January 30, 2016

Music of Earle Brown: FOLIO
Southland Ensemble

Earle Brown’s influence on the avant-garde community has been philosophical as well as tangible and practical. His conducting techniques and experiments with “time notation,” improvisation, and open-form compositional structure have become part of contemporary compositional usage. His work with new notations, scoring methods, and performance attitudes led to his development of graphic, improvisational, and "open-form" scores such as Folio and Four Systems.

“Boundaries were blurred—not just between the pieces themselves, but also between music and theater, between audience and performer, between performance and life.” Isaac Schankler - NewMusicBox

About Southland Ensemble:

The Southland Ensemble, formed in 2013, is a vibrant addition to the experimental music community and has thus far committed itself to presenting a series of portrait concerts. Each concert is carefully programmed to reflect a specific creative period in a given composer's career so that the audience is offered the opportunity to delve deeper into the work. Since its formation, the ensemble has presented works by Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Ashley and James Tenney. The ensemble seeks to broaden its focus to include composers outside of the United States in subsequent seasons.

The Southland Ensemble consists of eight core members who possess a vast amount of experience within the experimental tradition, particularly in the interpretation of graphic notation and text scores. The collective is flexible in size and often collaborates with guests as the music requires. The Southland Ensemble seeks to collectively share their experiences through the mediums of interactive concerts, workshops and lectures.