What is Mama Fish? Mama Fish represents an effort to bring new music and multi-disciplinary works into new venues and to new audiences. Based in Los Angeles, Mama Fish produces performance events that are each designed to take advantage of their specific venue and audience. The organization’s programming promotes new and/or relatively unknown works, often including premiere performances as well as pieces commissioned specifically by Mama Fish.
The idea of collaboration is at the core of Mama Fish—collaboration between performers and composers, collaboration between composers and poets/artists/videographers/choreographers, and collaboration between the performers & the creators and the audience. Mama Fish is new music's new home. |
Who is Mama Fish?Core Personnel:
Sarah Gibson, composer and piano Eric Jacobs, clarinet Michael Kaufman, cello Clara Kim, violin and co-director Thomas Kotcheff, composer and piano A.J. McCaffrey, composer Jordan Nelson, composer and co-director Additional composers and performers: Jack Cimo, classical guitar Mario Diaz-Moresco, voice Maggie Hasspacher, double bass and voice Laura Kramer, composer Michael Matsuno, flute Diana Newman, voice Cameron O'Connor, classical guitar |
Mama Fish and Beer, August 29, 2014
Mama Fish's end-of-the-summer, House-Party-New-Music-Concert-With-Beer-Pairings; Friday, August 29th; Pasadena, CA
Program, in three sets -
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Teaser (2010)
Performed by Michael Kaufman Music by Sean Friar - paired with -
Saint Archer Brewery, White Ale |
the vast unbuilt abscesses of our [void] energy field (2012) - west coast premiere
Performed by Cameron O'Connor and Wenjun Qi Music by Dan Schlosberg - paired with -
Uinta Brewery, Baba Black Lager |
String Quartet (2008)
Performed by Argus Quartet Music by John Adams - paired with -
Ska Brewery, Modus Hoperandi |
Mama Fish & The Sun, May 4, 2012
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Mama Fish & the Sun, in collaboration with Yeaheavy
May 4, 2012 Yeaheavy Studio 665 N. Berendo St., Los Angeles, CA Program, in three sets
The Miracle of the Walking Fish (2010-11) performed by Mario Diaz-Moresco, voice, and Jack Cimo, classical guitar Test by Jackson Bliss Music by Laura M. Kramer Family Recipe for Biscuits (2012) - world premiere performed by Maggie Hasspacher, voice and double bass Text by Aaron Fullerton Music by Sarah Gibson Flying Too Close to the Sun, a set of music for classical guitar curated and performed by Jack Cimo, classical guitar with Angie Eberhart, voice About the music: The Miracle of the Walking Fish
The Miracle of the Walking Fish is a story about the transformation of Love, centering on a boy who leaves Todos Santos, a town in Baja California full of artisans, artists, even expats from North America, to find his father in California. But instead of finding his dad, the boy meets a Peruvian girl in Los Feliz, and falls in love with her. Together they take a bus to Santa Monica, connect to each of their homelands on the breach, and then they throw the boy's twin stones back in to the Pacific Ocean. This is the beginning of their new life together as two Americans living in a city of new beginnings. Family Recipe for Biscuits "When I met with Sarah and Maggie last year about collaborating on a piece, we discussed themes and ideas that resonated with us personally. Two themes kept popping up: Family and food. The resulting text, 'Family Recipe for Biscuits', is a poem that is divided into four sections, each conveying a distinct point of view and experience. The first, '1942', tells the story of the recipe's creation, born from the distractions of a worried, expectant mother. The narrator in '1963' is the grown daughter of the women in '1942'; she's using her mother's recipe to impress a suitor and display her domestic prowess. In '1971', that suitor is now a husband and father, left to cook for the children one night when the wife is away. The recipe requires more from him than he expected, but so do his children. The fourth section, '2010', offers the narrator an opportunity for independence, especially in a busy world full of pre-fabricated goods. Each narrator links the recipe to a personal fear or failure, but the recipe itself--and the resulting biscuits--are a source of comfort and pride. Who wouldn't want a set of instructions in a world that often feels uncontrollable?" - Aaron Fullerton |
Photos from Mama Fish & the Sun
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