Chris Kallmyer

darkness sounding 2019 – 2020

From our first year of darkness sounding. It’s hard to capture the exact feeling — the feeling of making music in the dark, over 12 nights, during the darkest time of the year — in photos. But here are a few from darkness sounding 2019 – 20. Read More

We The People at The Clarice

Created by the team at The Clarice, this video encapsulates our “We The People” residency at the University of Maryland in 2018. Over the course of a week, we rehearsed side by side with music students on open score pieces, where agency and decision making matter most, and where every… Read More

Good Vibrations | LACO Meet the Music

This was the third project to come out of a 3-year tenure as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s “Education Ensemble in Residence.” In this dream sequence, Adrianne has fallen asleep on stage and wakes up on a beach somewhere near Malibu with Linnea. Together, they uncover the secrets and science… Read More

Sounds of the Farm | LACO Meet the Music

https://vimeo.com/114567607 This was the first project to come out of a 3-year tenure as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s “Education Ensemble in Residence.” In this work, Wild Up and LACO delve into the sounds of the farm, from Beethoven to Cage to a new work by composer Chris Kallmyer. Read More

Santa Ana Sites #4: Wild Up at the Santora

Santa Ana Sites #4: Wild Up at the Santora was a collaboration with Wild Up, the Colburn School, and composer Lisa Bielawa, presented by CSU Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center. For an evening, we took over the entire Santora Arts Building, performing two hours of dozens of micro concerts in… Read More

WEST at the Hammer Museum

In 2012, we were the first Orchestra in Residence at a Museum (ever as far as we’re aware). We moved into the courtyard at the Hammer Museum in Westwood and begin a massive six month residency, full of forty plus events, all free to the public, including West. A study… Read More