About Look & Listen
Founded in 2002, Look + Listen is an annual free music festival presenting new music in visual art spaces across New York City. The goal is to expand audiences for both art forms. The festival showcases a mix of emerging and established musicians and a diverse range of 20th and 21st-century concert music. This includes commissions, premieres, the winning work from the yearly L+L Composers’ Competition and preconcert Ambient Music by members of the L+L Composers Collective and guest artists. Concerts are hosted by prominent members of the industry who introduce and interview composers, visual artists and performers. These insightful discussions explore the creative process and increase concert-goers’ understanding and enjoyment of each concert. The Festival has presented such extraordinary musicians as the Bang on a Can All Stars, eighth blackbird, JACK Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, Phyllis Chen, Claire Chase, So Percussion, Meredith Monk, the Tyshawn Sorey Trio, and Angélica Negrón. Look + Listen takes place at partner venues throughout the city, which in recent years have included BRIC House, Chelsea Art Museum, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Robert Miller Gallery, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Invisible Dog Art Center.
L+L has enriched the NYC cultural landscape through its spring festival since 2002 as a preeminent presenter of contemporary music, known for high-quality performances, variety of repertoire, and unique concert settings. Three to four concerts in visual art venues showcase the breadth of 20th and 21 st-century works, including at least one world premiere, and often several NYC premieres. The L+L performer alumni roster includes award-winning and critically acclaimed artists such as So Percussion, Daedalus Quartet, JACK Quartet, Miranda Cuckson, Angélica Negrón,Claire Chase, Tyshawn Sorey, and many others. The 2021 first-ever At Home Edition of L+L features four extraordinary multimedia artists, in performances and installations via screen, phone and mailbox, and curated by Guest Artistic Director Paul Pinto. PerformersthingNY, Mendi + Keith Obadike, and Viola Yip provide audiences withboth an audio and visual component, as well as a physical art piece by Audra Wolowiec, all available for free. Look + Listen’s Board of Directors includes Sean Carson, Phyllis Chen (L+L AD from 2017-18) Amanda Cooper (President), Amy Roberts Frawley, Olivia Georgia, David Gordon (Chair), Bill Siegmund, Emily Wong (Secretary) and John Glover (L+L AD from 2018-2020)
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