The Matt Allen Ensemble returns to present an exploration into dark places. Joined by the amazing Ted Taforo and David Aguila for an evening of dark grooves.

The December concerts tease our sense of memory. We know Messiah very well, but few know that Mozart re-scored Handel’s Messiah for a much larger orchestra, making our performance an “often-heard rarity.” Co-concertmaster David Buckley is soloist in the Second Violin Concerto of Florence Price, a prolific African-American composer that made her long career in Chicago, where her music was championed by the Chicago Symphony in the 1930s. Our collective musical memory is intimately combined with African-American music. Let’s always remember that. And let’s remember that we are a nation of immigrants, as we celebrate with the stunning music of Chinese-American composer Qing Qing Wang in the 2018 Thomas Nee Commission.

The December concerts tease our sense of memory. We know Messiah very well, but few know that Mozart re-scored Handel’s Messiah for a much larger orchestra, making our performance an “often-heard rarity.” Co-concertmaster David Buckley is soloist in the Second Violin Concerto of Florence Price, a prolific African-American composer that made her long career in Chicago, where her music was championed by the Chicago Symphony in the 1930s. Our collective musical memory is intimately combined with African-American music. Let’s always remember that. And let’s remember that we are a nation of immigrants, as we celebrate with the stunning music of Chinese-American composer Qing Qing Wang in the 2018 Thomas Nee Commission.

Professor Mark Dresser is an internationally acclaimed bass player, improviser, composer, and interdisciplinary collaborator. Since 2006 he has been researching, performing, composing, and collaborating in the field of telematic performance, which explores the musical, technical, and social dimensions of live performance between multiple locations through high speed Internet. He was a co-coordinator, composer, performer, and conductor of Deep Tones for Peace, a 2009 Internet performance including thirteen internationally bassists collaborating live between Jerusalem and New York City. 

Featuring:
Michael Matsuno, playing Morte Tamburo by Salvatore Sciarrino

Mari Kawamura, playing The Fire Sermon by Matt Kline

Paul Roth, performing his work Adventures in Piano Room 1

Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, playing The King of Denmark by Morton Feldman

David Aguila, Rachel Allen, Juliana Gaona and Ellen Marie Hindson performing Ply 2 by Conal Ryan

Christopher Clarino, playing Transparent Wave VI by Thomas DeLio

Zachary Konick, performing his work Stargazing

Jasper Sussman, Barbara Byers, Kevin Schwenkler and Nikul Tiruviluamala, performing a selection of songs (to be announced from the stage)

Celeste Oram and Barbara Byers performing their arrangement of Now is the Cool of the Day by Jean Ritchie

Inheritance is a timely multimedia chamber opera about gun violence in America, based on the true story of Sarah Winchester, heir to the Winchester rifle fortune. An eccentric widow self-imprisoned in her labyrinthine mansion, Winchester was haunted by the spirits of the thousands killed by Winchester weapons.

With music by Lei Liang and libretto by Matt Donovan, Inheritance interweaves Winchester’s story with events from contemporary American life, asking complex questions about complicity, atonement, and gun violence in our society. Led by music director Steven Schick and directed by Cara Consilvio, the performance also features Grammy Award–winning soprano Susan Narucki, with sopranos Kirsten Ashley Wiest and Hillary Jean Young and baritone Josue Ceron. 

https://www.inheritance-opera.com/

Inheritance is a timely multimedia chamber opera about gun violence in America, based on the true story of Sarah Winchester, heir to the Winchester rifle fortune. An eccentric widow self-imprisoned in her labyrinthine mansion, Winchester was haunted by the spirits of the thousands killed by Winchester weapons.

With music by Lei Liang and libretto by Matt Donovan, Inheritance interweaves Winchester’s story with events from contemporary American life, asking complex questions about complicity, atonement, and gun violence in our society. Led by music director Steven Schick and directed by Cara Consilvio, the performance also features Grammy Award–winning soprano Susan Narucki, with sopranos Kirsten Ashley Wiest and Hillary Jean Young and baritone Josue Ceron. 

https://www.inheritance-opera.com/

Inheritance is a timely multimedia chamber opera about gun violence in America, based on the true story of Sarah Winchester, heir to the Winchester rifle fortune. An eccentric widow self-imprisoned in her labyrinthine mansion, Winchester was haunted by the spirits of the thousands killed by Winchester weapons.

With music by Lei Liang and libretto by Matt Donovan, Inheritance interweaves Winchester’s story with events from contemporary American life, asking complex questions about complicity, atonement, and gun violence in our society. Led by music director Steven Schick and directed by Cara Consilvio, the performance also features Grammy Award–winning soprano Susan Narucki, with sopranos Kirsten Ashley Wiest and Hillary Jean Young and baritone Josue Ceron. 

https://www.inheritance-opera.com/

Grad Forums provide an outlet for Music Department graduate students to present individual and collaborative works on their own terms.

Concert Features:

Justin Murphy-Mancini, Matt Kline, Michael Matsuno, David Aguila, Keir Gogwilt, Kevin Schwenker, Chris Clarino, Josh Charney, Madison Greenstone and Nicholas Solem

TJO Presents
WAY OUT! at Wayward Social
A Monthly Series of New, Experimental and Improvised Music
August 26th, 2018
6:30pm - 11:00pm

$5 suggested donation

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Performances by:

Federico Balducci

Dreamscapes For Hope & The Facilitation Of Enlightenment

https://federicobalducci7.bandcamp.com/

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GORPLORD / 5-Track / David Aguila / Marc Cantlin II / Daniel Carter

A bi-coastal meeting of musicians. 

Daniel Carter: Brass and Reeds
https://aumfidelity.bandcamp.com/album/seraphic-light

5-Track and Marc Cantlin II: Guitars
https://cosmicprimitive.bandcamp.com/album/healthy-kittens

Davis Aguila: Trumpet
https://cosmicprimitive.bandcamp.com/album/blended-metal

GORPLORD is Nathan Repasz (Drums) and Evan Strauss (Bass)
https://cosmicprimitive.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-to-see-here

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Big Ceremony

Mike Marcinowski incorporates live polyrhythmic drumming with arpeggiated synthesizers and sequenced loops, as a way to explore the connections between humanity and technology. https://soundcloud.com/michaelmarcinowski/sets/big-ceremony

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BarrenOaks

Musical meanderings brought to you by Jacob Matheus (Guitar) and Rob Taylor (Bass)
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WAY OUT! at Wayward Social
A Monthly Series of New, Experimental and Improvised Music
July 29th, 2018
6:30pm - 10:30pm

$5 suggested donation

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Performances by:

Connoisseurs of Chaos

https://woodshedrecords.bandcamp.com/

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David Aguila & Evan Strauss
perform Rāg Malkauns in the style of Dhrupad for electric bass, trumpet and electronics

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Juanma Trujillo Trio

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Yoink

https://yoinknyc.bandcamp.com

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Manatee Migration is an electro-acoustic freely improvised duo; comprised of Breana Gilcher on Oboe and David Aguila on Electronics, stemming from the foundations of classical/contemporary music creating unique textural dialogs engaging audiences in the transformation of sounds from Oboe to live processing. The listener is transported from the physical world to an enlightened state, as synthesizer drones and sweeps meshed with the multi-timbral oboe contours wash through the listener on a molecular level.

Crawl Dweebs is a free improvisation trio that started at CalArts that features Bassist, Sean Riddle, David Aguila on Trumpet/Electronics, and Kris Rahamad on Violin/Viola. Through their music they explore themes of challenging and portraying the current political climate that we are experiencing around the world. Major influences for the group are Vinny Golia, Martin Plot, Ulrich Krieger, Henry Threadgill, Dmitri Shostakovich, Hannah Arendt, Eric Dolphy, and Charlie Haden.

Suggested donation of $7

Breana Gilcher and David Aguila are Manatee Migrations. During the 2018 CalArts Digital Arts Expo they will present an electro-acoustic sound bath experience. We are an electro-acoustic freely improvised duo, stemming from the foundations of classical/contemporary music creating unique textural dialogs engaging audiences in the transformation of sounds from Oboe to live processing.

This electro-acoustic sound bath aims to navigate the edges between acoustic and electronic timbres, exploring raw dynamic soundscape experiences, symbiotically synthesized by the oboist, serving as the input, the live processing, which serves as the output. The listener, with the contribution of attention and presence of their body, becomes a third collaborator by receiving and stepping into these soundscapes. Each receiver takes part in the journey through the sound bath filled with colorful waves of subtle timeless noise and activating harmonic bliss.

The performance will take place in A300 in the Herb Alpert School of Music

Los Angeles based electro-acoustic duo; Laptop+Trumpet, is proud to release their first EP on Cosmic Primitive Records. An amalgamation from a previously recorded concert, sampling, and post production work, culminated in Blended Metal. Extracted portions of the original improvisation are preserved in its original form, as samples are layered, twisted and manipulated becoming indistinguishable. Juxtaposing textures and evolving timbres intertwine, as droning and pulsating synthesizers encapsulate the extreme registers as the listener enters the world of Laptop+Trumpet.

Comprised of David Aguila on Laptop and Ethan Marks on Trumpet, they first met while attending Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar in Enfield New Hampshire. During the seminar, Marks commissioned a piece from Aguila, that would later become the foundation in the formation of Laptop+Trumpet. The two began to improvise together, building electro-acoustic landscapes and extended trumpet techniques, forming a unique improvisatory language which feeds off one another's output. Laptop+Trumpet has performed in the Los Angeles area, including at ArtShare LA and CalArts R.O.D Concert Hall.

David Aguila (MFA Perf-Comp 2015) and Ethan Marks (MFA Trumpet 2017) have been working on a project and are proud to release their first EP on Cosmic Primitive Records on April 7th. Blended Metal will be getting it's radio debut on Australia's The Sound Barrier series this Sunday, Mar 18. Each broadcast gets saved as a playlist and can be listened to at your leisure. https://www.pbsfm.org.au/thesoundbarrier

An amalgamation from a previously recorded concert, sampling, and post production work, culminated inBlended Metal. Extracted portions of the original improvisation are preserved in its original form, as samples are layered, twisted and manipulated becoming indistinguishable. Juxtaposing textures and evolving timbres intertwine, as droning and pulsating synthesizers encapsulate the extreme registers as the listener enters the world of Laptop+Trumpet.

"The Beach Noise" is the first installment of our new concert series, Carillon Presents. The program features solo trumpet compositions by California-based composers, performed by California-based trumpeters in the California-based heart of downtown Los Angeles. All of the pieces explore the trumpet's unique emotional and sonic possibilities, including but not limited to extreme dynamic shifts, incorporating the player's voice in a melodic setting, the contrast between noisy disintegration and heartbreaking purity, and the melting of musical notation into improvisation. 

The composers comprise varied generations and include David Aguila, Mark Applebaum, Robert Erikson, Saad Haddad, Robert Henderson, Anne LeBaron, and David Rosenboom. The performers are some of the most exciting young trumpeters, both emerging and established, in the California new music scene: Nicolás Bejarano, Noah Dugan, Cameron Kalemkarian, Ethan Marks, Daniel Rosenboom, Alexandria Smith and Evan Wendell. 

The Program: 

David Aguila – Fukishima 9.0
Mark Applebaum – Authenticity & Entre Funérailles
Robert Erickson – Kryl
Saad Haddad – Shifting Sands
Robert Henderson – Variation Movements for Solo Trumpet
Anne LeBaron – Way of Light
David Rosenboom – Zones of Coherence

To support this concert or to get tickets before the show, please consider donating at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1649356240/carillon-presents-the-beach-noise

TJO Presents:

WAY OUT! at Wayward Social
A Monthly Series of New, Experimental and Improvised Music
February 25th, 2018
6:30pm - 10:00pm

Performances by:

Salt People
https://www.facebook.com/saltpeoplemusic/?ref=br_rs

Kate Amrine
Solo Trumpet

Kate Amrine's set will include the debut of "Thoughts & Prayers," composed by Kevin Joest for trumpet and tape. Of this piece, Kevin Joest says, "Thoughts & Prayers was composed in late 2017 for Kate Amrine. The impetus behind the work was a topical subject that would 'piss people off'; the lip service payed to the victims of natural and human disasters and attacks throughout that year seemed an appropriate subject to tackle. I tried to integrate as many different perspectives as I could whilst maintaining a very clear ideological standpoint. I hope it pisses you off."

Aguila & Strauss play the songs of Woody Guthrie
David Aguila - Trumpet and Electronics
Evan Strauss - Electric Bass and Electronic Tamboura

Email GORPLORD for more information or to inquire about performing: gorplordmusic@gmail.com

Snow Nerds will be releasing a new EP It's Really Rampart Feb. 7th. David performs on the EP soundprojecting with Saxophonist Ted Taforo. More information about Snow Nerds can be found here. Catch them live all of February at ETA Highland Park

Get your copy of It's Really Rampart

You Are is a Jazz Funk album will be released on

Amazon
Bandcamp
Google Play
iTunes

Produced by David Aguila and Ted Taforo
All songs written by Ted Taforo (Taforo Music BMI) 
Photo by Ellyn Jameson

Jake Sucher: guitar (7, 9) 
Cari Stevens: vocals (9) 
Kevin Oliver: vocals (9) 
David Aguila: live laptop processing (2, 11) 
Ted Taforo: saxophones, vocals, keyboards, drums, drum programming, pepper shaker

TJO Presents:

WAY OUT! at Wayward Social
A Monthly Series of New, Experimental and Improvised Music
December 17th, 2017
6:30pm - 10:30pm

Performances by:

Dexter Dine
Dexter Dine is a composer who works primarily with guitar, voice, and Max/MSP. He’ll be performing a new set of original songs and improvised electronics.

GORPLORD feat. David Aguila
Local improvisers and hosts of WAY OUT! at Wayward Social. "Hootenanny!" by GORPLORD is available through Cosmic Primitive Records: http://cosmicdigital.cosmicprimitive.com/album/hootenanny

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Drew Wesely - guitar
Aaron Edgcomb - drums
Alec Harper - sax
Rob Taylor - bass

TJO Presents:

WAY OUT! at Wayward Social
A Monthly Series of New, Experimental and Improvised Music
Hosted by GORPLORD

November 26th, 2017
6:30pm - Mike Marcinowski (drums), Andrew Schiller (bass), Lathan Hardy (sax)
7:30pm - GORPLORD feat. Daniel Carter
8:30pm - Caleb Veazey, David Aguila and Billy McShane

Crawl Dweebz returns to their birth place in Pasadena, this time performing at the wonderful Battery Books and Music. We’ll be performing some improvisations with possibly some original music hidden throughout. After us will be Scot Ray and his guitar trio. The concert is open to the public and donations will be accepted at Rich’s (the owners) desk. Come out and support creative music in LA!

Crawl Dweebz:

Kris Rahamad,Violin
David Aguila, Trumpet/Electronics
Sean Riddle, Bass

Scot Ray Guitar Trio:

Scot Ray: Guitars
Other personnel TBA

Black Angels for electric string quartet - George Crumb
New work - David Aguila
Exvot (2) - Sara Cubarsi
and more... everything amplified...

Madeline Falcone, e-violin/viola
Violeta Cubarsi, e-violin
Derek Stein, e-cello
Sara Cubarsi, e-violin
David Aguila, electronics

and wine glasses, tam-tams, glass rods, maraccas, horse-hair, bells, etc...

ROD Live Stream available below

https://music.calarts.edu/watch-and-listen/livestream

Hi, friends! Time for another house show to welcome Autumn! We would like to make space for new music this time around --- music written Summer 2017, groups formed recently, or improv works --- with absolutely no genre preference. All in the spirit of change and fresh starts. 

PM me if you'd like to play, and feel free to recommend people or send them my way. This is a public event, but if you do invite friends, please remind them to be respectful, and also that this is a GLUTEN FREE HOUSE SO ABSOLUTELY NO BEER.

Love to you all!

Performance with Crawl Dweebs

Kris Rahamad - Violin

David Aguila - Trumpet

Sean Riddle - Double Bass

Duo

Breana Gilcher - Oboe

David Aguila - Laptop Processing

I'm moving to Holland to study at the Royal Conervatoire to prepare and perform Stockhausen's Opera "Licht" at the 2019 Holland Festival. I'll be gone for two years and will miss you all. This will be my last concert in Los Angeles. I am so lucky to be sharing this concert with so many of my friends. A live stream will be available on the day of the concert.

The concert is 10 hours, from 1pm - 11pm
featuring music by

Ethan Marks & David Aguila
Henry Webster
Nico Bejarano
Joe Thel, Breana Gilcher, Ethan Marks, David Aguila
Evangeline Crittenden
Hannah Goodman
Pauline Gloss
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Justin Scheid
Kat Shuman & Ben Finley
Clint Dodson, Miller Wren, & Ethan Marks
Ted Taforo
Charlie Carswell, Evan Montgomery, Jesse Quebbman-Turley
Trevor Anderies Quintet
Snow Nerds

General Admission: $12*
Student Admission: $10 w/ ID*

*All funds raised will go to help with David's expenses for his first year at the Royal Conservatoire

We invite you to join us in working through four pieces, for groups of performers of any skill level, that we've prepared. No instruments are required, but a volunteer mindset is encouraged.

EnsembleVómma is proud and excited to announce that we are performing at ArtShare LA's Open House next Thursday, June 15th! Come join us as well as many other LA Based Artists for an evening filled with expression, chats, laughs, and art. We will be sprinkled in somewhere in the program, but be sure to stick around for all of the artists that will be featured in this amazing evening.

As for our part of the program, we will be performing Tocatta (2016) and Exchange (2014) by LA based composer David Aguila and Summa (1977) by Estonian composer extraordinaire Arvo Pärt. David Aguila's work has been described by Fest magazine in Edinburgh Scotland as, "Gorgeous" and "Ghostly" - Sean Bell, Edinburgh Fringe Fest Mag. 2014.

We are really looking forward to this event and evening of Art & Music. Please come out and join us for the festivities. If you plan to attend, note that although the event is free, you are required to RSVP at the ArtShare LA website provided below.

http://artsharela.org/open-house/

Music performed by Carillon Quartet
Sound projection by David Aguila
Staging created by director, Brian Carbine, and aLma.MaddR

Nah und Fern was born in the WDR (West German Radio) in 1993/1994 as Mauricio Kagel’s first hörspiel, or “radio drama,” without words. The piece was constructed from three pieces that had been composed within a span of the three years prior: Morceau de Concours, Fanfanfaren, and Melodien für Carillon. Out of these works and with the addition of field recordings of sounds from the city of Utecht (boats, cars, and even the steps of the carillon operator) Kagel created this aural play in the tradition of the hörspiel, which takes the listener through an exceptional and rather surrealjourney through a city landscape. The images that often come to mind are not unlike the scenes from his 1969 film Ludwig Van. The city sounds, so recognizable to any listener, interrupted by the anachronistic carillon bells, and being commented on by studio-like trumpet playing yields a peculiar atmosphere reminiscent of the bygone era of Borges.

Nah und Fern is the biggest contribution to the trumpet repertoire that the Carillon Quartet has thus far brought into fruition. The idea is to create a live version of Kagel’s hörspiel in order to introduce it to new audiences. It seems obvious that in the 21st century, radio no longer has the power it once enjoyed in the post-war era. Bringing Nah und Fern into a live context is a way to preserve it and reintroduce it to concertgoers. We present an imaginative, unique staging that gives insight into the many dimensions of Kagel’s fascinating work. With brilliant playback reconstruction by David Aguila, the trumpets of the Carillon Quartet, aLma.MaddR and director Brian Carbine, this piece is now being heard live for the first time since its première in 1994 in the city of Utecht.

Carillon Quartet:
Nicolás Bejarano Isaza
Lucas Lipari-Mayer
Ethan Marks
Cameron Kalemkarian

aLma.MaddR
Anabel Romero
Christina Ward
David Aguila

$5 Students
$10 General

https://www.almamaddr.com/
http://www.carillonquartet.com/
https://www.briancarbine.com/

Running Time: 60 minutes