May 1st, 2015 – Doors at 8pm – $10

An evening of contemporary and experimental music and performance.

A Solo Voice by Odeya Nini is an investigation of extended vocal techniques, resonance and pure expression, exploring the relationship between mind and body and the various landscapes it can yield. The work is a series of malleable compositions and improvisations that include field recordings and theatrical elements, aiming to dissociate the voice from its traditional attributes and create a new logic of song that is not only heard but seen through movement. Through multi-dimensionality that serves to both provoke and soothe in abstract communication, the voice is presented in its spectrum of natures as it travels through cultures, ages, emotions and colors, like photographs, with tender intimacy and bold aberrance.

Members of Southland Ensemble present a set entitled INSTRUCTABLES, a long form composition by Cassia Streb incorporating new work by Eric KM Clark alongside compositions by Taku Sugimoto and Manfred Werder.
Performers: Casey Anderson, Eric KM Clark, Orin Sie Hildestad, Cassia Streb & Christine Tavolacci

Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles based experimental vocalist and contemporary composer. At the locus of her interests are textural harmony, gesture, tonal animation, and the illumination of minute sounds, in works spanning chamber music to vocal pieces and collages of musique concrète. Her solo vocal work extends the dimension and expression of the voice and body, creating a sonic and physical panorama of silence to noise and tenderness to grandeur. Odeya’s work has been presented at venues and festivals around the US and internationally from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, Odessa, Mongolia and Vietnam. Odeya holds a BFA from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where she studied with Theo Bleckmann and Gerry Hemingway, and an MFA in composition from California Institute of the Arts. Her debut album Vougheauxyice, for solo voice, was released in April of 2014.

Formed in 2013, the Southland Ensemble is a recent addition to the experimental music community.  The ensemble is flexible in size, consisting of eight core members who possess a vast amount of experience within the experimental tradition, particularly in the interpretation of graphic notation and text scores. Since its formation, the Southland Ensemble has presented concerts featuring work by Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, James Tenney, with their most recent concert featuring the early works of Robert Ashley in April 2015.