Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States, an ongoing series of late night, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Musician and artist Birdie Busch…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States, a series of late night, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani will perform multiple…
This event is SOLD OUT. There will be no tickets available at the door. After moving from his native Seoul, first to Germany to study music alongside the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage, and then to the United States, Nam June Paik lived what seems like the romantic archetype of the post-war New…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States, a series of late night, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Musician Helena Espvall will perform from…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States, a new series of late night, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Electronic musician Chaka Benson will…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States, a new series of late night, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Composer and musician Lea Bertucci…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Franck Vigroux and Ulrich Krieger performing Dodécaèdre, a new piece for electronics and amplified-processed saxophone at The Rotunda. Made of tectonic tensions, beats, and electronic textures the new work is a very personal approach to sonic exploration. Opening the evening will be a solo set by Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist Julius Masri.…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States, a new series of late night, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Organist Parker Kitterman will perform…
The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1968) 40 minutes Writer/Director: William Greaves Producer: Motion Picture and Television Service of the United States Information Agency Cinematographer: Georges Bracher, William Greaves Courtesy William Greaves Productions William Greaves (1926 – 2014) was a Harlem-born American documentary filmmaker, writer, producer and a pioneer of African American filmmaking. His…
Desert Equations: Azax/Attra (1986) Performers: Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz Producers: Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz Album Released by: Crammed Discs Sussan Deyhim (1958 - ) is an Iranian American composer, vocalist, performance artist and activist. Deyhim is internationally acclaimed for creating a unique sonic and vocal language imbued with a sense of ritual and…
Reza Abdoh: Theater Visionary (2015) 104 minutes. Director: Adam Soch Co-Producer: Sandy Cleary Executive Producers: Alan Mandell, Diane White, Marta Holen, Anita Durt, John McDuffie Associate Producers: Daniel Mufson, Sid Montz, Sarah and Peter Mandell Courtesy Adam Soch Adam Soch is a producer and director, and long-time collaborator and video archivist of Reza Abdoh. His…
The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 78 minutes Writer/Director: Sergei Paradjanov Editors: Sergei Parajanov, M. Ponomarenko, S. Yutkevich Cinematographer: Suren Shakhbazyan Courtesy Parajanov-Vartanov Institute. Sergei Paradjanov (1924 – 1990) was a Soviet film director of Armenian descent who made a substantial contribution to Soviet cinematography through Ukrainian, Armenian and Georgian cinema. He pioneered his own cinematic…
The artistic territory of the annual Shiraz Arts Festival remains, despite the passage of almost half a century, a remarkably contested space. It represents possibly the most controversial trajectory of cultural attitude, policy, and intercultural contact in modern Iranian history. Paradoxically, and apart from Iranian political and cultural sensitivities, the Festival is recognized as one…
The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice (1990) 96 minutes. Writer/Director: Reza Abdoh Camera/Film Editor: Adam Soch Video documentation of live performance presented at Los Angeles Theatre Center. Courtesy Reza Abdoh and Adam Soch Reza Abdoh (1963 – 1995) was an Iranian-born American director, and playwright, founder of the theatre ensemble Dar a Luz, known for large-scale,…
In 1971 composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) was commissioned to create a piece for the opening day of the fifth edition of the Shiraz Festival. This edition commemorated the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire. The opening event took place at the ruins of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (~550…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States, an ongoing series of late night, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Musician Bhob Rainey will perform…
Throughout its run, the Shiraz Festival was host to an array of contemporary classical and avant garde composers from Europe and the United States. Among them were Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Bruno Maderna, John Cage, David Tudor, and Morton Feldman. A significant arts center, which was to include electronic music and recording studios,…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Variant 6 performing "I Heart Artemis", a new, evening-length work by Wally Gunn and Maria Zajkowski performed at the Maas Building. In the time before time, Athena and Artemis meet, fall in love, and live a brief eternity of passion. But their paradise can’t last. On earth, men wage war,…
