Eric Laska
+1 914 263 6337
eric.laska@gmail.com
EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Music, New York University, Music Technology
 
SELECTED PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION
- "Cool Gauss", solo installation, The Window on Broad at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 12/05/14-01/04/15.
 
- "Fragmented Realities", group show with Oliver Herring, Vishal Jugdeo, Amanda Ross-Ho, Miljohn Ruperto, Daniel Wiener, and Michael Williams, The Gallery at Delaware County Community College, Media, Pennsylvania, 04/03-04/25/14.
 
- "Threshold For Magic Pictures", interactive sound environment, Magic Pictures, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 02/08/14.
 
- "Frequencies For The Waxing Crescent", piece for snare drum performed by Anton Hochheim, Betalevel, Los Angeles, California, 12/15/13.
 
- "Acting On Impulse + Public Conversation", performance and conversation with Bennett Williamson, Machine Project, Los Angeles, California, 12/14/13.
 
- "The Long Cable At F. A. T. GOLD", interview and performance, Eyebeam, New York, New York, 04/03/13.
 
- "]BLNKT Talk Series", installation (Impulse Blasts) and conversation with Jordan Topiel Paul, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 03/15/13.
 
- "Simulcast", sound application with score, Gauss PDF, Internet, 03/01/13-.
 
- "The Long Cable", 500 ft. xlr cable and video, self-hosted, IRL and Internet, 12/03/12-.
 
- "Brise Soleil live", solo performance, Wallet, Brooklyn, New York, 08/23/12.
 
- "Infinite Scroll", Internet installation with Double Happiness for Public Access group show, Living Space Internet Café, London, UK, 06/12/12.
 
- "Redundancy Spaces", series of sound installations, self-hosted, Internet, 03/28/12-.
 
- "Auditory Scene Analysis With Cocktail Party Effect", performance with Ian M. Fraser, Aux Performance Space/Vox Populi Gallery, presented by the Philadelphia Sound Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 03/15/12.
 
- "Vigilance Improvisations", performance of two pieces in Vigilance Improvisations framework with Bryan Eubanks, Bonnie Jones, and Reed Evan Rosenberg, Aux Performance Space/Vox Populi Gallery, presented by the Philadelphia Sound Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 01/28/12.
 
- "Cha'ak'ab Paaxil Festival 2011", performance with Víctor Mazón, Reed Evan Rosenberg, and Mario de Vega, Facultad de Arquitectura UADY, Mérida, México, 10/14/11.
 
- "Cha'ak'ab Paaxil Festival 2011", performances with Enrique R. Palma, Eli Pinto, and Reed Evan Rosenberg, Casa Pompidou, Mérida, México, 10/13/11.
 
- "Impulse Blasts", sound application and video, self-hosted, Internet, 06/21/11-.
 
- "Modular System For One-To-Six Musicians", performance of composition by Richard Kamerman with RK, Billy Gomberg, Anne Guthrie, Ben Owen, and Reed Evan Rosenberg, Union Pool, Brooklyn, New York, 05/17/11.
 
- "Modular Improvisations", performance with rotating lineup of musicians, Douglas Street Music Collective, Brooklyn, New York, 03/31/11.
 
- "Quartet With Pyramid Scheme", internet sound installation commissioned for Turbulence.org with Jordan Topiel Paul, Richard Kamerman, and Reed Evan Rosenberg, Turbulence.org, 03/11-07/01/11.
 
- "Tratados De Extradición", performance with Alexander Bruck, Antonio Domínguez, and Juanjose Rivas, Casa Cultural Carlo Gesualdo, DF, México, 01-20-11.
 
- "NY Phonographers Meeting / Seijiro Murayama", presentation of a field recording, Fotofono, Brooklyn, New York, 11-30-10.
 
- "Speed Show vol. 4: 'Super Niche'", group show with Double Happiness curated by Aram Bartholl, 90 Bowery Internet Cafe, New York, New York, 10-27-10.
 
- "Chicago Equinix", sound installation, Soapbox Music, included in the 5th Annual Chicago Calling Festival, and Chicago Artists Month 2010, Chicago, Illinois, 09/24/10, 10/01/10, 10/10/10.
 
- "Night Of Free Musics", trio performance with Ricardo Arias and Ben Owen, Dutch Kills Gallery, Queens, New York, 07/10/10.
 
- "Pro Remote", internet sound installation commissioned for Process Festival Berlin, Process Festival, Ausland,  Berlin, Germany, 03/19-03/20/10.
 
- "Alicia", sound installation with Jordan Topiel Paul at Sonik Festival, Climate Gallery and Dutch Kills Gallery,  Queens, New York, 01/23-01/24/10.
 
- "091114 - Four Live Sets", duo performance with Reed Evan Rosenberg, Fotofono, Brooklyn, New York, 11-14-09.
 
- "Quartet Without Pyramid Scheme", sound installation with Jordan Paul, Reed Evan Rosenberg, and Richard Kamerman, Diapason Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 09/05-09/26/09.
 
- "D’EGG", sound installation with Jordan Topiel Paul, Sculpture Center, Queens, New York, 07/12/09.
 
- "Archival Item Recovered From 85bmb's DMT Hallucination in Mamoun's", installation with Reed Evan Rosenberg, Media Lounge, Brooklyn, New York, 02/13/09.
 
- "Party Tray Plus", installation with Double Happiness, Video Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 01/10/09.
 
- "Touch Not My Anointed", installation with Double Happiness, VertexList Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 09/13-10/12/08.
 
- "Basilect of a Tunnel", presented at NYU Music Technology Open House, New York, New York, 05/10/08.
 
- "Groits Big Band", big band style electro-acoustic ensemble, Cake Shop, New York, New York, 03/11/08.
 
- "The Great Internet Sleepover", IRL/Internet all-night event with Double Happiness, Eyebeam, New York, New York, 08/24/07.
 
- "Improvised Music", a night of improvised electronic music, gallery onetwentyeight, New York, New York, 06/28/07.
 
- "El Miedo", electronic score performed by NYU New Music Ensemble, Frederick Lowe Theatre, New York, New York, 04/30/07.
 
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
RECORDING CREDITS
- Reed Evan Rosenberg/Ethan Tripp, Medium Rude, ErstAEU, Spring 2016.
 
- Reed Evan Rosenberg, At The End Of An Endless Stream, Accidie Records, Summer 2012.
 
- Ruez, Brise Soleil, Copy For Your Records, 07/23/12.
 
- The Depreciation Guild, In Her Gentle Jaws, independent release, 2007; Kanine Records re-issue, 09/29/09.
 
- Ruez, She Came From Money, rar, 2008.
 
- The Depreciation Guild, Nautilus ep, 8bitpeoples, 01/11/06.
 
GRANTS, AWARDS
- Turbulence Commission, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) grant with funding from the Jerome Foundation for use with the collaborative "Quartet With Pyramid Scheme" installation,  03/11-07/01/11.
 
- Strategic Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grant for use with the "Pro Remote" installation,  03/19-03/20/10.
 
- Gallatin Dean's Award, for use with Double Happiness' "Touch Not My Anointed" installation,  09/13-10/12/08.
 
SELECTED ONLINE TEXT
SELECTED PRESS FOR PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION
- Comfort Zones: Eric Laska's Cool Gauss, Tim Leonido, Title Magazine.
 
- Fragmented Realities, Mimi Cheng, Title Magazine.
 
- Frozen Proliferation: Eric Laska’s Redundancy Spaces, Gordon Faylor, Title Magazine.
 
- Farsheed Hamidi-Toosi on Chicago Equinix, Dan Godston, The Examiner.
 
- Pro Remote, Rodrigo Teie, Colour Me In.
 
- Process Festival, Digital In Berlin.
 
- Group Dynamics, Brian Droitcour, Rhizome.
 
SELECTED PRESS FOR DOUBLE HAPPINESS
- Touch Not My Anointed, Ceci Moss.
 
- After the Amateur: Notes, Ed Halter.
 
- So You Want to Join a Surf Club..., Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City and The L Magazine.
 
- Even Boring Blogs Are Things of Beauty In Some Artists’ Eyes, Andrew Lavallee, The Wall Street Journal.
 
- Net Art 1.0 Definition Reconsidered, Double Happiness at vertexList, and Probably How It Will Go Down , Tom Moody.
 
- Let It Spin, Marisa Olson.
 
- Beyond Art and Design, Haydn Shaughnessy, The Irish Times.
 
- Solo Web Surfing Evolves Into a Full-On Super Fun Sleepover, Helen A.S. Popkin, MSNBC.
 
- Surfing Clubs: organized notes and comments, Marcin Ramocki.
 
- SART:3480 - Dynamic Web Content, Lorna Mills’ class notes.
 
SELECTED PRESS FOR RAR AND ASSOCIATED RECORDINGS
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