wasteLAnd

On May 21, in the Experimental Theater of the Conrad Prebys Music Center in La Jolla, California, The Los Angeles based wasteLAnd ensemble premiered six new works for instruments and electronics by Matthew Henson, Roger Reynolds, Jonny Stallings, Rand Steiger, Alex Taylor and Ni Zheng as part of UCSD's participation in the ACTOR Composer-performer Orchestration Research Ensembles (CORE) project.

wasteLAnd was founded by, and includes many alumni of the UCSD program including Rachel Beetz, Nicholas Deyoe, Dustin Donahue, Todd Mollenberg, and Ashley Walters.

wasteLAnd performs New Works for Ensemble and Electronics

Program:

Rand Steiger: Liminalities

Alex Taylor: Adjustments

Jonny Stallings: Cañonazo 3

Matthew Henson: Armature

Roger Reynolds: Co-Existence

Ni Zheng: pleasure of refusal

Performers:

wasteLAnd

Nicholas Deyoe, conductor

Rachel Beetz, flute

Brian Walsh, bass clarinet

Mattie Barbier, trombone

Dustin Donahue, percussion

Todd Moellenberg, piano

Adrianne Pope, violin

Ashley Walters, cello

The concert was live-streamed and will be available for streaming soon at the following link https://music-cms.ucsd.edu/concerts/live.html.