Composer/theorist Douglas C. Wadle's works operate as formalized (phenomeno)logical inquiries expressed through experimental tuning systems and notational practices.

Douglas C. Wadle was born in 1977 in Hammond, Indiana and currently resides in Los Angeles. He is a composer, performer and theorist whose work flows out of the American experimental music tradition, particularly the perception-based work of James Tenney (with whom he studied).

Wadle is also an active performer in, primarily, interdisciplinary contexts, utilizing trombone, voice, text, visual arts and movement. He performs regularly as a member of the Unbuttoned Sleeves, a quartet of research-based improvisers under the direction of dancer/poet Simone Forti.

He holds degrees from New York University (comparative literature), the University of California, Los Angeles (ethnomusicology), and the California Institute of the Arts (music composition) and is currently adjunct faculty of music theory and analysis at the California Institute of the Arts. He is a contributing editor to The Open Space Magazine, an interdisciplinary, artist-run journal.

Current projects include commissions from Trio Kobayashi and The Formalist Quartet as well as composition of music for Arianne Hoffmann's dance-theater work Bricklayers with a Sense of Humor, to be present at Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY this autumn. His music is published through Plainsound Music Edition (www.plainsound.org).

I take inspiration from a series of independent-minded American intellectuals: Charles Sanders Peirce (semiotics/logic), Charles Seeger (musicology/music theory), John Cage (composition/aesthetics), and James Tenney (composition/music theory/phenomenology), to name the most prominent in my own thought.

CONCERT WORKS:
2009: "After Ohio Impromptu," for trombone duo. To be premiered at The Wulf, Los Angeles, Fall 2009.
2008: "Logos prior Logos, No. 4," for variable ensemble with "Logos prior Logos, No. 6", for speaking voice. Premiered at the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, October 2008.
2008: "Cloister Walk, No. 2 (realization February 2008), for trombone quartet. Presented as part of Microfest, at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, April 2008.

VISUAL ART SCORES (created by the composer):
2007: "Cloister Walk, No. 2", for four tenor-bass trombones, ink on paper, 18 sheets arranged in a 12' x 12' area.

THEATRICAL & DANCE COLLABORATIONS:
2009: "To Borrow Salt," an evening-length interdisciplinary work created with dance artists Simone Forti and Sarah Swenson and theater artist Terrence Luke Johnson, under the direction of Simone Forti. Presented at The Box Gallery, Los Angeles, June 2009.
2009: "Indexical Permutations (after the Key Game)," soundscore for dance theater work choreographed by Kristen Smiarowski, presented at St. Joseph's Ballet, Santa Ana, March 2009.
2008: "The Key Game," soundscore for dance theater work choreographed by Kristen Smiarowski, presented as part of festival, Rehearsing the Body Politic, at Links Hall, Chicago, February 2008.