Indra’s Net
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Meredith Monk Indra's Net
About
One of the most unique and influential artists of our time, composer/singer Meredith Monk has devoted her life to exploring the potential of the human voice. A pioneer of extended vocal technique and interdisciplinary art, she weaves together new modes of perception to expand the boundaries of music, performance, and visual art. This living legend returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall with her latest creation, an immersive work that is part performance, part installation, inspired by Indra’s Net, a parable illustrating life’s interconnectedness.
In the ancient Buddhist/Hindu legend, an enlightened king, Indra, stretches a large net across the universe with an infinitely faceted jewel placed at each intersection. Each jewel is unique yet reflects all the others, illuminating the interdependence of all living things.
Following an initial concert performance of the work at Mills College in 2021 and a North American premiere at Park Avenue Armory in 2024, this monumental creation received a full production in its highly anticipated West Coast premiere. Monk, together with members of her extraordinary Vocal Ensemble and the highly acclaimed new-music ensemble Wild Up, offers an interplay of music, movement, and architecture to embody celestial, earthly, and human realms through sound, video, and performance. The resulting production serves as a beacon affirming life and a sense of connection to each other and all living things.
About Endless Season
Art in LA has long been about freedom and a rich rejection of history. With intersecting methods and intentions, it is humble yet aspirational, creating a city that appeals to the aesthete and mystic in all its citizens. Here, famous artists also double as street-side sign painters, our finest restaurants are located in strip malls, and our landmarks are more geographical than architectural or fleetingly experiential rather than permanent monuments to their lineages. Here, our religious and secular musics sound the same.
Endless Season revolves around these distinct West Coast traits. These programs mark a new chapter, focusing on sustainability and place, and investing in the artists and audiences who make our city vibrant. Together, we encourage, question, reinterpret, and challenge the past, modality, and genre. We hold a space for intersectionality and dialogue surrounding every aspect of our work.
More about Endless SeasonEndless Season 2026–2027
Wild Up continues to explore music as a social practice: a way of listening, learning, and rehearsing our collective life together. Across Los Angeles and beyond, Endless Season 2026–2027 brings audiences into concerts, festivals, workshops, participatory performances, and large-scale collaborations that ask what an orchestra can be now: a space for civic engagement and imaginative practice shaped by the people who make it together.
The season begins with Democracy Sessions, returning as an expanded, multi-venue festival at MOCA Geffen, REDCAT, and additional partners to be announced. Timed to lead up to the 2026 US midterm elections, the festival brings together artists, audiences, and communities for concerts, performances, participatory actions, and public dialogue on democratic practices.
Throughout the year, Wild Up moves through projects that trace connection in many forms: continuing our work at the intersections of jazz, improvisation, and contemporary classical music at The Nimoy; bringing Meredith Monk’s immersive Indra’s Net, a vast meditation on interdependence, to Walt Disney Concert Hall; developing two new operas — Shelley Washington’s The Passion of Nell with Long Beach Opera and Ted Hearne and Chana Porter’s The Dispossessed, set to premiere in 2028; and carrying Julius Eastman’s music onto the international stage with performances at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
This season, The Collective Orchestra deepens its role as a gathering place for community music-making, bringing together participants for multiple projects within the Democracy Sessions festival and for our annual performance of Gavin Bryars’ Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet.
Together, these projects imagine music as a living practice: a way to rehearse cooperation, make room for many voices, and build new ways of being together.