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Liquid Music expands the world of chamber music through innovative new projects, iconoclastic artists & unique presentation formats.

Liquid Music develops innovative new projects with iconoclastic artists in unique presentation formats. Liquid Music performances invite adventurous audiences to discover the new and the fascinating within the flourishing landscape of contemporary chamber music. instagram.com/liquidmusicseries
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07/28/2026

Son Lux, “one of the most gifted bands making some of the most original, intentional, and arresting music” (NPR), is recentering the aural and visual experience in an age of digital deconstruction and fragmentation. Liquid Music and Cruise present the Midwest premiere of their new installation "Out Into Us (Slow Down)"—centering a long-form music video by award-winning filmmaker Alex Cook made in collaboration with the Oscar-nominated group from their forthcoming album "Out Into" (Sep 18, 2026).

The evening features the 17-minute film and stereo sound on loop, along with remarks from Son Lux, inviting a glimpse into an expressionistic landscape. Sep 3 at Cruise.

Learn more + RSVP at https://liquidmusic.org/son-lux-out-into-us-slow-down.

This event is sponsored in part by Assembly MN.

07/15/2026

Liquid Music x Walker Art Center instrumental bliss! Longtime friends Devendra Banhart, Gyan Riley, and Noah Georgeson join forces as HUG. On Oct 14, they bring to life their self-titled debut album, transforming the McGuire Theater into an ambient-folk dreamscape. Learn more at https://liquidmusic.org/hug.

Copresented by Liquid Music and the Walker Art Center

Photo: Christian Stavros

05/27/2026

“Music is a place for storing feeling, for remembering what you felt at a certain moment and building a vessel that can forever hold it in a way that a mortal body and brain cannot.”

Writer Grayson Haver Currin reflects on how composer/guitarist/sound artist Rafiq Bhatia's 'Environments' unearths a decade of mountain journey memories through shared scenery.

Read "What Rafiq Bhatia’s ‘Environments’ Helps Me Remember" on the Liquid Music blog and, if you are in LA June 10, experience 'Environments' live at 2220 Arts + Archives—with collaborators Ian Chang and Riley Mulherkar.

https://liquidmusic.org/blog//what-rafiq-bhatias-environments-helps-me-remember

05/19/2026

Three new Minneapolis programs just announced for Liquid Music's 2026.27 Northrop season weaving live performance with film, movement, and music.

Dec 8 // Inti Figgis-vizueta: Music for Transitions
A sensory journey through form and identity performed by Rothko String Quartet, cellist Andrew Yee, and Aaron David Miller on the historic Northrop pipe organ

Mar 9 // Koyaanisqatsi with The Philip Glass Ensemble
Copresented with the Walker Art Center
The hypnotic, iconic score performed live alongside Godfrey Reggio's groundbreaking 1982 film

Apr 1 // Kate Wallich & Perfume Genius: The Lesson
A raw, visceral new collaboration from Perfume Genius and choreographer Kate Wallich inspired by the novel The Piano Teacher. With Alan Wyffles and Tate Justus.

Learn more at https://liquidmusic.org/upcoming.

Subscription tickets for Northrop's 2026-27 season are now on sale. Single tickets go on sale July 14.

05/07/2026

Just announced. This Halloween season, Liquid Music and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra present Life After Death, a haunting new collaboration with “ingenious” (The New Yorker) composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone, GRAMMY-winning conductor Teddy Abrams, and “ethereal” (The New York Times) vocalist Eliza Bagg.

Blurring the boundaries between the living and the departed, the physical and the unseen, Life After Death unfolds as a spellbinding evening for voice and orchestra suspended between ritual, memory, and dream.

Oct 23–25, 2026 at Ordway Concert Hall. Learn more at https://liquidmusic.org/life-after-death-spco.

Subscription tickets for the SPCO’s 2026–27 season are now on sale. Single tickets go on sale this summer.

03/27/2026

Mary Prescott's Ancestral Table made its world premiere last week at Millwick! 🌿

Thanks to all who gathered for a nourishing evening of new music and storytelling by Prescott in collaboration with legendary chef Jazz Singsanong of Jitlada Thai Restaurant.

This event was coproduced by LA Phil and Liquid Music and part of LA Phil's Body and Sound Festival.

Photos:
1, 5-6, 11, 12, 15 by FarahStop
2-4, 7-10, 13-14, 16, 17 by Andrea Smith

03/17/2026

Announcing BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC at Topanga Tower

Part of LA Phil’s Ritual festival, curated by Esa-Pekka Salonen
Coproduced by LA Phil Insight, Liquid Music, and Studio Dimitri Chamblas

A pilgrimage. A progression.

BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC transforms the decommissioned Topanga Tower into a living instrument, invoking sound and movement as part of a communal artistic rite. Conceived and directed by creative partners Kate Nordstrum and Dimitri Chamblas, the experience unfolds across terrain and architecture, guiding audiences from daylight into dusk in a deliberate progression of gathering, activation, and release.

From city to sea, body to horizon, gesture to vibration, BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC at Topanga Tower offers an intensifying arc of visceral perception.

Spring 2027 performances. Program details to be announced in August.

More info: liquidmusic.org/body-live-live-music-at-topanga-tower

Kate Nordstrum Dimitri Chamblas LA Phil

Artwork & design by Daedalus Li

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BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC is a new joint practice of choreographer/director/producer Dimitri Chamblas (Paris Opera, CalArts, Studio Dimitri Chamblas) and curator/artistic director/producer Kate Nordstrum (Liquid Music, Boston Symphony Orchestra). Dedicated to site-inspired performance projects, this ongoing venture melds music, movement, and environment into communal art experiences of the highest caliber. Together, Chamblas and Nordstrum focus on artistic and natural landscapes that center body and sound with a commitment to ‘shared reality.’

12/09/2025

Just announced! The fiercely innovative JACK Quartet performs Georg Friedrich Haas’ visionary Third String Quartet, "in iij Noct"—a piece meant to be heard in total darkness, creating a uniquely physical concert experience. The musicians communicate solely through sound, inviting one another into musical journeys, and deciding together how far they will travel down each path.

April 9 at REDCAT, Los Angeles. This performance is one of multiple projects co-produced with the LA Phil for the Body and Sound Festival, running January–April, 2026.

Learn more at https://liquidmusic.org/jack-quartet-haas-in-the-dark.

12/03/2025

Historia heads to London! 🇬🇧 Following recent concerts in New York and Minnesota, the Barbican Centre in partnership with Liquid Music presents the UK premiere of writer Karl Ove Knausgård and composer/percussionist Glenn Kotche’s collaboration on Mar 5, 2026.

The evening centers on a new Liquid Music-commissioned work that unites Knausgård's textual prowess with Kotche's sonic explorations, accompanied by visuals from director Johan Renck. The performance also features readings from Knausgård’s "The School of Night" and a selection of Kotche's compositions, both new and established.

Tickets go on sale this Fri, Dec 5. Learn more at https://liquidmusic.org/karl-ove-knausgrd-and-glenn-kotche-historia-barbican-london.

Photos: Andrea Smith

11/13/2025

The Twin Cities premiere of Gabriella Smith's Aquatic Ecology was an unforgettable sound experience evoking nature's beauty and crisis. The new work wove raw field recordings of hidden ecosystems — including shrimp crackling, parrotfish eating algae off coral, fish species, melting ice, rainfall, whales, and more — directly into the moving composition performed by yMusic. Gabriella and cellist Gabriel Cabezas opened the evening with a captivating set of music from their album Lost Coast (and beyond). Thanks to everyone who made this beautiful evening possible!

Photos: Andrea Smith

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