Lowertown Listening Sessions

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Lowertown Listening Sessions invite curious listeners to enjoy adventurous sounds and insightful conversation with the music-makers of our time. Held at Studio Z, Zeitgeist’s performance space in Lowertown St. Paul, this monthly happy hour series brings guest artists from all genres of new music (jazz, classical, world music, folk, and more) for performances and informal discussion in an after-work setting with food and beverages from Lowertown eateries. 

Upcoming Sessions
Lowertown Listening Session: Mary Ellen Childs
June 18, 2019  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Composer Mary Ellen Childs, along with collaborator visual artist Lindsy Halleckson, are creating a new work for Zeitgeist inspired by their fall 2018 trip to the Arctic Circle through The Arctic Circle residency program. Join us as these two artists share field recordings, video, photographs, and experiences that are the inspiration for this new concert-length work and hear Zeitgeist play several of Childs' musical sketches. 

Previous Sessions
Lowertown Listening Session: Dead King Mother
Jan. 30, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Zeitgeist hosts a preview and discussion of music from Davu Seru’s new work Dead King Mother, which tells the story of a near-forgotten event in North Minneapolis and United States civil rights history that has been with Seru since early childhood.
Lowertown Listening Session: Music & Activism of Julius Eastman
March 15, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Zeitgeist hosts a discussion on the musical activism of composer Julius Eastman as a preview to Zeitgeist's Early Music Festival. 
Lowertown Listening Session: Mary Jane Leach on Julius Eastman
March 21, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Author, composer and performer Mary Jane Leach discusses her work recovering the music of Julius Eastman, creating the book Gay Guerrilla with Renee Packard, and the New York City new music scene in the late 1970s and 1980s. An introduction to Zeitgeist's Early Music Festival. 
Lowertown Listening Session: Seen/Heard Trio
April 30, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Zeitgeist presents a performance/discussion with special guests Seen/Heard Trio (Megan Ihnen, Mezzo-Soprano; Erika Boysen, Flute; Jennifer R. Ellis, Harp). 
Lowertown Listening Session: Zeitgeist-Composer Workshop
Aug. 11, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Take a glimpse into the 2018 Zeitgeist-Composer Workshop, featuring music by composer participants Joe Horton, Brett Wartchow, and Tiffany Skidmore. ​
Lowertown Listening Session: Zeitgeist Halloween Commissions
Sept. 6, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Join Zeitgeist, singer Alyssa Anderson, and composers Daniel Nass, Doug Opel, and Dameun Strange for a discussion on how to create music that sends shivers up your spine. 
Lowertown Listening Session: Music of Alexis Lamb
Oct. 11, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Join Zeitgeist and Illinois-based composer Alexis Lamb for a performance and discussion of her new composition for Zeitgeist. Lamb's new work is inspired by different regions of Minnesota and the work and life taking place in each community. 
Lowertown Listening Session: Mary Jane Leach on Julius Eastman
Nov. 7, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Author, composer and performer Mary Jane Leach discusses her work recovering the music of Julius Eastman, creating the book Gay Guerrilla with Renee Packard, and the New York City new music scene in the late 1970s and 1980s. 
Lowertown Listening Session: Tiffany Skidmore
Dec. 13, 2018  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Studio Z Composer-in-Residence Tiffany Skidmore discusses her work as a composer and artistic member of 113 Composers' Collective. 
Lowertown Listening Session: The Dream Songs Project
March 7, 2019  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Join The Dream Songs Project (Alyssa Anderson, mezzo-soprano; Joseph Spoelstra, guitar) and composer Joshua Weinberg for a preview and discussion of a new song cycle by Weinberg. 
Zeitgeist Early Music Workshop: Music of Pauline Oliveros
March 19, 2019  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Join Zeitgeist for an overview of the music of Pauline Oliveros. Zeitgeist and guest artists will perform and discuss several works from throughout Oliveros' career, including her speaking choir piece Sound Patterns, early electronic works, and her text-based work The Well and the Gentle. ​
Zeitgeist Early Music Workshop: Pauline Oliveros - Artist & Activist
March 26, 2019  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Pauline Oliveros created work that commented on contemporary society and encouraged social change. Join us as we explore her work addressing feminism and our relationship to our environment and each other. Featuring a performance of To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation. ​
Zeitgeist Early Music Workshop: Deepening the Legacy
April 2, 2019  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Composer and licensed Deep Listening® practitioner Viv Corringham has written a new work for Zeitgeist in honor of Pauline Oliveros and the Early Music Festival. Come hear a preview of this new work, learn about Deep Listening®, and discover how Oliveros's ideas continue to influence musicians today.
Zeitgeist Early Music Workshop: Deep Listening® with Viv Corringham
April 6, 2019  •  3:30 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Can we listen differently to the sounds that compose our world? In this workshop heighten your awareness of the sonic environment - both external and internal - as well as your sense of experimentation, collaboration and playfulness. Based on Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening® practices and Sonic Meditations, this workshop is open to all with an interest in listening. No previous experience needed.
Lowertown Listening Session: 113 Composers Collective
May 2, 2019  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Join Zeitgeist and members of 113 Composers Collective for performances and discussion of new works for Zeitgeist by 113 member composers Mike Duffy, Tiffany Skidmore, and others. 
Lowertown Listening Session: Janika Vandervelde
May 28, 2019  •  6 p.m. at Studio Z  •  Tickets
Composer Janika Vandervelde and Zeitgeist percussionists Heather Barringer and Patti Cudd present a preview and discussion of Vandervelde's new evening-length work for percussion and electronics exploring the world of lucid dreaming. 
Lowertown Listening Session Archive

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