Albert Mathias En-Trance Recycled Re-Inventions For The Resurgence CD

Albert Mathias (Composer and Performer) has been creating music for movement in San Francisco since 1991, he is a multi-disciplinary musician whose focus contains accompaniment, composition and sound design for dance/theater, CD and film , as well as solo works for the stage. Since 1998 Mathias has been Music Director of Motion-Lab, a perpetual experiment of dance training, choreography, improvisation and performance with dancer/choreographer Kathleen Hermesdorf. Motion-Lab has produced five evening length works for the stage and released five works for CD Audio since 1999. In 2000, Mathias was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Award for Original Sound Score for BLUE 2000 by Motion-Lab. In 2006 Mathias received a New York Bessie award for his work on Bebe Miller's "Landing/Place" an evening length multimedia performance which has toured the continental US extensively. Albert is also the primary percussionist for international touring/recording artists LiveHuman, an improvisation-based trio, with bassist Andrew Kushin and DJ Quest. The band has released 4 critically acclaimed albums since 1998 and have been recognized as "local sonic renegades...stretching the boundaries of improvised music..." by SF Weekly’s Best of the Bay 2003. Mathias was a member of the multi-disciplinary performance group, Contraband from 1995-97 and has worked independently in the dance field with Group Six, Kim Epifano, Sue Roginski & Mercy Sidbury, Deborah Slater Dance Theater, Dominique Zeltzman, Patricia Jiron, Norman Rutherford & Marintha Tewksbury, Sheldon Smith, Scott Wells, and Raisa Punnki. He attended Cal arts in 1991-1993 training in traps, tabla, voice and accompaniment under the guidance of masters Amiya Dasgupta, John Bergamo and Leonice Shinneman. He has also had the honor of private study with legends Pandit Swapan Chauduri, Sri Ravi Bellare, and the late great Tony Williams. Mathias joined Bebe Miller Company in 2002.