The Audubon Center (photo by Bella Porter)
Friends!
We’ll see you on the blessed evening of December 5th to celebrate the long awaited debut release from Tate EC. A meditation on double bass, simultaneously impressionistic and architectural, Tate’s In Mind finds nuance in sparse and evocative arrangements. This is a music that speaks to the spirit and we’re so grateful that Leaving Records is bringing this one into the world.
Qur’an Shaheed opens. Gay Felony DJ’s. Sound by Mobius Acoustics. Live broadcast via LA Community Radio. All underneath the sycamore, sages, toyon, and moonrise in the timeless courtyard of the Audubon Center at Debs Park. Listen closely and you might even hear from one of our owl neighbors. Bring a blanket or a camping chair, and we’ll have extra chairs available for those who need.
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A gentle reminder to please leave your furry friends at home. The Audubon Center cannot allow dogs onsite as this is an active habitat restoration site home to many native critters. Thank you for understanding!
Tate EC is a Los Angeles–based double bassist, composer, and cultural producer known for championing the city's experimental and underground arts communities as a co-founder of Living Earth and Events Director at dublab.
Trained at UC Berkeley and CNMAT, he spent years after university finding his way back to the double bass through production, film composition, and eventual immersion in LA's experimental music scene. That journey informs In Mind, his debut solo EP: sparse, patient, and quietly hopeful music that relishes in sound rather than technique, combining improvisation with minimalist processes to find stillness in a stream of bow against string.
Photo by Noah Klein from a Living Earth gathering at Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden
Qur'an Shaheed is an experimental pianist, poet, singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. Trained extensively in jazz, classical and contemporary music, her sound is innovative and personal, incorporating elements of improvisation as well as neo-classical and neo-soul techniques. Shaheed also composes film scores, focusing on projects that reflect on society, history and unifying acts. Her most recent album, Pulse, is out now with Leaving Records.
Qur’an also guides our free monthly yoga class at Arlington Garden, every 2nd Sunday underneath the olive trees.
Photo by Sam Lee from a Living Earth gathering at Hollyhock House
For 20+ years the Audubon Center at Debs Park has been a beacon for how conservation organizations can work within our cities to cultivate a deeper relationship between people and place. Through monthly hikes, restoration days, bird walks, field trips, movie nights, community festivals, and hosting gatherings like these each and every month, the Audubon Center at Debs Park has played an essential role in building a more diverse and inclusive conservation movement here in Los Angeles.
We’re so grateful for the humans of the Audubon Center, the advocacy that they champion in dialogue with local culture and native ecology, and it is an absolute honor to gather here together on the 3rd Saturday of (almost) every month in addition to the occasional courtyard rental. Since 2022 we’ve hosted dozens of gatherings with the Audubon Center, including friends such as Carlos Niño, San Cha, Def Sound, Openness Trio, Chuck Johnson, NYALLAH, Walt McClements, Annabelle Freedman, Modern Biology, and many more.