At Descanso Gardens, Christopher Rountree and Anna Bulbrook follow the success of the L.A. Phil's Fluxus festival with the avant-garde series 'Silence.'
Christopher Rountree, the noted champion of L.A.'s new music community, has yet another project: A concert series at Descanso Gardens, where his roots go deep.
That loosely describes Low Leaf, who comes across as a kind of medievalist out of the future. She accompanied herself on an amplified troubadour harp and with an electronic setup that allowed her parallel route to be from floatingly meditative to beat-driven danceable. She also provided pleasing harp atmospherics to a recitation by Saul Williams, a former rapper who has moved into all-embracing, politically pointed poetics.
In the middle of all this came the least definable, most ritualistic exercise of all, Filipino composer and theorist Jonas Baes’ “Patangis-Buwaya.” Four bamboo flutes, along with assorted percussion, have the job of “making the crocodile weep.” While blowing on their long tubes, the performers break down into violent coughing, leading a friend to think of this as a response to vaping. Every milieu has its deteriorating sky.
“How am I going to make it right?” Folick had asked in her first song, and all continued to ask in their way through the night. No one knows the answer, but the modest “Silence at Descanso” proposal from Bulbrook and Rountree may be don’t fence listeners in. Each subsequent program will offer something different.
May I make a further modest proposal to these welcoming gardens. In the spirit of “Silence at Descanso,” please don’t fence us in. The gates open a generous 45 minutes before the concert. It would be wonderful to have even more time to explore, get lost and get in touch with a listening sky that, even deteriorating, remains our greatest source of wonder.7:30 p.m. Sept. 21 and 28
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