REDCAT Fall 2014 Schedule

From LA’s REDCAT:

Angel City Jazz Festival 2014
Sep 21 to Sep 26
The 2014 festival includes two nights at REDCAT featuring Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Allison Miller, BOOM TIC BOOM!, Master Toshiko Akiyoshi, Paul Gill, Aaron Kimmel, and Eloise Klein Healy.

The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner
Oct 11
Conceived for twin pianos, live electronics and voice, this exhilarating sonic exploration led by Jace Clayton, a.k.a. DJ /rupture, brings fresh insight to the artistic legacy of the late Julius Eastman. Preceded by a solo electronic-percussion interpretation of Eastman’s Crazy Nigger by Amy Knoles using a system of loops to play the parts of the four players.

Crystal Magnets with Tsugukaji-Koto and Saki Murotani: Snakes and Strings
Oct 26
Plying rhythmic forms and sonic colors in a shared language of improvisation, jazz pianists Andy Milne and Benoît Delbecq partner with the Japanese koto duo TsuguKaji-KOTO, amidst the swirling washes of Saki Murotani’s projected animation.

David Rosenboom: Zones of Influence
Nov 01
First written 30 years ago, David Rosenboom’s Zones of Influence is a landmark concert-length work for percussion soloist, live computer-generated electronics, and auxiliary keyboard and glissando instruments.

Piano Spheres: Richard Valitutto
Nov 11
The acclaimed Piano Spheres Series of music for pianos marks its twentieth anniversary by launching a new Satellite series at REDCAT with an inaugural concert by Los Angeles-based Richard Valitutto, including the premiere of new works by Nicholas Deyoe and by Valitutto.

Gloria Coates Portrait Concert
Nov 13
A prodigious composer of orchestral and chamber works since the 1960s, Gloria Coates is acclaimed for uncanny music that is part microtonal-expressionist, part postminimalist—at once turbulent and serene.

Piano Spheres: Aron Kallay
Dec 16
An early pioneer of laptop performance—creating work written for networked chamber ensembles and re-engineered consumer products—composer and media artist Mark Trayle is joined by Casey Anderson and Scott Cazan in a program of new multichannel pieces for mixed instrumental and electronic ensembles.