First comes tuning meditation. Musicians and audience members alike sing and listen to the sounds of their voices filling the air. Then comes a jazz number with a rhythmic twist. Read more...
Photo: Omni-Musicality Group, a world music ensemble at the Herb Alpert School of Music, will perform at the Fowler Museum Thursday. The group meshes improvisations and sound recordings to combine genres and styles. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
Listening to One Direction’s aptly named album “Four” feels like being the star of a playfully romantic music video. The pop band gained popularity when it won third place on the hit British television series “The X-Factor,” where the members met. Read more...
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Bohemian artists and beatniks flocked to San Francisco in droves during the 1950s and 1960s. At the height of this wave of migration, legendary avant-garde filmmaker Bruce Conner made the city his home and began creating filmic assemblages that juxtaposed snippets of archived footage set to music. Read more...
Photo: “Crossroads,” a 1976 film directed by Bruce Conner, utilizes footage of nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. The film, scored by Patrick Gleeson and Terry Riley, will be screened Tuesday at the James Bridges Theater as part of Melnitz Movies. (Magnolia Editions)
There’s something about the British Isles that consistently produces musical greatness; it is inherent to the country, its people and its culture. Popular culture has been defined by bands and artists from the UK; they have consistently created new genres and musical subcultures – from the Beatles’ psychedelic rock in the ’60s all the way through to the explosion of dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Read more...
UCLA alumnus Carlo Nick Paredes’ passion for beatboxing began early, in middle school, after he watched one of his classmates trying to lay down a beat on the playground. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus and beatboxer Carlo Nick Paredes (right) will perform at Fowler Museum’s “Family Jam: City Sounds’ Beat Boxing” on Sunday. (Courtesy of Arkae Tuazon)
Models will walk down the runway appearing inside out, with the body’s anatomical parts on full display. This year marks the first annual Anatomy Fashion Show, coed pre-med fraternity Phi Delta Epsilon’s philanthropic event, on Sunday in Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s coed pre-med fraternity Phi Delta Epsilon will hold its Anatomy Fashion Show on Sunday in Ackerman Grand Ballroom. (Bijun Liang/Daily Bruin)
Classical KUSC-FM (91.5) plays Antonin Dvorak’s “Carnival Overture,” performed by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, amidst the traffic of the 405 freeway. UCLA alumnus Jason Hong listened to Dvorak’s song every day on his way to UCLA. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music alumnus Jason Hong recently won second place in The American Prize for orchestral conducting. (Courtesy of rr jones)
