Eve Matin & Friends at Listen To Music (Photo by Ben Wilson)
🎶 Listen To Music Outside In The Daylight Under A Tree 🌳
Write it down, May 23rd, we’ll see you back underneath the great oak of La Tierra de la Culebra Park for another round of Leaving Records’ deep spirited community collaboration and collective manifestation. This month highlights our very own Nina Keith and her stellar & stunning mythology of Periphone. If harmonious and intricate sound installation work featuring collaborations among many friends is especially your jam, you’re rllllllly going to want to pull up. An essential Los Angeles afternoon.
Nina Keith is a Philadelphia-raised, LA-based musician and composer whose work spans contemporary classical, ambient, and experimental genres. She gained recognition with her debut album MARANASATI 19111 (2019), praised for its inventive use of woodwinds, piano, and field recordings.
Keith’s music explores themes of memory, ecology, and personal history, balancing delicate arrangements with bold experimentalism. Her live performances often feature immersive multimedia elements, blending acoustic and electronic instruments in deeply emotive presentations. 2025 saw Nina on tour with Rachika Nayar to share their collaborative project Disiniblud & here in LA Nina largely working on bringing Periphone to life, film / tv / video game scores, and co-stewards Living Earth.
La Tierra de la Culebra was founded in the early 1990s as a response to the uprising that was spurred by the beating of Rodney King by LAPD. Artist Tricia Ward received a grant by Los Angeles’s Department of Cultural Affairs to create a healing space and hoped to create a park where she would not only showcase her sculptural work, but cultivate a place to experience nature. Reclaiming a lot just off of the 110, this park was built by neighbors working in community & for years was stewarded by the founding collective under the organization of Ward’s non-profit.
Today, this beloved pocket park is still loved and cared for by and in community. Largely stewarded by volunteer neighbors and Highland Park residents under the banner of La Culebra Action League, there’s puppet shows, live music, gardening, markets, and lots of love and care for maintaining this important community built green space.
(photo by Samanta Helou Hernandez)