From 1999 – 2019, sound. and then SASSAS (Society for the Activation of Social Spaces through Art and Sound) produced and supported experimental music programming throughout greater Los Angeles. Its flagship concert series, sound., began three years prior to SASSAS incorporating as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and ran for 20 years. This website remains online as an archive of the sound. concert series, as well as other SASSAS projects such as soundShoppe and Welcome Inn Time Machine and celebrates the artists, venues, staff, donors and volunteers who helped make it all happen.

Everything on this site, except this landing page, stands as a record of the SASSAS website as of the final concert in October, 2019 and all information should be viewed through that lens.