Upcoming Los Angeles Performances

From Los Angeles New Music:

soundShoppe at the LACMA MUSE Artwalk 2010
June 12, 2010 from 5pm to 9pm – LAUNCH / Art
From the Facebook event page: Join SASSAS for a special soundShoppe on Saturday, June 12th at the LACMA Muse Artwalk 2010 as 6 groups of artists construct an evolving circuit of aural observations in…

Just Brass
June 13, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – Church in Ocean Park
From the Microfest event page: Music by Wadle, Schweinitz, McIntosh, and Krieger performed by duo and Trio Kobayashi. “…this is heady, engrossing stuff and deserves much wider exposure.” — Mark Swe…

World Premiere: Igor Stravinsky’s Wind Octet (for electric guitars)
June 14, 2010 from 8:30pm to 10pm – REDCAT
From the Facebook Event Page: REDCAT’s Studio: Summer 2010 series for interdisciplinary experimentation continues with a curated program of six new works and works-in-progress by Los Angeles dance, t…

Brad Dutz Quartet
June 16, 2010 from 12pm to 1pm – he Sanctuary at FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF GLENDALE
THE BRAD DUTZ QUARTET Brad Dutz – marimba Paul Sherman – oboe Jim Sullivan – bass clarinet Chris Votek – cello http://www.braddutz.com/quartet.html
Organized by Glendale Noon Concerts | Type: performance

June 17, 2010 from 8pm to 11pm – Steve Allen Theater
Quartet with Ted Byrnes, Steuart Liebig, Jorge Martin, Anna Homler. Also Philip Greenlief.

In Frequency
June 19, 2010 from 8pm to 11pm – South Pasadena Public Library
From the In Frequency website: John Cage Stefan Wolpe Sebastian Currier Orianna Webb Stacy Bowers

The LA Collective
June 27, 2010 from 8:30pm to 10:30pm – Pieter
June Performance

Partch@LACMA
June 29, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – Bing Theatre, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the Microfest event page: The Partch Ensemble specializes in the music and instruments created by the iconoclastic American composer Harry Partch, whose body of work is among the most sensually…

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Free Jazz Blog Reviews

From Free Jazz:

TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2010
Tom Rainey Trio – Pool School (Clean Feed, 2010) ****
Kris Davis, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey – Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed, 2010) ****½

FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2010
Alexandra Grimal – Owls Talk (Hôte Marge, 2010) ****
Alexandra Grimal – Seminare Vento (Free Lance, 2010) ***
Ideal Bread – Vol. 2 Transmit (Cuneiform Records, 2010) ****

THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2010
Burton Greene – Live At The Woodstock Playhouse 1965 (Porter Records, 2010) ****

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Newsbits

Laurie Anderson, May 1986
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Ken Vandermark is interviewed in the Montreal Gazette.

Chicago Art Criticism has reviewed a Persian electronic music CD.

Laurie Anderson has put on a performance for dogs.

Annika Socolofsky is a young modern composer whose site has a sampling of her work.

The latest CD from Lisa Bielawa is reviewed.

Adam Williams and Leonardo Rosado have a new minimalist-leaning release out on Feeback Loop.

A rendition of Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music, and other pieces from the Matthew Sperry Memorial Festival, is reviewed.

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