About this Event
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Motivated by the sociocultural and economic impacts that the Palisades and Altadena fires of January 2025 had on the greater Los Angeles area, Firebirth: Kindling the Sounds of Resilience in Los Angeles will offer a community-oriented space for the community to critically reflect on the sounds of LA after the fires. The closing concert will feature original pieces and ruminations from locals artists, culminating with a piece for violin and piano called Firebirth, a new composition for violin and piano, composed and performed by Will Rand with violinist Grace M. Alexander. Firebirth is a part of a commission project entitled “Resilience Sounds” intended to explore the relationship between music, the natural world, and communities within it.
The gallery will feature a from trees that were damaged around the Eaton Fire alongside listening and viewing stations for works from local artists, including the .
Our roundtable guests include (KCRW), (UCLA Musicology), (UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability), and (Altadena Town Council, Caltech).
The closing concert will feature works made in response to the 2025 fires from UCLA students and faculty as well as community members, including the , field recordist , visual artist , and Caltech student Maya Yie. The evening will culminate with the Los Angeles premiere of ’s “Firebirth” with violinist .
Music offers a way for people to gather to reflect on their shared experiences and process difficult moments in life. It also offers audiences a chance to reconsider how they want to relate with these difficult experiences moving forward. Ultimately, this offers a space for listening, reflection, and new sounding practices for a community deeply impacted by wildfire.
This event will also be taped live for a podcast episode for the organization, EarthStory, which seeks to raise awareness of the interconnections between living beings through ecologically-inspired storytelling, song and communal gathering.
About “Firebirth”: The piece itself was inspired by indigenous cultural fire practices, and through this event, also serves as a point of inspiration for living composers and artists. The piece invites the audience to consider their own relationship with fire and offers a study on how music can be a conduit between ecological understandings of fire and humankind’s lived experience with fire that threatens life.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lani Hall Theater, 445 Charles E Young Drive East, Los Angeles, United States
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