Saturday March 21st 8:30PM
\nThe California E.A.R. Unit presents a concert of young American-based composers<\/p>\n
REDCAT-Roy and Edna Disney\/CalArts Theater
\nCalArts’ downtown center for innovative visual, performing and media arts,\u00a0631 W. 2nd\u00a0St. Los Angeles, CA. 90012<\/p>\n
Saturday March 21, 2009 – 8:30 PM<\/p>\n
YOUNG AMERICANS<\/p>\n
“Triumphantly out there… The California E.A.R. Unit is known for taking left turns away from convention.”\u00a0Los Angeles Times
\nInspired by the classic David Bowie pop hit, The E.A.R. Unit surveys fresh new works by young mavericks. The ensemble plays Daniel Wohl’s driving yet oddly sentimental\u00a0+ou-, Oscar Bettison’s haunting\u00a0Gauze Vespers\u00a0veiled with simmering sonorities from dual toy pianos and other innovative orchestrations, Ryan Brown’s\u00a0Our Friend Adam\u00a0a verbal play on \u201cOur Friend Atom\u201d a short film that introduced the atom bomb to Ryan as a child who mistook atom to be Adam,\u00a0Jamu\u00a0for ensemble and electronics by Christine Southworth drawing from Gamelan melodies, Clay Chaplin\u2019s\u00a0Rememories, a structured improvisation using 3-D video as a meta-structure for the ensemble based on the relationship of time and memory, Harris Wulfson’s eclectic simplified violin solo 3 Bagatelles, and an exciting new work from the Carlsbad Music Festival Tsar, Matt McBane.<\/p>\n