Paradise Laboratory

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents the first live concert of its Paradise Laboratory series, a collaboration between Korean wind player gamin and sitar player Galen Passen. This program features three sections:  an improvised duet, live scoring to visual projections, and a musical dialog with text by playwright Mia Chung. The intimate concert will […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents DERELICT PORTENT, a solo music and multimedia concert by Jay Afrisando. Also on the bill are gamin (Korean winds) and Okvan Pramudya (percussion). Derelict Portent showcases Jay Afrisando's works in music composition and multimedia arts aimed to raise the awareness of aural diversity (diversity of hearing profiles), acoustic […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents LOOKING–MIND, a unique and ground-breaking performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations and improvisation by Seoul-based pianist Hyo Jee Kang in conjunction with the real-time visual presentation of data of her brain activity as measured by a functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) device while she plays. The program will include a […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) invites you to join in a unique deep listening experience with the jazz quartet Elsa Nilsson: Thyme and the poetry of Maya Angelou on July 31, 2022 at 7pm in the award-winning White Room at CRS. Many species use sound to communicate. Elsa Nilsson, Santiago Leibson, Marty Kenney and Rodrigo […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) invites you to the next installment of its Paradise Laboratory concert series, Hell in Paradise, featuring music that that blurs the lines between traditional and experimental performed by Asian Cultural Council 2023 Winter Fellow Li-Chin Li (Chinese sheng and electronics) with special guest California Institute of the Arts faculty […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents the next installment of its Paradise Laboratory concert series, featuring ambient, atmospheric, improvised music by trio Ayumi Ishito (tenor saxophone and electronics), Rema Hasumi (synthesizer) & Yuko Togami (drums), with special guest the legendary Tamio Shiraishi (alto sax, electronics) who is known for his frenetic bursts of high-pitched […]

CRS invites you to the next program of its Paradise Laboratory experimental music series, featuring violinist Sita Chay of South Korea and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi of Japan. Chay and Takeishi, both now based in NYC, frequently perform together as part of Shoko Nagai's trio Tokala. On this occasion they will explore the lineage of Korean […]

CRS invites you to the next program of its Paradise Laboratory experimental music series, this time with music by Cheryl Pyle (flutes), Rema Hasumi (synthesizer), and Yuko Togami (drums) inside the cocoon-like White Room at CRS.

Davis and Benedict will present a set of new compositions for saxophone and baritone voice. Honing their unique duo sound intermittently over the past five years, their connection is rooted in the system of groove and line-inspired improvisation.

CRS invites you to the next program of its Paradise Laboratory experimental music series, this time with music by Cheryl Pyle (flutes), Rema Hasumi (synthesizer), and Yuko Togami (drums) inside the cocoon-like White Room at CRS.

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents the next installment of its Paradise Laboratory concert series featuring improvisation and songs by Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), Shoko Nagai(piano/accordion) & Sita Chay (violin) with friends Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) & Yuka Yamamoto(vocals/ukelele) of The Fugu Plan, walking the fine line between sacred music and the avant-garde. PARADISE LABORATORY […]

CRS invites you to the next program of its Paradise Laboratory experimental music series, this time with music by Cheryl Pyle (flutes), Rema Hasumi (synthesizer), and Yuko Togami (drums) inside the cocoon-like White Room at CRS.