December 4 San Francisco CA Gray Area Grand Theater

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Thursday 6:57 PM December 4 2025
Carl joins RML Night at Recombinant Network Editions 2025 as part of a full evening of exciting performances. The event will feature the world premiere of Carl’s DAIMATSU, an hour-long work spun from field recordings recorded in both the US and Japan, with elements including shomyo chant recorded during the Goma Fire Ceremony at the Koyasan Temple, Tingsha cymbals from Tibet, instruments from the ancient court orchestra of Japan, as well as secular sound elements recorded in Tokyo and Gifu. Carl Stone mixes these elements in performance in order to create a unique sound space with the special sonic capabilities of the Recombinant audio system at the Gray Area Grand Theater in mind.

Also on the evening: : 6:57pm to 7:37pm L’Astra Cosmo presents Lightphorms (6.57pm start)

7:40pm to 8:20pm Nacht – Frank Vigroux

8.25 pm – 9:25 pm DAIMATSU – Carl Stone

9:30 pm – 10:15pm Mix Master Mike / EVICSHEN (AKA Victoria Shen)

10.15 – 11:10pm Videopolis – Frank Vigroux

11:15 pm – Midnight XANOPTICON

Artists:

Buy Tickets Online

Gray Area Grand Theater
2665 Mission Street San Francisco 94110

WEB: https://www.recombinant.media/rml

December 8 Dublab

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Monday 2PM December 8 2025
Carl returns to the Dublab airwaves to host a program featuring interviews with composers and musicians who have chosen to base themselves from Japan. He talks with Terry Riley, Jim O’Rourke, Cal Lyall amongst others. the program will also include a live set from Carl himself, previewing his upcoming performance in Los Angeles December 11.

You can listen to the program stream live from 2-4PM December 8th (Pacific Standard Time) or via the great Dublab archives after that.

Dublab
https://www.dublab

WEB: https://www.dublab.com/schedule/5urnmdk79hn6e0p15qsrda90s4/carl-stoneguest-session1
WEB: https://www.dublab.com/about

December 11 Los Angeles CA Japanese American Culture & Community Center (JACCC)

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Thursday 7PM December 11 2025
JACCC & KCRW Music present the Los Angeles premiere of Carl Stone’s one hour work DAIMATSU. Daimatsu is an electronic music performance spun from field recordings captured in both the US and Japan. These elements include shomyo chant recorded during the Goma Fire Ceremony at the Koyasan Temple in Little Tokyo, tingsha cymbals from Tibet, instruments from Gagaku (the ancient court orchestra of Japan), and the sound of water boiling in preparation of tea, as well as secular sound elements recorded in Tokyo and Gifu. Carl Stone mixes these elements in performance in order to create a deep and meditative sound space that is intended to fit perfectly to the location at the ground level of the JACCC, viewing the James Irvine Japanese Garden.

free

Japanese American Culture & Community Center (JACCC)
244 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 628-2725
info@jaccc.org
WEB: https://jaccc.org/

NEW CARL STONE REMIX for “8 Automated Works”, the first full release by Componium Ensemble (Visible Cloaks) out Oct 17 2025

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Coming October 17th, “8 Automated Works”, the first full release by Componium Ensemble, an “indeterminate chamber music” ensemble helmed by Spencer Doran of Visible Cloaks, featuring a special CARL STONE remix available only in the CD version. .

More information and to order:

emrecords.bandcamp.com

https://emrecords.shop-pro.jp/?pid=187793310

New Release: CARL STONE and KEN IKEDA Live in Tokyo

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ARTIST : CARL STONE and KEN IKEDA
TITLE : Oaken Tides
LABEL : mykesrhiza
FORMAT : CASSETTE (Includes download code）

Side A AUGUST　38’46”
Side B JANUARY 33’46”
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Pre-orders and previews are available at capricious records, to which mykesrhiza belongs.

To Order go to:
http://capricious-records.com/?pid=186944466

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The powerful old oak tree symbolizes ancient wisdom and a deep connection with nature, while the tidal currents evoke not only the ebb and flow of the tide but also the ebb and flow of time and emotions, which can be gentle or violent.

CARL STONE and KEN IKEDA
The duo show recordings by STONE and IKEDA at KNOCK Koenji in Tokyo Japan on 20 January 2024 and 17 August 2024 were mixed and mastered by Carl Stone himself, and the sound was finally mastered by Mr Isao Kumano, a representative of Phonon|, an audio equipment manufacturer known for its high quality headphones.

New Album Release!

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New Album released August 4th on Unseen Worlds!

“The through-line of Stone’s genius from primordial, early vocal cut-ups to strobing samepledelia becomes apparent across the eons charted here.”

From Boom Kat:

Stuffed with revelatory wonders spanning fifty years of Stone’s decimated compositions, the followup to installations in 2016 & ’18 offers the broadest overview of work by a true maverick in his field. Injecting humour and playfulness to an often unyielding framework, Stone is responsible for some of computer music’s wittiest and playfully psychoactive work, bar none. This set scrolls right back to his earliest work circa 1972 at CalArts, under Morton Subotnick and James Tenney, and brings us bang up to date with his tekkerz in 2022, dilating the purview of previous instalments for the wildest, and arguably best, primer to his vital avant-garde side-spins on pop, Latin, folk, and experimental musics.

It all begins with a practice stemming from his graduate job at CalArts, when he systematically preserved to tape some 10,000 vinyl records ranging from Renaissance music to early electronics and global folk styles, where he effectively developed a process of pause-button editing foreshadowing hip hop. Also influenced by his studies of electro-acoustic music and the possibilities of computer memory as prototypical samplers, his music can be heard as an innovative sort of meta-archiving, and the through-line of Stone’s genius from primordial, early vocal cut-ups to strobing samepledelia becomes apparent across the eons charted here.

Whether working with the laborious techniques of early computers, as on 1972’s uncannily future-proofed ‘Three Confusongs’ or smearing the vocals of Stefan Weiser (aka Z’Ev) into Roland Kayn-esque drones in ‘Ryouund Thygizunz’, or beyond the speed-of-thought algorithms of contemporary CPU’s in the trio of 2022 works, including the AI-alike sea shanty ‘Kustaa’, the effortlessness of Stone’s work is belied by very crafty mechanics and concept under the hood. And the way which he can truly tease out a sample before fully revealing its source simply never ceases to leave us reeling, as with the transformation of ‘Flint’s’ from Ace of Base like airport reggae lilt to a Max/MSP gobbled ‘Barbie Girl’, or indeed with his V/Vm-meets-Paul DeMarinis-like dissection of Queen’s in ‘Moranguk’.

November 17 time tba San Francisco CA Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival

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Friday time tba November 17 2023
The first of two appearances by Carl at the 27th iteration of the famed Other Minds festival. for this concert Carl performs a solo composition, followed by a duo with the estimable pianist Sarah Cahill, and then a trio performance featuring Carl with Ned Rothenberg and Paul Dresher. Also on the evening will be the first live performance of Mary Kouyoumdjian‘s They Will Take My Island, a string octet about the life of Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter Arshile Gorky with film by Atom Egoyan, world and American premieres by leading Armenian composer and pianist Artur Avanesov.

Artists:

Taube Atrium Theater
401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102
415-934-8134
WEB: https://www.otherminds.org/festivals/
IG: #othermindssf
Twitter: OtherMindsSF

November 19 time tba San Francisco CA Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival

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Sunday time tba November 19 2023
The second of two appearances by Carl at the 27th iteration of the famed Other Minds festival. For this concert the festival moves to Gray Area, in San Francisco’s Mission District. the evening features the world premiere of Carl Stone‘s Re:gendo. Stone will perform live computer-based electronics with sounds distributed throughout the space, utilizing field recordings of the urban soundscape in Tokyo combined with his unique take on music from Japan as well as other parts of Asia. The music shares the immersive space with multi-channel video using specially commissioned drone footage shot over Tokyo. Featured as part of the performance will be Japanese vocalist Akaihirume.

Artists:

Taube Atrium Theater
401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102
415-934-8134
WEB: https://www.otherminds.org/festivals/
IG: #othermindssf
Twitter: OtherMindsSF

December 8 Open 7PM Start 8 PM Brooklyn NY Roulette 70th Birthday Lollapalooza

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Friday Open 7PM Start 8 PM December 8 2023
The first of two nights of the Carl Stone 70th Birthday Lollapalooza at Roulette in Brooklyn. The program will consists of largely new works written especially for the performers. Both nights will include a Carl Stone solo as well as ensemble performances. Anticipated number of world premieres: three. All music composed by Carl Stone. For the first night the special guests include Senile Felines (Carl Stone (electronics), Ned Rothenberg (winds)+ Soo Yeon Lyuh (haegeum)) and
MIN Xiao-Fen (voice, pipa)

More details to follow soon!

Artists:

$25 advance$30 doors$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)

Buy Tickets Online

Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue | Brooklyn, NY 11217
(917) 267-0363 (Box Office)
roulette@roulette.org
WEB: https://roulette.org/event/carl-stone-70th-birthday-1/
WEB: https://roulette.org/event/carl-stone-70th-birthday-2/
IG: #roulette_intermedium
Twitter: Roulette_nyc

December 9 Open 7PM Start 8 PM Brooklyn NY Roulette 70th Birthday Lollapalooza

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Saturday Open 7PM Start 8 PM December 9 2023
The second of two nights of the Carl Stone 70th Birthday Lollapalooza at Roulette in Brooklyn. The program will consists of largely new works written especially for the performers. Both nights will include a Carl Stone solo as well as ensemble performances. Anticipated number of world premieres: three. All music composed by Carl Stone. For the second night the special guests include Matthew Sargent, Todd Reynolds, Elliot Sharp, MIN Xiao-Fen and Booker Stardrum.
More details to follow soon!

Artists:

$25 advance$30 doors$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)

Buy Tickets Online

Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue | Brooklyn, NY 11217
(917) 267-0363 (Box Office)
roulette@roulette.org
WEB: https://roulette.org/event/carl-stone-70th-birthday-1/
WEB: https://roulette.org/event/carl-stone-70th-birthday-2/
IG: #roulette_intermedium
Twitter: Roulette_nyc

WAT DONG MOON LEK Makes The Wire’s REWIRE -Best of 2022

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Once again we’re honored to be included in The Wire’s “REWIRE” Best of 2022 list. This release on Unseen Worlds keeps Carl’s unbroken streak going since 2016.
“Carl Stone is a half-century into his career – so how is it that his music still sounds fresh? Wat Dong Moon Lek sees the West Coast composer working in Max/MSP, taking scraps from disparate genres – pop, country, jazz – and pasting them into anarchic, hook-packed pop collages. Claire Biddles said: ‘The tracks are all made so methodicallty, and yet there’s such alchemy here, each track feeling fizzy and alaive with potential directions.'”

BoomKat Reviews Wat Dong Moon Lek

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Boomkat Product Review:

Avant-garde computer music pioneer Carl Stone’s newest is a Max/MSP powered deep dive into unsettled dreamworld sampledelica, warping pitch-fuct pop garbles into hiccuping noise spirals and quasi-techno ethno-pop bumpers. Properly off the dial material that sounds like a plunderphonic take on the Sublime Frequencies catalog, or ABBA reworked by Oval.

‘Wat Dong Moon Lek’ might be the oddest missive we’ve heard yet from Stone. The Californian computer music vanguard has long been notable for his dissections of electronics, minimalism, world music and hip-hop, and this latest set melts his history into a barely discernible soup of chattering drums, veiled vocals and stuttered melodies. “Stone ‘plays’ his source material in the way Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ ‘plays’ an ensemble,” reads the press release – and it’s not far off the mark. There’s a freewheeling charm and humor to Stone’s approach that’s hard not to love, it’s uncompromising and deliciously bonkers, but struck thru with a level of knuckle-crack’d expertise that lifts it a few inches from the ground at all times.

At its best, ‘Wat Dong Moon Lek’ sounds like a shortwave radio interrupting a skipping J-pop CD: almost aggrevatingly loopy but texturally inviting at the same time. And while the music is assisted and driven by software, it sounds organic and human, as if Stone is answering the ubiquitous algorithmic playlist age with an arched eyebrow and a double helping of glitchy mischief. Whether you’re into John Oswald, Farmers Manual, DJ Screw or Steve Reich, this one’s for you.

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