About the Event

DC-based record label Outside Time embraces experimental sounds and showcases experimental and immersive audio art that often requires close listening. For this performance, Outside Time presents an evening of curated music, featuring three of its artists whose compositions transcend the typical concert experience.

Alma Laprida’s art sits at the intersection of sound art, experimental music and instrument-based performance, and is informed by her experience with electronic circuitry, synthesis, acousmatic music, improvisation and sound art; her interest in the perception of sound; and her understanding of sound as an acoustic, psychoacoustic and cultural phenomenon. She is best known for her work with the tromba marina, a rare string instrument mostly used between the Middle Ages and the Baroque eras in Europe.

Composer and flutist Rachel Beetz creates music that engages an embodied presence by creating an interplay between the sonic subconscious and environment. She is particularly influenced by her surroundings, including the sounds of machines, fans and water, histories of objects and places, interpersonal collaboration and her synesthesia between sound and touch. Her music “suggests the action of supernatural entities,” (The Quietus), while also being a “soundtrack for a cooking show turned film noir” (Best of Experimental Bandcamp).

Natalie Chami is a Canadian-born Lebanese American who adopted the TALsounds moniker in 2009 for her explorations in drone, ambient, and improvisational music. Over the past 16 years, Chami has built a multifaceted career as a solo artist, first in Chicago and now in the Washington, D.C. area. Through her synth work, operatic vocals, and nuanced sculpting of mood and atmosphere, her music balances the deeply personal with the transportive. Her performances, whether grand or intimate, reveal a constant evolution through improvisation and collaboration.

This concert is part of the 10th International Conference on Music and Minimalism hosted by the School of Music and the Society for Minimalist Music. Gathering more than fifty scholars from around the globe, the weekend of events includes research presentations, keynote lectures, performances, and an exhibit and sound installation, with support from Arts for All, ARHU, and Clarice Presents. 

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