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11/13/2024
  • Trade School: Blevin Blectum & Rhys Langston
    2591 N. Fair Oaks, Altadena, CA 91001
    8:30 PM

    Blevin Blectum & Rhys Langston
    Thursday, November 14th
    Doors 8PM
    Music 830PM
    $10 (NOTAFLOF)

    Trade School is thrilled to welcome Blevin Blectum back to LA for an audio/video presentation of a sonic mini-maxi universe via swirls and activations. We've been trying to get her down here for years and insist you come see why. 👽👾👽 LA's own Rhys Langston opens the night with bars for days. He will consider challenges regarding his vertical leap if you bring your fav rapper along but suggests you save your energy and that person's time because there's just no way.

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    Bios
    Blevin Blectum (Bevin Kelley) develops sonic sci-fi fantasy in its most decadent technicolor forms, fueling the journey of OMNII and Multitudes of Venom - her most recent audio/visual solo adventures (Deathbomb Arc records). OMNII soundtracks a long-lost space opera, falling perfectly within the gaps between Barbarella and The Beast in Space. Multitudes of Venom, a live set recorded at KZSU'a Day of Noise, is an extended, expanded variant, spinning out omnii-materials. She performs these two albums in live mashed-up iterations. Blevin is half of early-noughties-era San Francisco punk-electronic duo Blectum From Blechdom. She was recently featured in The Wire magazine (UK) for her OMNII release, including a short history of her long illustrious electronic music voyage thus far. She lives in Willits, CA, on a ridge overlooking another ridge, with a cat.

    https://linktr.ee/blevinblectum

    Rhys Langston Podell is a musician, visual artist, and writer born, raised, and based in Los Angeles, California. Publications such as the NY Times, the LA Times, AFROPUNK, LA Weekly, STEREOGUM, and SPIN have praised his multimedia efforts. Notable projects include 2020's dissertation and musical album Language Arts Unit: a Rap Textbook and 2022's Grapefruit Radio, which melded his outré rap, visual art, and absurdist prose. Ever composing and plotting between disciplines, he remains the poet laureate of his living room and has a higher vertical leap than your favorite rapper.

    https://www.langstonia.org/

11/15/2024
  • oracle egg: DavĂ­Ă° Brynjar Franzson
    939 Maple Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
    8:00 PM

11/16/2024
  • Pasadena Symphony: Rhapsody in Blue/La Mer
    Ambassador Auditorium
    2:00 PM

    Cost: Tickets from $49-$145

    Contact: boxoffice@pasadenasymphony-pops.org

    This water-themed program introduces Mason Bates’ motherboard-inspired Sea-Blue Circuitry and commemorates the 100th birthday of Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue. Float away as Debussy’s La Mer paints a majestic picture of the sea with a mosaic of orchestral colors climaxing waves of sound and emotional imagery that will run through you. 

    Program:
    Mason Bates Sea-Blue Circuitry
    Gershwin  Rhapsody in Blue
    Ravel  Une barque sur l’océan
    Debussy  La Mer

    Artists:
    Pasadena Symphony
    Brett Mitchell, conductor
    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    For more information & Buy Tickets: https://pasadenasymphony-pops.org/concert/rhapsody-in-blue-la-mer/

    Additional performance time: 8:00pm

11/19/2024
  • Wendy Eisenberg, Duffy x Uhlmann, Fluoresce
    2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA
    8:00 PM

    Black Editions Presents an evening with virtuoso-polymath Wendy Eisenberg, one of today's most acclaimed guitarist/composer/improvisers in trio performance with Ryan Sawyer and Marta Tiesenga. Los Angeles based duo and former Perfume Genius, Hand Habits contributors Duffy x Uhlmann as well as the improvising drone trio Fluoresce will begin this evening of adventurous sound.

    Over the last five years or so Wendy Eisenberg has been keeping listeners guessing. Nominally an improvising guitarist, they don’t recognize any musical limitations, perpetually finding ways to apply a deeply exploratory practice to a wide variety of contexts. Eisenberg plays solo guitar as well as banjo in both acoustic and electric settings, warped post-punk songs in the trio Editrix, earworm art pop tunes, febrile post-Prime Time free jazz in Strictly Missionary, and punk-prog in a trio with Trevor Dunn and Ches Smith. As Eisenberg told fellow guitarist Nick Millevoi in an interview for Premier Guitar in 2021, “I need to be in a punk band at the same time as I need to be playing free improv at the same time as I need to be playing songs. All at the same time—otherwise none of the practices will work for me.” Their musical range isn’t a glib manifestation of eclecticism, but a genuine artistic essence.

    Eisenberg has collaborated with a disparate array of musicians from all points along the creative music spectrum, including Shane Parish, Francisco Mela, Stephen Gauci, Carlos Truly, Ron Shalom, Devin Gray, Jessica Pavone, Carla Kihlstedt, John Zorn, Miles Okazaki, Matt Mitchell, and Caroline Davis. Still, while thriving in such endeavors, Eisenberg’s solo practice is no less sprawling.

    After playing in Perfume Genius and Hand Habits, Duffy x Uhlmann (AKA Meg Duffy and Greg Uhlmann) embarked on their first record together, 'Doubles'. A testament to the wordlessness of their musical intimacy, Duffy and Uhlmann take up the guitar in order to make an imprint of the slowness and presence of their improvisational practice.

    Fluoresce

    Contemplative drones from the trio of Liv Mershon, Pauline Lay and John Dawson.

    Liv Mershon is a multi-media artist based in Chicago, IL. Liv performs with the harsh ambient duo nunn and co-organizes the Tierras Sonidas Sonic Rodeo in Marfa, TX.

    Pauline Lay is an instrumentalist, composer, and event organizer in Los Angeles.

    John Dawson is a recordist, audio technician and food server who recently emerged in Los Angeles after operating the Magnetic South label and studio in Bloomington, Indiana.

    https://dice.fm/event/wwv39x-wendy-eisenberg-duffy-x-uhlmann-fluoresce-19th-nov-2220-arts-archives-los-angeles-tickets?pid=1426c053&_branch_match_id=1262820368514090404&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz8nMy9ZLyUxO1UvL1U9OSTZNM7UwNk9KNbIvyEyxNTQxMks2MDVWqytKTUstKsrMS49PKsovL04tsnXOKMrPTQUARKIcFEgAAAA%3D

11/23/2024
  • LACO present CURRENT: ROUTES with Lara Downes
    The Autry Museum of the American West
    7:30 PM

    Have you ever wondered about the stories that make up America’s rich musical heritage?

    CURRENT: ROUTES brings these stories into focus, offering a rare opportunity to explore the history of Black pioneers whose voices have too often gone unheard. Curated by Lara Downes, this one-of-a-kind program reveals the legacy of Black cowboys and cultural innovators who helped shape the sound of America.
    Held at the Autry Museum of the American West on November 23, this event offers an evening of reflection, connection, and unforgettable performances. Joined by Dom Flemons, The American Songster®, Downes and LACO musicians explore the folk melodies that inspired Aaron Copland; the migration stories of William Grant Still; and the themes of resilience and discovery that have defined generations.
    In a genre-fluid program that moves seamlessly through history, Flemons’ rich performances will bring you into the heart of Black culture’s enduring influence, from the Wild West to today’s revival of Black country music.

    Arrive early to enjoy western-inspired food and drinks available for purchase, explore the exhibits, and prepare to connect with stories that continue to shape the music we hear today.

    https://www.laco.org/events/current-routes/

11/24/2024
  • Monday Evening Concerts: Sarah Hennies "Motor Tapes"
    2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA
    8:00 PM

    Taking its name from neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás’s characterization of the human brain as containing innumerable “tape loops” that run continuously within the mind, Motor Tapes is composed of densely overlapping patterns of sound, with musicians representing synapses that both fire independently and work together to achieve complex activities. Llinás’s description of this phenomena is strikingly musical: “The activity in the basal ganglia is running all the time, playing motor patterns and snippets of motor patterns amongst and between themselves […] they seem to act as a continuous, random, motor pattern noise generator.” “I am interested in the motor tapes theory,” Hennies has said, “because it suggests that alongside lived experience there is a mysterious biological basis for our inclinations, talents and identities.”

    https://www.mondayeveningconcerts.org/112424---motor-tapes.html

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