Adam Tinkle

Adam Tinkle is a performance and media artist whose work embraces site-specific sound and music for picture, theatre and dance, and whose performances and compositions explore the borders between improvised music, popular and vernacular idioms, noise and Western art music traditions. He performs on reeds, electronics, voice, fretted strings and steel guitars, and has studied Balinese gamelan and Arab maqam. A leader and alum of numerous ensembles Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

Adam Tinkle is a performance and media artist whose work embraces site-specific sound and music for picture, theatre and dance, and whose performances and compositions explore the borders between improvised music, popular and vernacular idioms, noise and Western art music traditions. He performs on reeds, electronics, voice, fretted strings and steel guitars, and has studied Balinese gamelan and Arab maqam. A leader and alum of numerous ensembles, some recent concert appearances have included Stanford University, UC Santa Barbara, Cal Arts, and LA's Pieter with New Brutalists, and the Telemagica Festival with Creosota (http://creosota.bandcamp.com). He is the singer/guitarist/lyricist/composer for The Shade, a rock quintet that has toured both the east and west coasts, released two EPs (http://theshade.info) and most recently did a residency at Portland's Badlands (badlandspdx.com). Recent interdisciplinary collaborations include scores for theater works by Krista Knight (Phantom Band, Baldwin New Play Festival 2010) and No Face Theater (The Secret Science of Forgetting, 2nd Stage, Middletown, CT), a film by Alicia Peterson Baskill (Malibu, selected by the 2010 Loft Film Festival), and myriad works with dance artists such as Eric Geiger (WinterWorks 2011, La Jolla Playhouse) and Shayna Keller (I Defy You Stars, Hwy 62 ArtTours, Twentynine Palms, CA). In April 2012, Adam was the artist in residence at Joshua Tree National Park, where he crafted open scores and maps used in a long duration participatory performance inside the park that blends movement, music and text into a "soundhike." Adam's most substantial piece to date is A Mess of Things, a documentary music-play that blends live music, text, song, video with fragments of audio interviews. Debuted in San Diego as Tinkle's MA thesis composition in April 2011, the piece then toured to theaters on both coasts. Honored with "Best of Fringe" at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, it was described as "intricate and in a class of its own" by LA Theatre Review and was the subject of an LA Weekly feature review, in which Steven Leigh Morris wrote "Tinkle is a stoic yet passionate performer, and his lovely performance is a kind of evocation to the essences of history on the verge of extinction." http://vimeo.com/25731348 Adam is a co-founder of the Universal Language Orchestra, and with the receipt of a grant from the UC Institute for Research in the Arts, developed a new jazz camp for middle school students as an extension of the Orchestra. Adam is building a farmstead in Descanso, CA, at the edge of the Cleveland National Forest, hosting outdoor performances and small artist residencies there along with producing organic food. Adam farms and posts pictures of his baby goats at http://tanglezone.blogspot.com. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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