Friday August 29, 2025
7:30 PM
Leon Art Gallery, Denver, CO

The Playground and Leon Gallery present an annual evening of experimental and improvised electronic music created and performed by Playground Ensemble composers. Interesting sounds in interesting spaces; interactive electronics, manipulated voice, uniquely created instruments, and more.

Doors at 7:00 PM, show at 7:30 PM.

Program

How the Light Loves to Fall by Silen Wellington

Alia Goldfarb, Vocals
Silen Wellington, Electronics

“This is what we have forgotten about the sky (that we have made Overlord without consulting him), how much it desires to fall like the angels ... How much it desires to spill its sunlight and its starlight into the inky darkness forever. How much it desires to quench the soil with its sky waters.”

~ Lee Morgan, Standing and Not Falling

Known Input by Conrad Kehn

Known Input is a multimedia experiment for no input mixer, reactive video, live performers, and audience. Conrad started working with no input mixer in the summer of 2024. The process is simple. Take the outputs of a mixing console and run them back into the inputs creating a perfect feedback loop. Every knob turned or fader adjusted adjusts amplitude and frequency in the most perfectly unpredictable ways. Over time Conrad has fallen in love with these sounds. Such rich textures, piercing, grinding, deep and beautiful.

Over top of the no input mixer a manipulated recording of Allan Kaprow's 'How to Create A Happening' adds an anti-art narrative, and a set of audio reactive videos clips support that narrative via unrelated synchronicity.

Lastly members of the audience are encouraged to participate based on a set of note card instructions creating…… well…… a happening.

chorale_prelude no. 3 by David Farrell

chorale_prelude no. 3 is an ambient work for live electronics. Composed in 2025, the work presents fragments of music from a chorale by JS Bach alongside a range of varied harmonic and textural backgrounds. The work follows a quasi-improvised path, with the performer having a palette of sounds to freely choose from.

TBD by Ryan Fiegl

TBD by Jakey Wherry

TBD by David Britton