Fol Chen has created a signature sound from field recordings and an electronic junk drawer, building compound beats and sending warped vocal transmissions. Led by producers Samuel Bing and Julian Wass, Fol Chen's first two records, PART I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made (Asthmatic Kitty, 2009) and PART II: The New December (Asthmatic Kitty, 2010), cemented the band's place as peddlers of dark pop in the alleys of independent music. Their live entity has a wide artistic reach with a propensity for interactive projects like the Tetrafol, a motion-based sound toy developed with musical interface pioneers Monome. Band events have been presented at sites such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Annenberg Space for Photography, and the Walker Art Center.

THE FALSE ALARMS out now on Asthmatic Kitty Records: www.bit.ly/fol_chen_4sale

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Tranimal Workshop:

Tranimal workshop, a collaboration between Austin Young, Squeaky Blonde, Fade-dra, and the public, is a participatory event where gallery or museum attendees are invited to go through a conveyer belt of artists and become the art. Tranimal workshop changes the way you consider gender, beauty and identity. “one of 2010’s top ten fashion trends in la” - Lina Lecaro, LA Weekly. Tranimal workshop has shown at Machine Project (Los Angeles) in 2009-2013 , Hammer Museum in 2010 (Los Angeles) , Machine Project at the Berkeley Art Museum in 2011, 7 Hollywood Magazine spread, 2013.

http://www.austinyoung.com/projects/tranimal/

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Squeaky Blonde

Re: Squeaky blonde is an la based performance artist, musician, actor  and designer. Who's work has been showcased at LACMA , the hammer museum, Berkeley Art Museum , and Machine Project and in publications such as Art Forum, 7 Hollywood, Paper Magazine,   Oblivion, LA Weekly, Propaganda ,Frontiers and BUTT magazine. he's has been a nightlife personality for nearly 2 decades and continues to charm and terrorize audiences worldwide.  His unique style blends elements of macabre high art with occult overtones , facets of surrealistic  and maniacal hedonism topped with a dash  of dadaesque lunacy that compliments his unique vocal range and operatic schrei.  Visit www.squeakyblonde.com for upcoming dates and future projects.

Machine Project:

Machine Project is a storefront space in the echo park neighborhood of Los Angeles that hosts events about all kinds of things we find interesting – scientific talks, poetry readings, musical performances, competitions, group naps, cheese tastings and so forth. We usually do about two events a week, open to the general public and free of charge.

Machine Project is an informal educational institution that teaches all kinds of things they  find interesting – electronics, sewing, pickling, computer programming, car theft and so forth. Machine Project is a loose group of artist/performer collaborators, who do projects together when invited by other people and institutions, usually museums.

http://machineproject.com

Fade-Dra:

Fade-Dra is an artist with Tranimal workshop and the notorious and club performer, his iconic fashion is celebrated worldwide.

https://www.facebook.com/fadedra

BEACH:

Bitch is a singer who plays electric violin, bass, ukulele and keytar.   She just recently ‘came out’ with her birth name, Karen Mould, to mark her recent shift in sound, and launched her new project, BEACH. BEACH is indie-electro rock fronted by her electric violin.  She is joined on stage by an Alligator who operates the “machine.”   Together, they make hopeful, sometimes funny and poetically serious dance-y rock. Karen started studying classical violin at 4, and later expanded her musical horizons by studying fiddling with Andrew Bird.  Her band, Bitch and Animal, toured with Ani Difranco in the U.S. and Europe and released two albums on Difranco’s label, Righteous Babe Records.

She starred as Bitch in the John Cameron Mitchell film Shortbus, which premiered at theCannes Film Festival.  The artist went on to release her first solo album Make This Break This onKill Rock Stars.   In 2008, she started her own label, Short Story Records and released an ep B+TEC! with her Brooklyn-based rock trio Bitch +The Exciting Conclusion.  

That same year, Bitch produced and released an entire album of one of her musical idols, Ferron, called Boulder.  Boulder features performances by  Ani Difranco, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls, JD Samson, (Le Tigre, MEN) and Samantha Parton (The Be Good Tanyas).  In 2010, she released Blasted! on Short Story Records, funded entirely by her fans via Kickstarter. Bitch has also recently completed Thunder & Lighten-ing, a documentary and new album she and Billie Jo Cavallaro have produced of Ferron, which will also be released on Short Story in 2013.

http://bitchmusic.com/

Juliana Snapper is an opera singer, voice researcher and artist. She received her B.M. in vocal performance from the Oberlin Conservatory where she studied under Richard Miller, and her M.A. in critical musicology at University of California, San Diego.

Snapper creates performances and installations that push the physical and expressive capacities of the singing body. She combines radical vocal techniques, composition, improvisation, and intermedia dynamics alone and in collaboration. Snapper collaborated with performance artist Ron Athey on the piece Judas Cradle which toured throughout the U.K. and premiered in the U.S. at Walt Disney Concert Hall's REDCAT Theatre. Her Five Fathoms Opera Project premiered in 2008 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA NY. In May 2009, she collaborated with composer Andrew Infanti and costume designer Susan Matheson on the premiere of the world's first underwater opera You who will emerge from the flood at the Victoria Baths in Manchester, U.K. It is part of an episodic and site-specific work that has since been staged in the U.S., France, Portugal, Poland, and Switzerland.

Her projects have been supported by grants and fellowships from The Metropolitan Opera Foundation, Arts Council of Great Britain, The Center for Research in Computing in the Arts, and The Durfee Foundation.

http://julianasnapper.org/

Nina McNeely:

Nina McNeely is a choreographer, dancer, director, animator, and video editor, based on Los Angeles. She started her career as a commercial dancer, dancing for pop icons like Britney Spears and the B52's.  She soon found herself experimenting with performance and choreography in the underground club scene and local contemporary dance companies such as Hysterica Dance Company and Collage Dance theater. After years of working in the industry and traveling the globe as a performer, she was inspired to explore the other side of the camera. Since then she has directed music videos for artists such as Dorian Wood and Kids Without Instruments, edits fashion films for Elle Magazine and has recently choreographed for Major Lazer, Sam Sparro, Yeasayer, and Big Black Delta.  She is a founding member of WIFE where she choreographs, conceptualizes and creates animations for projection mapping. WIFE has been commissioned by Ford Fusion curated by LEGS and Milk Studios, TEDex Socal, MOCA TV and is featured on electronic artist Amon Tobin's DVD box set. Nina McNeely is also a dance teacher. She has taught her unique style around the country, at Edge performing arts in Los Angeles, and is currently teaching a non-dancer beginning contemporary class at The Sweat Spot in Silverlake.

 Website:  cargocollective.com/ninamcneely

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Sharon McGunigle Aka Venus DeMille

With an MFA in Costume Design, Sharon has been designing and constructing costumes for Film, Theatre, Opera, Burlesque, Cosplay, Clowns and Aerial Artists for the last 25 years. She has been the Head Tailor at the LA Opera for over 10 years.

She is the resident costume designer for the critically acclaimed Troubadour Theatre Company (Troubie.com) having received an LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award for costume Design for “Alice in One-Hit Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass.” Recent productions include Rudolph the Red-Nosed ReinDoors and A Midsummer Saturday Night’s Fever Dream. She has also designed for Actor’s Co-Op and the Colony Theatre.

As Tailor/Cutter for the LA Opera for 13 seasons, she has worked on many world-class productions, including Achim Freyer’s Ring Cycle, Robert Wilson’s Madame Butterfly, The Black Rider, Il Postino, and the upcoming Komische Oper production of The Magic Flute. (LAOpera.com)

Under the name Venus DeMille she has been an integral part of the nationwide neo-burlesque scene since joining the Velvet Hammer Burlesque in 2002. She was crowned “Legend in the Making” at the very last Miss Exotic World Pageant held on the infamous goat farm in 2005. She has created costumes for many of LA’s Burlesque Starlets including Jewel of Denial, Princess Farhana, Selene Luna, Diamondback Annie and Dizzy Von Damn. (Venusdemille.net)

Venus is also designer and tailor to Prince Poppycock, having created many of the costumes that were seen during his meteoric rise on America’s Got Talent.

Recently she has been building Superhero and Supervillain costumes for Batgirl the Web Series, collaborated with Austin Young on both the Fallen Fruit project and Tranimal, and worked with Michael Schmidt Studios to help construct the first fully articulated 3-D Printed dress worn by Dita Von Teese.

Website: SharonMcG.com

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Art and Olfaction:

The Institute for Art and Olfaction was founded in October of 2012 by Saskia Wilson-Brown, with the assistance of a crackerjack team of advisors and Creative Director Micah Hahn. In December of 2012 the IAO was joined by Kóan Jeff Baysa, who came on to serve as the organization’s Programming Director. The IAO opened its Los Angeles headquarters at L.A. Mart, in March 2013. The Institute for Art and Olfaction is devoted to creative experimentation with a focus on scent. Our goal is to create new points of entry for people interested in the field of olfaction, while accommodating creative ideas in all mediums.

http://artandolfaction.com/

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Brent Leonesio

Brent Leonesio is an artist, perfumer and the creator of the indie scent-maker smell bent. In 2009, Leonesio began smell bent with little more than his unemployment checks and a playful dream. But smell bent proved to be more than a dream, and his passion project soon became his career. Since then, Brent’s work has found an audience on a global scale, and his whimsical scents have made fans both on the Internet and in the retail market. His work has grown to encompass fine fragrance, gallery work, artistic collaborations, custom and commercial formulations, teaching and recently, the creation of a smell bent comic book.
smellbent.com

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WIFE

WIFE, A Trinity of Illusory Performance Makers, is an all sensory theatrical experience born of three Los Angeles based artists, Jasmine Albuquerque, Kristen Leahy, and Nina McNeely. Her creations combine surrealist animations via projection mapping, sculpture, original music and costumes, using movement and dance as the vehicle for storytelling. WIFE harnesses old and new technology (magic) to illuminate enduring mystical phenomena and ancient archetypes that resonate throughout humankind’s collective unconscious. She is as a magician of picture and light, of movement and sound, reflecting rescued dreams and the subtleties of human behavior. She is the daughter, sister, and mother of all people set apart. She has been seen at Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Human Resources, Forum Lounge at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Dripped Fashion Show, Pieter, The El Portal Theatre, and the Bootleg Dance Festival 2011. WIFE’s “The Grey Ones” was presented at the Long Beach TEDx SoCal event, and is also featured on the electronic music artist Amon Tobin’s box set DVD. WIFE was awarded the ARC grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation in the fourth quarter of 2011. Abaddon, WIFE's full-length dance/projection theater piece, was featured in Native Strategies, a biannual journal and platform for performance art in Los Angeles. Most recently, WIFE was commissioned by Ford, Milk + Legs to create new work for an immersive gallery experience in NYC and LA that showcased five multimedia artists.

Website: wifewifewife.com

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Mack Sennett Studios

Mack Sennett Studios is one of Los Angeles’ most unique stage and still photography rental studios. Built in 1916 as a silent movie studio, it has hosted hundreds of commercials, music videos, feature films, industrials and recently internet productions.

http://www.macksennettstudios.net/