The Los Angeles new music high-fliers meet up with the godfather of techno Morton Subotnick for a live revisit to the electronic music pioneer’s iconic works, rendered with new technology. Subotnick performs landmark works with the E.A.R. Unit—collaborators since 1980—in an evening of “spontaneous performance and decision-making.”

Brilliant musicmakers are allied with fantastical robotic instruments in this paradigm-shifting performance that invokes “samsara”—the Sanskrit concept of the cycle of birth, life, death, and reincarnation. Directed by Ajay Kapur and Michael Darling, the Machine Orchestra offers musical interpretations of several traditional Indian fables, along with special guest artists including the legendary kinetic sculptor and musician Trimpin.

Master musician Richard Nunns, the world’s foremost authority on Māori music, is the special guest artist for a two-day celebration of New Zealand contemporary chamber and orchestral works and music for ngā taonga pūoro—traditional Māori instruments—featuring compositions by Chris Cree Brown, James Gardner, Ross Carey, and more.

Madison Brookshire (video), April Guthrie (cello), Michael Pisaro (sound), and Cassia Streb (viola) layer sound and image field recordings combined with music—both recorded and performed live—to reveal patterns that emerge during the course of a single day in this vivid portrait of Los Angeles.

Celebrating the release of the first recording of the complete Bitter Music, Partch’s often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, long-lost hobo journal from 1935 is performed as a special multimedia presentation including the work’s original pen and ink illustrations, photographs from the composer’s scrapbooks and his legendary instruments.