For ages, humans have been inspired by the act of rising, by being lifted off the ground and into flight. With an ensemble of wind instruments and a rhythm section, we follow the lines of celestial pop music, ecstatic Sufi spinning, wild free jazz, gripped complexity, and antiphonal polyphony. For… Read More
Empty Image Slider Block – add images in the contextual sidebar to create the slider! Stills taken from our project “of Ascension” after the workshop premiere at The Soraya in Northridge, CA. The culmination of a few weeks of work, and a few months of thought about: the internet, how… Read More
Chris Rountree sits down to talk about “of Ascension”, which was performed at The Soraya on Nov. 10th, 2018. Read More
Brian Walsh speaks about playing Brian Ferneyhough’s clarinet concerto “La chute d’Icare”. A death-defying feat of acrobatics and counting and control. Brian is one of the most well rounded musicians any of us can imagine, he can read anything and perform with flexibility in situations wherein most people would be… Read More
On Saturday January 14th, 2012 we played a show called Ornithology at The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena. It all came from the idea: what if we explored a topic? Thoroughly maybe, and from at least a half dozen angles in one night. Really, the way that we… Read More