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M. Lamar & The Living Earth Show: MACHINES at EMPAC May 3, 2024
EMPAC invites the goth, classical, afro-futurist, noise, and theater audiences of our region to come together to experience a preview performance of M. Lamar's newest collaboration with San Francisco-based duo The Living Earth Show.
Drawing from the Black Futurist philosophy of revolutionary musician and thinker Sun Ra, M. Lamar’s work imagines the birth of new technologies that address the various failings of contemporary society.
Like Sun Ra, M. Lamar looks to the mystical traditions and astrophysical conceptions of the past as a way to transcend our current societal landscape and provide a path towards liberation. For M. Lamar, this transcendence comes through music, a process he seeks to awaken within the listener.
Here, and in his large-scale work, Lamar’s tools are primarily sonic—drawing from psychedelic rock, noise music, opera, and doom metal.
His musical, theatrical, and visual approaches exist in an environment of improvisational possibility. Visually, the piece aims to evoke fantasy and memory of ancient Egypt, pre-Atlantic Christianity, and outer space as visualized in 1970s mass media and in the 2020s photography of the James Webb telescope. In sound and image, MACHINES contrasts, magnifies, merges, and transmutes some of the most distinctive elements of M. Lamar’s and Sun Ra’s bodies of work.
The EMPAC Concert Hall, designed to be light and uplifting, respects the individual while at once supporting communal experiences taken up by performers and audience members alongside each other.
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2215343-0
