See also The Living Earth Show’s upcoming performance of Raven Chacon’s Tremble Staves.

with
the UC Davis Contemporary Improv Class
Kurt Rohde, instructor and UC Davis Professor of Music

Program

Danny Clay’s Music for Hard Times
Commissioned by the Living Earth Show as a sonic resource for those in need of comfort and calm, this work was created remotely by realizing a series of “calming strategies” and creating an interconnected work from the results.

Plus Sarah Hennies’s Growing Block, Laura Schwartz’s (B.A. ‘13) Idioms and Episode 8, and original works by ensemble members including RANT-titude, alla Robert Ashley.

Free
a Shinkoskey Noon Concert

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• Direct link to the livestream.

The Living Earth Show (aka TLES, is guitarist Travis Andrews and percussionist Andy Meyerson) is a megaphone and canvas for some of the world’s most progressive artists. They are artists in residence at UC Davis for three significant projects in 2022 at UC Davis: “Music for Hard Times” (March 10), “Tremble Staves” (March 12), and “Affirmative Action” (May 5). The duet was listed in a recent write-up by the Washington Post in its “22 for ’22: Composers and performers to watch this year.”

Called “outstanding” by the San Francisco Chronicle, “transcendent” by the Charleston City Paper, and “a fully distorted perpetual motion of awesome” by I Care If You Listen, TLES is a premiere contemporary chamber arts ensemble in the United States. TLES received the grand prize in the SAVVY Chamber Arts Competition and runner-up in the open division of the M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition, and has commissioned and premiered over 60 new works by some of the most vital composers in the world. They have released three critically acclaimed albums, and have performed, lectured, and given masterclasses throughout the country.