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Pierce College musicians & students connect through band house show in Granada Hills

Pierce College was represented in three of the six bands performing last Friday at a Granada Hills house show just north of the Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The show was hosted by Cardio Arts, a collective aimed at promoting local bands all artistic mediums.

Brittany Scheffer, 19, is a psychology major at Pierce and is the founder of Cardio Arts, which, along with booking bands, produces a monthly zine that contains photography, poems, short stories, drawings and just about any creative outlet that can be displayed in print.

Currently Scheffler interns at The Church on York, a music venue in Highland Park, and hopes to grow Cardio Arts into a larger scale curator for arts of all mediums.

“I started it I think mostly to bring people together,” Scheffer said. “I think the music scene in L.A. is kind of fragmented so I like the idea of booking shows where the bands are different so it’s an interesting variety of artists and everybody gets to make friends with each other and make connections so there’s sort of a networking aspect to it as well.”

So far Cardio Arts has gathered three other members that help Scheffer. Devonte Johnson, Taylor Oh, who assists with the zine and

Tone Escoto, whose house was the scene for the night’s show.

Escoto has been hosting shows at his house since the beginning of the year and while house shows aren’t uncommon, this house has been treated to help dampen some of the sound so as not to disturb the surrounding residents.

Julian Tallman-Rogantini, 19, is a mechanical engineering major interested in fabrication and metal working but has been playing music since he was young thanks to his mother.

“My mom kind of always forced music at me throughout my life whether it was guitar, piano, flute,” Tallman-Rogantini said.

It wasn’t until he found the right instrument that his focus for music took hold.

“Then I was like, ‘Mom I wanna play drums,’ and she was like, ‘No,’ but finally she caved and that was the only thing that stuck,” TallmanRogantini said. “But after I started really getting into it, all of what I learned previously started coming back and I could apply what I had learned and it just grew naturally from there.”

Cesar Atlas, a 20-year-old music major at CSUN writes the music and lyrics for the band but TallmanRogantini has full control over the drums.

“When it comes to drums, especially in the beginning, I was like, ‘dude I don’t even know what I’m doing,’ and he’s like, ‘don’t even worry I got you,’” Atlas said. “He just makes it happen.”

Tallman-Rogantini and Atlas have been making music together since early in high school but their band The Unending Thread as it exists today began in 2012.

“That’s when we really started to take things seriously, started to record and play shows in the area,” Atlas said.

Atlas describes the sound of the band as a little bit of indie, a little bit of pop punk with funk and jazz