What we’re about
This group is for people who appreciate music and other forms of art beyond the mainstream, with a particular focus on the avant-garde or otherwise odd. Free Jazz, Musique Concrete, Atonality, Noise Music, Outsider Art, Surrealism, Dada, Junk Art, ...you name it! Not all events will necessarily be "weird", but simply off the beaten mainstream path.
This is intended to be an oasis from crass commercial banalities.
I'll post events that interest me, but I am also interested in hearing from artists, musicians, and other creative types about their events that I can share with members. Post your events and ideas in the "Discussions" section. I want this group to also be a vehicle that helps support artists and organizations that are doing interesting creative work.
The only requests are that we keep things friendly and civilized and free from partisan politics.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Hexes and Tales, Unveiling the History of Witchcraft and Folklore with Roxanne MBowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, CA
Talks: Hexes and Tales, Unveiling the History of Witchcraft and Folklore with Roxanne Mayoral
Date: October 27, 2024 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Lunch at Tangata Restaurant in the Museum at 12:00. Please confirm if you will be joining for lunch so I can RSVP with the restaurant.**
Optional museum visit after the presentation.
Venue: Bowers Museum
NORMA KERSHAW AUDITORIUM
2002 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92706Ticketed Onsite Event: Members $15 | General $20
https://bowers.org/index.php/programs/events-calendar/event/3823-hexes-and-tales-unveiling-the-history-of-witchcraft-and-folklore-with-roxanne-mayoralRecorded Online Screening: Members $5 | General $10 | Online version will be emailed to ticketholders one week after the onsite event.
PURCHASE RECORDED SCREENING
https://buy.acmeticketing.com/orders/311/ticketsPresented by Roxanne Mayoral, archaeologist, forensic anthropologist, and an anthropology professor at Pierce College, Pasadena City College, and California State University Los Angeles teaching both cultural and biological anthropology.
Explore witchcraft and folklore from an anthropological perspective, examining cultural ideologies of myth, legend, folklore, and religion through historical and modern examples. We will discuss how anthropologists understand witchcraft in different societies, highlighting unique cultural variations. The lecture will also clarify the differences between myth, folklore, and legend with examples, focusing on the folklore of Baba Yaga and its interpretations.
Questions? Email programs@bowers.org or call 714.567.3677. Proceeds benefit Bowers Museum Education Programs. Tickets are non-refundable.
- Free Hybrid Event: Prismatic Effect: A Conversation with Charles RossGetty Center, Los Angeles , CA
Free hybrid event - IN-PERSON IS NO HOST!
Complements the PST ART exhibition Lumen: The Art and Science of Light at the Getty Center, which we will visit on Dec. 8:
https://www.meetup.com/la-oc-weirdo-music-and-art-group/events/304065104Date: Sunday, October 27, 2024, at 1 pm
Venue: Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049Free | Advance ticket required
Tickets for in-person: https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_4260.html
To watch online, register via Zoom.For the second “Rotunda Commission,” a series of art installations inspired by the Getty Museum’s collection, architecture, and site, American artist Charles Ross created a site-specific work centered on natural light, time, and planetary motion. Spectrum 14 is a calibrated array of prisms that casts luminous color across the Museum’s rotunda and evolves with the seasonal arc of the sun. In this conversation with curator Glenn Phillips, Ross talks about his storied career—from early collaborations with Judson Dance Theater, to engagements with the minimal and land art movements, to his decades-long work with light and prisms.
About the Artist
Using sunlight and starlight as the source for his art, Charles Ross creates large-scale prisms to project solar spectrums into architectural spaces; focuses sunlight into powerful beams to create solar burn works; draws the quantum behavior of light with dynamite; and works with a variety of other media including photography and video. For the last 52 years Ross has been building the geometry of the stars into his site-specific earthwork, Star Axis, now nearing completion in New Mexico. - Angel City Jazz Festival - Wayne Horvitz: Zony Mash + Electric CircusREDCAT ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER, Los Angeles, CA
Date: October 27, 2024 @ 8:00 pm,
Venue: REDCAT at Disney Hall
631 W 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CAMeet in the REDCAT bar area 7:45
Tickets: $25
https://angelcityjazz.com/event/wayneatredcat/8:00pm – Zony Mash
Wayne Horvitz – Hammond B3
Tim Young – guitar
Keith Love – electric bass
Andy Roth – drums9:15pm – Electric Circus
Tim Young – guitar
Keith Love – electric bass
Andy Roth drums
Alex Noice – guitar
Miller Wren – upright bass
Motoko Honda – keys
Mikaela Elson – vocals
Sarah Schoenberg – bassoon
TBA – violin
Leah Bowden – percussions
Nicole McCabe – alto sax
Phillip Whack – bari sax
Tatiana Tate – trumpetOriginally the Tuesday night house band at the OK Hotel, Zony Mash spent much of the ’90s and early aughts recording and touring the world. Created with the instrumentation of The Meters, Zony Mash starts where they left off.
Electric Circus is a large, mostly electric ensemble that remixes classic soul, funk, and rock for the 21st century. Composer Wayne Horvitz uses “conduction” – in the tradition of Lawrence “Butch” Morris – utilizing brief riffs, motifs, and grooves culled from classic recordings by James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Willie Dixon, Los Lobos, Captain Beefheart, Electric Miles Davis, The Grateful Dead, The Pointer Sisters, Sun Ra, The Bangles, The Clash, The Allman Brothers, Parliament-Funkadelic, and many, many more.
“Wayne Horvitz’s music remains multifaceted and transportable, from the hinterlands of avant classical to down-home folksy charm, from small group getups to large-ensemble blowouts.”
– All About JazzWayne Horvitz
Recipient of the 2019 American Prize in Orchestral Composition, composer Wayne Horvitz performs extensively throughout Europe, Japan, and North America. In addition to creating work for his own ensembles, he has created new work for The Kitchen, BAM, Seattle Symphony, Berlin Jazz, NOCCO, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Centrum, and ACT, among others. He has received awards from the MAP Fund, McKnight Foundation, the NEA, Meet the Composer, and The Shifting Foundation, among others.Narrative works include pieces centered around the life of Joe Hill, the story of the Everett Massacre, and the poems of Richard Hugo. His installation work has been presented at Ft. Worden, SAM, and Arizona State Museum of Art. He is the recipient of the 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award.
Collaborators include Robin Holcomb, Bill Frisell, Reggie Watts, Butch Morris, Alex Guy, Ikue Mori, George Lewis, Steve Swallow, Yukio Suzuki, Billy Bang, Carla Bley, Eyvind Kang, John Zorn (Naked City, etc.), Bill Irwin, Gus Van Sant, Paul Taylor, Beth Fleenor, Rinde Eckert, Yohei Saito, Barbara Earl Thomas, David Moss, Carey Perloff, Paul Taylor, Dayna Hanson, and Gus Van Sant.
He has produced recordings for the World Saxophone Quartet, Human Feel, Fontella Bass, Marty Ehrlich, John Adams, Bill Frisell, Robin Holcomb, and Eddie Palmieri.
https://www.waynehorvitz.com/ - ONLINE: Centaurs and Snake-Kings: the Meaning of Haunting HybridsNeeds location
Free online event by Classical Wisdom
Date and time: Thursday, October 31 · 9 - 10am PDT
Free, but please RSVP here to order the link:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/centaurs-and-snake-kings-the-meaning-of-haunting-hybrids-tickets-1031286304097About this event
- Event lasts 1 hour
Centaurs, Snake-kings, Griffins, and Gorgons... ancient Greek mythology is filled with haunting hybrids. But how did these horrific monsters evolve? What is their purpose? And most intriguing of all...what do they reveal about ancient Greek history?
Join us on Halloween, October 31st at NOON EDT / 9 AM PDT, to discover the deeper meaning of these composite creatures...
Featuring Jeremy McInerney, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Centaurs and Snake-Kings: Hybrids and the Greek Imagination.
This event is brought to you by Classical Wisdom, a site dedicated to bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds. To learn more about Classical Wisdom and sign up for our free newsletter, go to : https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/
About our speaker:
Jeremy McInerney is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and He is editor of Blackwell’s Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean (2014) and co-editor (with Ineke Sluiter) of Landscapes of Value: Natural Environment and Cultural Imagination in Classical Antiquity (2016). He is the author of many books, including The Folds of Parnassos (1999), The Cattle of the Sun (2010), and his most recent Centaurs and Snake-Kings: Hybrids and the Greek Imagination from Cambridge University Press.Frequently asked questions:
Will there be a recording?
Yes, there will be a recording. We will send it out to everyone who registers for the event, whether or not they can make it live.How do I get tickets?
Click the orange button to get your tickets. You can choose to pay a donation which helps support these events or get your ticket for free. We will send you a confirmation email and the link the day of the event.
