Caught the Isaura String Quartet at a local festival today. This was the second time I've seen them and they did a piece by an LA up and comer Scott Worthington called Landscape Listens. It was a droning post minimalist piece and it was the most intense live experiences I've ever had. This was my second time seeing them, but they've changed a couple of members since the last time I caught them and was totally unprepared for how evocative their playing would be. They're now one of those groups where I will do my all to never miss one of their performances now.
I also caught Joshua White Trio in a chapel with no ventilation and it was a brutal endurance test. Their performance was cool but surface level free improv where they were pretty unsyncopated outside of the grooves they'd eventually fall into.
Last show I saw was Niloufar Shiri on Kamâncheh with a synth player where they played some really great ragas.
A lot of other good performances as well but nothing of note outside of those three. I was going to see a performance of Terry Riley's music on a pipe organ but it was in that chapel and that **** is unbearable enough to make me miss it.
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