Outside Time Presents: Alma Laprida / Rachel Beetz / TALsounds

Sat May 09

8:00pmTo–10:00pm

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

DC-based record label Outside Time embraces experimental sounds and showcases experimental and immersive audio art that often requires close listening. For this performance, Outside Time presents an evening of curated music, featuring three of its artists whose compositions transcend the typical concert experience.

Alma Laprida’s art sits at the intersection of sound art, experimental music and instrument-based performance, and is informed by her experience with electronic circuitry, synthesis, acousmatic music, improvisation and sound art; her interest in the perception of sound; and her understanding of sound as an acoustic, psychoacoustic and cultural phenomenon. She is best known for her work with the tromba marina, a rare string instrument mostly used between the Middle Ages and the Baroque eras in Europe.

Composer and flutist Rachel Beetz creates music that engages an embodied presence by creating an interplay between the sonic subconscious and environment.…