Performance documentation
Video documentation from various performances with various media, including acoustic and amplified trumpet, electronics, a homemade instrument, and household goods.
world series at the mortuary
Video of the World Series at the Mortuary.
Featuring solo, duo, and trio performances by Ethan Marks (trumpet/objects) Anthony Storniolo (tape/metals), Cassie Sturm (the/saxafone)
Performed on 11/15/18
Video by Scarlett Kim
Intro animation and audio by Tom Sturm
Haydn’s Concerto for Trumpet
Written by Cassie Sturm, “Haydn’s Concerto for Trumpet” is a performance-art work for solo trumpet and electronics that explores the materialization of sound and its treatment as a plastic medium. Marks becomes phonograph as a speaker attached to the bell of his trumpet sends historic recordings of the instrument into his mouth, which he then manipulates with subtle (and not so subtle) changes in mouth shape and valve positions. The recordings are a plundered collage of trumpet repertoire, pieces of music significant to Marks’s relationship with the trumpet and his musical development.
Performed on 9/2/17 at Highways Performance Space
Splat Music (for George Brecht)
Written by Erin Demastes, featuring: tin bucket, contact mics, water, soap, Alka-Seltzer, spaghetti, other materials
Recorded in the R.O.D. at CalArts, 1/29/2018
Improvisation for Tuber
Tuber invented by Cassie Sturm and performed by Ethan Marks, Marta Tiesenga, and Louis Coy.
Recorded in the R.O.D. at CalArts, 4/25/2017
RAW i
"Raw" by Ulrich Krieger (2015)
Version for trumpet and electronics by Ethan Marks and Cassie Sturm (2017)
Premiered at The Wild Beast at CalArts, 2/4/2017
Audio mixing and video processing by Tom Sturm
raw v
see above
heart attack (waiting to happen...)
Vinny Golia, clarinet
Ethan Marks, trumpets
Improvisation from The Meeting #3, Stevenson Ranch, CA, 12/9/2016
the meeting #1
Solo trumpet improvisation
Performed 10/21/2016
iv6a
Mark Andre's "iv6a" (excerpt)
Performed in East Los Angeles, 11/5/2016
david Aguila + Ethan Marks
David Aguila + Ethan Marks
Laptop + Trumpet Duo
Performance in Val Verde, CA 10/29/2016
fukushima 9.0
"Fukushima 9.0" composed by David Aguila (2016)
Ethan Marks - Trumpet
David Aguila - Laptop
Blaine Nelson - Projections
Recorded in the Wild Beast, CalArts