Southland Ensemble is thrilled to explore and interpret Brown's historic, groundbreaking work with this concert, sponsored by the Earle Brown Foundation. 

Throughout his life, Brown became known as a composer who devised a myriad of new and challenging notational systems and musical forms. He is credited with the invention of open form, a compositional format that is widely used in experimental music today, as well as with the creation of one of the earliest graphic scores, December 1952. 

On January 30th, Southland will present works from FOLIO.

FOLIO (1952-1954)

October '52

November '52

December '52

'53

June '53

4 Systems

Tickets $18 general / $15 students

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If it's short it will be this tall.

We invite you to join us for an evening of powerful and iconic music by two of experimental music's most masterful and exuberant composers. We will be performing Curran's transfigurative string quartet VSTO, as well as some of Rzewski's most iconic and powerful compositions Les Moutons de Panurge, Coming Together and Attica. 

"I think this is a period of both destructive and creative transition...But there are signs that there is a new generation of younger musicians, there seems to be in many different places across the planet a kind of music that is being done today in “undergrounds”, squats, out-of-the-way places, hidden from view… " - Frederic Rzewski

with special guests

Scott Cazan - Danny Holt - Ulrich Krieger

Anne LeBaron - Todd Lerew - Sara Roberts

$10 tickets at the door 

For more information, visit southlandensemble.com

Autoduplicity presents their second concert exploration in Machaut + Rauschen, juxtaposing Guillaume de Machaut's ballade, Dame, ne regardez pas with several of Peter Ablinger's Instrumente und Rauschen and the world premiere of Ablinger's 16 Kreuze for solo cello and electronics. Leaping from the simple purity of a single melody to the “everything always” of white noise, Machaut + Rauschen explores the hidden complexity in simple sounds and hidden sounds within masses of complex noise. Listening at these extremes reveals how deceptive the very ideas of simple or complex can be.

Featuring:

Peter Ablinger

WEISS / WEISSLICH 17d: Flöte und Rauschen

WEISS / WEISSLICH 17k: Violoncello und Rauschen ("Kreuze")*

Piccolo und Rauschen

Das Wirkliche als Vorgestelltes (The Real As Imaginary)

Kyrie after Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut

Dame, ne regardez pas (arr.Rachel Beetz and Jennifer Bewerse)

Admission: $10

For more information visit artsharela.org/events or autoduplicity.com

As part of their concert series performing pieces from Experimental Music Yearbook's issue 2015, EMY presents Brian Harnetty's Could I Tell You A Little Story About That?, Katherine Young's graveled crumbled strewn, and Jennifer Walshe's Zusammen i. If you're the extra-curious-concert-goer type, check out all of the concert scores in advance to see what you'll be getting yourself into; read the EMY 2015 issue at experimentalmusicyearbook.com.

Admission: Free

For more information, visit www.experimentalmusicyearbook.com

Seven Butterflies is a micro-concert featuring Kaija Saariaho's Sept Pappilons for solo cello and La Monte Young's Composition 1950 #5. 

Sept Papillons, which translates into "seven butterflies," is a seven movement work for solo cello that features ethereal extended techniques evocative of swooping, swarming, or gently fluttering butterflies. Composition 1960 #5 is a text score with the instructions: “Turn a butterfly (or any number of butterflies) loose in the performance area... the composition may be considered finished when the butterfly flies away.”

Though they are an absolute complement to one another, these pieces have never been performed together. Seven Butterflies will be a simultaneous performance of these two works during which a live Monarch Butterfly will perform Composition 1960 #5 while cellist Jennifer Bewerse performs Sept Papillons. The result is a miniaturized concert, fitting of both the delicate nature of the butterflies and their symbolic ephemeralness.

Seven Butterflies will be performed on:

Friday, Oct 9: 2:30pm & 5:00pm

Saturday, Oct 10: 12:00pm & 5:00pm

Sunday, Oct 11: 12:00pm, 3:00pm & 5:00pm

For more information, visit www.lajollaplayhouse.org

Southland Ensemble presents a concert highlighting three generations of living British composers - Howard Skempton (1947), Laurence Crane (1961) and Sarah Hughes (1983). 

All three composers have had a considerable impact on experimental music both nationally and globally.  Skempton was a founding member of the infamous Scratch Orchestra.  Crane, whose compositions have been gaining recent notoriety, is closely associated with the experimental ensemble Apartment House, now celebrating their 20th year as an experimental ensemble.  Hughes, both an artist and composer, is the co-creator of the experimental collective Compost and Height.  

This concert will feature an arrangement of Hughes' A Reward is given for the Best Inframammary Fold composed for the ensemble. 

While all three composers maintain their own unique voices, there is a sparse beauty found in their music that unites them. We invite you to share to hear similarities and differences, and share this special listening experience with us. 

Admission: $18 | $15 students

For more information, visit southlandensemble.com

Southland Ensemble plays the music of Gerhard Stabler & Kunsu Shim with the composers.

Jennifer joins the 12th Annual Carlsbad Music Festival for their New Currents programming. Eleven groups will present cutting edge classical music on Saturday, August 29 from 2-8pm and Sunday, August 30 from 1-5pm. Jennifer will be performing Adrianne Pope's music for ___ hand crank music boxes with Adrianne and members of the now hear ensemble at 4:20pm on Sunday, August 30th.

Admission: Free!

For more information, visit carlsbadmusicfestival.org

And for performance schedules, visit carlsbadmusicfestival.org/2015-concert-programs/

Southland Ensemble presents iconic event scores from the 1960's - music for oranges, melting ice, string instruments, drums, tea and nivea creme by Fluxus members including George Brecht, Allison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Eric Anderson, and Bengt Af Kintberg

"...the awareness of every daily act we perform, of every daily object around us. And the critique of it all by means of humor." - George Maciunas

Southland Ensemble is:

Eric KM Clark & Christine Tavolacci, directors

Casey Anderson, Orin Hildestad, James Klopfleisch, Jonathan Stehney,Cassia Streb

with special guests

Jennifer Bewerse and Todd Lerew

Admission: $10