Programs curated by the CalArts School of Music and other music-related events.
July 20-22, 2006
NOW Festival -- Program 1

Inventive Los Angeles performing artists are given a chance to take creative risks using REDCAT as a high-tech theatrical laboratory. Featuring The Outsiders, Michael Sakamoto & Amy Knowles and Kristina Wong | Click here

July 27-29, 2006
NOW Festival -- Program 2

Inventive Los Angeles performing artists are given a chance to take creative risks using REDCAT as a high-tech theatrical laboratory. Featuring Mira Kingsley, Marisa Carnesky and Victoria Marks | Click here

August 3-5, 2006
NOW Festival -- Program 3

Inventive Los Angeles performing artists are given a chance to take creative risks using REDCAT as a high-tech theatrical laboratory. Featuring John Fleck, Julie Crockett and Matt Wardell | Click here



Past 05/06 Music Events:
September 28, 2005
THE CALIFORNIA EAR UNIT: transPOPsitions

The illustrious new music ensemble comes to REDCAT this fall with a powerful new program, inviting Slovak composer and visual artist Julius Fujak to perform his multimedia work transPOPsitions with the group. | Click here

September 30-October 1
ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET
OrkestRova L.A.: Electric Ascension

The always-rousing Rova Saxophone Quartet is augmented by guitar luminaries Nels Cline and Fred Frith and other guest artists for a brilliant new interpretation of John Coltrane’s Ascension--the monumental 1965 piece that stands as one of the key watersheds of post-bop free jazz. | Click here

October 2-3
Studio

REDCAT’s quarterly program for new performance works and works-in-progress has been a creative laboratory for such Los Angeles artists as Héctor Aristizábal, Doug Cooney, Rodney Mason, Denise Uyehara and Lauren Weedman. | Click here

October 12-16
DJ Spooky: Rebirth of a Nation
Los Angeles premiere

In an audiovisual extravaganza he calls a "digital exorcism," mercurial mixmaster Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, turns the tables on a landmark American film. D.W. Griffith’s 1915 silent classic Birth of a Nation. | Click here

October 27, 2005
CELLOS
World premieres

Virtuosic cello music takes center stage with four gems of late-20th-century composition and three world premiere performances. | Click here

November 17-19, 2005
Creative Music Festival
Featuring Wadada Leo Smith

Renowned trumpeter, composer and improviser Wadada Leo Smith is joined by distinguished artists from the music and dance worlds for a three-day celebration of his influential work. | Click here

November 22, 2005
SCREAM Goes to the Movies:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Featuring Edison Studio | U.S. premiere

The Rome-based music collective Edison Studio gives a live electro-acoustic performance to accompany a screening of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene’s 1919 landmark of Expressionist cinema. | Click here

December 1-3, 2005
Anne Lebaron And Terese Svoboda: Wet
World premiere

Set against the backdrop of a great American river during a torrential flood, this provocative new opera by Anne LeBaron and Terese Svoboda sketches out a world in which multinational corporations have cornered all supplies of water. | Click here

December 8-10, 2005
Terry Allen And Jo Harvey Allen: Dugout III: Warboy (And The Backboard Blues)
West Coast premiere

Artist, musician and writer Terry Allen stages a sweeping multimedia theater work that is both a love story--between a minor league baseball player and a barrelhouse piano player--and an investigation of how memories are invented. | Click here

January 24, 2006
Vicki Ray: Piano Plus Video
World premieres

An uncommon exploration of visual music with the virtuoso pianist and founding member of The California EAR Unit. | Click here

January 26-28, 2006
CEAIT Festival

The genre-bending annual fest from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology returns to REDCAT with a new international lineup of unabashedly experimental works in music, multimedia, installation and sound art. | Click here

February 2-4, 2006
Carl Hancock Rux: Asphalt

This kaleidoscopic portrait of a near-future, post-apocalyptic city and its distressed inhabitants is an electrifying stage adaptation of the Alpert Award winner’s debut novel. | Click here

February 10, 2006
Elena Riu: Salsa Nueva

Melding contemporary classical music with the exuberance of streetwise salsa beats, the Venezuelan-born, U.K.-based pianist plays groundbreaking new commissions from a diverse group of composers. | Click here

February 11, 2006
McSweeney's Presents The World, Explained

Are you curious about Teddy Roosevelt’s obsession with Sasquatch, or the exciting trend of multi-user garmentry? Learn about these vital topics and more when publishing phenomenon McSweeney’s stages an evening of readings, comedy and slide-show presentations. | Click here

February 13, 2006
New Century Players:
International Innovations

A concert of rare acuity from the resident new music ensemble of the CalArts School of Music | Click here

February 14, 2006
California EAR Unit In Love

The high-flying ensemble marks Valentine’s Day with a new music concert for lovers. | Click here

February 18, 2006
Cold Blue Music

Hailed by critics for its unique aesthetic focus on West Coast post-experimental and post-minimalist composers, the Cold Blue record label presents an evening of solo, ensemble and installation works by a dozen associated artists. | Click here

February 19-20, 2006
Studio

REDCAT’s quarterly program for new performance works and works-in-progress has been a creative laboratory for Los Angeles artists showcasing an interdisciplinary mix of theater, dance, music and multimedia works.| Click here

February 22, 2006
Barry Schrader: Soundworld

A multimedia celebration of the electro-acoustic composer’s sublime music on the occasion of his 60th birthday, this retrospective includes the world premiere of Fallen Sparrow, a solo work performed by violinist Mark Menzies. | Click here

February 26, 2006
CAP: Share the World Concert

CalArts’ Community Arts Partnership (CAP) presents world music performances by three groups active in its youth arts education programs. | Click here

February 27, 2006
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
PATRICK AND MICHÈLE BOKANOWSKI:
ANGEL’S FLIGHT

L’Ange, the legendary opus by French filmmaker and artist Patrick Bokanowski, offers new adventures in perception in its depiction of the climbing of a giant stairway | Click here

March 11, 2006
North Indian Master Musicians

REDCAT presents an evening dedicated to the exquisite art of North Indian music with internationally acclaimed tabla master Swapan Chaudhuri. | Click here

March 14, 2006
William Powell: Exponential Clarinet

Featuring the world premiere of a new clarinet quintet by Jane Brockman; the U.S. debut of Olivier Greif’s Ich ruf zu dir, for clarinet, piano and string quartet; and the Los Angeles premiere of James Tenney’s Seegersong #1, for solo clarinet. | Click here

March 22-26, 2006
Wunderbaum and Kopna Kopna:
Lost Chord Radio

Fueled by a throbbing rock music score, the inventive theatrical adventure Lost Chord Radio combines the talents of acclaimed Dutch theater ensemble Wunderbaum and renegade music group Kopna Kopna. | Click here

March 31-April 1, 2006
The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble

Creative music on a grand scale from the celebrated composer, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader and his 40-member orchestra. | Click here

April 2, 2006
CAP Teen music Ensembles

Teenage musicians in the Community Arts Partnership World Music and Chamber Music Program perform in a variety of ensembles alongside student instructors from the CalArts School of Music. | Click here

April 7-9, 2006
Eiko and Koma: Cambodian Stories

Renowned movement duo Eiko and Koma intricately choreograph the actions of 10 young dancers and painters in Cambodian Stories, a multidisciplinary collaboration with artists from Phnom Penh. | Click here

April 11, 2006
The Music of Stephen "Lucky" Mosko

Celebrated composer, performer and musical thinker Stephen “Lucky” Mosko influenced thousands of musicians with his work and teaching, including 35 years on the faculty of CalArts. | Click here

April 14-15, 2006
THE GRANDE MOTHERS RE:INVENTED:
STRAVINSKY MEETS ZAPPA

A raucous two-part concert inspired by the enduring legacy of Frank Zappa. First, the trio of Don Preston, Napoleon Murphy Brock and Roy Estrada joins forces with an ensemble of guest artists. | Click here

April 20-22, 2006
My Barbarian: Double Future

The Los Angeles-based performance art band combines music, theater, dance and visual art in sublime sexy songs, surreal scene-stealing and phantasmagorical feats of pure fantasy fun. | Click here

April 23-24, 2006
Studio

REDCAT presents the season’s final showcase for new experimental works and works-in-progress by local music, dance, theater and interdisciplinary artists. | Click here

May 2, 2006
CalArts Jazz

A program of the most compelling new works coming out of CalArts’ famous Jazz Studies Program, whose innovative musicmakers are renowned nationally and internationally for pushing the outer limits of the jazz form. | Click here

May 15, 2006
From Biber to Bach

The numinous music of Johann Sebastian Bach--including newly developed transcriptions--performed by the Baroque ensemble of the CalArts School of Music. | Click here

May 17, 2006
Ben Johnston at 80

A tribute to an American master of microtonality best known for writing in just intonation. | Click here

May 30, 2006
Partch Dances

Returning to REDCAT for the third consecutive season, the ensemble Partch continues its ongoing multimedia survey of the chamber music of the maverick American composer Harry Partch. | Click here

June 29-July 3, 2006
Don't Knock the Rock Festival

A high-energy mix of film and music, the festival celebrates the rock ’n’ roll roots of Hollywood with classic and brand-new rock films that contain quintessential music performances and vintage footage of important artists in their prime. | Click here