Southern Exposure New Music Series: The Living Earth Show

These free concerts are often standing room only and early arrival is suggested for seating. The Living Earth Show, a guitar and percussion duo from the California Bay Area, won USC’s national 2017 Savvy Chamber Competition with a virtuosic program that was both hilarious and thought-provoking. The socially conscious ensemble engages complicated topics head-on, from the relationship of race and sexual identity to the arts, and to themselves as performers to the way art passes from one generation to the next. The concert features a smorgasbord of different styles, including dance work with electronics by Daniel Wohl; a Persian-inspired piece by Sahba Aminikia; a work using scraped tiles and microtonal guitar by Raven Chacon; and a work that collaborates with numerous contemporary composers to deconstruct some of classical music’s most iconic pieces.