About us
This group is for people who appreciate music and other forms of art beyond the mainstream, with a particular focus on the avant-garde or otherwise odd. Free Jazz, Musique Concrete, Atonality, Noise Music, Outsider Art, Surrealism, Dada, Junk Art, ...you name it! Not all events will necessarily be "weird", but simply off the beaten mainstream path.
This is intended to be an oasis from crass commercial banalities.
I'll post events that interest me, but I am also interested in hearing from artists, musicians, and other creative types about their events that I can share with members. Post your events and ideas in the "Discussions" section. I want this group to also be a vehicle that helps support artists and organizations that are doing interesting creative work.
The only requests are that we keep things friendly and civilized. MAGA not welcome.
Upcoming events
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Vinny Golia Octet
2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA, Los Angeles, CA, USLast minute posting! We’ve seen Vinny Golia and some of the other musicians before.
Date: Saturday, November 14, 8:00
Venue**: 2220 Arts+Archives**
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
(213) 277-1987
Free parking in the church lot across the streetTickets**: $22.46**
https://www.2220arts.org/eventsVisionary multi-wind instrumentalist Vinny Golia presents another facet of his compositional and improvisational practice to the 2220 stage. This evening, Golia assembles an 8-piece ensemble comprising many of the area's best interpreters of his unique musical approach.
Encompassing strings, woodwinds, brass, keyboards, and percussion, the octet will perform a selection of Golia's works specially arranged for this milestone year acknowledging his profound, vital, and ongoing contribution to Los Angeles' creative music community.
Vinny Golia Octet
Grace Dashnaw - Cello
Josh Gerowitz - Electric Guitar
Brian Walsh - Clarinets
Miller Wrenn - Bass
Steve Blum - Keyboards
Clint Dodson - Drums
Kris Tiner - Trumpets/Flugelhorn
Vinny Golia - Woodwinds
Presented by Vernacular: New Music
This is a 21+ event
LINEUP
Doors open ― 7:30 PM
The Vinny Golia Octet ― 8:30 PM
Vinny Golia ― 8:30 PM
TICKETS
General Admission ― $22.464 attendees
FREE FILM: SOMMET DES DIEUX
UCI Humanities Instructional Building (HIB 100), UCI, Irvine, CA 92697-3375, CA, USDate**: Wednesday, November 18, 6:00 pm**
Venue**: UCI School of Humanities**
Humanities Instructional Building 110
610 Humanities Ct, Irvine, CA 92617See map here: https://classrooms.uci.edu/classrooms/hib/hib-110/
Open to the public - no ticket required. First come, first served.
Film: "Le Sommet des Dieux' (Summit of the Gods) (2021)
Presented by Ghada Mourad, UCI professorIn French with English subtitles
Part of the French Film Series - French animation
Based on a manga series by Jiro Taniguchi, the film follows a Japanese photojournalist obsessed with uncovering the truth behind an old mountaineering mystery.
Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 100% positive rating
A breathtaking adaptation of the manga series by renowned manga artist Jirô Taniguchi and writer Baku Yumemakura, THE SUMMIT OF THE GODS follows a young Japanese photojournalist, Fukamachi, who finds a camera that could change the history of mountaineering. It leads him to the mysterious Habu, an outcast climber believed missing for years. Fukamachi enters a world of obsessive mountaineers hungry for impossible conquests on a journey that leads him, step by step, towards the summit of the gods.
8 attendees
Free! Music/Words LA: Curated by Inna Faliks
The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230, Culver City, CA, USDate: Friday, November 20 • 7 PM - 9 PM
Possible dinner before, TBD
Venue: The Wende Museum's Community Center
10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90230Free, but you must RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/musicwords-la-curated-by-inna-faliks-tickets-2003085787512
Overview
Inna Faliks, cellist Ani Aznavoorian, and composer and DJ Gabriel Prokofiev open the season with music, electronics, and poetry.Music/Words LA returns to the Wende for a second season of live music and poetry. Pianist Inna Faliks opens the season with Breaking Screens, joined by cellist Ani Aznavoorian and London-based composer, performer, and DJ Gabriel Prokofiev.
Piano and cello meet Prokofiev's electronic soundscapes in music by Prokofiev, Lera Auerbach, and Claude Debussy, alongside poetry from the community.
Founded by Faliks in New York, Music/Words is a platform for artists working where music and text meet. This Los Angeles residency at the Wende builds each program around close listening and live collaboration.
Inna Faliks is Head of Piano and Professor of Piano at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and author of Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage.The garden side gate will open 30 minutes before the start time and is available for ADA access and check-in. Theater doors open 15 minutes before the start time. Seating is first come, first served. An RSVP does not guarantee admission once capacity is reached. No late entry.
9 attendees
Free Discussion: Visualizing the Cosmos: Science | Art | History
The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230, Culver City, CA, USFree exhibition tour and artist talks
Date: Saturday November 7, 12 pm
Meet at entrance 11:30 am
Venue: Wende Museum - A-Frame Theater
10808 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230Free but you must register:
https://wendemuseum.org/event/visualizing-the-cosmos-science-art-history/Visualizing the Cosmos: Science | Art | History is a panel presented by the Wende Museum and the History of Science Society. Nobel laureate and astrophysicist Kip Thorne, artist Lia Halloran, and NASA historian Lois Rosson, co-curator of the exhibition Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky, discuss how visual artists and scientists have inspired each other to build a deeper understanding of the universe and the forces that shape it. History of Science Society president Soraya de Chadarevian and the Wende’s Chief Curator Joes Segal moderate.
How did we arrive at the images in astronomical reference books, and what aesthetic decisions stood behind them? How have scientists developed their work through collaborations with artists? And how have the interactions between artists and scientists changed over time?
Kip Thorne is an astrophysicist and author. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish for their contributions to the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) detector and the observation of gravitational waves. Thorne was the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech from 1991 until 2009. He was a longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan and a scientific consultant for Christopher Nolan’s films Interstellar and Tenet. In 2018 he received the Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing.
Lia Halloran is an artist who often incorporates science and nature to create projects that draw from scientific materials, flying, skateboarding, historical influences, and identities. She has taken part in a wide range of interdisciplinary collaborations with scientists and architects, including a book with Kip Thorne, The Warped Side of Our Universe. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, and is a professor in the Art Department at Chapman University, where she teaches painting and courses that explore the intersection of art and science.
Lois Rosson is a historian of science and technology based in Los Angeles, where she is a field historian in the NASA History Office. Her current book project traces the impact of Los Angeles’s art and special effects industry on the look of the space environment in planetary science and popular culture. She has held the Guggenheim Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and the Octavia E. Butler Fellowship at the Huntington Library. Her work has been supported by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Berggruen Institute, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.
Soraya de Chadarevian is the president of the History of Science Society, an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences, and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA. She is a historian of science, technology, and medicine with a background in biology and philosophy. Her main areas of interest are the life sciences in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Joes Segal is the Wende Museum’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming.
As this event takes place during museum open hours, guests may check in at the front of the museum. The garden side gate will open 30 minutes before the start time and is available for ADA access and check-in. Theater doors open 15 minutes before the start time. Seating is first come, first served. An RSVP does not guarantee admission once capacity is reached. No late entry.
Image: Lia Halloran, Andromeda, After Mollie O’Reilly, from the series Your Body Is a Space that Sees, 2017, cyanotype, United States. Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.
6 attendees
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