2009: Hans Fjellestad

Hans Fjellestad will perform his Slimspor Cosmonaut, an improvised performance with a specific set of analog electronics and video projection. A tangle of wires and patch cables wind trails thru a darkly lush world of sound, drawing a map to be sounded out as the visuals explore super inner spaces (200X magnified slugs) and super outer spaces (weather on Neptune).

Hans Fjellestad is a musician and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He studied music composition and improvisation with George Lewis at University of California San Diego (UCSD), and classical piano with Krzysztof Brzuza. Fjellestad has composed for film, video, theater, dance and has presented his music, film and video art throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, Mexico and Brazil.

Fjellestad's Moog (2004), a feature-length documentary on synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog, was released theatrically across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan. Stephen Holden of the New York Times dubs Moog a “compelling documentary portrait” of a “provocative, thoughtful and deeply sympathetic figure” and the London Daily Telegraph calls it “brilliantly inspiring on many levels.”

He has given master classes and lectures at various academic institutions including Columbia University, San Francisco Art Institute, McGill University, Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (el CUEC) and Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City, Palomar College, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), University of California San Diego (UCSD), Center for Research in Computing & the Arts (CRCA) in La Jolla, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Fjellestad co-founded the Trummerflora Collective, and has worked as a curator/producer for the international art initiative, inSite_05. He is currently in residence at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood, curating the monthly music series ResBox.

Artist (photo by Photographer)