upcoming events
Welcome Inn Time Machine
Sunday, January 29, 2012
SASSAS transforms Eagle Rock's Welcome Inn into a venue for live performances creating a free, six hour event featuring experimental music originating in Southern California, 1949 - 1977. Micro concerts take place in individual rooms allowing key moments in sound and music history to be experienced simultaneously and sequentially in a single location. Among the 11 works presented: Bruce Nauman's Violin Tuned D.E.A.D., Pauline Oliveros' Sonic Meditations, LAFMS' Pyramid Headphones, and James Tenney's Postal Pieces. A pert of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival
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AD HOC #4: FRED FRITH
Sunday, February 12, 2012
soundShoppe @ Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock is a monthly unstructured sound workshop/noise jam for experimental musicians and sound artists presented by SASSAS and Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock - FREE.
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soundShoppe
Sunday, February 26, 2012
As a songwriter, composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist best known for the reinvention of the electric guitar, "Frith makes music that must count amongst the most powerful and original of the present time" Liberation (France)
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concert archive
Check out our repository of sound. concerts in both audio and video formats recorded over that last 11 years.
audio archive | video archive
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from the archive
featured audio of the week:
sound. @ the schindler house, west hollywood
An Evening of Composers associated with Cold Blue: Michael Jon FInk - June 26, 2004
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featured video of the week:
sound. @ the kings road park pavilion, west hollywood
Wadada Leo Smith - August 28, 2010
recent events
sound. at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook:
Alex Cline, Lady Noise, William Roper
Three Los Angeles area composers / collectives create new work for this uniquie and historivally complex park / preserve.
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AD HOC #3: Tim Feeney, Vic Rawlings and Casey Anderson
SASSAS and Human Resources are pleased to present Tim Feeney and Vic Rawlings, visiting from Boston, and local artist Casey Anderson.
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sound. at the Kings Road Park Pavilion:
John Schneider's Just Guitars
Just Guitars is a program designed for adapted guitars and voice by internationally recognized guitarist and composer John Schneider - FREE.
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sound. at the Kings Road Park Pavilion:
Singing Shape
An exloration of Shape Note singing featuring a free workshop led by Jessica Catron, a tracitional sing faciliated by Laura Boyd and Rick Russell and an alternative sing with compositions by Ezra Buchla, Laura Steenburge, Joyce Lightbody, Stephanie Taylor and Joe Potts.
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sound. at the Schindler House:
The Stephanie Taylor Songbook
sound. returns to the Schindler House for this special premiere event.
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October Listening Party
Bernard Cooper, Scott Grieger and Denise Spampinato at the swank 60's italian style pad of Deborah Irmas in Westwood
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fundraising
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Visit the SASSAS Shop and get some great merch for you and your friends and support SASSAS! Including our special line of Joe Potts 10th Anniversary t-shirt collection. |
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about us
The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that serves as a catalyst for the creation, presentation, and recognition of experimental art and sound practices in the Greater Los Angeles area.
SASSAS is supported in part through grants from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, a special donation from Catasonic Studios and the generous contributions of our members. For further information on SASSAS: www.sassas.org or contact us at 323.960.5723.