Erik Carlson is a composer, media artist and architect based in Providence, RI. His work examines sound as an evocative presence, often acting as a marker, in the physical and mental spaces we inhabit. Since 2002 he has been recording and performing under the name Area C, whose compositions work with timbre, texture and live loops, exploring cyclical relationships and the details of their decay over time. Improvisation plays an important part in both recordings and live performances, encompassing extended explorations of minimal rhythm and melody, drawing on remnants of other times and places, outdated and untested technologies, signals sent out but never received.
In 2009, Carlson received the MacColl-Johnson Fellowship in music composition and he is currently working on new commissions for the NASA RI Space Grant Consortium and the LEF Foundation. In 2010 he composed the score for the Emmy-nominated documentary, “Witness: Katrina,” which premiered on the National Geographic Channel. His permanent sound installation (“Low Rez/Hi Fi,” a collaboration with architect Meejin Yoon) can be viewed at 1110 Vermont Avenue in Washington DC.
Area C’s sixth full-length CD, titled “Map of Circular Thought,” was released in January 2011 on Preservation Records (Australia). Previous releases include “The Planetarium Project” on Sedimental (a double CD of four live collaborative performances at the Cormack Planetarium in Providence, RI), and full-length albums on Students of Decay, Sloow Tapes, and Last Visible Dog.
- ALISON KNOWLES +
- ALVIN LUCIER +
- ANDRÉ CORMIER +
- AREA C +
- BLEVIN BLECTUM +
- CAROLINE PARK +
- CASSIA STREB +
- CAT LAMB +
- CHASE SPRUILL +
- CHRISTIAN WOLFF +
- CHRISTINA KUBISCH +
- CLAY CHAPLIN +
- COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS PLAYERS +
- CRYSTAL HELL POOL +
- DAMION ROMERO +
- DAVID LEE +
- DAVID MONACCHI +
- DAVID ROTHBAUM +
- DAVID WESSEL +
- DELEUZER +
- DONNA PARKER +
- ED OSBORN +
- ÉLIANE RADIGUE +
- EMILY DIX THOMAS +
- ERNST KAREL +
- FORREST LARSON +
- FRANCES-MARIE UITTI +
- GEOFF MULLEN +
- GLENN BACH +
- HANS FJELLESTAD +
- HINJNOIZ +
- IANNIS XENAKIS +
- JÜRG FREY +
- JAMES TENNEY +
- JEN BOYD +
- JEREMY DRAKE +
- JOHN CAGE +
- JOHN OSWALD +
- KADET KUHNE +
- KATHERINE BERGERON +
- KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN +
- KEN UENO +
- KEVIN PATTON +
- KONUS QUARTETT +
- KRAIG GRADY +
- LAURA CETILIA +
- LUKE MOLDOF +
- LYN GOERINGER +
- MARC THOMAS +
- MARK CETILIA +
- MARK TRAYLE +
- MEM1 +
- MIKE BULLOCK +
- MITCHELL BROWN / SEED POD PALS +
- MORTON FELDMAN +
- NOMI EPSTEIN +
- PETER ABLINGER +
- PHILIP GLASS +
- PIERO GUIMARAES +
- POLYRHYTHMIC +
- REDUX +
- REN SCHOFIELD +
- REUBEN SON +
- ROB BETHEL +
- ROBIN STREB +
- RROSE +
- RS-232 +
- SAKIKO MORI +
- SCHAULUST +
- SHAWN GREENLEE +
- STEVE REICH +
- STEVE RODEN +
- SUBSTRATE +
- SVARTE GREINER +
- TASHI WADA +
- THE PENDERECKI STRING QUARTET +
- TITANS OF JAZZ +
- TOMAS KORBER +
- VIC RAWLINGS +
- WILL GUTHRIE +
- WORK / DEATH +
- YANN NOVAK