2018 Toy Piano Festival Residency
January 2018 || St. Petersburg, FL
2018 Toy Piano Festival Residency
January 2018 || St. Petersburg, FL
Toy Piano Resident Artist Concerts
January 6, 2018 || Boyd Hill Nature Preserve || St. Petersburg, FL
Toy Piano Resident Artist Outreach
January 3, 2018 || James Weldon Johnson Community Library || St. Petersburg, FL
Kepler–19 @ Pete’s Candy Store [2018.03.09]
l’Ao returns to Pete’s Candy Store with special guest Jessica Bowers for an expanded performance of Kepler–19, for benjolin, sequenced gates, trombone, and mezzo-soprano. Kepler-19 is part of our Photon Ecstasy project. Friday, March 9, 2018, 9:00pm Pete’s Candy Store 709 […]
Biophonic Beats @ Pine Box Rock Shop [2018.01.27]
l’Ao brings Biophonic Beats, for gated benjolin and trombone, to Pine Box Rock Shop. Come out for beats and vegan treats. Biophonic Beats is a simulacrum of the interlocking sonic umwelten created by different species of vocalizing non-human animals. In any given environment, the […]
Toy Piano Resident Artist Outreach [2018.01.03]
l’Ao will be unveiling our new performance piece, Biophonic Beats, as part of our residency at the Boyd Hill Nature Preserve for the 2018 Florida International Toy Piano Festival. Biophonic Beats is a simulacrum of the interlocking sonic umwelten created by different species […]
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Trappist–1 is composed to activate the acoustic properties of the performance space. We create ringing clouds of sound that resonate with the room. These clouds fade into silences, allowing for the interpenetration of the sonic environment, here the groaning of […]
November 18, 2017 || Pete’s Candy Store || Brooklyn, NY
October 20, 2017 || Flower Cat HQ || NYC
October 2017 || Birmingham, AL
Photon Ecstasy @ Emmet O’Neal Library
October 14, 2017 || The Emmet O’Neal Library || Birmingham, AL
Photon Ecstasy @ The Gin Palace
October 10, 2017 || The Gin Palace || Tuscaloosa, AL
September 22, 2017 || Bargemusic || Brooklyn, NY
Kelson Productions provides audiovisual and production management services for live events of all kinds, for clients in education, industry, theater, fashion, non-profit, and the arts. Whether it’s a live concert, a gala dinner, a panel discussion, a fashion show, […]
September 15, 2017 || Flower Cat HQ || NYC
Payton MacDonald (b. 1974, Idaho Falls, Idaho) is a composer/improviser/percussionist/singer/educator. MacDonald was a founding member of new-music chamber orchestra superstars Alarm Will Sound and has also toured internationally as a solo marimbist and a member of various chamber ensembles including […]
September 9, 2017 || ArtsRiot || Burlington, VT
All Performances
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MOTHER will premiere at the 2018 Florida International Toy Piano Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida, where l’Ao has been selected as the 2018 Toy Piano Pioneer Artists in Residence at the Boyd Hill Nature Preserve. If there is magic […]
Photon Ecstasy @ Pete’s Candy Store
l’Ao is presenting the New York premiere of Photon Ecstasy at Pete’s Candy Store. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we will be joined by New Renaissance artist Elizabeth A. Baker and percussionist Payton MacDonald for a performance that spans two sets. […]
World Premiere of Melissa Grey’s “to…return” featuring David Morneau, trombone Performed by CompCord String Orchestra, Arkady Leytush conductor, as part of Composers Concordance ‘Concertos & Stuff’ concert @ Le Poisson Rouge, NYC 05 November 2017 video by Eddie Papetti width=”300″ […]
Soft Series Concert no.10 – Lost by Streams
l’Artiste ordinaire welcomes Eve Beglarian & Will Lang Friday, October 20, 2017 8:00pm (doors open @ 7:30) @ NOMADLOFT – by invitation only Program I know who you are now music by l’Ao & Eve Beglarian performed by l’Ao I am lost […]
Photon Ecstasy at The Emmet O’Neal Library
l’Ao visits Birmingham, AL for a performance of Photon Ecstasy at The Emmet O’Neal Library. Photon Ecstasy at The Emmet O’Neal Library Saturday, October 14, 2017, 7:00pm The Emmet O’Neal Library, 50 Oak Street, Mountain Brook, AL details coming soon [photo […]
l’Ao visits Holland Hopson for a performance of Photon Ecstasy in Tuscaloosa, AL. Photon Ecstasy in Tuscaloosa Tuesday, October 10, 2017 details coming soon [photo by Karjaka Studios] Update Performance video: width=”300″ height=”150″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=”allowfullscreen”>
Soft Series is a concert series dedicated to presenting soft premieres of new music in an intimate environment with lively pre- and post-concert conversation. We have hosted a performance of Eve Beglarian’s I am lost by streams that featured trombonist […]
Photon Ecstasy is an endless composition that engages music, sound, interactive light, and potential literature. Designed to function as a matrix, its modular sections telescope to embrace collaborators and architectural spaces. Within this structure we explore and invent a range of composition […]
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