Democracy Sessions: Day 3

Program

Democracy Session 4: The Democracy Bardo
This participatory work and performance invites audiences to share their hopes, fears, and reflections on democracy, civic engagement, and responsibility. The contributions, accumulated throughout the weekend, will be interpreted and responded to in a series of sprawling, improvised performances by Wild Up. Blending public dialogue with creative expression, this piece underscores the importance of individual opinions and collective voices for the future of Democracy.
- Ben Babbitt electronics / organ
- Catherine Brookman voice / electronics
- Julia Eichten mover / speaker
- Marlon Martinez bass
- Max Jaffe drumset / electronics
- M.A. Tiesenga saxophone / hurdy gurdy
- Lewis Pesacov guitars / clavichord / electronics
- Christopher Rountree speaker / singer
12pm Performance
Installation on view and accessible to audience participation through Democracy Sessions
Democracy Session 5: Stimmung
A reimagined performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Stimmung, expanded with ritualistic elements and layers of live electronics by vocal ensemble HEX. Stimmung (“tuning” in German), explores harmony and the communal experience of making music to understand the vital and deeper social and political meanings and implications of sound and tuning.

Before the performance, the audience is welcomed into a participatory workshop of the score, revealing the process for developing the score and tuning into each other.
- Performers
- Chloé Vaught
- Molly Pease
- Chohi Kim
- Fahad Siadat
- Saunder Choi
- Scott Graff
- Electronics
- David Saldaña
3pm Participatory Workshop
4pm Performance
Throughout the Weekend
DEMOCRACY SESSIONS SCOREBOOK
A book of scores from the Wild Up community commemorates the weekend’s themes and program. Featuring contributions from Rachel Beetz, Elizabeth Cline, inti figgis-vizueta, Harmony Holiday, Michael Ned Holte, Sharon Chohi Kim, Elana Mann, Odeya Nini, Lewis Pesacov, Chana Porter, Sarah Rara, Christopher Rountree, Patrick Shiroishi, M.A. Tiesinga.

Details

Location WAREHOUSE at Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Date Sunday, November 10, 2024
Times
- 12:00 pm Session 4: Performance
- 3:00 pm Session 5: Workshop
- 4:00 pm Session 5: Performance

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.