Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton: Songs of Ascension @ The Redcat

Los Angeles premiere
October 29-November 2, 2008

"[Meredith Monk is] a high priestess of enchantment… She invites you to bypass the part of your brain that craves logic and understanding and to respond intuitively to the wondrous qualities of her sounds and images." The New York Times

"[Monk is] one of America’s most brilliant and unclassifiable theatrical artists." The New York Times

Soaring to a grand scale of artistic gesture and ambition, this major new multimedia work reunites two of the most influential artists in the United States today. Monk’s signature form of incantatory music-theater finds an uncanny match in Hamilton’s sensuous visual artistry as the full-evening piece channels an exploration of the spiritual, vocal, and physical notions of ascension across geography and time. Conceived as an immersive theatrical environment that is kaleidoscopic in detail and nuance, the performance combines Monk’s pristine music -- featuring the 20-singer CalArts Choir, the artist’s own vocal ensemble, a string quartet and percussion -- with movement and surround-video projections. Songs of Ascension was originally inspired in part by poet Norman Fischer’s translations of the Psalms and in part by Hamilton’s The Tower, an eight-story sculpture and performance space located in Northern California.

http://redcat.org/season/0809/the/ascention.php

Wed 10.29.08 8:30 pm $30 $24 $15
Thu 10.30.08 8:30 pm $30 $24 $15
Fri 10.31.08 8:30 pm $30 $24 $15
Sat 11.1.08 8:30 pm $35 $28 $18
Sun 11.2.08 3:00 pm $35 $28 $18

631 W 2nd Street
Los Angeles Ca 90012
213-237-2800

DJ Spooky & Paul D. Miller @ UCLA Wednesday October 29 2008 6.00PM

Paul D. Miller / DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
Sound Unbound
October 29, 2008, 6:00 pm

Miller explores the overall theme of sound in contemporary art, digital media, and composition. He reconstructs the history of sound and recorded media by several of the most well known artists of their field.

FREE

EDA (Map)

Broad Art Center

240 Charles E. Young Drive, Room 1250

Los Angeles, CA 90095

Parking is $9 all day, and is available in structure 3, adjacent to the building. For more information, call 310.825.9007.

3 from 33 1/3 @ The Hammer Wednesday October 29 2008 7.00PM

33 1/3 by Hayden Childs

33 1/3 is a series of books about a wide variety of seminal rock and pop albums. Join three of the authors for readings and special multimedia presentations. Hayden Childs’s Shoot Out the Lights puts into context Richard and Linda Thompson’s album—from the personal history driving the songs, to the recording difficulties they encountered and the subsequent fall-out. He has appeared in Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed. Kim Cooper’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea sheds light on the underground classic album by Neutral Milk Hotel. Cooper is the editor of Scram, and co-editor of the anthologies Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth and Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed. Scott Plagenhoef’s If You’re Feeling Sinister provides perspective on how Belle & Sebastian transformed from a cult secret into a polished, highly entertaining, mainstream pop group. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Pitchfork.

FREE

Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Blvd

Los Angeles Ca
310.443.7000

Scribble Press

Man, kids have all the fun!

Scribble Press is the only place where you’ll find:

A Fun Place to Be Creative....

...A bright studio with artist's desks, markers in every conceivable color, and inspirational wall art. For the young ones we have stickers, stencils, crayons and fun orange cubes to sit on. Bring your creativity, and stay as long as you’d like.

...And Your Own Personal Publisher

...to transform your ideas into a book. You choose the binding method and color. We scan and print your pages, and hand you back a beautifully bound book. We can make a single book or many, and even bind your originals for you. Pressed for time? Do one drawing, and we can make it into notepads, greeting cards, or laminated placemats.

Anna Barber and Darcy Pollack, the founders of Scribble Press, met on an airplane. With five empty hours to fill and only an armrest between them, they soon discovered that they both harbored a passion for books, and loved making and sharing books with their small children. Darcy Pollack had worked in investment banking, film and retail entertainment. Anna Barber’s background was in corporate law and management consulting, and she was working as a talent manager and film producer. By the time the plane touched down, they had decided to launch a business devoted to helping kids write, illustrate and publish their own books. They both agree creating Scribble Press is the best job they’ve ever had.

Westside Pavilion #219
10800 Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA, 90064
(310) 446-6154

Mon-Fri: 10am-9pm
Sat: 10am-8pm
Sun: 11am-6pm

http://scribblepress.com/locations.asp

Jeffery Lewis / Talkdemonic / Homesick Elephant @ Spaceland Tonight October 28 2008

Jeffrey Lewis

Talkdemonic

Homesick Elephant

Regarding Jeffrey Lewis:

“Weird? Very… [...] but it’s also downright inspiring” (4 of 5 stars) - Rolling Stone

“The record presents Crass’s lyrics calmly, often demonstrating how sane and practical they are; it proves once again, and kind of thrillingly this time, that no music is immune to interpretation” - The New York Times

“Jeffrey Lewis retunes [Crass'] vituperative, cats-and-gravel-in-a-blender sound into something approaching sunny-side-up genius… [and] Crass’ lyrical, ultrapolitical vitriol is, if anything, more relevant than ever. It’s the most astonishing cover album of the last 10 years, bar none.” (4 of 5 stars) - Austin Chronicle

“Folk maverick raids anarchist commune and finds catchy tunes… Works wonderfully” - Spin

“Jeffrey Lewis’ talents appear without end… (on 12 Crass Songs he) magically makes the anarcho-rockers’ anti-establishment savagery his own, by wrapping their barbed sentiments in his trademark mottled tea-towel warmth” - NME

9PM / $8 ADVANCE; $10 DAY OF SHOW / 21+

with: Talkdemonic Listen WatchHomesick Elephant

1717 Silverlake Blvd

Los Angeles Ca 90027

The Entrance Band @ Spaceland Halloween Night

When Los Angeles-based psychedelic rock trio the Entrance Band plays a show, it’s a happening. Not only because band members take sound and style inspiration from the ’60s counterculture that coined the term, as they demonstrated during a short set Sunday at the new Arthur Magazine Sunday Evenings music series at McCabe’s in Santa Monica. But also because their music creates the feeling that something fresh and powerful is afoot. A potent mix of political mindedness – including a few conspiracy theories – and musical virtuosity, their songs throb and wail and strive to open minds. -LA Times

with: Mack Winston and the Reflections Jason Simon (of Dead Meadow) PLUS VERY SPECIAL GUESTS

9PM / $10 advance; $17 day of show / 21+

1717 Silverlake Blvd

Los Angeles CA 90027

Things the Grandchildren Should Know: A Memoir by E

In-Store Event:

with Mark Oliver Everett

October 28th - 7pm

Growing up in the Virginia suburbs, Mark Oliver Everett was to roam unsupervised with his sister, Liz, while his mother combated depression and his father, the eccentric and acclaimed quantum physicist Hugh Everett, remained distant and obsessed by parallel universes of his own creation. (Everett writes, "As a little kid, I had a hard time with the realization that inanimate objects didn't have feelings or thoughts. I remember being on the verge of tears, standing there in the bathroom, as my mom tried to make me understand that the bathroom cabinet wasn't going to be hurt if I closed it too hard. I thought of the bathroom cabinet as one of my friends. Maybe I was confused because I thought of my father as a piece of furniture.") First, the author lost his father to heart failure, and then—in a staggeringly short period of time—his sister to schizophrenia and suicide and his mother to cancer. The author drew upon the relentless tragedies in his life for inspiration in writing highly acclaimed music with his indie rock group, the Eels. Yet this is much more than a musician's tale. A true gem of a memoir, Everett’s story is a rich and poignant narrative on coming of age, love, death, and the creative vision.

Mark Oliver Everett is the lead singer, guitarist, and keyboardist of indie rock band The Eels. Rolling Stone magazine called Everett "the Kurt Vonnegut of the rock world." The author is the son of physicist Hugh Everett III, originator of the "Many Worlds" theory of quantum physics. While coping with the deaths of every member of his immediate family, Everett turned tragedy into the impetus for recording such acclaimed albums Electro-Shock Blues and Blinking Lights and Other Revelations.

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