Todd Barton, Bruce Bayard and special guest Suzee Grilley perform an improvised audio soundtrack to a randomly composed video collage.

This performance made possible in part by a grant from Haines & Friends.

Suzee Grilley, MFA Dance & Choreography, is a dancer, choreographer, performer and educator. She was a member of the Nikolais Dance Theatre, touring the world. She has performed and choreographed with countless ensembles, including her own dance company, and sonoluminescence. She has set her choreography on dancers at Virginia Commonwealth University, Wake Forrest University, UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. Ms. Grilley practiced and taught the African/ Brazilian Martial Art Capoeira for 15 years. She has choreographed in 3 seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Harboring a desire to engage with Taiko drumming since the 1980’s, Ms. Grilley began studying and performing Taiko in 2008. Ms Grilley was a performer with Watsonville Taiko, Shinsho Mugen Daiko and Shinsei Daiko, all directed by Ikuyo Conant. Ms. Grilley teaches and performs Taiko in Ashland with her emerging ensemble, Elbow Room Taiko.

In a parallel world, Suzee assists her husband Paul leading Yin Yoga, Anatomy, and meditation programs. www.paulgrilley.com

Todd Barton is a sonic adventurer, composer, educator and performer of abstract, freely improvised electronic music specializing in Buchla, Serge and Hordijk electronic musical instruments. For four decades he was Composer in Residence for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and also taught Music Composition and Electronic and Computer Music at Southern Oregon University.
Besides electronic music Todd has composed for the KRONOS Quartet, The Oregon Symphony, The Rogue Valley Symphony and San Jose Chamber Orchestra. His music can be heard on all major internet platforms. He widely shares his electronic music explorations, demos and tutorials via Youtube and Instagram as well as offering private online sessions for clients and students around the world.
He recently released his solo album, Below this Time Does Not Exist.

Bruce Bayard is a self-taught visual artist who is also creating soundcapes with the Buchla Easel and other modular audio systems. His visual work has spanned many styles including painting, collage, printmaking and assemblage sculpture. He created The Weekly Press, a one-thousand image series which forms the basis of Triptychs, a continuous image collage written with javascript, where images, video, animations and word lists are randomly composed and presented with improvised audio soundtracks.