Fans of improvised music are in for a special treat as New York avant-garde stalwarts Ikue Mori (laptop) and Zeena Parkins (electric harp) team up with legendary guitarist Fred Frith for a first-ever joint appearance in Los Angeles | Click here

Blurring lines between confession and performance, concert and play, memory and creation, the Alpert Award winner braids two narrative threads: the final show of a ’70s-era cult-pop singer before her mysterious disappearance, and her daughter’s making of a documentary film, many years later, about the mother she never knew | Click here

At once sweeping in scope and finespun in its intricacies, this ambitious new work by Indian-German composer Sandeep Bhagwati is a full-evening structured improvisation that brings together a head-spinning array of music practices from different parts of the world—all working to conjure a new and unabashedly polyglot musical culture | Click here

Dhrupad vocalist Amelia Cuni forges an uncanny blend of traditions with this original interpretation of John Cage’s 18 Microtonal Ragas: Solo 58, a cycle of 18-scale patterns from the collection Song Books (1970)| Click here

Barrages of frantic avant-garde music blend seamlessly with inventive Butoh-inspired movement and intense physical theater in this rich, multilayered production from Seattle’s high-octane experimental group | Click here

The raucous, bitingly funny opera from avant-garde theater icon Richard Foreman and celebrated composer Michael Gordon marks the home debut of the Center for New Performance. | Click here

The October 4 concert at REDCAT by Pandit Rajeev Taranath must be postponed indefinitely due to illness. We hope to reschedule this concert for later in the season. Ticket holders can contact the REDCAT box office at 213.237.2800 for refund information | Click here

Inspired by the delightfully unconventional Museum of Jurassic Technology, this alluring multimedia opera is the latest opus from Pamela Z -- the Alpert Award-winning electronic composer, singer and performance artist who has opened new horizons for vocal music | Click here

This high-velocity dance theater work from the internationally acclaimed Slovenian ensemble tells a compelling tale of love rich with passion and violence, accompanied by a zesty live music performance | Click here

One of the finest contemporary chamber ensembles in America, the EAR Unit has been hailed for its unparalleled virtuosity and incandescent artistry. This evening’s program brings a selection of challenging new works composed in response to recent global turmoil | Click here

One of the world’s greatest piano virtuosos, Aki Takahashi has been revered for her consummate technique and musicianship as much as for the freshness and sparkle of her interpretations of new music | Click here

The quarterly program for new performance works and works-in-progress has served as a creative laboratory for Los Angeles artists | Click here

The exceptionally intuitive German trumpeter, composer and sonic innovator Markus Stockhausen teams up with Dutch clarinetist Tara Bouman | Click here

The legendary jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, educator and all-around innovator is joined by a CalArts ensemble for a special concert of music for his storied Liberation Music Orchestra| Click here

A phantasmagorical evening with the actress, writer, performer and lead singer/lyricist of the cult band Bongwater, featuring music, monologues, video and surprises | Click here

A group of exceptional musicians pays tribute to Dorrance's legacy, including special guest Cristina Zavalloni, described as "an astonishing singer in a class of her own" by Mark Swed of the L.A. Times | Click here

The genre-bending annual fest from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology serves up three engrossing evenings of new experimental works in music, multimedia and sound art from around the world | Click here

Experience new works by emerging Los Angeles artists curated by William Flores and Lionel Popkin | Click here

New music aficionados have the rare opportunity to savor a superb collection of contemporary Italian works as CalArts’ vaunted ensemble presents a two-concert survey built around compositions by Sylvano Bussotti -- one of the most aesthetically inventive provocateurs of his generation | Click here

Smoldering jazz is kicked up with the intoxicating polyrhythms of coastal Peru as trumpeter and composer Gabriel Alegria | Click here

Renowned for his consummate technique and peerless rhythmic control, the acclaimed contemporary cellist opens the program with a set of solo pieces | Click here

Postmodern jazz at its most sophisticated and adventurous as trumpeter and composer Ralph Alessi fronts an all-star quintet that brings together saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, pianist Andy Milne, bassist Ben Street and drummer Gerald Cleaver | Click here

Man and machine carry out a techno pas de deux as James Miller performs a series of delightfully inventive "short stories" for trombone and digital signal processor | Click here

Acclaimed choreographer Reggie Wilson explores intimacy and devotion, libido and love in a seamless collage of music and dance | Click here

The high-flying Los Angeles new music ensembles devotes its latest concert to the incandescent music of Julius Eastman, an iconoclastic composer, pianist, singer and dancer who died in 1990 at the age of 49 | Click here

The premier Balinese music and dance ensemble in Los Angeles, Gamelan Burat Wangi (“Fragrant Offering”) presents a selection of new works for gong kebyar -- the most virtuosic and expressive iteration of Balinese orchestras | Click here

The third installment of the quarterly program for new experimental performance works and works-in-progress | Click here

Houston-to-L.A. transplants Indian Jewelry and folk rockers Lavender Diamond bring the sound of the L.A. underground to REDCAT for a unique night of music | Click here

The Russian free jazz innovator and members of the CalArts Improvisation Ensemble weave together a series of new collaborative multimedia works developed using Stolyar’s unique “Improvising Orchestra” methodology | Click here

CalArts’ Baroque music ensemble plays the sublime music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Phillip Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi | Click here

The ensemble directed by guitarist John Schneider continues its multimedia survey of the far-ranging and iconoclastic body of work created by American composer and raconteur Harry Partch | Click here

The continuing creative exchange between Villa Aurora artists and their Los Angeles colleagues is sounded in this unprecedented collaboration between young Villa Aurora composers-in-residence and the renowned local chamber ensemble, the California EAR Unit | Click here

The three-week NOW Festival launches with a program of three works that are founded in movement, but varied in their approaches. Mason's Hip-hop moves and spoken word, Luyten and Alker's precise and poetic dance-theater, and a new music and dance collaboration from Tijuana-based Lux Boreal and Pedro Gabriel Beas of Nortec Collectivec | Click here

NOW Festival continues with two new works that employ technology, media and unique stagecraft: Heidi Duckler, "the queen of L.A. site-specific dance-performance" (Los Angeles Times), responds to REDCAT's performance space. The collaborative team of Lars Jan, Jane Pickett and Bureau V generate layers, both literal and psychological, in a work of operatic complexity, but without the singing | Click here

NOW's final program delves into the darkly evocative worlds of three decidedly different projects. Fjellestad's sonic abstractions are delicate compositions of noise. Kelly & David's mini-epic, three-act opera of cursed wanders warps American folk. And Iova-Koga's exquisite post-butoh performance stares deeply into the void that precedes birth | Click here