Barbara Gogan, Craig Chin, Max Kutner, Tamara Yadao
Craig Chin:
ERRANT SPACE is a project of composer/recordist Craig Chin. Its goal is spatio-temporal dilation through sound. Performances are site-specific, spontaneous compositions influenced by both the physical characteristics of the space they are performed in and the occupants of that space.
Recent Errant Space projects include the soundtrack for the documentary Baato, and a soundtrack for the tabletop adventure card game Dark Venture.
Craig has also produced the monthly Errant Space Podcast since 2015, which often features interesting experimental and electronic musicians. (Let him know if you’d like to participate!)
Additionally, Craig has curated several music series, including a monthly electronic and experimental night and the Space Out, Outside series. He also has a weekly radio show, The Space Program, on Vassar College’s Station, WVKR.
• About DRONE DAY: droneday.org
The Hudson Valley event started in Chin's backyard in 2021, moving to Matt and Katie's compound in 2022, where it has been growing every year.
Barbara Gogan:
Barbara Gogan, born in Dublin, was an original member of the band The Passions, based in London during the late 1970s till the early ’80s. The Passions was considered a post-punk/new wave band. They had a famous single called “I’m in Love with a German Film Star.” She also made an album of her songs, called Made on Earth, in 1997, with French experimentalist Hector Zazou. And released a solo ambient music cd called Wheels/Ruedas in the early 2000s. Pre the pandemic, she was the resident composer for feminist acrobatic dance troupe LAVA. Since the beginning of 2020, she has been in a collaborative duo with electronics composer Marco Dianese, performing everywhere from art galleries to people’s back gardens to a courtyard on the Grand Canal in Venice; and she also plays from time to time with instrument inventor Terry Dame at various venues, including Katie Downs’s Drone Day and the EDM festival Elements.
Max Kutner:
Max Kutner is a guitarist and composer originally from Las Vegas, NV who is presently based in the greater NYC area. As an instrumentalist, Max's focus is on new works for the electric guitar as well the promotion of electric guitar in new performance contexts. His renowned versatility has allowed him to work alongside luminaries as diverse as prog-rock multi-instrumentalist Mike Keneally, avant-garde composers Sofia Gubaidulina and Ulrich Krieger, free improvisor Henry Kaiser, as well as the former members of Oingo Boingo, The Grandmothers of Invention (Frank Zappa alumni), Frank London, Alphonso Johnson, Lili Haydn, The Magic Band, Matt Darriau and many more.
Kutner has previously served on the adjunct faculty of California Institute of the Arts. A prolific composer and bandleader, he runs nearly a dozen independent projects including his High Flavors Quintet, Android Trio, and Partial Custody. Kutner's albums and compositions have been featured on Orenda Records, Cuneiform, Mother Brain, and Silber Media. For this and other efforts in the creative community, he has been the recipient of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Foundation for the Contemporary Arts.
Tamara Yadao:
An artist defined by constant motion in process and practice, Asian-American composer/musician Tamara Yadao considers herself a visual thinker first and foremost. This approach has informed the whole of Yadao’s work, which incorporates free improvisation, performance art, repurposed objects/toys and processed instruments. She is active in several NYC-based music circles with experimental ensembles, rahrahree! and Frogwell, as well as her chiptune-adjacent music under the moniker, Corset Lore.
Additionally, she is the recipient of grants and awards from the American Composer’s Forum, New York State Council of the Arts and the Asian Cultural Council. She is slated to release a full length debut concept record, 81 Terpsichore, on netlabel Pterodactyl Squad in August 2024.
