News
Sounds: Chris Cerrone/The Industry: Invisible Cities
I was about to post something about KCRW streaming The Industry’s recording of Christopher Cerrone’s Invisible Cities (which you can check out by clicking here) when I discovered that a track is already available via bandcamp, and that they’re releasing a gorgeous-looking wooden box set, designed by Traci Larson.
So, here’s that track:
And here’s a bunch of info about ordering the record (produced by – you guessed it – Nick Tipp), which comes out on November 4:
http://www.invisiblecitiesopera.com/recording/
Paul Muller joins New Classic LA team
You may have noticed a post yesterday by Paul Muller, reviewing Michael Jon Fink’s new release on Cold Blue Music, and thought, “that’s not Nick or Andrew!” Well good news everyone! Paul Muller is now writing for New Classic LA. He’ll mainly be covering record and concert reviews.
A bit about Paul: he’s a Ventura-based composer of minimalist, ambient electronic music who also plays in the trumpet section of the California Lutheran University orchestra. He is a regular contributor to the weekly online Sound-In events and also writes reviews for Chain D.L.K. and Sequenza21.
I’m so glad to have his help to expand the number of events and releases we can cover. Here’s his review from yesterday:
https://newclassic.la/2014/10/21/folio-new-cd-michael-jon-fink/
and here’s a recent one of Gnarwhallaby’s concert at Boston Court:
http://www.sequenza21.com/2014/10/gnarwhallaby-in-concert-at-boston-court-pasadena/
One other piece of news: the submission system on the calendar page is now live. Send us your shows!
The calendar is live! So use it to go to Andrew McIntosh’s CD release party tonight.
I’ve been working on getting a better event calendar together to this site for quite a while, and am extremely pleased to say that the new one is live. If you’re on a computer, look to the right. If you’re on a phone, scroll down. Or simply click Calendar on the site’s menu to check it out.
If you’re reading this post today, you’ll see an event called Gnarwhallion listed. That’s Gnarwhallaby’s concert celebration of Andrew McIntosh’s new record, Hyenas In The Temples of Pleasure. It came out today, and we’ll have a feature on it out soon. You can beat us to it by going and grabbing your own copy at tonight’s show.
I’m still working out the most efficient way to take calendar submissions. Stay tuned for that. In the meantime, if you post a Facebook event to our forum page, we’ll make sure it gets listed.
People Inside Electronics presents Kathleen Supové this weekend
This Saturday, October 11, People Inside Electronics kick off their season with Kathleen Supové’s Digital Debussy program, featuring music by Matt Marks, Annie Gosfield, Jacob Cooper, Eric KM Clark and Randall Woolf. Supové’s playing is something everyone should see live. Her performance of LA local composer Carolyn Yarnell’s The Same Sky is stunning – so much so that I actually went to MySpace to find the video of it I’d seen way back when.
The show starts at Art Share at 8, and tickets – which are cheaper in advance – are available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/851884.
Listen to Sō Percussion premiere a concerto by David Lang; see them at Green Umbrella tonight
A couple of days ago percussion quartet extrodinaire Sō Percussion premiered a new concerto, man made, by David Lang. It’s awesome, and was paired with Mahler 5, all conducted by Dudamel. If you missed it, NPR has you covered. You can hear the whole concert here:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/351416658/la-philharmonic-live-dudamel-mahler-and-new-music
Even better than sitting at home listening, you can hear the ensemble tonight on the LA Phil’s Green Umbrella series, in a performance of Lang’s The So-Called Laws of Nature and Michael Gordon’s Timber. The show is at Disney Hall at 8, and tickets are available at http://www.laphil.com//tickets/green-umbrella-percussion-marvels/2014-10-07.
Concert tonight: Gnarwhallaby at Boston Court
Gnarwhallaby open their season tonight at Boston Court, with premieres from Colin Wambsgans and Nick Deyoe, and music by Martin Smolka, Edison Denisov, and Henryk Gorecki.
These guys rock. Here’s an example of why:
Tickets are at http://www.bostoncourt.com/events/221/gnarwhallaby, and you get $5 off with the code “MUSIC2014”.
Concert tonight: Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble at Blue Bag Records
The headline says it all on this one. The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble has a free show tonight at Blue Bag Records in Echo Park. They’ll be performing the ensemble’s new work, How I Got To Long Beach. The show is free and starts at 8.
Tonight at Monk Space: a Mark Robson harpsichord premiere, Ligeti, Cowell, and old music
Tuesdays at Monk Space, the series run by Aron Kallay and Jason Heath in K-town, has a really cool mix of old and new happening tonight at 8. The first half of the program features Ensemble Hotteterre performing music by Couperin, Telemann and Phillidor on period instruments. The second is a Mark Robson solo harpsichord show, with pieces by Henry Cowell, Alexander Tcherepnin, Maurice Ohana, György Ligeti, and a premiere from Robson himself, along with selections from Froberger, Rossi, Scarlatti, and Giovanni de Macque for flavor.
Full info on the show is available at http://tuesdaysatmonkspace.org/shows/oldmusic-newmusic.
Last day to vote for The Industry’s Hopscotch for #LA2050
The Industry, Yuval Sharon’s visionary opera company, has announced their next project. Hopscotch will be a mobile opera that takes place simultaneously in 18 cars driving around LA, with audiences either riding along or watching from a central hub. Six composers are involved, and, importantly, they’re in the running for a $100,000 grant.
You can help them out by casting a vote in their favor at http://myla2050create.maker.good.is/projects/HOPSCOTCH. There are just a few hours left.
Here’s a video that The Industry posted introducing the project.
Chris Rountree + wild Up: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
wild Up are accompanying Ezralow Dance at the Ford Theatre tonight, so I thought it’d be appropriate to post a track. Plus I heard this as background music on KRCW yesterday and thought “whoa, Chris is on KCRW!” (To be fair, it was an ad for the show.)
Stand still like the hummingbird opens wild Up’s record Feather & Stone, which was released earlier this year on Populist Records. It’s jazzy in a 40’s mellow bop kind of way, but has no shortage of insane left-turns that only an ensemble as flexible as these guys can pull off.