Due to safer-at-home ordinances in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, future performances of the Sweet Land opera have been cancelled (see dates below). Please contact The Industry to inquire about ticket refunds or to donate your ticket to help The Industry recover from devastating financial losses due to the pandemic. 

CANCELLED:

March 13 @7pm & 9pm

March 14 @7pm & 9pm

March 15 @7pm & 9pm

March 20 @7pm & 9pm

March 21 @7pm & 9pm

March 22 @6pm & 8:30pm

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The company that created Invisible Cities and Hopscotch, now brings you a grotesque historical pageant that disrupts the dominant narrative of American identity.

The Arrivals wash up on the shore. They make contact with another civilization they call “the Hosts.” And from there, the story splinters, following diverging perspectives. Starting as a procession through the LA State Historic Park, Sweet Land becomes an opera that erases itself.

Like all of The Industry’s previous works, Sweet Land is the result of a highly collaborative and multi-perspectival approach. Composer Du Yun is a Chinese immigrant whose recent work originates from what she states “is a lack of understanding and empathy around immigration”. Her last major opera, Angel’s Bone won a Pulitzer Prize for music and explores the psychology behind human trafficking. Composer Raven Chacon, United States Artists fellow and winner of the Creative Capital Award, is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. Librettist Douglas Kearney is a poet whose “polyphonic diction pulls history apart, recombining it to reveal an alternative less whitewashed by enfranchised power” (BOMB Magazine). Librettist Aja Couchois Duncan is a mixed-race Ojibwe writer who works to advance equity and social justice. Cannupa Hanksa Luger is a multidisciplinary artist who interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st-century Indigeneity. He co-directs Sweet Land with Yuval Sharon, the Founder and Artistic Director of The Industry and a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.

Admission: $110 General

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“Ghost Ensemble embodies the spirit of rugged independence.” —The New York Classical Review

Ghost Ensemble is dedicated to new musical perspectives that explore the act of listening. The ensemble’s music creates sonic spaces that shift our attention, perception, and experience of time.

Ghost Ensemble’s Arctic Air presents Pauline Oliveros’s whisper-soft large-ensemble work Arctic Air alongside Wilfrido Terrazas’s Ifigenia en, Ben Richter’s Wind People, the West Coast premiere of James Ilgenfritz’s Apophenia V: Outmoded Large Crumbling Oval Lime-Green Midwestern Plastic-Frame Reading Glasses, and the world premiere of a new work by Marguerite Brown. 

Ghost Ensemble: Arctic Air features Margaret Lancaster, flute; Breana Gilcher, oboe; Ben Richter, accordion; Chris Nappi, percussion; Lucia Stavros, harp; Cassia Streb, viola; Jennifer Bewerse, cello; James Ilgenfritz, Scott Worthington, contrabasses; and Carl Bettendorf, conductor.   

Facebook Event Here Admission: $22 | $18 members and students | $11 CalArts students/faculty/staff 

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The company that created Invisible Cities and Hopscotch, now brings you a grotesque historical pageant that disrupts the dominant narrative of American identity.  The Arrivals wash up on the shore. They make contact with another civilization they call “the Hosts.” And from there, the story splinters, following diverging perspectives. Starting as a procession through the LA State Historic Park, Sweet Land becomes an opera that erases itself.

Like all of The Industry’s previous works, Sweet Land is the result of a highly collaborative and multi-perspectival approach. Composer Du Yun is a Chinese immigrant whose recent work originates from what she states “is a lack of understanding and empathy around immigration”. Her last major opera, Angel’s Bone won a Pulitzer Prize for music and explores the psychology behind human trafficking. Composer Raven Chacon, United States Artists fellow and winner of the Creative Capital Award, is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. Librettist Douglas Kearney is a poet whose “polyphonic diction pulls history apart, recombining it to reveal an alternative less whitewashed by enfranchised power” (BOMB Magazine). Librettist Aja Couchois Duncan is a mixed-race Ojibwe writer who works to advance equity and social justice. Cannupa Hanksa Luger is a multidisciplinary artist who interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st-century Indigeneity. He co-directs Sweet Land with Yuval Sharon, the Founder and Artistic Director of The Industry and a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.  

Performances will be held on:

March 1 @ 5:30pm & 8pm

March 7 @ 6:30pm & 8:30pm

March 8 @ 7pm & 9pm

March 13 @7pm & 9pm

March 14 @7pm & 9pm

March 15 @7pm & 9pm

March 20 @7pm & 9pm

March 21 @7pm & 9pm

March 22 @6pm & 8:30pm

Admission: $110 General 

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Southland Ensemble continues its sixth season the chamber works of Atlanta-based composer Alvin Singleton. Rarely performed on the west coast, Singleton's work skillfully joins the European tradition of Lutoslawski and Ligeti with the African American traditions of James Brown, Mahalia Jackson, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy and the AACM.  

FEATURING:  

Et Nunc (bass clarinet, alto flute, bass) 

Be Natural (viola, cello, bass) 

Helga (violin, viola, cello) 

Somehow We Can (string quartet) 

Intezar (viola, cello, bass)  

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Admission: $15 / $12 students and seniors

The Koan Quartet is joined by clarinettist Katie Porter to present Jürg Frey's Quintet, Clarinet and String Quartet and Morton Feldman's Clarinet and String Quartet.  

“Silence requires one decision - sound or no sound. Sound requires a great many more decisions. These shape the sound and give it its quality, feeling and its content. Thus silence, in its comprehensive, monolithic presence always stands as one against an infinite number of sounds or sound forms. Both stamp time and space, in that they come into appearance, in an existential sense. Together they comprise the entire complexity of life.”  - Jürg Frey, from The Architecture of Silence

Towards the latter part of his life, Feldman became increasingly interested in the patterns of Coptic Rugs as an influence on his music. There is a phenomena in rug making called abrash where there is a natural color variation due to the use of vegetable-based inks made in small batches. Feldman explores his fixation on abrash through the imperfect stillness designed in Clarinet and String Quartet. Patterns and shapes appear and are repeated with miniscule differences in strict, grid-like scoring. The musicians see slow, abstract rhythms fit into various stretched durations, repeated sometimes four to five times. Feldman designs these complex musical patterns to naturally vary from one another to avoid the music sounding “too perfect.” As listeners, the result is peaceful, ominous, introspective, and unsettling; distant passing storm clouds.   

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Admission: $15 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds)

December 20-21, 2019 – 7:00-11:00pm each day

Celebrate the Winter Solstice with wasteLAnd by visiting their 2-day festival with food, drinks, live performances, and Rachel Beetz’s massive sound & light installation, The Winter Stars. Los Angeles’ most exciting and innovative performers, improvisors, and performance artists from 7:00-11:00 each night. Sets include:

Michael Dessen

Go By Land

Walsh Set Trio

Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs

Chris Williams & Patrick Shiroshi

STIGMA FOG SAINT

Carolyn Chen  

wasteLAnd

Tickets: One night $25 / Both nights $40 – student tickets available at the door

Parking is free in the lot across Hewitt St. from ArtshareLA

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Southland Ensemble: The Koan Quartet & Christine Tavolacci present works by Carolyn Chen for string quartet, bass flute, speakers, and singers — exploring nature and how we invent it. Human voices converse with the voices of machines and objects to investigate ways to rearrange furniture in a small space.

First commissioned by Southland Ensemble as a companion piece for David Tudor’s Rainforest IV, Other Forests is a string quartet played occasionally with mobile transducers, surrounded by resonating everyday objects. Instruments alternate between their traditional musical identity and their physical reality as sonorous objects, projecting collected sounds of the local environment, real and fictional rainfall, and explanations of imaginary trees. How to assemble a features six readers presenting assembly instructions with different goals in overlapping, sometimes conflicting patterns. In breathe out clouds, the bass flute acts as a resonating chamber for talking and singing, reworking patterns of words and musical motives from Hildegard’s Antiphon no.44.

Carolyn Chen: Momentum (2012) 

Carolyn Chen: breathe out clouds (2012) 

Carolyn Chen: How to assemble a (2012) 

Carolyn Chen: Other Forests (2015) 

Admission: $25 / $15 Students Purchase Tickets Here

Synchromy is once again teaming up with Viola-Vocal-Tube ensemble Spacepants to present Dance of the Spacepants Fairies, a fundraiser prom that will rival your blurry adolescent memories, mainly because at this one you won’t have to hide your booze. Spacepants will be setting the mood with witty banter and intermittent performances, DJs will provide dancing all night long, and there will be photobooths, food and drinks, fortune tellers, raffles prizes, and much much more. Bring your fake ID, and get your date now before they ask your best friend.

General admission includes dancing, food, and fun. $20 online, $30 at the door.

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“An instantaneously recognizable masterpiece.” – The New York Times

A hallucinatory cinematic fever dream, Dawson City: Frozen Time tells the bizarre true story of some 533 silent film reels, dating from the 1910s and 20s, that accumulated at the end of a film distribution line in northwestern Canada and which were miraculously discovered some 50 years later, in 1978, buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool, deep in the Yukon permafrost. Filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia, The Miners’ Hymns, The Great Flood) deftly combines excerpts from this remarkable collection with historical footage, photographs, and original interviews, to explore the complicated history of Dawson City, a Canadian Gold Rush town founded across the river from a First Nation hunting camp, and then traces how the development of that town both reflected and influenced the evolution of modern Cinema.

Combined with a powerful, evocative score by Alex Somers ( Captain Fantastic; Hale County This Morning, This Evening; Honey Boy), orchestrated and arranged by Ricardo Romaneiro, Dawson City: Frozen Time is a triumphant work of art that spins the life cycle of a singular film collection into a breath-taking history of the 20th century. This film presentation will be accompanied by a live performance of the score by L.A.’s contemporary ensemble Wild Up and a woman’s choir from Tonality.

Tickets and information HERE

Join Southland Ensemble as we begin our 7th season with our annual Fluxus event! This year we will be presenting an event highlighting the witty and whimsical compositions of Fluxus co-founder Ben Patterson (1934-2016). 

“What I try to do is open people’s minds, ears, and eyes, not necessarily with shock technique, but with surprises and unexpected things so they become more aware and sensitive to the world around them.” (Ben Patterson)

OVERTURE

A SIMPLE OPERA

BOLERO

VARIATIONS FOR DOUBLE BASS

SIGNATURE NO. 1

TRAFFIC LIGHT

Tickets: $15 / $12 student

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Facebook Event HERE

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