SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2025
7PM
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RYOSUKE KIYASU
LUCAS ‘GRANPA’ ABELA
TED BYRNES
LAW
ZEBULON
7PM

RYOSUKE KIYASU
LUCAS ‘GRANPA’ ABELA
TED BYRNES
LAW
ZEBULON
An evening of extreme sound and performance featuring two astonishing artists from across the Pacific.
The Japanese snare drum soloist RYOSUKE KIYASU rips and thrashes, pushing limits of what can be improvised with a couple of drumsticks, a snare, a mic, and a table. Amidst cathartic whole-body maneuvers, he can just as easily issue a flurry of rolls and virtuosic high velocity click-clack on the rims, or in turn growl right into the heads, or even take the party to the floor for some scrape and drag.
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Longtime globe travelling Australian DIY-lifer LUCAS ‘GRANPA’ ABELA (fka Justice Yeldham) also pushes the boundaries and also pushes a large shard of glass into his face and against his mouth, playing it as an electroacoustic instrument, these days feeding the signal into a an array of modular chaos. Might there be blood?
PLUS a couple actions from L.A zones: Percussionist TED BYRNES throwing metal around, and LAW – the duo of L. Coats and Jonah Bergman - folding primitive folk instrumentation right into the harsh.
The Japanese snare drum soloist RYOSUKE KIYASU rips and thrashes, pushing limits of what can be improvised with a couple of drumsticks, a snare, a mic, and a table. Amidst cathartic whole-body maneuvers, he can just as easily issue a flurry of rolls and virtuosic high velocity click-clack on the rims, or in turn growl right into the heads, or even take the party to the floor for some scrape and drag.
AND
Longtime globe travelling Australian DIY-lifer LUCAS ‘GRANPA’ ABELA (fka Justice Yeldham) also pushes the boundaries and also pushes a large shard of glass into his face and against his mouth, playing it as an electroacoustic instrument, these days feeding the signal into a an array of modular chaos. Might there be blood?
PLUS a couple actions from L.A zones: Percussionist TED BYRNES throwing metal around, and LAW – the duo of L. Coats and Jonah Bergman - folding primitive folk instrumentation right into the harsh.
SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2025
7:30PM
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KALI MALONE
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
7:30PM

KALI MALONE
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Kali Malone returns to Los Angeles for a special organ performance at at First Congregational Church.
Malone will play select compositions from her critically acclaimed albums All Life Long and The Sacrificial Code, adapted for "The Great Organs"– one of the world's largest church organs. This performance will include additional accompaniment by Stephen O'Malley on several 4-handed organ pieces.
“Kali Malone composes and performs with a clarity of vision. Her music is patient and focused, built on a foundation of evolving harmonic cycles that draw out latent emotional resonances; letting go of expectations of duration and breadth offers a space for reflection and contemplation. In her hands, experimental reinterpretations of centuries-old polyphonic compositional methods and historical tuning systems become portals to new ways of perceiving harmony, structure, and introspection.”
Photo by Devon Corman
Malone will play select compositions from her critically acclaimed albums All Life Long and The Sacrificial Code, adapted for "The Great Organs"– one of the world's largest church organs. This performance will include additional accompaniment by Stephen O'Malley on several 4-handed organ pieces.
“Kali Malone composes and performs with a clarity of vision. Her music is patient and focused, built on a foundation of evolving harmonic cycles that draw out latent emotional resonances; letting go of expectations of duration and breadth offers a space for reflection and contemplation. In her hands, experimental reinterpretations of centuries-old polyphonic compositional methods and historical tuning systems become portals to new ways of perceiving harmony, structure, and introspection.”
Photo by Devon Corman