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TEACHING / ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE |
Office Manager, Department of English, CSULB (1998-present).
Lecturer, Art 181, Foundation Drawing, CSULB, Spring 2005.
Teaching Assistant, ART 181, Foundation Drawing, CSULB, Spring 2003.
Teaching Assistant, ART 381, Intermediate Drawing, CSULB, Fall 2002.
Administrative Assistant to Dean of Students Roger Lehecka, Columbia University, New York (during leave of absence from CSULB), Fall 1997 to Spring 1998.
Clerical Assistant (English, Academic Senate, Staff Personnel), CSULB, 1991-96.
Student Assistant (Staff Personnel, University Art Museum), CSULB, 1988-91.
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VISITING ARTIST / LECTURES / WORKSHOPS / RESIDENCIES |
"Mapping and Place," PowerPoint slide lecture, ART 381 (Linda Day), CSULB, 14 April 2005.
"New Perspectives on Place," PowerPoint slide lecture, ART 381 (Tom Krumpak), CSULB, 18 November 2004.
Visiting Artist, Summer SIX Art Program 2004, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 19-20 July 2004 (two PowerPoint lectures, concert at Schick Art Gallery).
"New Perspectives on Place," PowerPoint slide lecture, ART 381 (Tom Krumpak), CSULB, 11 March 2004.
"Experimental Poetry as a Creative Tool," ART 181 (John De Heras), CSULB, Fall 2002.
European Project Exchange; sponsored by CSULB and University of Plymouth, Exeter; Tuscania, Italy; 19 July to 12 August 1995.
Hosted and facilitated a weekly poetry workshop, Thursday Poets, 1990-94.
Hosted and facilitated a weekly art discussion group, Art Fridays, 1989.
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ESSAYS / REVIEWS / CONFERENCES / PANELS |
Atlas Tor: A Sonic Portrait of Tor House, presentation delivered at the 13th Annual Robinson Jeffers Association Conference, 17 February 2007, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI.
"Spreadsheets of Sound: An Aural Foundation for Interdisciplinary Practice," paper/presentation delivered at Sound as Art: Blurring of the Boundaries, November 24-26, 2006, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
"Phonography as Art and Activism," panel discussion with Aaron Ximm and Marcos Fernandes (moderator), 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, CA, 29 July 2006.
"Détourning the Flaneur: Toward a Psychogeographic Poetics and Ecocritical Practice," presented at Conversation: Enacting New Synergies in Arts and Sciences, the 3rd European Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, at Cité Universitaire, Paris, France, 23-26 June 2004.
"The Extra-Digital Axis Mundi: Myth, Magic, and Metaphor in Laptop Music," Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 22, Part 4, December 2003 (Routledge, UK), Peter Nelson, Editor; Kim Cascone, Issue Editor. (PDF)
Invited panelist on the theme of "microsound" for the discussion group, Empyre, with Trace Reddell, Tobias C. Van Veen, John Kannenberg, and John Hudak; August 2003.
"drains to ocean," photo-essay, Disk-O Magazine, Summer 1998.
Organizer and Chair, "Spoken Word int he Age of the Short Attention Span," When Words Collide, with panelists Ann Charters, Gerald Locklin, Adwin Brown, and Carol Feeney, Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater, Long Beach, 21 September 1995.
Review of Gerald Locklin's The Firebird Poems and In/Word/Out: Thoughts on Poetry and Performance, in Chiron Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1993.
Review of Gerald Locklin's Old Mongoose and Other Poems in Small Press Review, 1992.
"The Long Beach Scene," in Red Dancefloor, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1991.
Panelist, "Small Press Magazines," sponsored by Red Dancefloor, Van Nuys, 1991.
Hosted and facilitated Student Art Forum, CSULB, 5 October 1989.
Listed in Artists Network Database, 18 February 2007.
Cummings, Colleen. "Postcards from the Edge," Signal to Noise #43, Fall 2006.
Interviewed by Glenn Zucman (with Shea Gauer) on Strange Angels, KBEACH radio, 1 March 2006.
Knight, Christopher. "Fresh, original voices in L.A.," Los Angeles Times, 28 October 2005. (PDF)
Harvey, Doug. "State of Emergence: Undiscovered cracks in the art world infrastructure: a catalog," L.A. Weekly, 27 October 2005. (PDF)
Dambrot, Shana Nys. "'Collected Recordings' at d.e.n. contemporary art," Artweek, October 2005. (PDF)
Ziegler, Chris. "Be Hear Now: Soundwalk recognizes sound as 'something,'" OC Weekly, Vol. 10 No. 50, 19-25 August 2005.
Jergler, Don. "Listen up!" Press Telegram, 13 August 2005.
Ollman, Leah. "A recycling center for memories," Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2005.
Fischer, Tobias. "15 Questions to Glenn Bach." Mouvement Nouveau (now Tokafi), April 2005.
Reed, Sé. "'Background' Sounds Take Center Stage," Grunion Gazette, 18 April 2005. (PDF)
Warburton, Dan. Review of The Audible Still-Life (SF-CD201), originally on Paris Transatlantic, reprinted here, February 2004.
Carey, Christian. Review of Tensile, Splendidzine.com (archived here), 2003.
De Waard, Franz. Review of Tensile, Vital Weekly #385, 2003.
review of Tensile, in Ampersand, October 2003.
Keens, Jeremy. Reviews of Con/Text, and The Palimpsest Project, Ampersand, June 2003.
Kannenberg, John. The Palimpsest Project catalog, Stasisfield, September 2002.
Burk, Greg. "Sound for Sound's Sake," L.A. Weekly "Best of L.A. 2002," September 26, 2002. (PDF)
Kannenberg, John. Con/text catalog, Stasisfield, June 2002.
Woolard, John. "Words & Images: Cal State art and writing grad students meld their work in City Dialogues," Press-Telegram, 2 December 1996.
Drake, Robert. Review of Tight Magazine. Taproot #5a, July 1994.
Smith, Joan Jobe. Review of One Hundred Suns, in Chiron Review, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1994.
McNeil 3, Murray. "Under or Over, Bach Has Poetic Feet on the Ground," Blow-Up Magazine, January/February 1991. (PDF)
Grapes, Jack. "Zine Scene," L.A. Reader, 28 September 1990. (PDF)
Glenn Bach received his M.F.A. in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach (he also holds an M.A. in Studio Art and a B.F.A. in Intermedia from the same institution). An exhibiting artist for almost twenty years, Bach also maintains an active career as a sound artist, working with field recordings, digital audio, and analog electronics. His sound works have appeared on numerous compilations, labels, and online projects, including a four-track EP, diamond finesse, on the Stasisfield label. He has performed his work in solo appearances and in improvisational group arrangements throughout Southern California (with occasional gigs in Northern California, New York City, Hawai'i, and France), and has improvised with musicians such as Steve Roden, Jeffrey Roden, G.E. Stinson, Steuart Liebig, Aaron Ximm, j.frede, Josh Russell, Haco, Marcos Fernandes, Lisle Ellis, smgsap, Spastic Colon, Noah Thomas, Joe Negro, Cat Lamb, Lewis Keller, Bob Bellerue, Mitchell Brown, Jessica Catron, Jeremy Drake, Bill Hutson, Lewis Keller, David Kendall, Michael Raco-Rands, Marco Schindelmann, and others. He is a veteran of three sound/shift marathon-improv concerts in Oakland, Big Sur, and Los Angeles. He is currently collaborating with Chicago-based artist John Kannenberg on Two Cities, an audio-visual meditation on ambulatory experiences of place.
The act of walking consistently appears throughout Bach's work and processes, particularly in his ongoing long-poem, Atlas Peripatetic. Inspired by a six-month cataloging of sounds heard on his morning walk, Bach samples the nearly 1,300 sound descriptions as inspiration for a series of textual improvisations, found poetry, remixes of FAQs and "how-to" guides, and other poetic meditations on the intricate associations and connections triggered by the original sounds. Excerpts have been published (or are forthcoming) in online and print journals such as The Argotist Online, Aught, DIAGRAM, Free Verse, hutt, jubilat, mprsnd, Pearl, Shampoo, Snorkel, Softblow, and The Tiny. Hundreds of his previous poems appeared in small presses during the 1990s, and he received three Pushcart Prize nominations for his poetry in print.
Also active as a curator, Bach ran a monthly house concert series in 2003 that featured some of the leading figures in quiet (lowercase) music. Inspired by the success of the series, Bach put together so.cal.sonic, a six-day festival of experimental and improvised music, in April 2005. He also guest-curated two nights of experimental music and spoken word at the Orange County Museum of Art in March 2006. Currently he hosts and edits the website Pedestrian Culture.
Except for a few early years in North Carolina, and a 1997-98 residency in NYC, Bach remains a California native. Born in Santa Barbara in 1965, he grew up in the coastal/farmland suburb of Oxnard until he moved to Long Beach in 1988, where he presently lives with his wife, Sharon.
Graduate Dean's List of University Scholars and Artists (top 1% of College of the Arts graduates), 2005.
Marilyn Werby Memorial Award, 2004.
"Students Doing Great Things" Travel Award, 2003.
Nominated for Pushcart Prize, 1995.
Nominated for Pushcart Prize, 1993.
Nominated for Pushcart Prize, 1991.
Fine Arts Affiliates Scholarship, 1990.
Lamprecht Memorial Award (Student of the Year), Ventura College Student Show, 1987.
Mark Killian Award (Figure Drawing), Ventura College Student Show, 1987.
Poinsettia Medallion (Best of Show), Ventura Arts Council Young Artists Competition, 1987.
Secretary, American Society for Acoustic Ecology, 2004-2005.
Staff Representative, College of Liberal Arts Budget Committee, CSULB, 2004-present.
Reader, English Education Portfolio Review, CSULB, Spring 2003.
CMS (Common Management System) Planning Committee, CSULB, 2002-03.
Staff Representative, College of Liberal Arts Facilities Committee, CSULB, 2002-present.
Reader, English Education Portfolio Review, CSULB, Fall 2002, Spring 2002.
Reader, William Shadden Scholarship Award, CSULB, 2002-present.
Classical Music Genre Assistant, KUCI 88.9 FM, Irvine, 2001-02.
Department of English Faculty Retreat, CSULB, Spring 2000.
Hosted and maintained Socalexp New Music Calendar, 2000-03.
On-air DJ ("Repeat After Me"), KUCI 88.9 FM, Irvine, 1999-2002.
Recording Secretary, Department of English Faculty Meetings, CSULB, 1998-present.
Staff Representative, Department of English Advisory Committee, CSULB, 1998-present (Recording Secretary 1998-2001).
On-air DJ, WBAR 87.9 FM, Barnard College, NYC, 1997.
Judge, Wordslam Poetry Contest, sponsored by Hugo Boss, January 1996.
Member, Board of Directors, When Words Collide, First Annual Long Beach Spoken Word Festival (featuring Jim Carroll, Patti Smith, Dave Alvin, G. Love, Watts Prophets, Laurie Anderson, Richie Havens, Ken Nordine, et al.), September 1995.
Judge, The Longboard Slam Dunk!, The Longboard, Huntington Beach, Summer 1995.
John Fante Conference, CSULB and Sea Port Marina Hotel, Long Beach, CA, 4-6 May 1995.
Co-Judge, First-Annual Sheila-Na-Gig Poetry Contest, 1993.
Volunteer, Studio 83, Artists' Cooperative Studio Gallery, Ventura, CA, 1987-88.
Glenn Bach's CV
