RESIDENCIES - WORKSHOPS - EVENTS September 2004 ARTIST RESIDENCY - SKRIDUKLAUSTUR, ICELAND Granted a month-long residency by the Gunnar Gunnarssonn Institute. Studio accommodations in the Fljotsdalur Valley in Eastern Iceland. Developing environmental sound installations and conducting field research for the Geologic Sound Casting Project. _______________________ April 2004 COMMISSIONED ARTIST - 2004 EXPLORATORIUM AWARDS Designing and building 80 functional, inventive centerpieces for the prestigious awards ceremony held in San Francisco. _______________________ March-April 2004 RESIDENCY - SINGAPORE SCIENCE CENTRE Offering creative hands-on workshops for the visiting youth and Science Centre staff. Developing an elemental turntable for the museum, giving a lecture demonstration on Phonoharps and discussing turntable related sound installation. _______________________ March 2004 PERFORMING ARTIST - SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST FESTIVAL Performing with spoken word artist Zell Miller III as part of the 2004 South by Southwest Festival in Austin Texas. _______________________ March 2004 GUEST ARTIST - SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA Conducting two creative hands-on workshops for the MyBest team in the Youth Science Centre. Workshops will focus on instrument building, sound, listening, and conduction. Will also give a performance demonstration for the museum and the general public. _______________________ February 2004 GUEST ARTIST/INSTRUCTOR - EAGLE ROCK SCHOOL, CO Guest artist and Co-teacher at an alternative high school in the Rocky Mountain community of Estes Park, Colorado. Taught a one week intensive course called Tablas and Turntables, focusing on sound, imagination, cross-cultural awareness and instrument building. _______________________ August 2003 (ongoing) ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - EXPLORATORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO Residency to facilitate the development of new works. Free to pursue personal projects or work on items of mutual interest with museum staff. Free access to studio space and materials. Have acted as a project facilitator, creative mentor, and guest speaker. Residency is ongoing. _______________________ August 2003 MUSIC COMMISSION - KRONOS QUARTET Presently commissioned to write a work for string quartet and Phonoharps. _______________________ Feb 15, 2002 VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION - LUGGAGE STORE GALLERY, SF Created and installed Mutato Nomine de te Fabula Naratur, a month-long site-specific work which invited a population of urban pigeons to take shelter inside an enclosure and used their weight to trigger sound installations and turntables in the gallery. _______________________ July 2000 and July 2001 COMPOSER - PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY - GALLUP, NM Composed and performed a score for evening length plays created during the two 5-week Arts Academies produced by the Gallup Area Arts Council. Worked with children ages 8-17. _______________________ SELECTED PERFORMANCES February 9, 2004 MILLS COLLEGE, Oakland "Songlines Series" Lecture demonstration and discussion of recent developments in my work. _______________________ January 15, 2004 LUGGAGE STORE GALLERY, SF "Creative Music Thursdays" Improvised duet performance with Alexander Kort (electric cello). _______________________ September 5, 2003 MERIDIAN GALLERY, San Francisco "Kitundu & Friends" A performance with David Boyce (reeds), Robin Sukhadia (Tabla), and Dwayn Moore (Electronic Percussion). _______________________ July 27, 2003 CNMAT, Berkeley "Douglas Ewart Quartet" A performance with Douglas Ewart (reeds, flutes, percussion), Kash Killion (Cello), Kitundu (invented instruments), and David Wessel (electronics). _______________________ July 25, 2003 SOMARTS, San Francisco "SF Electronic Music Festival" Solo performance showcasing two newly built Phonoharps. Guest appearance by trumpeter Danny Cao. _______________________ April 18-30, 2003 Pillsbury House Theatre, Minneapolis, MN "Evidence of Silence Broken" Composed and performed a live score for this Spoken Word evening length play written by Zell Miller III (Austin, TX). Reviews available at www.kitundu.com _______________________ July 27, 2002 CNMAT, Berkeley "Douglas Ewart and Friends" A quartet performance with Douglas Ewart (reeds, flutes, percussion), Miya Masaoka (Koto), and David Wessel (electronics). _______________________ July 18-19, 2002 Cowell Theatre, San Francisco "Defining Ground" Created a live score for a thirty minute improvised dance work. Featuring Joanna Haigood, Sara Shelton Mann, and Mercy Sidbury, with set design by Wayne Campbell. _______________________ July 12-13, 2002 St. Marks Church, New York "Blacksmith/Weaver" Composition and live scoring collaboration with choreographer Sara Mann. _______________________ June 16, 2002 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito "Reverberation" A site-specific collaboration with Butoh artist Ledoh and his company Salt Farm. _______________________ Dec 16, 2001 Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis "Positive Vibrations" With Douglas Ewart (reeds, voice, percussion, flute), Carei Thomas (keyboard), Mankwe Ndosi (voice), Stephen Goldstein (electronics), Roxane Wallace (dance). _______________________ Nov 14, 2001 Exploratorium, SF "Phonosynthesis II" Part of the Exploratorium's 2nd Wednesdays Series. The evening (called "self-propelled") featured artists whose work engages artistic and scientific principles. It was the first exhibition of the human powered turntable and 15 stringed Phonoharp. It also showcased water, fire and wind powered turntables. _______________________ Sept. 26, 2001 Southern Exposure Gallery, SF "Re:sound Music Gallery" Produced a concert featuring elemental turntables, stylophones and the newly developed Phonoharp. Collaborated with David Boyce (bass clarinet), Melissa Dougherty (voice), Tan Khanh Cao (sonic canvas), Q.R. Hand (poetry). _______________________ June 7, 2001 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF "Phonosynthesis" Led a discussion and workshop on the evolution of the turntable as part of a museum-wide exhibition on the history of Hip-Hop. The event was sold out. _______________________ April 8, 2001 CNMAT, Berkeley "Sunday Afternoon Special" A trio performance with Douglas Ewart (reeds, flutes, percussion), and Miya Masaoka (Koto) at the Center for New Music And Audio Technology, Berkeley. _______________________ Mar. 27-29, 2001 Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, SF "Underground Jazz Cabaret" Performed a duets with Miya Masaoka (koto) and played collectively with India Cooke (violin), Rhodessa Jones (voice), Idris Ackamoor (saxophone), and Famadou Don Moye (percussion) of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. _______________________ March 2000 Mills College of Music, SF "Music is the Game" Played with Douglas Ewart (reeds, flute, percussion), James Newton (flute), Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) and members of the Mills College Basketball team. _______________________ Feb. 1999 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis "8" Commissioned for the opening of Robert Gober's Exhibition Co-produced by Kitundu & Eric Bailey.