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NINE WINDS DISCOGRAPHY:
NWCD0243 Mark Trayle/Vinny Golia - Music for Electronics & Woodwinds
Mark Trayle works in a variety of media including live electronic music, installations, improvisation and compositions for wireless chamber ensembles. He uses re-engineered consumer products and cultural artifacts as interfaces for electronic music performances and networked media installations. In recent pieces for chamber ensembles he places performers in an interactive network where composers, performers and technology cooperate to form the music.
Trayle has performed and exhibited at venues and festivals in the U.S., Canada, and Europe including New Langton Arts (San Francisco), LACE ( Los Angeles), Experimental Intermedia Foundation and The Kitchen (New York City), Het Apollohuis (Eindhoven, Netherlands), and the Centro d'Arte (Padova, Italy). He was a featured performer at New Music America '89, New Music Across America 1992, ICMC 1992 (San Jose, with The Hub) Ars Electronica '94, WRO Media Festival 95 (Wroclaw, Poland), SoundArt 95 (Hannover, Germany), ISEA 95 (Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art, Montreal), DEAF 95 (Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Rotterdam), the Sonambiente Festival (Berlin, 1996), Le Festival de la Vallˇe des Terres Blanches ( CICV Pierre Schaeffer, Hˇrimoncourt, France, 1997), Resistance Fluctuations (Los Angeles, 1998 and 2000), the net_condition festival at ZKM \(1999), Pro Musica Nova (Bremen, 2000) and Format5 (Berlin, 2001).
He has received grants from Arts International, the National Endowment for the Arts, and American Composer's Forum, and has been an artist-in-residence at Mills College, STEIM , and The Lab (San Francisco). Trayle has collaborated with Wadada Leo Smith, Maryanne Amacher, Perry Hoberman, and as a member of the computer network band The Hub, with Alvin Curran and the Rova Saxophone Quartet.
Trayle has been the subject of interviews and articles in Strumenti Musicali and Virtual (Italy), Keyboard and The Leonardo Music Journal (USA), and "Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century" (Grove/Atlantic). He has recorded for the Artifact , Atavistic, CRI, Inial, Elektra/Nonesuch, and Tzadik labels. He teaches in the composition program at the California Institute of the Arts School of Music.
