBJECTS, a collaboration with Anita Pace, Perform Chinatown 2013
Spectrum (installation audio excerpt), (2013) Human Resources
Selections from the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of Feb. 28, 2013 (2013) Dem Passwords, LA
The Recitation from Profondeurs Vertes Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel Musee Louvre Paris (released 2012)
Exposition Chaos from A|D Liz Glynn and Scott Benzel with Corey Fogel and Giles Miller (2012) Public Fiction, LA
Sines (for Michael Asher) Excerpt 2 channel version of a 4 channel installation (2011) CAM St. Louis
Concentric Circles (before and after David Smith) Mvmt I for 3 lock-groove lacquers and string trio (2010) LACMA
Fewg Flash Bam Pow Music from the Trip (1967) in the style of…(2009) SASSAS Program PDF * **
Inversion I (retrograde) Excerpt Inversion I (retrograde) for Dennis Wilson (2010) Blum and Poe* **
Blak Bloc I Excerpt Blak Bloc II Excerpt BLAK BLOC FOR STRING QUARTET AND FEEDBACK (2009)* **
Nativity Electronique Coda from Day is Done- Original Soundtrack by Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel (2005)*
*full album available on iTunes ** full album available on Spotify
Plays selections from the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of Feb. 28, 2013
Scott Benzel plays selections from the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of Feb. 28, 2013 for radio tuner, sampling instrument, and belt sanders
Feb 28 2013, 9pm
Dem Passwords, Los Angeles
organized by John Wiese
7914-B Santa Monica Blvd.
followed by Evidence (Stephan Moore/Scott Smallwood)
Ace Farren Ford & John Wiese
Casey Anderson
W.W.A.R./ Die Dritte Generation at ALAC
Photographs Jennie Warren iPhone photographs by Cindy Bernard and Scott Marvel Cassidy
Scott Benzel: W.W.A.R./ Die Dritte Generation
W.W.A.R. Performance Script, 2016
Review by Sam Bloch PDF
4pm, Saturday Jan. 26 ALAC Ruskin Theatre Santa Monica Airport
Art Los Angeles Contemporary presents the debut of Scott Benzel W.W.A.R. / Die Dritte Generation for belt sanders, amplified newton’s cradles, bass speakers, glass, magnetic tape,viola, violin, and voice.
Taking as starting points Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Die Dritte Generation and Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation, Benzel’s ‘performative environment’ features performers installing and then acting upon various musical and visual constructions (some repurposed from previous performances) including a belt sander racetrack, amplified newton’s cradles, a coffee table supported by bass speakers, and a long magnetic tape loop.
A|D with Liz Glynn, The Academy/The Chthonic at Eleusis at Public Fiction
A|D, a meal in five acts by Liz Glynn
Music orchestrated by Scott Benzel, performed by Scott Benzel, Corey Fogel, and Giles Miller.
As part of Scott Benzel’s current exhibition The Academy / The Chthonic at Eleusis
Music orchestrated by Scott Benzel, performed by Scott Benzel, Corey Fogel, and Giles Miller.
As part of Scott Benzel’s current exhibition The Academy / The Chthonic at Eleusis
“…most important of all is the structure of the incidents.
For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life,
and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality.”
The Academy/The Chthonic at Eleusis one person show at Public Fiction opens September 21
With a live performance by Ezra Buchla
& a tape-loop by Scott Benzel:
Sines for Michael Asher 2-channel loop 15 ips – 7 ips- performed by Allison Wyper and Jos McKain
This stage of sorts will host a series of performances & events. Including:
A set of dinners by Liz Glynn on October 12th &13th.
Tape Music at the Schindler House
Tape Music at the Schindler House, MAK Center, Los Angeles, featuring William Basinski, John Wiese, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley, Pauline Oliveros, Cortical Foundation curated by Scott Benzel August 25, presented by SASSAS
Tape Music @ Schindler House, Venice Beach Biennial, Made in L.A., CCS Bard, Ballroom Marfa
Tape Music at the Schindler House, MAK Center, Los Angeles, featuring William Basinski, John Wiese, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley, Pauline Oliveros, Cortical Foundation curated by Scott Benzel August 25, presented by SASSAS Program PDF
Michael Ned Holte Artforum Review
Made in L.A. catalog essay by Kurt Mueller pdf
Bass Elegy/Devil’s Night (for M.K.) in collaboration with Mark Hagen, Blum and Poe Sept. 15, 5:30pm
Bass Elegy/Devil’s Night (for M.K.) in collaboration with Mark Hagen, LAXART, Sept. 1, 8pm
Venice Beach Biennial with Mark Hagen July 13-15
(Threnody) A beginner’s guide to Mao Tse-Tung for 2 tape loops, dancers, violin, viola, cello, and percussion
Made in L.A. catalog essay by Kurt Mueller pdf
(Threnody) A Beginner’s Guide to Mao Tse-Tung-June 22 7:30 pm @ Hammer
(Threnody) June 28 7:30 pm @ Hammer
SCOTT BENZEL: IVORY NEIGE, L’ORIGINE DU MONDE, MAGIC ERASER at CCS Bard
Kathryn Andrews and Scott Benzel: Opus 1 Performance at Hip-O Ranch Marfa, TX, for Ballroom Marfa, 5.26.12
Variations for Commercial Arcade, Gamut I-XXI, 2011
Scott Benzel- Variations for Commercial Arcade, Gamut I-XXI, Cassia Streb, viola at Trespass/Parade, 2011
BLACK BOX, BALL OF ARTISTS, WELCOME INN TIME MACHINE: PST
http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/events/black-box-by-liz-glynn/
Recombinant Folk History and Non-Genre I for Belt Sanders and Female Black Metal Guitarist, a performance/musical work at Black Box, curated by Liz Glynn Jan. 20, 2012 part of Pacific Standard Time, organized by LA><ART
http://rebeccataylorny.tumblr.com/
http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/events/ball-of-artists/
After Funhouse in the Style of the penultimate sequence of The Lady from Shanghai (1947) for 3 voices, rock trio, and saxophone
Greystone Manor, Beverly Hills, Sat. Jan. 28th
http://www.sassas.org/welcomeinn/
John Cage Variations IV, realized by Scott Benzel and Dave Muller
January 29, 2012 Welcome Inn. Eagle Rock
Two Installations at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: Front Room: 2 4-channel Sound Installations by Scott Benzel
String Quartet No. 2, 4-channel sound installation, string quartet; Sines for Michael Asher, 4-channel sound installation, sine wave generators
http://camstl.org/exhibitions/front-room/scott-benzel/
Sines (for Michael Asher) Excerpt. mp3 2 channel version of a 4 channel sound installation
Concentric Circles (before and after David Smith) at LACMA
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A performance/installation for 3 (infinite) lock groove lacquers and string trio.
Heather Lockie – Viola, Cassia Streb – Viola, Jessica Catron – Cello. Lacquer mastering by Richard Simpson.
Trespass/Parade
Trespass/Parade: http://trespassparade.org/ presented by West of Rome, part of Pacific Standard Time, Oct. 2,1
Variations for Commercial Arcade (Gamut I-XXI), Cassia Streb, viola
Joy Prowl, Slogan for Trespass/Parade
Pig Rococo, Slogan for Trespass/Parade
Inversion I (retrograde) after Dennis Wilson at Blum & Poe
Inversion I (retrograde) after Dennis Wilson, 2010, in “Endless Bummer/Surf Elsewhere” at Blum and Poe. String quartet, record lacquer, modified (reversible) Technics 1200 turntable, Dynaco preamp, speakers.
Artforum Best of 2009
Artforum Best of 2009 BLAK BLOC FOR STRING QUARTET AND FEEDBACK
(Numero Deux) 2009
Review: Artforum (Best of 2009)
Now available on Spotify
Available on iTunes, emusic, and in select stores
Music from the Trip in the style of a Schoenberg-Gershwin tennis match…
Music from the Trip (1967) in the style of a Schoenberg-Gershwin tennis match observed in passing by Dr. Oscar Janiger (commissioned by SASSAS to celebrate West Hollywood’s 25th anniversary) and other works. Sat July 24th at King’s Road Park Pavilion, Los Angeles.
INVERSIONS I-IV FOR STRING QUARTET
INVERSIONS I-IV FOR STRING QUARTET Live at King’s Rd. Park Pavilion, W. Hollywood, CA, July 24, 20
Inversion I (Retrograde) after Dennis Wilson Audio Excerpt
INVERSIONS I-IV FOR STRING QUARTET- AVAILABLE NOW
in select stores on Numero Deux Recordings
Blak Bloc
BLAK BLOC FOR STRING QUARTET AND FEEDBACK
(Numero Deux) 2009
available at iTunes, eMusic, and in select stores
Review: Artforum (Best of 2009)