Democracy Sessions: Day 1
Program
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Democracy Session 1: American Ledger
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Raven Chacon Compass
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Rachel Beetz Uninterrupted Labor
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Raven Chacon American Ledger #1
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Louis Andriessen Workers Union
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At the conclusion of election week, Democracy Sessions opens with an evening that poses questions about our civic structures and identity through a musical blend of open interpretations, historical reflections, and experimental propositions. The evening challenges the audience and participants alike to consider the balance between individual freedom and collective responsibility, creating space to reflect on our roles within any group or community.
In American Ledger #1, 2018, composer Raven Chacon asks his audience to contemplate the symbols, iconography, history, violence, and sounds that built the United States while the harmony of chopping wood, fire, old songs, and the churning of nature fill the space. The work’s narrative score, printed on a flag, will hang above the concert space throughout the weekend as a reminder of the ancient history of this land. A new work by Wild Up member Rachel Beetz, Labor, Uninterrupted, draws on the Soviet-era concept of perpetual labor for the greater good and invites her audience to reflect on contemporary notions of rest, work, and revolution. The evening closes with a performance of Dutch composer Louis Andriessen’s seminal piece Workers Union, in which he instructs the performers to play with each part having equal importance, as one would approach political or community organizing.
About
About Endless Season
Art in LA has been about freedom and an abundant eschewing of history. With intersecting methods and intentions, humble, aspiring, a city appealing to the aesthete and the mystic in all of her citizens. Here, famous artists are also street-side sign painters, our best restaurants drive or live in strip malls, and our landmarks are geographical before architectural or fleetingly experiential instead of permanent monuments to their own lineages. Here, our religious and secular musics sound the same.
Endless Season gathers around these uniquely West Coast traits. We ask lead artists to question, reinterpret, and challenge the past, modality, and genre. We hold a space of intersectionality and dialogue surrounding every aspect of our work. Together, we will explore the breadth of work and practices, discovering the many shapes of music and ideas in LA today.
Endless Season 2024 - 2025
Endless Season continues internationally and across Los Angeles, as we embark on a year of festivals, residencies, and deep explorations of sound and those close-to-the-heart feelings that draw us toward one another. We begin by bringing the music of Julius Eastman to Germany at Ruhrtriennale. Then, we look toward the future of society with a weekend of democratic music-making with Democracy Sessions at MOCA Warehouse. In 2025, we untether Darkness Sounding, a festival that explores how listening, sound, and music shape our understanding of the world, from LA to congregate in New York around tuning and droves of medieval harmonies at 92NY. And we explore what it means to live life To The Fullest, celebrating selves brimming with unique righteousness, around the music of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell in a three-month-long festival with the LA Philharmonic and REDCAT and other partners yet to be announced.
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The LA Composer Series from Wild Up
Sep 9 & Nov 11, 2024 Sierra Madre Playhouse -
Democracy Sessions
Nov 8-10, 2024 WAREHOUSE at Geffen Contemporary at MOCA -
Wild Up Composers at Noon to Midnight
Nov 16, 2024 Walt Disney Concert Hall -
Modern Masterworks: Schoenberg, inti figgis vizueta, John Adams
Jan 26, 2025 Broad Stage -
To the Fullest: The Music of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell
Mar 4 - May 4, 2025 REDCAT and Walt Disney Concert Hall -
Darkness Sounding
Mar 21-23, 2025 92NY, New York