ABOUT ERIC km CLARK
groups KM plays with:
California EAR Unit :: Object Collection :: Passenger Fish :: inauthentica :: Red LightEric Kenneth Malcolm Clark is a composer and violinist originally from Victoria, BC, Canada. Currently based in both Los Angeles and New York City, he spent the past two years exclusively in LA studying composition with James Tenney. Eric has also worked privately or in masterclass with artists as diverse as Charles Castleman, Dave Douglas, Stefano Scodanibio, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Kronos Quartet, the Alcan Quartet, and the Purcell Quartet, among many others. Over the years, he has been fortunate enough to collaborate in performance with artists such as Han Bennink, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Mark Dresser, Jurg Frey, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Julia Wolfe. Eric recently played lead violin with Ensemble Sospeso in a series of performances of filmmaker Guy Maddin’s silent film Brand Upon the Brain!, which included live foley sound effects and guest narrators, including: Tunde Adebimpe, Laurie Anderson, John Ashbery, Justin Bond, Crispin Glover, Edward Hibbert, Anne Jackson, Joie Lee, Lou Reed, Isabella Rossellini, Peter Scarlet, and Eli Wallach.
Eric has enjoyed success performing in many genres, though most often in new music, experimental, and improvisational settings. He has performed throughout Canada, the US, Europe, and Australia, recently completing a tour of Belgium and Oslo with his high octane group Skakk Trio. Eric also enjoyed a series of performances as violinist with the legendary west coast new music group California EAR Unit last spring 2006. Other notable recent appearances include the premier of his New York band Passenger Fish, the 2006 Minimalist Jukebox festival in Walt Disney Concert Hall, Michael Gordon’s new opera What to Wear and Decasia, and the Creative Music Festival at RedCat. Eric just completed a recording in LA of Anne LeBaron’s Opera Pope Joan, to be released November 1st 2007 on New World Records.
Compositionally, Eric is an extremely diverse composer, ranging from writing for hearing-deprived musicians to improvisational works for his bands in New York and Europe. He has recently returned from the neither/nor new music festival in Toronto, in which he performed and presented his works Mein Schatz and Slaughter Series I-IV. Eric’s music has been performed by numerous ensembles and soloists, such as ARRAYMUSIC, Bang on a Can, the California EAR Unit, the ANAlog Arts Ensemble, and the Bozzini Quartet.
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