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The MUSICAL EXPLORATIONS SERIES is an expanded, yearlong version of the annual festival presented by CalArts School of Music. |
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June 20, 2005
John Schneider & Just Strings
Returning to REDCAT after last year’s sold-out performance of Harry Partch’s Bitter Music, Just Strings again explores the inventive composer’s custom constructed instruments.
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September 16-17, 2004
Transplant: France
A Multimedia Presentation of French New Music
Transplant: France presents music and visuals by young French artists Alain Escalle, Cécile Le Prado, Pierre-Yves Macé and Gilbert Nouno collaborating with French and American performers.
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September 18, 2004
Harold Budd
.sound at REDCAT
sound. at REDCAT is a rare performance of his works featuring guest artists Natalie Brejcha, Jessica Catron, Johnny Chang, Alex Cline, Jeff Gauthier and Clive Wright.
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October 5-6, 2004
Arte Sonoro Festival
International Sound Art from Mexico City
Six composer/performers from the next generation of Mexican electroacoustic artists present groundbreaking sound art that questions the status quo in music and culture.
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October 14-16, 2004
Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd
In What Language?
Improvisational in nature and hybrid to the core, In What Language? is a 21st-century song cycle combining music by Alpert Award-winning pianist/composer Vijay Iyer with spoken text by poet/hip-hop artist Mike Ladd.
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October 17, 2004
Grand Avenue Festival
REDCAT joins its neighbors for the Grand Avenue Festival with a variety of free concerts featuring world music, jazz and participatory workshops, including many of the musical ensembles developed through the Community Arts Partnership.
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October 28, 2004
CalArts New Century Players
The American Experimental Tradition Meets New British Explorers
Pioneer experimental composers Ruth Crawford Seeger and Johanna Magdelena Beyer are teamed with acclaimed American experimentalists Lejaren Hiller and Anne LeBaron.
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November 9, 2004
scream
Southern California Resource for Electroacoustic Music
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of SEAMUS, SCREAM features live electroacoustic works by CalArts composers, including world premieres by Anne LeBaron and Barry Schrader.
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November 11, 2004
James Tenney at 70
with Montreal's Bozzini Quartet
CalArts faculty member James Tenney was once called "the most famous unknown composer in America" based on his underground reputation for works composed in the 1960s and '70s.
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November 14, 2004
Quasthoff Sings Jazz
Thomas Quasthoff, Baritone; Gabriel Kahane, Piano
Thomas Quasthoff, one of the leading concert singers of our time, re-visits an early love as he performs an array of jazz songs, American standards, and pop favorites in the intimate setting of REDCAT. |
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January 26, 2005
Voice Box
World premieres created for specific human voices highlight this unique program featuring acclaimed vocalists Paul Berkolds, baritone, and Jacqueline Bobak, soprano, faculty members in the CalArts voice program.
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January 28-30, 2005
CEAIT Festival
Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology
"... an important new contender in the international network of multimedia experimental festivals." -The Los Angeles Times
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February 9, 2005
Bassoons
Celebrating the bassoon through approaches ranging from the traditional concerto form (but lower) to jazz to improvisation.
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February 23, 2005
Susan Allen, Harp
In a radical remix of music for harp, renegade harpist Susan Allen again breaks new ground in works by David Myska, Jean-Michel Damase, Steven Hoey, and Mel Powell
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February 25, 2005
Visual Music: See Hear Now!
Members of the legendary group Throbbing Gristle, artists, musicians and subcultural collaborators Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter give their first U.S. performance in a decade.
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February 26, 2005
Visual Music: See Hear Now!
Montreal plurimedia duo Skoltz_Kolgen present their work Flüux:/Terminal. Also featured; Tom Recchion, Jonathon Rosen, William Basinski and James Elaine.
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March 3, 2005
George Crumb at 75
An American composer and teacher, Crumb's music is a rich, expressive blend of new and innovative techniques, often involving aspects of theater, unusual instrumental combinations or new ways of producing sounds.
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March 4, 2005
Visual Music: See Hear Now!
Two founders of The Raster-Noton label -- composer Frank Bretschneider and sound architect Olaf Bender (aka Byetone) -- present solo works and perform together in a rare appearance as Signal.
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March 16, 2005
Ensemble Inauthentica
Dark Matters
Led by Mark Menzies features prominent Los Angeles new music players in works that explore such provocative themes as the untiring energy of the Furies and the endless cycle of violent doom they portend.
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March 16, 2005
Ensemble Inauthentica
Dark Matters
Led by Mark Menzies features prominent Los Angeles new music players in works that explore such provocative themes as the untiring energy of the Furies and the endless cycle of violent doom they portend.
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April 7-9, 2005
Bell Solaris
Visual Music: See Hear Now!
First conceived as a concert-length composition for piano by David Rosenboom, Bell Solaris is configured into an enveloping theatrical experience by Travis Preston.
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April 13, 2005
Javanese Gamelan
Kyai Dorodasih
Venerable Dream Come True
The riveting music--traditional Javanese repertoire and new work--and expressive dance drama of CalArts' Javanese gamelan Kyai Dorodasih.
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April 14-16, 2005
Synaesthesia
Visual Music: See Hear Now!
This film and music weekend brings together the CalArts School of Film/Video and School of Music to present milestone collaborations between composers and filmmakers from different eras and genres accompanied by live music performances or by their original soundtracks.
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May 9, 2005
CalArts View: Emerging Composers
The New Century Players, the professional new music ensemble of the CalArts School of Music, premieres a selection of the most compelling new works written by CalArts graduate composers.
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