Modern Composition
07.15.21
Modern Composition L.A. is dublab’s cross-genre radio series examining the dynamic, new music emerging from Los Angeles. Each installment focuses on an individual composer’s contribution to the city’s fertile sonic landscape. Through in-depth interviews, illuminating recordings, and the premiere of a new work by the featured composer, we illustrate how these distinct artists are shaping Los Angeles and how the city has influenced them. Modern Composition L.A. surveys the wide-spectrum music endemic to Los Angeles—sketching a panoramic view of this ever-evolving creative climate.
On this episode of Modern Composition L.A., host Frosty visits Sarah Davachi’s home studio to explore the artist’s intimate relationship with musical instruments and how Los Angeles’ has helped shape the contours of her creative practice. Davachi will unveil “Composition of Flowers,” a new work to cap off the episode.
Tracklist:
Sarah Davachi – Waking
Tomaso Albinoni – Adagio for Strings and Organ in G Minor
Early Music Consort of London – Chanson (Hellas! Amour) by Guillaume le Heurteur
G.I. Gurdjieff – June 15, 1949
James Tenney – For percussion perhaps, or (night)
JD Emmanuel – Attaining Peace
Mike Oldfield – Peace Demo A
Brian Eno – The Big Ship
Sarah Davachi – Mordents
Sarah Davachi – Matins
Sarah Davachi – Heliotrope
Steve Hackett – The Hermit
Genesis – Dusk
Ennio Morricone – Barbablu
King Crimson – Book of Saturday
Pink Floyd – Fat Old Sun
Sarah Davachi – Composition of Flowers (Premiere)
Modern Composition L.A. is made possible through a generous grant by the California Arts Council.
You can hear the entire series unfold at: moderncomposition.la.
