Pool Up! We’re closing out our summer season in the water with a collaborative performance from our amphibious friends Celia Hollander & Evan Shornstein (sometimes known as Photay) atop a historic arts ranch that has fueled and inspired radical imaginations worldwide since the 1940s.
We’ll also have an underwater speaker all setup for that deep (end) listening, but no worries if you’re not up for a swim, as we’ll also have our PA poolside for the sunbather in all of us. We just ask to keep splashing and cannonballs to an ambient level, so as not to damage any of our equipment, and to please leave your pet friends at home this evening.
Location and directions will be shared upon RSVP & capacity for this evening is limited so we do recommend making your weekend plans soon! There is a .4mi uphill walk from parking to the pool (lower ranch to upper ranch). Please wear shoes that you feel comfortable walking in & also feel free to reach out if you have accessibility concerns and need an easier accommodation. Swimming begins at 5p with Celia & Evan sharing sounds shortly after 6p. We’ve set a $20-40 sliding scale ticket to keep the evening accessible and cover costs while offering the option to send further donations towards the ranch, the artists, and the series if it’s within yr means. Big appreciation and we’ll see you on the mountain!
Celia Hollander is an LA based electronic music composer, producer, performer and artist. Her discography features releases on Leaving Records, Recital and Noumenal Loom and she has performed or installed works at venues including 2220 Arts & Archives (LA), Grace Cathedral (SF), Basilica Hudson (NY), MOCA (LA) and more. She is currently an educator at the Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts and she has created original scores for film, TV, live performance and VR.
From the perspective of people who categorize music by genres and types, Evan Shornstein, better-known under his production moniker Photay, has created lots of different kinds of sounds over the past decade. But if you’ve listened closely to Shornstein’s prodigious output, you know that separating and classifying the work is actually contrary to the energy of his music. That what on-the-surface may lazily appear as differences, is actually brought together by a shared sonic warmth, a hardware pastoralism at play. Whatever category he engages, Evan makes outdoor music under the spell of the elements, for the purpose of different human movements — some physical, some spiritual, some emotional, some philosophical.