Mark Trayle, faculty member of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts and the Institute’s Larry Levine Chair in Contemporary Music, teams up with artist-musician Steve Roden for the…
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Excerpts from ‘Crescent City’ Opera at the Industry Launch Event
The Industry, a new LA-based, theatrical production company, hosts a launch event tonight at Royal-T in Culver City that features excerpts from its inaugural production: Crescent City, a new opera…
Continue reading »2-HEADED BEAST is Back: New Music Festival to Feature CalArts Graduate Composers and Sound Artists
After its debut last April, the 2-HEADED BEAST 2011, a two-concert new music festival, awakens from hibernation this Thursday and Saturday (March 17 and 19). The concerts will take place…
Continue reading »In one ear…and in another: CalArts Faculty, Alumni Featured at Spoken Word Fest
ArtTalk, San Gabriel Valley’s largest spoken-word festival takes place on Saturday (March 12) from 11 am-5 pm at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena. The day-long festival will…
Continue reading »Meet the ‘Bots Open House
[nggallery id=150] The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts welcomes the latest ‘musician’ to the KarmetiK Machine Orchestra at the Meet the ‘Bots open house at CalArts on Thursday…
Continue reading »CalArtian Pianists and Collaborators Team Up For Piano And at REDCAT
During the last 300 years of the modern piano’s existence, an almost unquantifiable number of piano works of contrasting styles has been created and performed. As we enter the second…
Continue reading »Thrash Jazz at CalArts: Wild, Loud and Louder Music from Stupid Man Suit
During Wednesday’s lunchtime concert at CalArts, the strains of thrash jazz emanated throughout the Institute. The music was unapologetically loud—but that’s not at all surprising considering the genre has roots…
Continue reading »CalArts Faculty Swapan Chaudhuri to Present Multimedia Performance at LACMA
Tabla master Swapan Chaudhuri, who chairs the World Music Performance programs at The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, presents a multimedia concert on Thursday (Feb. 24) at the…
Continue reading »Mellified Men Quartet Performs Week-long Stockhausen Composition
At Calarts, Interim is a two-week period in January set aside for students to explore specific topics in greater depth than a semester’s workload typically allows. This past Interim presented…
Continue reading »The Work of Iannis Xenakis Takes Center Stage this Weekend
[nggallery id=140] While Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) is often regarded as one of the most influential avant-garde composers of the 20th century, helping to usher in the development of electronic music,…
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