spiral resonance: a study in the abstract
Matana Roberts
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- Price
- $25*
- Genres
- Music, Theater
- Season
- Winter/Spring 2026
- DATE
- FEB 18-MAR 1
- TIME
- Exhibition:
2/18-3/1, 12 PM-6 PM
Performances:2/24-2/25 & 2/27-2/28, 8 PM
3/1, 3 PM
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 90 minutes, with intermission
- COUNTRY
- USA
- PROGRAM
- Not yet available
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About
The Industry celebrates the return of its LAB series, in partnership with REDCAT, featuring new works in opera by renowned artists Guillermo E. Brown, Carmina Escobar, and Matana Roberts.
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Multimedia artist Matana Roberts presents an immersive sound and image installation shaped by cyclical forms, mediated space, tonal atmospheres, and layered visual fields. Entitled spiral resonance: a study in the abstract, Roberts reframes the gallery space as a site of subtle recurrence and quiet drift. Roberts will present durational performances amidst the installation, joined by special guests to be announced.
Please note: This program contains flashing lights, loud sounds, and mature content.
LAB 2026 / Guillermo E. Brown / Carmina Escobar
multidisciplinary visionary
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LAB 2026 is made possible thanks to support from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
The Industry’s programming is also supported by Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Amphion Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, New Music USA, Perenchio Foundation, and Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.
about the artist
Matana Roberts is an internationally celebrated composer, performer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist, and mixed-media practitioner. Working across many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, music composition, visual art, dance, poetry, and theater, Roberts is perhaps best known for their acclaimed Coin Coin project—a multi-chapter work of panoramic sound quilting mixed-media performance work, that aims to expose the mystical roots and intuitive traditions of American creative expression, while maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrative, history, community, and political expression within sonic structures.
