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at the Kings Road Park Pavilion

Saturday, August 28th, 2010 at 5pm

Join SASSAS for the premiere of new music by trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith to celebrate the long and fruitful relationship between SASSAS’s sound. concert series and the City of West Hollywood as well as 25th Anniversary of the City.

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Join SASSAS on Sunday, August 22nd for a our monthly soundShoppe at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock.

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recent events

with Scott Benzel

Guest artist Scott Benzel joined SASSAS on Sunday, July 25th for a special edition of the monthly soundShoppe at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock.

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at the Kings Road Park Pavilion

“An unqualified success” is how one spectator described the premiere of “Music from the Trip (1967) in the style of a Schoenberg/Gershwin tennis match, observed in passing by Dr. Oskar Janiger, for String Quartet, Electric Bass, and Percussion” among other works by Los Angeles based artist and composer Scott Benzel on Saturday, July 25th.

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at the Kings Road Park Pavilion

Ted Byrnes and Ari DeSano performed on Saturday, June 26th along with Steuart Liebig and Glenn Bach.

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concert archive

Check out our repository of concerts in both audio and video formats recorded over that last 11 years.

audio archive | video archive

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2010 concert series

at Fiesta Hall

PILGRIMAGE FROM SCATTERED POINTS

PERFORMANCE – SCREENING – PANEL

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

This event is the premier West Hollywood and Greater Los Angeles screening of the film Pilgrimage From Scattered Points by Scottish artist Luke Fowler. In addition to the screening, SASSAS is presenting a panel on intersections between radicalism, collectives and experimental art and sound practices and a performance based on the Scratch Orchestra Draft Constitution.

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at the Kings Road Park Pavilion

TED BYRNES and ARI DESANO

Saturday, June 26th at 5pm

SCOTT BENZEL

Saturday, July 24th at 5pm

WADADA LEO SMITH

Saturday, August 28th at 5pm

A 3-month series of commissions celebrating West Hollywood's 25th Anniversary including work by Ted Byrnes and Ari Desano, Scott Benzel, and Wadada Leo Smith.

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fundraising

Visit the SASSAS Shop and get some great merch for you and your friends and support SASSAS!

Including our special line of Joe Potts 10th Anniversary t-shirt collection.

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about us

The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that serves as a catalyst for the creation, presentation, and recognition of experimental art and sound practices in the Greater Los Angeles area.