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Weird Cry Records at Kim Maxwell Studio, Ojai, CA, February 9, 2025: Gneiss and Rob Magill with Mike Meanstreetz
Indexical, Santa Cruz, CA, February 8, 2025: Gneiss and Jeff Kolar
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, February 6, 2025: Gneiss, guest lecture and performance
Yardwork Presents at Made West Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, February 5, 2025: Gneiss and Fezmaster
Santa Fe Noise Ordinance at The DL, Santa Fe, NM, February 2, 2025: Gneiss, Eric Heep, and Helen Pinch
Wave Archive, Tucson, AZ, February 1, 2025: Gneiss and Maiiuwak
Trade School at Oracle Egg, Los Angeles, CA, January 30, 2025: Gneiss and Adam Lion
The Dog Star Orchestra 20th Annual Festival, CHAPTER 1: CONVERSE, June 20, 2024: premiere of Bell's "Dinner Conversation," a text-based composition for improvisers. Also on the program: works by Andrew Weathers and Luke Martin & Noah Ophoven-Baldwin
MOXsonic: Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival, Warrensburg, MO, March 14 - 16, 2024: Hermetic Fever (Josh Gerowitz - guitar, effects and Louis Lopez - trumpet, electronics) with Georgia E. Bell on double bass
West Oakland Sound Series (formerly SF Sound), Oakland, CA, February 25, 2024: Gneiss and Bleeding Vector
Weird Cry Records Presents... at Kim Maxwell Studio, Ojai, California, February 23, 2024: Gneiss and Rob Magill and Friends--Mike Meanstreetz, Max Laugensiepen
Open Gate Theater Sunday Evening Concerts, Pasadena, CA, July 2, 2023: performance by vocal trio Accordant Commons of Bell's "Witches' Coven: An Incantation of Familiar Sounds" at Open Gate Theater. Also on the program: works by Raven Chacon, Carolyn Chen, Chen-hui Jen, Kari Besharse, Luciano Berio, Elisabeth Lutyens, and Denis Pousseur. Accordant Commons is Stephanie Aston, Tany Ling, and Argenta Walther
Vernacular New Music Series, Los Angeles, CA, May 29, 2023: performance with improvisatory quartet Gneiss. Also performing: Joe Baiza and Darryl Tewes
High Desert Soundings, Wonder Valley, CA, November 19 - 20, 2021: improvised duo set with Josh Gerowitz at the High Desert Soundings experimental music festival in California's high desert, Bell on double bass, Josh Gerowitz on electric guitar and effects. The complete festival lineup can be seen here
Other Places Art Fair, Niche Gallery, San Pedro, CA, September 11-12, 2021: group show with Niche Gallery at the Other Places Art Fair including Bell's sculptural album IN THE MOOD FOR SLUDGE. The complete fair lineup can be seen here
IN THE MOOD FOR SLUDGE, Los Angeles, CA, August 28, 2021: sound art installation and solo sculptural album release at Bell's studio in Los Angeles
Bikini Virgins: EL SANTO VS LAS MUJERES VAMPIRO, livestreamed from Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles, CA, November 13, 2020: multimedia livestreamed performance. Bikini Virgins is Georgia E. Bell on electric bass, Josh Gerowitz on electric guitar and effects, Carmina Escobar on vocals, and Laura G. Gutiérrez as researcher and creative contributor
High Fructose Corn Syrup, Mint and Lime Galleries, CalArts, Santa Clarita, CA, June, 2019: group show
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Summer Art Residency, CalArts, Santa Clarita, CA, summer, 2019
Homeward LA, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, May, 2019: Duo performances of improvised music for a series of theatrical performances, Bell on double bass and Josh Gerowitz on electric guitar and effects
SatanNotSatan, Passover/Easter Edition, Los Angeles, CA, April 21, 2019: premiere of "Doorsteps," a performance for three people and a room with at least three doors, written by Bell and performed by Bell, Casey Anderson, and James Klopfleisch
Carmina Escobar's Endless Life, Clockshop at the Bowtie, Los Angeles, CA, November 2, 2018: premiere of "Diary of the Dead," and interdisciplinary piece for amplified notebook, effects, guitar, and the Electric Raincoat (an original instrument created by Bell), written by Bell and performed by Bell and Josh Gerowitz on guitar and effects
SatanNotSatan: May Day, May 1, 2018: release of Bell's silent, time-lapse Super 8 short film documenting one iteration of SatanNotSatan, the salon she runs with creative collaborator Josh Gerowitz
United Projects Newsletter, Issue XX, summer, 2017: publication of Bell's work on paper titled Pouring
New Work Exhibition, Lili Lakich Studio, Los Angeles, CA, March, 2016: group show
SatanNotSatan: Love Letter Edition, Los Angeles, CA, February 14, 2016: premiere of three works from Bell's Clock Music series for unfretted strings and/or voices, performed as a double bass duet by Bell and Brendan Carn
Shapes and Changes, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA, June, 2015: group show
Satan’s Window, SatanNotSatan, Los Angeles, CA, 2015 - present: solo installation of Satan's Window, a mixed media painting created as a permanent set-piece for SatanNotSatan
SatanNotSatan, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 - present: SatanNotSatan is an experimental art/music salon in Los Angeles founded by Bell and Josh Gerowitz. The complete event archive can be seen here
Georgia E. Bell, Jake Rosenzweig, and Daniel Eaton present..., the wulf, Los Angeles, CA, September 29, 2013: premiere of "Witches' Coven: An Incantation of Familiar Sounds" (originally billed as "Mouthfeel, Earfeel") for three voices, written by Bell and performed by Bell, Jess Basta, and Argenta Walther. Also performing: Brendan Carn, James Klopfleisch, Jake Rosenzweig, Archie Carey, Mattie Barbier, Daniel Eaton
Coffee or Death, Cafe Helio, Los Angeles, CA, 2013: group show
Reinventing the Grid, Piano Magic, New York, NY, March 31, 2013: premiere of Starlight, Moonlight, Firelight for flute, viola, cello, and bass clarinet, written by Bell and performed by Susan Lutterbach on flute, Concetta Abbate on viola, Shayne Lebron-Acevedo on cello, Drew Williams on bass clarinet, conducted by Nic Handahl. The program, curated by Bunita Marcus, also included pieces by Ellen O'Meara, Lisa Cay Miller, Masami Tomihisa, Albert Goncalves, and Michael Waller