Ernesto Diaz-Infante

Because the mid-’90s, Ernesto Diaz-Infante counts among the most prolific avant-garde composer and improviser the U.S. Western world Coastline has noticed. He provides performed and documented music on piano, ready guitar, and consumer electronics; constructed chamber music; improvised with an extremely large numbers of music artists from California, NY, and Chicago; and released a pile of CDs on really small unbiased labels such as for example Pax Recordings, Sweetstuff Mass media, Zzaj Productions, and Community Eyesore. He also curates the best Sur Experimental Music Celebration (since 1999) as well as the innovative music series on the Suitcases Shop Gallery in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (since 2000). His multifaceted profession gives him the appearance of the eclectic or maverick musician, however the persistence and commanding seriousness with which he pursues his profession is getting him a little but dedicated pursuing. Diaz-Infante was created in Salinas, CA, in 1968, and small is well known about his young years. He gained a bachelor of arts through the College or university of California in Santa Barbara in 1994 and an M.A. in music structure from CalArts in 1996. His 1st chamber works day from 1992 but possess gone unrecorded aside from a percussion single interpreted by Gustavo Aguilar on Searching for Aztlan. His college student years noticed him focus on modern traditional music. From 1996 to 1998, he was chosen for eight designer residencies, you start with a composer residency in the Center International de Recherche Musicale in Great (France), accompanied by stays over the East Coastline, Midwest, and Western world Coastline. During the period of these years, he continuing to compose, but additionally created his improvisational aspect. Diaz-Infante appeared on the collaborative use David Dvorin (Triptych, Pax Recordings), but his initial album worth focusing on was the 1997 piano single CD Itz’at. It had been accompanied by Tepeu (1998), Ucross Journal (1999), and Solus (2000), all piano single produces (Ucross Journal inaugurated some piano suites manufactured from short quick compositions created like journal entries). For the time being, he performed with the brand new York Town free-form trio W.O.O. Revelator on tour in California in the summertime of 1999, and struck up a a friendly relationship with guitarist Chris Forsyth. A string of collaborations adopted through the W.O.O. Revelator/Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Pat Harman Duo’s FIRST-TIME (2000, Sweetstuff) to duets with Forsyth (Remaining & Best, 2000; Cables & Wooden Containers, 2001, both on Evolving Hearing). In these and inside the Remaining Coastline Improv Group, he mainly plays acoustic guitar. His 2000 Compact disc with Jeff Kaiser, Pith Balls and Willing Planes, received essential acclaim. In 1999, Diaz-Infante founded the best Sur Experimental Music Celebration, the biggest of the string of occasions he arranged in North California. In 2001, he transferred to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, trading the comparative relaxed of his prior outposts (like the musician residencies he was on) for very much busier playgrounds. There he co-founded the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Alternative Music Celebration and continuing to collaborate with various other music artists, including Bob Marsh, Tom Nunn, Kyle Bruckmann, Damon Smith, and Philip Gelb.