Join Los Angeles composer DANIEL CORRAL in celebrating his new album REFRACTIONS, which is being released by Populist Records!

Refractions will be performed in it’s entirety, and there will be a short opening duo set by vocalist/violinist Rahman Baranghoori and violinist Timothy Maloof.

Refractions is a 44 minute electro-acoustic chamber piece that expands on Corral's 10 years of exploring the sonic and sculptural possibilities of music boxes. Composed for string quartet, electric guitar, and electronically processed music box, Refractions combines ethereal ambient electronics with contemplative acoustic timbres. Corral will be joined by guitarist Jeremy Kerner and the Koan Quartet.

Rahman Baranghoori (vocals and violin) and Timothy Maloof (violin) have been friends and colleagues since 2004, performing in many ensembles and bands together. They will be performing improvisations and songs based on Persian Mugam and Arabic Maqamat (modes).

Diagenesis Duo comes to Sound Gallery to present their latest project, Different Kinds of Light, a concert inspired by the experimental poetry of Jackson Mac Low.

Jackson Mac Low was a pioneer in chance and open poetry and created poems that could be performed as music. Featured in the concert will be Mac Low’s Tree Movie, Young Turtle Asymmetries, 54th Light Poem, and Numbered Asymmetries, and a world premiere of Different Kinds of Light, a composition for soprano and cello by Marti Epstein which sets Jackson Mac Low’s  1st Light Poem. This combination of text scores, graphic scores, and contemporary music create a contemplative and unrepeatable evening of chance music and poetry.

The concert will be preceded by a reception at 7:00 p.m., which will include wine, delicious snacks, and socializing. There is no ticket charge for the concert. A pay-what-you-can donation is welcome.

The Dog Star Orchestra festival of experimental music enters its 13th season this summer, with eleven (11) concerts and happenings planned throughout Los Angeles between June 3-17. Being that 13 is a ripe age for a Dog, we're maturing our tactics and presenting a special launch party and preview on the afternoon of April 30. 

The event takes place at Abby Sher's beautiful home and gardens in the Pacific Palisades (RSVP for address: RSVP@dogstarorchestra.com) and will feature:

• Announcement of the events happening in this year's festival, brought to you in stereo by James Klopfleisch !!
• A special performance of Jürg Frey's 3rd String Quartet by the inimitable Koan Quartet !!
• Something, presumably a performance, by Liam Mooney !!
• A live auction of experimental music goods and services, with proceeds benefitting the festival !!
• Experimental and very good beer from Solarc Brewing !!

Please join us to celebrate the community of experimental performers and musicians that allows this kind of nonsense to thrive.

Facebook Event HERE

Southland Ensemble presents an evening of Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music. Written between 1995 - 2006, Braxton created over 100 of these compositions that serve as pathways between different notation systems and musical idioms. 

Composition No. 228

Composition No. 245

Composition No. 358

with special guests:

Corey Fogel, Chris Foss, Andrew Munsey, Leah Paul, Kathy Pisaro, Stephanie Richards, Dave Tranchina & Argenta Walther

Tickets: $20 general / $10 student

Advance: $10 / $7.50

More information at southlandensemble.com

If it's short it will be this tall.

Marc Lowenstein, one of the most influential figures behind the surging L.A. contemporary music scene, steps into the spotlight with a selection of soaring new works for voice, soloists and chamber orchestra. A composer, conductor and singer, Lowenstein is music director of The Industry—the groundbreaking experimental opera company (Hopscotch, Invisible Cities)—and collaborates with the city’s brightest up-and-coming ensembles and players. Vocalist Jodie Landau opens the concert with the American debut of this, a piece based on Buddhist, Sufi and Hebrew texts, followed by cellist Derek Stein and the world premiere of T’filat haDerech (Prayer for a Journey)—a cello concerto augmented with dance. The program concludes with vocalists Justine Aronson, David Castillo and Grace Bernard in several scenes from Little Bear, a new opera dramatizing the power of children’s stories. 

Admission: $20 Genera, $16 Members/Students, $10 CalArts Students/Faculty/Staff

For tickets or more information, visit www.redcat.org

Fernando Rincón Estrada presents his graduate work at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The evening will feature a premiere cello solo performed by Jennifer Bewerse

Admission: Free

For more information, visit www.music.ucsb.edu

Ever since its earliest days in the 1930s, Monday Evening Concerts has striven to find kindred musical spirits from diverse historical epochs.  In the third concert of our season, we pair the works of two composers: Michael Pisaro and Guillaume de Machaut. Pisaro, who lives in Los Angeles, is one of the foremost representatives of the Wandelweiser Group. Writing pieces that feature microtonal electric guitar, bowed percussion, field recordings, rustling pine cones and choir, Pisaro has garnered wide critical acclaim. His counterpart on this concert, Guillaume de Machaut, was one of the great poets and musicians of 14th Century France. While the surfaces of these respective composers' works differ greatly, by placing them side by side, we examine the deeper connections that exist between these sublime artists separated by seven centuries.

​Michael PISARO: When I Hear Light (2016)  World Premiere  

Guillaume de MACHAUT: La Messe de Nostre Dame

Guillaume de MACHAUT: Quant j'ay l'espart 

Michael PISARO: Asleep, Desert, Choir, Agnes (2016)  West Coast Premiere 

Michael Pisaro, electric guitar

Greg Stuart, percussion

Dogstar Orchestra

Tickets $27 / $12 student

Purchase tickets HERE

For more information, visit www.mondayeveningconcerts.org

Jennifer joins the Gluck Outreach Concert Series in February to present a concert for solo cello. The concerts will include In manus tuas by Caroline Shaw, Unlocked by Judith Weir, Prelude from Suite I by Bach, Barcarole from Suite III by Britten, Sarabande from Suite III by Bach, The New Right of Spring by Pauline Oliveros, Raimondas Rumsas by Laurence Crane, and Sept Papillons by Kaija Saariaho. Please be advised that seating and attendance may be limited or restricted. Contact the Gary and Mary West Wellness Center to ensure your attendance.

Admission: Free

ADMISSION MAY BE LIMITED 

For more information, contact the Gary and Mary West Wellness Center

Jennifer Bewerse is joined by Southland Ensemble to present her final recital at UC San Diego featuring the chance poetry of Jackson Mac Low. Mac Low’s dedication to systems of composition – which included chance, indeterminacy, and simultaneous performance – allowed him to create works of extreme openness. His poems represent a moment in poetry where truths of authorship were called into question and the very boundaries of music and poetry were pulled taut.

“I myself think that if it is a connection and it does something, it’s some kind of cause but it’s different from the time-linear cause going from past to future. It’s across any present, between any two things coexisting. ... And I think that one thing that systematic chance does allow... is for something to happen on that synchronous plane.” - Jackson Mac Low

Featuring:

Tree Movie

54th Light Poem: For Ian Tyson

The Five Young Turtle Asymmetries

Is That Wool Hat My Hat

Numbered Asymmetries

Admission is Free