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PROJECT [BLANK] produces world-class, interdisciplinary experiences that redefine the concept of a performance space and challenge the perception of the concert hall as the sole sanctuary for classical music.

We want to thank you again for making our 2025-26 season one of the most vibrant and meaningful to date! We have a simpl...
06/02/2026

We want to thank you again for making our 2025-26 season one of the most vibrant and meaningful to date! We have a simple request as our year comes to a close – the gift of your participation in our audience survey.

The information we gather through this survey helps us better understand our community, how we are meeting your needs, and where we can improve. Your responses also support our fundraising efforts with public and private grantmakers.

The survey takes three minutes, and we will never sell your information or share it without your permission.

Take the survey here: https://www.projectblanksd.org/audience-survey

We’re so thankful for all you bring to our community!

05/29/2026

We're still glowing from last night’s opening of WORKING TITLE No. 5, and there are only two more chances to experience it!

Doors open at 6 PM. Come early experience the cathedral’s golden hour and wander through the incredible installations as sunlight streams through the stained glass, bathing the space in shifting color. Live performances begin at 7 PM.

Photos can’t quite capture it. You have to be there.

Tonight's performance roster:
7:00 PM: Melissa Achten performs HEART SCENES by Marguerite Brown for harp & electronics
7:30 PM: Don Nichols' "Our Intention Driven Anomalies: Copper Tunnels," for circuit-bent omnichord
8:00 PM: Michelle Lou's "Excerpts from the Office of the Dead" (world premiere) performed by Gabriel Arrequi (pipe organ), Jonathan Nussman (voice), Leslie Ann Leytham (voice), Mattie Barbier (brass), Jonathan Piper (Tuba)

🎥 Last night's performance by Duo Lingua, "Love as Sanctuary," for voice, trumpet, electronics

WORKING TITLE No. 5 descends tonight. For the next three evenings, St. Paul’s Cathedral becomes a vast environment of im...
05/28/2026

WORKING TITLE No. 5 descends tonight.

For the next three evenings, St. Paul’s Cathedral becomes a vast environment of immersive art, experimental music, movement, installation, and performance featuring artists from across the San Diego–Baja California region.

Headlining all three nights is the world premiere of Michelle Lou’s Excerpts from the Office of the Dead, a monumental new commission for voices, brass, electronics, and the cathedral’s earth-shaking organ—a ghostly sonic ritual unlike anything you’ve experienced before.

Featuring works by more than thirty local artists, WORKING TITLE is Project [BLANK]’s largest and most ambitious event of the year, and one of the most unique arts experiences in San Diego.

Three nights only: May 28–30
Don’t miss it.

🎉 Working Title No. 5
📅 May 28 - 30, 2026
⏱ Exhibition opens at 6 PM, performances start at 7 PM
📍 St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral: 2728 Sixth Ave, San Diego, CA 92103
🎟️ $15 - $25. Click the link in bio to purchase!
🎁Bring items to donate to Border Angels. A list of approved items can be found on our website.

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Brass player Mattie Barbier will be performing in the world premiere of “...
05/26/2026

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Brass player Mattie Barbier will be performing in the world premiere of “Excerpts from the Office of the Dead,” by Michelle Lou all three evenings at 8:00 pm.

Mattie Barbier is a sound maker focused on experimental intonation, latent acoustic worlds, and the physical processes of instruments.

they are a member of RAGE Thormbones, wildUp, echoi, Diapason, and are an active soloist on low brass instruments. Mattie has made work for a wide range of institutions and festivals including Borealis (NO), Donaueschinger (DE), Musica Nova Helsinki (FI), Maerzmusik (DE), Bludenz Tage zeitgemäßer (AT), Spor (DK), Chicago’s Frequency Festival, Bemis Center, Museum of Jurassic Technology, and the San Francisco Exploratorium. Their work has been released on Sofa Music, Dinzu Artefacts, Discreet Archive, Carrier, Tripticks, Populist, Mode, Hat Hut, Late Music, Ideologic Organ, and Kairos Records.

they primarily work with trombone, as well as euphonium, bass trumpet, electronics, and bagpipes.

🎉 WORKING TITLE No. 5
📅 May 28 - 30, 2026
⏱ Exhibition opens at 6 PM. Music performances start at 7 PM
📍 St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral: 2728 Sixth Ave, San Diego, CA 92103
🎟️ $15 - $25. Click the link in bio to purchase!
🎁Bring items to donate to Border Angels. A list of approved items can be found on our website.

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Mezzo-soprano Leslie Ann Leytham will be performing in the world premiere...
05/26/2026

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Mezzo-soprano Leslie Ann Leytham will be performing in the world premiere of “Excerpts from the Office of the Dead,” by Michelle Lou all three evenings at 8:00 pm.

Leslie Ann Leytham is a San Diego-based mezzo-soprano who actively commissions mutli-media narrative vocal works, and collaborates with composers not only as a singer and actor, but as a director and producer as well. Ms. Leytham has premiered numerous works by composers including Laure Hiendl, Nicolas Reveles, Carolyn Chen, Marti Epstein, Andy Vores, Nicholas Deyoe, Roger Reynolds, and countless more. She has performed as a featured artist with San Diego Opera, The Industry, WildUp, Noon 2 Midnight produced by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Monday Evening Concerts, La Jolla Symphony, wasteLAnd, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Guerilla Opera. Leslie earned her D.M.A. in experimental music performance at UC San Diego, her Masters in Vocal Performance at the Boston Conservatory, and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance form the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Ms. Leytham is Artistic Director of Project [BLANK], an experimental concert series in San Diego.

🎉 WORKING TITLE No. 5
📅 May 28 - 30, 2026
⏱ Exhibition opens at 6 PM. Music performances start at 7 PM
📍 St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral: 2728 Sixth Ave, San Diego, CA 92103
🎟️ $15 - $25. Click the link in bio to purchase!
🎁Bring items to donate to Border Angels. A list of approved items can be found on our website.

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Tuba player Jonathan Piper will be performing in the world premiere of “E...
05/26/2026

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Tuba player Jonathan Piper will be performing in the world premiere of “Excerpts from the Office of the Dead,” by Michelle Lou all three evenings at 8:00 pm.

Dr. Jonathan Piper is a San Diego-based tubist and technologist. His work as a tubist centers on the exploration of sonic and gestural possibilities found at the limits of both the instrument and the performing body. Supported by extended techniques and live electronic processing, he combines elements of drone, doom, noise, free jazz, and contemporary idioms. Jonathan performs as a soloist and in collaboration with musicians including Ryan Ebaugh, Michelle Lou, Stevie Richards, Nathan Hubbard, Nathan Berlinguette, Meghann Welsh, and Nick Lesley. He has presented work at Oracle Egg's BROILER Residency Series, Drone Not Drones, High Desert Soundings, Project [BLANK]'s Working Title, Sudden Somethings From Nothing, and Vernacular New Music.

Jonathan has given talks on his work as a tubist and experimental musician at CalArts, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC Irvine. As a scholar, he has researched and presented work on ontologies in digital media, online fandom practices, and embodiment in heavy metal music. Jonathan received degrees in musical performance at UC Los Angeles and music at UC San Diego, where he completed his dissertation Locating Experiential Richness in Doom Metal.

🎉 WORKING TITLE No. 5
📅 May 28 - 30, 2026
⏱ Exhibition opens at 6 PM. Music performances start at 7 PM
📍 St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral: 2728 Sixth Ave, San Diego, CA 92103
🎟️ $15 - $25. Click the link in bio to purchase!
🎁Bring items to donate to Border Angels. A list of approved items can be found on our website.

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Baritone Jonathan Nussman will be performing in the world premiere of “Ex...
05/25/2026

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Baritone Jonathan Nussman will be performing in the world premiere of “Excerpts from the Office of the Dead,” by Michelle Lou all three evenings at 8:00 pm.

Jonathan Nussman is a baritone whose varied interests include opera, theater, improvisation, and chamber music, with a special emphasis on works from the 20th and 21st centuries. Appearances include San Diego Opera, Opera Boston, Guerilla Opera, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Cape Cod Opera, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, Bodhi Tree Concerts, Project [BLANK], the La Jolla Symphony, Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project, and soundSCAPE New Music Festival. As a performer of contemporary and experimental music, he frequently premieres his own compositions as well as pieces by composers from around the world.

In addition to originating prominent roles in over twenty world-premiere operas and theatrical works, he has performed extensively in more traditional repertoire, with notable roles including Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Larry Foreman (The Cradle Will Rock), and Sid (Albert Herring). Jonathan is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, and currently lives in San Diego, California. He holds a doctoral degree in Contemporary Music Performance from UC San Diego, and master’s degree from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

🎉 WORKING TITLE No. 5
📅 May 28 - 30, 2026
⏱ Exhibition opens at 6 PM. Music performances start at 7 PM
📍 St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral: 2728 Sixth Ave, San Diego, CA 92103
🎟️ $15 - $25. Click the link in bio to purchase!
🎁Bring items to donate to Border Angels. A list of approved items can be found on our website.

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Keyboardist Gabriel Arregui will be performing in the world premiere of “...
05/25/2026

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Keyboardist Gabriel Arregui will be performing in the world premiere of “Excerpts from the Office of the Dead,” by Michelle Lou all three evenings at 8:00 pm.

Keyboardist Gabriel Arregui has collaborated in performances with such luminaries as Julianne Baird, Elizabeth Blumenstock, Stephen Cleobury, David Shostac, Stephen Sturk, John Thiessen, David Willcocks, and many others. He also performed for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh during their 1983 visit to St Paul’s Cathedral. As a pianist, he performed with the orchestra in San Diego Opera’s production of Nixon in China, and has many recitals of chamber music and art-song to his credit. He has served as an adjunct professor at La Sierra University, teaching 18th-century counterpoint. From 1994 until retiring in 2024, he performed in the annual Baroque Music Festival of Corona del Mar both in ensembles and solo performances on organ and harpsichord. He has served as Organist and Director of Music at the Roman Catholic Parish of The Immaculata on the USD campus, Organist-Choirmaster at St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Encinitas, and Organist and Assistant Choirmaster at St Paul’s Cathedral, where for nearly nine years he performed 25-30 organ recitals per year in addition to liturgies. He presently services as Associate Organist at St James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, La Jolla.

Gabriel Arregui holds degrees from the University of Southern California (M. Mus., Collaborative Piano) and Loma Linda University (B. Mus.,Organ Performance). He studied with Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Brooks Smith, and Jean Barr (Collaborative and Solo Piano), Anita Norskov Olsen (Solo Piano), Malcolm Hamilton (Harpsichord), and Donald J. Vaughn and Thomas Harmon (Organ).

🎉 WORKING TITLE No. 5
📅 May 28 - 30, 2026
⏱ Exhibition opens at 6 PM. Music performances start at 7 PM
📍 St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral: 2728 Sixth Ave, San Diego, CA 92103
🎟️ $15 - $25. Click the link in bio to purchase!
🎁Bring items to donate to Border Angels. A list of approved items can be found on our website.

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Anchoring this year’s event is the world premiere of a major new work by ...
05/25/2026

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Anchoring this year’s event is the world premiere of a major new work by San Diego composer Michelle Lou. “Excerpts from the Office of the Dead,” a mind-melting composition for voices, tubas, pipe organ, and electronics, will be performed all three evenings.

Michelle Lou composes mainly in the realm of electro-acoustic music, both in hardware and in computer based forms. She has also created large scale sound installations which are often performative and collaborative. Her work has been presented at Wien Modern, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, The Festival of New American Music (Sacramento), the MATA Festival (New York City), The 66th American Music Festival at the National Gallery in Washington D.C., The Rainy Days Festival (Luxembourg), Ultima Festival (Oslo), Chance and Circumstance (Brooklyn), Klub Katarakt (Hamburg), Klangwerkstatt and MaerzMusik (both in Berlin), amongst others.

She received degrees in double bass performance and music composition from UC San Diego with additional studies at The Conservatorio G. Nicolini in Piacenza, Italy (double bass) and The UDK in Graz, Austria (composition), the latter on a Fulbright Fellowship, and a doctorate in composition from Stanford University. Michelle was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and an Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She has been granted commissions from institutions like the Fromm Music Foundation, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, and the Norwegian Arts Council. Michelle has taught as visiting faculty at Dartmouth College, the Akademie für Neue Musik in Boswil, Switzerland, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is currently Associate Professor of Composition and Computer Music at the University of California, San Diego.

🎉 WORKING TITLE No. 5
📅 May 28 - 30, 2026
⏱ Exhibition opens at 6 PM. Music performances start at 7 PM
📍 St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral: 2728 Sixth Ave, San Diego, CA 92103
🎟️ $15 - $25. Click the link in bio to purchase!
🎁Bring items to donate to Border Angels. A list of approved items can be found on our website.

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Sound Artist Anqi Liu will perform, “Sanctuary for a Vanishing Sound” for...
05/24/2026

Let’s meet the artists of WORKING TITLE No. 5! Sound Artist Anqi Liu will perform, “Sanctuary for a Vanishing Sound” for Mongolian choor khuur & speakers on Saturday, May 30, at 7:30 pm. At the center of the piece is the choor khuur, a traditional Mongolian skin-fiddle whose voice is grain-rich, breath-like, creating a sound that trembles at the edge of silence, carrying a subtle life that is felt as much as heard.

Dr. Anqi Liu is a composer, interdisciplinary multimedia artist, photographer, and filmmaker whose work moves across acoustic composition, free improvisation, electronics, modular synthesizer, traditional Mongolian choor khuur, interactive systems, and audiovisual ecologies. Her work has been recognized by The Wire, Boomkat, The San Diego Union-Tribune, de Volkskrant, Sonograma Magazine, Reportersonline, musique machine, El Compositor Habla, Nowhere Street, and many others, with Peter Margasak describing her practice as having “veered from all conventional pathways.”

Liu’s works have circulated internationally across the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Asia, appearing at KM28 Berlin, Elektronmusikstudion EMS, ICMC, NIME, Ligeti Zentrum Hamburg, IRCAM ManiFeste Academy, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Château de Fontainebleau, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Pen and Brush, Le Poisson Rouge, Downtown Music Gallery, and many others.

Born and raised in Inner Mongolia, Liu’s practice is shaped by the tangible texture of life there, later deepened through years of research with Indigenous Mongolian song and bowed-fiddle traditions. Her current work unfolds through what she calls the Ecology of Fraysonics, asking how artistic life might grow from real human experience, sustained interaction, and shared care. Beginning June 2026, she serves as Assistant Professor and Music Production Program Lead at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.

🎉 WORKING TITLE No. 5
📅 May 28 - 30, 2026
⏱ Exhibition opens at 6 PM. Music performances start at 7 PM
📍 St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral: 2728 Sixth Ave, San Diego, CA 92103
🎟️ $15 - $25. Click the link in bio to purchase!
🎁Bring items to donate to Border Angels. A list of approved items can be found on our website.

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