In 2018, to celebrate the illumination of the Triforium, the Triforium Project had commissioned new original works from contemporary musicians; each artist was given the prompt to create a “polyphonoptic” composition at the intersection of light and sound. The program was co-curated by Yatch and dublab
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released October 19, 2018
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$3.33 - Celestial Spam
Inspired by the relation between the Triforium and the use of polyphonoptic communication in the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Celia Hollander’s "Celestial Spam" imagines a 2018 where the Triforium was originally designed to communicate with extraterrestrials and has been dutifully relaying cosmic messages since 1975. In this present, its civic function has become routine and mundane, no longer communicating distillations of humanity's most dire expression but backlogged with spam, gossip, advertising and other seemingly insignificant transmissions.
Ben Babbitt — the Pull of the Swerve
Ben Babbitt is an artist and musician based in Los Angeles. Since 2013, he has provided the music and sound design for the episodic videogame Kentucky Route Zero, and recently completed the score to Amanda Kramer’s debut feature film Paris Window. He has also toured internationally as a collaborator and is working on a batch of new solo releases for 2019.
Ben Browning — Light Minded People
Longtime member of Australian electronic act Cut Copy, Ben Browning created this piece using sounds from an early 1990s Korg synthesizer famous for its ‘New Age’ presets. Says Browning, “I sculpted a track that evokes a kind of nostalgic optimism and pays homage to composers of that era.”
George Jensen — Zenith
George Jensen is an experimental sound artist working in synthesized tonal waves. “Zenith” is a transmission of tantric voice, masculine and feminine aspects of divine energy. A sound that could unite a web of universal consciousness. This piece calls to mind images of a sacred place, not unlike some church, on a distant planet, which plays these sounds in response to receiving Young’s imagined astronomical beacon, ringing out at intervals spread across time.
John Tejada — Triforium
John Tejada is a Vienna-born, Los Angeles-raised electronic composer. Tejada’s output began in 1994 and never let up, including four albums for Kompakt, plus releases on Pokerflat, Cocoon, Plug Research, Seventh City, Playhouse, Defected, and his own label since 1996, Palette Recordings. Tejada’s latest venture, Wajatta, a new musical collaboration with international star Reggie Watts, released their debut album in 2018.
Mary Lattimore – Prince Never Came Back to Sheridan
Mary Lattimore is a harpist living in Los Angeles. She experiments with her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp and effects. Her solo debut, “The Withdrawing Room”, was released in 2013 on Desire Path Recordings. Her most recent album, At The Dam, was released in March 2016 on Ghostly International.
Scott Gilmore — Young’s Transmission
Scott Gilmore is a composer and multi-instrumentalist living and working in Los Angeles. In his music, he explores composition through the use of synthesized and acoustic sounds, using melodic passages, harmonies, and counterpoint to create a rich texture and a sense of forward motion.
Secret Circuit — Triforium Music
E Ruscha V, also known as Secret Circuit, is a Los Angeles based musician and artist. He has released many albums using a mixture of electronic instruments with a human feel. For this piece he firmly envisioned the Triforium as a sort of standing totem of the mind. How would it speak? What would you hear?
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Since 1999, we have been broadcasting wide-spectrum music
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Live recording of GLK's string-laden, 15-piece band at the Mayan Theatre in LA, right after his near-death accident. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 19, 2015