2220 Arts + Archives

The Angel City Jazz Festival returns to 2220 Arts + Archives with a terrific Thursday night double bill. Chiquitamagic is a Colombian artist and producer living in Toronto Canada. Her music maintains her own sense of harmony & feel while toeing the line between EDM, pop, jazz, & techno. GEORGE will be performing music from their latest release, “Looking for Consonance”. Featuring: Anna Webber – tenor saxophone, flute, alto flute Sarah Rossy – voice, synthesizer Chiquita Magic – synthesizers, voice John Hollenbeck – drums, glockenspiel, composition Composer/percussionist and six-time GRAMMY nominee John Hollenbeck is renowned in both jazz and new-music worlds. He has gained widespread recognition as the driving force behind the unclassifiable Claudia Quintet, GEORGE, and the ambitious John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Presented by 2220 Arts & Angel City Arts

Black Editions presents an evening with master guitarist, composer and improviser Marisa Anderson performing music from her Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music. Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her playing is fluid, emotional, and masterful, featuring compositions and improvisations that re-imagine the landscape of American music. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’, and NPR refers to her as among ‘this era’s most powerful players’. Her music has been featured in Rolling Stone, NPR, The New York Times, Pitchfork, the BBC and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Anderson is the recipient of the 2025 Spark Award for Oregon Artists presented by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation. In addition to her solo work, Anderson is sought after as a collaborator and composer. Swallowtail, her second record in duo with drummer Jim White was released May 2024 on Thrill Jockey Records. 2024 also saw the release of the feature film score ‘ A Perfect Day For Caribou’, as well as appearances on records by Charlie Parr, Myriam Gendron and Big|Brave. In addition to multiple solo releases, past projects include 2021’s Lost Futures with guitarist William Tyler, and contributions to recordings by Matmos, Tara Jane O’Neil, Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux, among others. Classically trained, Anderson honed her skills playing in country, jazz and circus bands. Her current work is focused on a mid-20th century archive of recorded music from the Islamic world, Southeast Asia and the Soviet Union. ‘One of the best emotional mediums in the field of solo guitar, Anderson is a master of lovely melancholy.’ - Pitchfork Presented by Black Editions

Hana Stretton is a British/Australian composer, singer and producer known for her remarkably warm production style and uniquely spacious songform. In 2023, her debut album, Soon, earned a beloved status among discerning listeners around the globe. This stunning work caught the ear of one Phil Elverum, who lovingly reissued Soon through his own label in 2024, furthering the album’s reach and deepening its reputation. In the press, Elverum said: “I hear an artist who has entered completely into the stream where creation originates \[…\] Hana Stretton has truly recorded the deep flourishing sound of a quiet listening mind in full blossom.” A fitting testament to a young artist rooted in the stillness of nature. From the dusty Australian bushland on Soon, Stretton transports the listener to the Pacific Ocean on her new album, tiarn (set to be released summer 2026). Shifting gradually like a shoreline, her new compositions reveal welcomed hints of classical and electronic flourishes. tiarn will be released independently with vinyl editions through PW Elverum & Sun (North America), brierfield flood press (Australia) and Lima Limo (Europe/UK). Mary Sea is the muse of Charley based in Los Angeles CA. Began as a collaboration with experimental recording engineer Marta Salogni in London, shoegaze folk and underground dream pop leaning into ambience, field recordings, drones and layered vocal melodies. Featuring varied collaboration, including percussionist composer Valentina Magaletti and Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab. Presented by 2220 Arts.

Join us on the afternoon of October 18th for music, textual performance, film and video curated by Rebecca Baron and Andrew Maxwell in collaboration with Wild Up and additional performers. We'll present works by Madeline Gins, Charles Ives, Cauleen Smith, Bertholt Brecht, Straub-Huillet and others. @SEA is a durational “live magazine” presented on Sunday afternoons and organized around a single thematic word. During Democracy Sessions, 2220 Arts + Archives and Wild Up take on the theme of "DEMOCRACY". Presented by Wild Up, PRB + 2220 Arts

UPEND presents an evening featuring MSHR and The Tenses, two creative partnerships entwined in the story of Portland, Oregon’s fecund underground. ~ MSHR touch down in L.A. with the latest iteration of a live sound-sculpture cycle, performing on a menagerie of fantastical instruments of their own creation that can emit (and respond to) light, audio signal, and data. Through custom circuitry and software the duo coax a wild electronic stew of chirp, click, pulse, zap, and pow, enveloping the audience in an intermedia drama. MSHR is a collective comprised of Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper. THE TENSES – the smoked-out duo of Ju Suk Reet Meate & Oblivia – again descend from the Pacific Northwest to offer us a slice of sublime subterranean Americana. Eerie mindscapes made spontaneously from crackles of found sound enmeshed with surf guitar and horn play, or whatever suits the day. The pair are, of course, key figures of SMEGMA, the Los Angeles Free Music Society-affiliated collective of avant agitators since all the way back. And sonic action from around the way as Sam Rowell drops a new live rendition of her SPECIAL COLLECTIONS radio project, an interrogation of anomalous audio phenomena from across the electromagnetic spectrum, the built environment, and the natural world. Plus a special solo set from the dean of the scene, JOE POTTS. With a full-on, turn-everything-on aesthetic and an array of chopped electronics, he opens the show sculpting with saturation, charting threshold topographies that approach totality. Presented by UPEND

2220 welcomes a new band featuring four singular artists performing together for only the second time: Max Jaffe (Nels Cline, Delicate Steve) on drums, Tim Dahl (Lydia Lunch, Tyshawn Sorey, Peter Evans) on bass, Jonathon Haffner (Wadada Leo Smith, Jack DeJohnette, Butch Morris) on saxophones, and Nick Reinhart (Tera Melos, Death Grips) on guitar. Vocalist and composer Christina Wheeler begins the night with a solo set. The Quartet is a rare opportunity to see these musicians on the same stage at the same time. As a band, they share a common appetite for risk, unpredictability, and spontaneous composition. First up: composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and multimedia artist Christina Wheeler’s creative practice engages electronics and technology, with sonic forays spanning a myriad of styles and forms. Wheeler blends composed, structured, and improvised electronic music and sound design, drawing from voice, Array mbira, autoharp, QChord, Theremini, synthesizers, sampler, and an array of distinctive instruments. Wheeler has performed and recorded with artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Cale, Laraaji, Roscoe Mitchell, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Matana Roberts, Marc Ribot, Murcof and David Byrne. Presented by 2220 Arts.

KCRW and 2220 Arts presents a night with Holy Sun Opera House and Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs! Holy Sun Opera House creates emotionally engaging and haunting symphonic music embellished by electronics, heavy drums and synthesizers. Led by soprano and drummer Krissy Barker with composer dl Salo, the group features a revolving cast of collaborators, singers and performers. They have been described as “Opera Cult” and as one who would play at the Roadhouse in Twin Peaks. Their debut album, The Holy Sun Opera House, is an etherial journey that blends electro, darkwave and contemporary classical. It has been featured on KCRW and in The Wire Magazine. Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs is a composer working in site-responsive performance, installation, recorded sound, and object-making. Her work has been presented by the LA Phil; Getty Center; ICA, LA; the Broad; MoCA; Hammer Museum; High Desert Test Sites (Joshua Tree); and featured in Artforum.com, Frieze.com, X-TRA, New York Times Magazine and. recently The New York Times. She leads two choral groups and a band called Bouquet, described as “Heady” by Under the Radar Magazine, “Best New Music” by KCRW, and “prismatic…perfection” by KEXP. In 2025, she published new writing in WITCH Anthology edited by Michelle Tea on Dopamine Books, an imprint of Semiotext(e). ~ Image credit: Elizabeth Weinberg Presented by KCRW and 2220 Arts.

Brooklyn-based experimental artist and trumpeter Chris Ryan Williams explores electroacoustic composition, free jazz, and sound installation. His critically acclaimed debut long-play (LP), Odu: Vibration II, is an enveloping, immersive record exploring cavernous resonance and mythic descents into darkness. featuring Chris Ryan Williams - Trumpet & Electronics Kalia Vandever - Trombone & fx Patrick Shiroishi - Saxophone & fx + Kalia Vandever – trombone, vocals In this performance, trombonist and composer Kalia Vandever will perform selections from their latest album Mana, released in June on International Anthem. The heart of Mana sees Vandever shedding new light onto their personal connection to Hawaiian mythology, ancestry and how it relates to their musical expression — a meeting of their familial and professional life that represents a sort of closing of a circle. Mana, which in Hawaiian means “foundational, supernatural, or divine power and strength,” reveals more of their voice and words, drawing from yearning, loss, and bewilderment. Presented by 2220 Arts & Angel City Arts