In this special Artist POV tour of Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency, Los Angeles-based percussionist Corey Fogel will give viewers a unique take on the life and work of Milford Graves. With an anecdotal and scholarly approach, Corey will use his own interdisciplinary practice as a lens through which to view and decode Graves’ fluid movement from percussion to various forms of art and research.

Corey Fogel (b. 1977) is a composer, drummer, and artist based in Los Angeles. Fogel works across genres and mediums to explore many facets of improvisation. He approaches sounds, textiles, collaborators, gestures, and objects as viable materials for spontaneous, strategized, time-based experimental performance, often incorporating sculpture, video, various music traditions, theatricality, and ritual.

Fogel’s works have been presented at Machine Project, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Human Resources, Los Angeles; Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles; The Wulf, Los Angeles; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, REDCAT; Los Angeles; and New Music for Strings Festival: Reykjavik. His performance work was also included in J. Paul Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival and West of Rome’s Trespass Parade. Corey was awarded The California Community Foundation 2014 Fellowship in Visual Arts. Corey is completing his Ph.D. in UC Irvine’s Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) program.

Fogel also performs and composes in many rock, jazz, noise, folk, and chamber music capacities. Recent collaborations include: Julia Holter, Tashi Wada, Phil Minton, Patty Waters, Abigail Levine, Simone Forti, Judith Berkson, Raven Chacon, Yoshi Wada, Michael Winter, Robert Blatt, Maya Dunietz, John Butcher, John Russell, Todd Barton, Misha Marks, Brian Allen, Alexander Bruck, Patrick Shiroishi, Haley Fohr, Liz Glynn, Chris Speed, Mark Dresser, Kathleen Kim, Ezra Buchla, Tony Malaby, Devin Hoff, John Dieterich, Carlin Wing, and Sam Mickens.