Current Projects

Solo Vocal Performances

Transact - Performance Art/Music Duo dealing with issues of music and cultural capital.  Transact uses   music, movement, and costume to interrogate the ways race, class and gender create musical authority.  Voice and sax duo project with Tracy McMullen. 

Voice and Processing Duo - Joe Sarlo at the controls with a pair of luminous joysticks spatializes and processes live vocal improvisations.

The Guy Obrecht Duo - Deconstructionist country at its best. 

Gracious and Nice - Large ensemble Improv collective with Tucker Dulin (trombone), Reiko Manabe (flute), Michelle Lou (bass), Don Nichols (percussion) and Joe Sarlo (processing)

Quieter Fridges - with Charlie Wilmoth (viola) and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri (objects)

Chris Tonelli is a soundsinger ^ A voice & body artist

San Diego, California  USA   

Sound samples can be heard at http://crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/music/

for sound samples and news of upcoming shows www.myspace.com/christonelli OR contact Chris (info below) for copies of his recordings or press kits.

 

SELECTED PERFORMANCE HISTORY

 

Upcoming: May 9th.  Featured via tape in Roger Reyold's piece Illusion.  Premieres at Disney Hall L.A. w/ Los Angeles Philharmonic. 

 

Museum of Making Music - Carlsbad, CA  June 5 2005

           with Mark Dresser's Interdisciplinary Improvisation Ensemble

 

Gladstone Hotel - Toronto, Ontario.  September 19 2004.

            Duo show with Paul Dutton.

 

Bank Art – Yokohama, Japan.  September 3, 2004. 

            3 VOICES - Trio show with Makigami Koichi and Tomomi Adachi.

 

Shibuya Classics  - Tokyo, Japan.  August 21, 2004. 

With Natsuki Tamura, Kenichi Matsumoto, Masami Irumagawa, Seo

Ryo and Churko Kelley.

 

Cay Aoyama – Zappa Memorial Series, Tokyo, Japan.  August 21, 2004. 

Fronting Jugem – Improvising Rock/Noise Act

 

Airegin – Yokohama, Japan.  August 5, 2004.

            with Keiko Komori, Kaori Osawa and Tomomi Adachi.

 

Sushi Performance Space, Last Dance Series, San Diego, June 24-26, 2004.

            Untitled - with Lower Left Dance Company

 

Salvation Theater – linespaceline series – Los Angeles, June 21, 2004.

            The Three Mezzo-Tenors – with Jaap Blonk and Charles Morrow. 

 

Spring Festival of New Music, UCSD, May 7 & 28 2004.

            Temporal Dependency - for voice and joystick controlled vocal 

                                                  processing with Joe Sarlo.

             Gracious and Nicer - Collective improvisation with Tucker Dulin,

                                              Michelle Lou, Reiko Manabe, Don Nicols and Joe

                                              Sarlo. Hear at http://crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/music/