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Members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society testing Pyramid Headphones, 1976
Members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society testing Pyramid Headphones, 1976

Photography © 1976 Fredrik Nilsen, All Rights Reserved

Event Images

  • The ♀ Ensemble performing Teach Yourself to Fly,1970
    The ♀ Ensemble performing Teach Yourself to Fly, 1970

    Courtesy of the Pauline Oliveros Collection, Mandeville Special Collections Library, Univerisity of California, San Diego

  • Bob Wilhite in concert, A Telephone Concert, 1975
    Bob Wilhite in concert, A Telephone Concert, 1975

    Photo by Gary Beydler/Jerry Byrd

  • Bob Wilhite in concert, A Telephone Concert, 1975
    Bob Wilhite in concert, A Telephone Concert, 1975

    Photo by Gary Beydler/Jerry Byrd

  • Bob Wilhite in concert, A Telephone Concert, 1975
    Bob Wilhite in concert, A Telephone Concert, 1975

    Photo by Gary Beydler/Jerry Byrd

  • Postal Pieces by James Tenney, 1965-71
    Postal Pieces by James Tenney, 1965-71

    © SonicArt Editions. Used by permission of Smith Publications, Balrimore, MD

  • Postal Pieces by James Tenney, 1965-71
    Postal Pieces by James Tenney, 1965-71

    © SonicArt Editions. Used by permission of Smith Publications, Balrimore, MD

  • Postal Pieces by James Tenney, 1965-71
    Postal Pieces by James Tenney, 1965-71

    © SonicArt Editions. Used by permission of Smith Publications, Balrimore, MD

  • Postal Pieces by James Tenney, 1965-71
    Postal Pieces by James Tenney, 1965-71

    © SonicArt Editions. Used by permission of Smith Publications, Balrimore, MD

  • Postal Pieces by James Tenney, 1965-71
    Postal Pieces by James Tenney, 1965-71

    © SonicArt Editions. Used by permission of Smith Publications, Balrimore, MD

Welcome Inn Time Machine

Sunday, January 29, 2012, 4:00–10:00 p.m.
Details: Street parking along Colorado Blvd.; additional parking at Bank of America, approximately 6 blocks west on Colorado Blvd. - Please do not use the ATM parking spaces. When parking, please be respectful of the neighborhood and do not block driveways or use the parking of local businesses.
Admission: Free; no reservations required.
Location: Welcome Inn Eagle Rock, 1840 W. Colorado Bl., Los Angeles, CA 90041 Map

The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) transforms Eagle Rock’s Welcome Inn into a venue for live performances, by creating a free, six hour event featuring experimental music originating in Southern California between 1949 and 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 more than one dozen works presented: Bruce Nauman’s Violin Tuned D.E.A.D., Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations, L.A. Free Music Society’s (LAFMS) Pyramid Headphones, James Tenney’s Postal Pieces, and David Ornette Cherry and poet Kamau Daaood revisiting Something Else, The Music of Ornette Coleman.

SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES

*The Calder Quartet, here but not there; there but not here, based on Arnold Schoenberg, Entwürfe zu einem Streichquartett [Draft of a String Quartet] (1949); 6:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm
*Free Jazz: Something Else! based on Something Else!!!!; 4:30pm, 5:30pm
*John Cage, Variations IV (1963), continuous
*Anita Pace, Field Activity, 2012 (inspired by documents describing Merce Cunningham’s Field Dances performance, 1963), 4:30pm, 5:30pm, 6:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm
*James Tenney, Postal Pieces (1965 – 1971), continuous on the half hour
*Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Meditations (1971), continuous, quarter past and 45 past the hour
*Bruce Nauman, Violin Tuned D.E.A.D. (1969) , on the hour starting at 5:00pm
*Currents Series at the Theater Vanguard (1973 – 1978), continuous
*Robert Wilhite, Bob Wilhite In Concert (1975), continuous
*The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), Pyramid Headphones (1976)

For more information, go to http://www.sassas.org/welcomeinn

Click here to download the brochure.

Welcome Inn Time Machine is produced by Cindy Bernard in collaboration with Jessica Catron and the SASSAS Board of Directors. Project curators are Cindy Bernard, Scott Benzel, Lenczycki, Renee Petropoulos, Joseph Potts, and Dawson Weber.

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Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound