Tomorrow night (Jan. 12), guitarist and political activist Tom Morello and CalArts School of Art faculty Sam Durant (Art MFA 91) will speak in the Hammer Museum’s Hammer Conversations series,…
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Seen @ CalArts: African Coming of Age Dance
One of the last music events of the Fall 2010 semester was an African dance and drumming concert in CalArts’ Main Gallery, presented by both beginning and advanced students on…
Continue reading »Composer Brings Together Cuban and American Children’s Choruses for Far Away
This Saturday (Dec. 18), composer and CalArts alumnus Sage Lewis (Music MFA 08) brings his new multimedia musical work Far Away (lejos) to the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. The…
Continue reading »Seen (& Heard) @ CalArts: Experimental Sound Practices
On Dec. 2, composition students from the Experimental Sound Practices (ESP) program at The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts presented a concert of newly minted experimental pieces at…
Continue reading »Seen (& Heard) @ CalArts: Sounding Out #2
With so much creativity bubbling up at CalArts toward the end semester, many students need a testing ground to try out their new ideas. Composers and musicians from The Herb…
Continue reading »Jakarta Institute of the Arts and CalArts Collaboration Culminates with Life At Sea
[nggallery id=116] Earlier this month, artists from the Jakarta Institute of the Arts (IKJ) in Indonesia came to CalArts for a week-long, intensive residency program. Once at the Institute, the…
Continue reading »Jakarta Institute of the Arts in Residency at CalArts this Week
[nggallery id=108] Students and other representatives from the Jakarta Institute of the Arts (IKJ) in Indonesia arrived on Sunday for an intensive workshop residency at CalArts. This week, IKJ students…
Continue reading »Well-Oiled Machine: A Q&A with Machine Project’s Mark Allen
As previously posted on 24700, Machine Project—a loose collective of Los Angeles-based artists—has been incredibly active in the Los Angeles area this fall: from its curated coatroom concerts to its…
Continue reading »Photo Gallery: Scenes from Oresteia at The Wild Beast
[nggallery id=104] On Sunday (Nov. 7), The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts and the School of Theater embarked on an ambitious production of composer Iannis Xenakis’s opera Oresteia….
Continue reading »Seen (and Heard) @ CalArts: Afro-beat Band
Where else but CalArts does a class lecture on Fela Kuti—the Nigerian Afro-beat pioneer and political activist—begin with a live performance? Last week before Wanda Bryant’s Music Cultures: Music of…
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