Join us for an ambient music exhibit exploring spatial sound

Starting Thursday, June 9 through Sunday, June 12 visitors will be able to experience a quadraphonic sound exhibit at Descanso Gardens. The exhibit will take place during regular visiting hours and will include pre-recorded works by various artists that will play on rotation through a specially designed sound system that will allow the public to immerse in a sonic experience while enjoying their surroundings.

Main Lawn:
Meditative music brings a new sound element to this garden space
Visitors are invited to explore The Centering Center’s woven pavilion – a social space for interaction and reflection
Storytelling Workshop with Tina Orduno Calderon on Thursday, June 9 from 11am–noon
Soundbaths on Thursday and Friday, June 9 and 10 from 5–6:30pm
Four Quadrant Induction Meditation by Marcos Lutyens on Sunday, June 12 from 11am–noon

Rose Garden:
Quadraphonic soundscapes and other compositions

Free with admission, no advance registration required

For more details visit Descanso Gardens

The Tonalism exhibit will also offer the Centering Center: a dedicated area to stay, listen to the sounds, join together in community, walk out into the environment with an inner strength that comes from pausing, from reflecting. The area will include commissioned work by the musician Ki Oni, plus various workshops and activities.

For the quadraphonic sound systems of the exhibit, dublab is using its own technology that was developed in collaboration with Kamran V (CyKiK). QUARK was developed through a grant by The National Endowment For The Arts and is an open source technology that allows for the distribution of sound in surround through four speaker systems.

The exhibit will include pre-recorded works by
Suzanne Ciani – LIVE Quadraphonic

Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples of the Moon: Revisited

Patrick Gleeson – FOUREVER

Craig Leon – Nommos 2022 (40th Anniversary Dolby Atmos Version)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri – I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon

dublab + Bedrock.LA – decades ( in space )
Including collaborations by, Emily Kokal (Warpaint) + Suzanne Ciani, , Shruti Kumar + The Koreatown Oddity, Dntel (The Postal Service) + Mia Doi Todd, Laura Escudé + Sudan Archives, Alex Lilly + Kolars, Drum & Lace + Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Randy Randall (No Age) + Flula Borg (The Suicide Squad), Beatie Wolfe + Laraaji & Arji OceAnanda, Jeremiah Chiu + Sam Prekop (The Sea and Cake), Daedelus + Molly Lewis (World Champion Whistler), Erik Hall – Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich)

Geneva Skeen

Richard Fearless – Future Rave Memory

Steve Ellison (featuring Eric Dahlman) – The air tastes like sugar

Ed Michel’s Impulse Records archive
Including work by, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Michael White, Keith Jarrett, $3.33, George Jensen

…and interstitial quadraphonic sound by KamranV

AND JOIN US FOR THE TONALISM LIVE HAPPENING ON JUNE 11 6pm-1am

Poster and artwork by Radha Vishnubhotla