Andrew Pask
Andrew Pask is a performer and composer with a wide range of musical instruments, though he is most often found with clarinet or saxophone in hand. Most recently he has teamed up with Jeff Kaiser to form the group The Choir Boys, for which he developed a generative sound-processing rig for modifying the sound of his own acoustic instruments. They performed together at the SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Art at the University of Minnesota, sponsored by the IAS, from February 20 to 25, 2007.
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Pask is originally from New Zealand, where he studied and played in his hometown of Wellington before heading off to Hong Kong where he worked as a studio musician, performing on albums for Cantopop stars and playing jazz all over Asia. Since arriving in Los Angeles in 1999, he has become a part of the creative music scene there, playing with Vinny Golia's Large Ensemble, also in Vinny's clarinets project, with Steuart Liebig in Lane End Merge Left and Stigtette, and with other people like Nels and Alex Cline, Jeff Gauthier's bands, and with Jeff Kaiser.
Andrew's other interest is computers. He works for Cycling 74, a music software company based in San Francisco and has been a freelance technical consultant for the studios of Ice T, Michael Jackson, Moonshine Records, and others. He has also performed and composed for the stage and film for numerous projects from Asia to America. More information about Andrew, his upcoming events and some samples of his work can be found at his home page, http://kaleidacousticon.com/.