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LOS ANGELES – For two nights at Venice’s Beyond Baroque, rebar will be struck and lyrics will be screamed as the adventurous local chamber orchestra wild Up takes on the hypercomplex computer music of Clarence Barlow with an exuberant set of Barlow’s works, plus the composer’s 19th and 20th century influences: player pianos and punk rock.

“This is a guy who uses computer programs to cover Prince’s ‘Sexy MF,’” said wild Up conductor and artistic director Christopher Rountree. “We’ll bring the earplugs.”

The program will include Barlow’s “Septima de facto,” pieces by George Antheil and Conlon Nancarrow, a set of piano rags, and interpolations of seminal punk rock songs by The Misfits, X-Ray Spex, Fear and Black Flag.
The Nov. 18 and 19 performances mark wild Up’s debut at Beyond Baroque, one of West L.A.’s signature cultural spaces.

Who: wild Up
What: “Clarence Barlow, Punk Rock and Player Piano Music”
Where: Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
When: Friday 11/18 at 9 PM; Saturday 11/19 at 9 PM (the program will be the same both nights)
Cost: $10 general admission – to purchase, go to:

http://barlowpunkrockplayerpiano.eventbrite.com/

About wild Up:
wild Up is a 24-member experimental classical/contemporary ensemble comprised of Los Angeles musicians committed to creating visceral, thought-provoking happenings. The group, led by artistic director and conductor Christopher Rountree, unites around the belief that no music is off limits, and that a concert space should be as moving as the music heard in it: small, powerful and unlike anything else. wild Up projects bring people together, defy convention and address the need for heart-wrenching, mind-bending experiences. For free mp3 downloads: wildup.bandcamp.com

Contact: press@wildup.la

The Los Angeles Percussion Quartet presents an evening concert featuring four award-winning new works by LA-based composers: Jeffrey Holmes, Joseph Pereira, Eric Guinivan, and Sean Heim. Featured among the composition, Heim’s Rupa-Khandha, awarded a 2009 FROMM Music Foundation commission. More information at www.lapercussionquartet.com. 8pm, September 10, Zipper Hall (200 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, 90012). $15 general admission, $10 student

Co-Artistic Directors Maia Jasper and Kevin Kumar

Saturday, June 18th, 2011 at 3 PM in the afternoon
Thayer Hall at the Colburn School
200 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Join us at a chamber music concert featuring principal players of some of Southern California’s best orchestras! Complimentary ice cream from Scoops available at the reception.

Artists:
Maia Jasper & Kevin Kumar, Salastina Artistic Directors & Violinists
Håkan Rosengren, internationally acclaimed Swedish clarinetist
Catherine Ransom Karoly, LA Philharmonic Associate
Principal Flutist
Timoty Landauer, Pacific Symphony Principal Cellist
Julie Ann Smith, San Diego Symphony Principal Harpist
Gregory Cohen, San Diego Symphony Principal Percussionist
Robert Brophy, Violist, formerly of the Enso String Quartet
David Parmeter, Pacific Symphony Double Bass Player

Program:
Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
Antonin Dvorák: Miniatures
Arturo Márquez: Danzon No. 2 (world premiere arrangement)
Mark O’Connor: Appalachia Waltz
Béla Bartók: Romanian Dances (world premiere arrangement)
Jeremy Cavaterra: Movement for String Quartet and Percussion (world premiere)

$18 advance tickets / $25 at the door
Tickets available at http://salastinasocietycolburn.eventbrite.com
For more information, please visit www.salastinasociety.org

Co-Artistic Directors Maia Jasper and Kevin Kumar

Friday, June 17th, 2011 at 8 PM
Balch Auditorium at Scripps College
1030 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711

Join us at a chamber music concert featuring principal players of some of Southern California’s best orchestras! Complimentary cookies from Some Crust Bakery at the reception.

Artists:
Maia Jasper & Kevin Kumar, Salastina Artistic Directors & Violinists
Håkan Rosengren, internationally acclaimed Swedish clarinetist
Catherine Ransom Karoly, LA Philharmonic Associate
Principal Flutist
Timoty Landauer, Pacific Symphony Principal Cellist
Julie Ann Smith, San Diego Symphony Principal Harpist
Gregory Cohen, San Diego Symphony Principal Percussionist
Robert Brophy, Violist, formerly of the Enso String Quartet
David Parmeter, Pacific Symphony Double Bass Player

Program:
Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
Antonin Dvorák: Miniatures
Arturo Márquez: Danzon No. 2 (world premiere arrangement)
Mark O’Connor: Appalachia Waltz
Béla Bartók: Romanian Dances (world premiere arrangement)
Jeremy Cavaterra: Movement for String Quartet and Percussion (world premiere)

Complimentary cookies from Some Crust Bakery available at the reception

$18 advance tickets / $25 at the door
Tickets available at http://salastinasocietyclaremont.eventbrite.com
For more information, please visit www.salastinasociety.org

Adventurous L.A. classical ensemble Wild Up makes its REDCAT debut May 17, teaming up with CalArts musicians for the culmination of CalArts’ festival of Sofia Gubaidulina’s music.

Sunday, April 10th @ 7pm

REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, CA

The EAR Unit, Los Angeles’ fearless new music ensemble, performs David Dvorin‘s “As Alice” with live electro-acoustic manipulations of tea cups, saucers, playing cards, clocks, doors, cats, dogs, baby sneezes and children’s voices along with interactive video. In special coordination with REDCAT, the Los Angeles premiere will feature an immersive performance of the twenty-five minute new work by the trio (violin, piano, electronic percussion), which includes specially mixed surround sound, and visuals projected onto 8 foot suspended spheres.

“As Alice” uses Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to reflect upon a series of childhood situations or acts of imaginative play with both aural and visual references. The electro-acoustic score was created solely from recorded sounds chosen because of their association with the Alice story, and include recorded conversations with Dvorin’s six year-old daughter. All of the collected sounds (including voice) were manipulated, processed, and ultimately used as fodder for invented (or imagined) instruments that are performed live by the percussionist in conjunction with the violin and piano.

Dvorin collaborated with Switzerland-based visual designer Ted Davis on the creation of interactive visual elements that are projection mapped onto large spherical objects situated around the performers. The raw visual material consists of both Cecil Hepworth’s age-deteriorated 1903 film of Alice in Wonderland, as well as whimsical illustrations drawn by Dvorin’s young daughter. Similar to the music, these images are also processed, triggered, and controlled by the musicians interactively, and react to their performance.

From the composer:

“I strongly feel that imaginative play is the source of all creativity in our lives. As children we relish the pleasures of pretending to be something we’re not, visiting a fabricated universe, constructing ‘rules’ and situations with which to interact, and ultimately transcending oneself, if just for a moment, in play. I recognize these same thrills when composing music: pretending, fabricating, constructing and hopefully transcending. Perhaps that is why I am still in love with children’s literature, whimsy, and nonsense. We are “as Alice”, exploring the fantastical without asking “why”; in imagination, dreaming and waking have no delineation.”

Photo Credit: Carole Sternicha

The opening season of Le Salon de Musiques, an ensemble of Los Angeles’ most renowned chamber music performers, continues its season of eight concerts with Debussy, Saint-Saens and Ravel, performed on the 5th floor of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Sunday, March 20, 2011. The one-hour concert, which will feature Debussy’s Sonata in Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp L 137, Saint-Saens’ Fantasie in A for Harp and Violin opus 124 and Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major will be followed by a one-hour interactive discussion between the musicians and the audience where they will share ideas, concepts and impressions about the music performed, while enjoying French Champagne provided by Montesquieu and a gourmet buffet prepared by Patina. Tickets are $65 (that includes the food and Champagne!) and can be purchased by going to www.lesalondemusiques.com or calling (310) 498-0257.

By removing the stage, Le Salon de Musiques offers a more personal touch to listeners eager to familiarize themselves with Chamber Music. The goal is to bring together an audience of disparate backgrounds…music lovers who believe that this form of melodic artistry brings out the best in humanity.

The series of eight concerts are performed every third Sunday of the month through May 15, 2011 between 4:00pm – 6:00pm on the 5th floor of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.